[Gendergap] Supporting Campus Ambassador programs [Fwd: Issue of Copy-Pasting]

Fri Oct 7 19:50:31 UTC 2011

Lennart's exactly correct: The primary goal of our program is to improve the
content of Wikipedia by reaching out to academia. We're of course very
excited if a student becomes a Wikipedian (and many have), but that's not
our primary goal.

And yes, our students do get slapped on the hand for failing to follow
Wikipedia policies to the letter--just like all other new contributors do.
One key difference, though, is our students have access to Campus and Online
Ambassadors, who are able to encourage them to fix any problems -- they are
a mentoring role to the new editors who provide that crucial welcoming voice
from the community. Copyright, notability, and other issues are covered
during in-class and out-of-class Wikipedia labs with students, and they're
given reference materials about the policies, but not all students listen
the first time around -- that's just part of working with people. :)

In terms of mentoring female Campus and Online Ambassadors -- please do! And
feel free to encourage any female students as well. Links to our three
programs operating right now:
http://enwp.org/WP:USEDU
http://enwp.org/WP:CANADAEDU
http://enwp.org/WP:INDIAEDU

LiAnna

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson <
l_guldbrandsson at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Sarah's conclusions are in sync with what I've heard from the team at the
> Wikimedia Foundation. But, and that's a crucial point, the goal with the
> collaborations with the universites is not to make everyone a Wikipedian. I
> know, that may be strange or counter-intuitive. It certainly was for me.
> Instead, the goal is to increase the quality of those articles that they
> university courses are working on, and if some of those who edited during
> the course stays on as Wikipedians, that's terrific, but it cannot be the
> goal. I am sure that Frank Schulenburg, Rod Dunican, LiAnna Davis or the
> other people in the (now) Global Education team can provide more insight
> into their original thinking. Or Pete Forsythe, for that matter, who I know
> is on this list.
>
> I know that is but one of the aspects of Sarah's email, but it's the one
> aspect I know something about :-)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Lennart
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> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:30:10 -0400
> From: sarah.stierch at gmail.com
> To: fredbaud at fairpoint.net; gendergap at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Supporting Campus Ambassador programs [Fwd: Issue
> of Copy-Pasting]
>
>
> I took some time last week and actually went through the "female" editors
> (many of the students openly identify their real names and/or genders)
> participating in class programs.
>
> 1) Most don't edit Wikipedia after the class is over - and this goes beyond
> gender. I determined this by studying their user contributions and also
> using a tool to examine contributions and gender for specific WikiProjects
> (specifically WP:Public art which developed as a program with students
> before the Campus Ambassador program existed)
> 2) A nice amount of them generally get slaps on the hand for their lack of
> understanding on "How Wikipedia Works"
>
> I'm not sure if this means that something in the system is broken (i.e.
> we're not educating students and professors on how Wikipedia works write,
> we're not providing ongoing outreach - which seems to be a problem in a lot
> of areas of WP outreach...), that the students genuinely have no interest
> (and that's fine, they are "forced" to do it, after all), or what..
>
> Some of these problems involve image deletion (due to lack of understanding
> on how fair use/copyright works in Wikipedia), article deletion, blocking of
> accounts, or just plain calling people out on their talk pages. I didn't
> gather all this information in a pile - I've looked at upwards of a thousand
> female editors accounts over the past two weeks - but, it's there, if you
> dig around a bit.
>
> -Sarah
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>wrote:
>
> Help is needed.
>
> Fred
>
> --------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Issue of Copy-Pasting
> From:    "Hisham" <hisham at wikimedia.org>
> Date:    Fri, October 7, 2011 7:46 am
> To:      "Wikipedia Ambassadors India"
> <wikipedia-ambassadors-india at googlegroups.com>
>         wikipedia-online-ambassadors at googlegroups.com
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi Team
>
> This problem is continuing and is fast approaching disaster proportions.
> Please see these comments
>
> <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program#Queries_from_the_Wikipedia_community
> >
> and
> <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors#Concerns_over_impact_on_article_quality
> >
>
> Please urgently do the following
>
> a) Constantly repeat to every student that copy-pasting is not acceptable
> b) Monitor the work of your students - and make sure they edit in their
> sandboxes before they go live (and only go live after you ok it.)
> c) Please let's have the Campus & Online Ambassadors working closely with
> each other to do point (b) and to track, monitor and correct the work of
> your respective students.
>
> In the next few days and weeks, the problem is going to explode unless we
> control it because many students' deadlines are approaching.
>
> Please treat this matter with the highest urgency.  The very future of
> our program is at stake.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> hisham
>
>
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