Content about businesses is potentially useful to people who need jobs.
Television shows *are* cultural topics.
I am uneasy about well intentioned attempts to define "worthy" and
"unworthy" content.
On 14 April 2015 at 02:28, Leigh Thelmadatter <osamadre(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I agree that any community service type editing would
have to be planned
and done carefully as the type of work being done is everything. Obviously
adding content about businesses and television shows would have no
community impact, but documenting cultural topics, marginalized peoples,
and the like very well could. Not to mention academic topics to the same
communities as Wikipedia Zero serves. No sense students having free access
if they information they need does not exist.
Servicio social for Mexican universities also has an academic component,
relating the service to their majors. María José has written a blog post,
which is in the draft queue, about her experience which I hope gets
published eventually.
Leigh
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:03:50 -0400
From: aleksey.bilogur(a)gmail.com
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CC: wikimedia-cascadia(a)lists.wikimedia.org;
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for
school community
service hours
If editing Wikipedia counted as community service my school ought to
start
handing me plaques.
Alas, it does not, for a host of legitimate reasons as I see it, ranging
from academic uncertainty about the usefulness of doing so when it comes
to
community impact, to the sheer difficulty of
actually measuring. More
meaningful (and, in the spirit of things, selfless) to volunteer at a
local
Wikipedia editing event then to sit back in an
armchair and do the whole
first-world-netizen-at-a-computer thing.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Many schools in the United States encourage or require students to
perform
> community service hours, such as by cleaning
up parks, caring for the
> disabled, or tutoring younger students. Sometimes more specialized
> requirements apply, such as university schools of education or health
which
> may require experience that is applicable to
a student's desired
> coursework. Contributing to Wikimedia is one form of accepted community
> service in a multi-campus Mexican university, and the practice seems
to be
> gaining momentum (see
>
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/13/wiki-learning-edit-a-thon-mexico/).
>
> These community service programs are different from in-class
assignments
> that require Wikipedia editing. Wikipedia
can benefit from both kinds
of
> activities.
>
> I am wondering, have other Wikimedia affiliates had success with
> encouraging students to complete community service requirements by
> contributing to Wikimedia? I am thinking that here in Cascadia, we
might
encourage
schools to allow this option, and other affiliates also might
want to explore this possibility.
Thanks,
Pine
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