[Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Program

[Hisham]

I thought I'd share with you a couple of links that are of relevance to the India Education Program.  As you are aware, we are running a pilot of the education program in Pune.  We are collating hard numbers to evaluate the pilot - and we'll share a full evaluation as soon as it is ready.  However, it is clear that there are a number of mistakes that have been made - some of which ought to have been avoided (especially with regards to communicating stronger with the global wikipedia community, not agreeing to so many students signing up, anticipating the copy-pasting issue, etc.)

There've been many learnings that we're taking from it and Nitika has been collating these at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Education_Program  Please do note that this page is a draft and is very much work-in-progress.  In addition, do also check out the discussion page - which we are trying to have as a focal point for all discussion regarding the education program.  

In addition, Signpost covered the education program on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-11-07/Interview and there are some very nuanced and insightful comments on it.

I wanted to share these two pages because some of you might not be aware of them. Please feel free to join the conversations on either/both page.

I also do want to publicly acknowledge the stunning work of the Campus Ambassadors.  I know they have taken a lot of flak and my heart goes out to them.  You are an awesome team and it's been wonderful to see you at work.  Your fingerprints are all over every good article!  Thank you!

I also know that there have been wonderful contributions by a bunch of students and I do hope their fantastic accomplishments are not lost out in the discussion on the pilot's problems.  Do check out some more of the geat work of students (in addition to the ones Nitika had shared earlier)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenges_of_Inflationary_Policy_In_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_sector_banks_in_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_Control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_paper_in_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_money_market
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management_in_Indian_banks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy_of_India

Over the next few weeks, we will take an objective, data and fact driven review of the pilot and then determine the best way forward.  We will learn from our mistakes and will do so with brutal integrity and objectivity.  

Warm Regards,

hisham

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