[Wikimediaindia-l] Update, Examples & Request: Wikipedia India Education Program

[Jessie Wild]

Congratulations on a great beginning to what I anticipate will be a high
impact Indian program!

Can you also highlight any significant differences between the strategy for
> the Education programme in the US and for the one in India?  Thanks.
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> I'll second what Srikeit wrote in response.  Key differences: we're not
> limiting ourselves to any academic field, we're doing it focussed as a pilot
> in one city (Pune) and we had a full time Fellow.
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Just to be clear, the US program started last academic year (2010-11) as a
pilot in various cities but in one academic discipline (Public Policy). Now
it has expanded from the pilot phase and covers an array of academic
disciplines!


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*Jessie Wild
Global Development, Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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