On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to point out a discussion I've just started on Wikiversity > asking if they are using this project as part of the Wikipedia > ambassadors program > > http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#Wikiversity_and_Wikipedia_Ambassadors_program > > and ask you if you know of any other Wikimedia Foundation project, > beyond Wikipedia, involved in the Ambassadors program. If some case > you know to tell us is not in English or some Romanic language, I'd > like to read your experience about it.
Wikimedia Commons has been significantly involved in the Ambassadors program, in a couple of courses focused on the creation of videos and diagrams: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Ambassador_Program_student_projects Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) > Also, a short comment bellow about a point of Juan's nice description > (thanks!) about Czech Republic situation of its educational sector. > > 2011/12/19 Juan de Vojníkov <[email protected]>: > >> Other "problems" comes when newbies coming to the Czech Wikipedia. There is >> a luck of mentors for them and they have to face both technical (wikisyntax, >> templates, standards) and social problems (unpleasant users, lack of social >> interaction, just templates on their discussion page). Thus we have agreed >> to focus on setting up some features from en.wp such gadget Cite[2] or >> Wikilove. At this time User:Vojtech.dostal comes up with the information >> that Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) developers is close to WYSIWYG editor for >> Wikipedia, but user Chmee2 is afraid that most of the good tools from WMF >> might be reject by the local community. > > What about using Wikiversity in Czech <http://cs.wikiversity.org/> for > these social problems you mention? I've seen similar comments on > Wikiversity to be more hospitable than Wikipedia (see, for instance, > the last note in blue here <http://diigo.com/0lzhd>), from volunteers > of both English and Portuguese languages projects. > > Best wishes, > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
