We wrote a short report on the Czech Ambassador Program, just in case anyone is
interested... :-)Czech Ambassador Program(key notes (as of 20 February 2012))*
The program has been officially running for approx. 8 months now; mainpage
available at http://ambasadorstvi.wikimedia.cz (Czech only)* We are a small
group of approximately 5 ambassadors and a few sympathisers. We have consulted
our goals with each other (on a meeting in Prague) and with other similar
initiatives (mainly people from the US ambassador program)* We currently
operate mainly in Prague (Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of
Science, Pedagogical Faculty), to a lesser extent in Olomouc (Philosophical
Faculty). New project is currently being prepared in Brno (Philosophical
Faculty). Some more projects are in the state of development (two secondary
schools in Prague).* The ambassadors are free to decide their project‘s rules.
We have developed two different strategies: ** The first brings high-qu
ality articles, but is very time-consuming, as it involves regular meetings
with students and helping them, as well as a lot of editing work. Example:
Institute for Environmental Studies** The second brings average-quality
articles (at best), but needs little maintenance (for example, just a help page
for the students + explaining how to ask for help on Wikipedia + some editing
work). Example: Immunology at Faculty of Science* We found out that the best
way to start new projects is to advertise the ambassador program as much as
possible. It has proven of almost no use to „tell the teachers“ into
establishing their projects. The motivation of the teacher is highest when
he/she personally contacts us.* We have published a long interview with Petr
Broz (user:Chmee2) in a national newspaper „Právo“ about Wikipedia, putting
stress on his ambassador project at the Institute for Environmental Studies. *
New teachers are contacting us, willing to start their own ambassador
project.---
Statistics for the winter term 2012:* Institute for Environmental Studies,
Charles University – finished, 30 high-quality articles **see English report
at:
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_Chr%C3%A1n%C4%9Bn%C3%A1_%C3%BAzem%C3%AD/P%C5%99F_UK/Report-en
* Immunology at Faculty of Science, Charles University – in progress, currently
6 articles **see list of articles at:
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Ambasadorstv%C3%AD/Pokroky_z_imunologie_2012 *
Art History at Philosophical Faculty, University of Palacky – in progress,
currently about 40 articles that need some editing work (data incomplete)**see
list of articles at
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Ambasadorstv%C3%AD/Filozofick%C3%A1_fakulta_Univerzity_Palack%C3%A9ho
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Vojtěch Dostál
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