Really cool! Thanks so much for the update. Excited to see how this progresses going forward.
2012/2/21 Vojtěch Dostál <[email protected]> > 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-quality 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 > > > > > > ************************ > > Vojtěch Dostál > > Mail [email protected] > > twitter.com/medi_cago > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation *
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