P. S. as a personal comment, I remember when I was a physics student I liked very much John Baez because of his clever contributions to things I like to study. [1] Now I discover that his is a wikipedian!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/John_Baez That can have a huge influence on students. Or even foster WMF plans to make online citation simpler. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=522019127 He lives now in California, according to Wikipedia. :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez#External_links On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Alex. > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Axel Pettersson > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also, if you haven't seen it before, have a look at this interview I did >> last year: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv >> It might come in handy if you ever need a quote from a Nobel laureate who's >> using Wikipedia. > > That is AWESOME. I didn't know it. :) > > You just gave me another idea. We could try to make these short > interviews with some wikipedians with articles > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_with_articles > > Last semester a friend invited me to give a lecture on the Wikipedia > Education Program at his university, the same of professor Marcelo > Gleiser, [1] and I though it would be a great opportunity to invite > him to the program or even make short comments about Wikipedia. Since > he has made a program for popularizing science in a big TV news here > in Brazil, I think that would be really good to raise awareness about > Wikipedia and the program. > > Some friends from Wikimedia Brasil have made in 2010 also videos with > Lawrence Lessig and Sergio Amadeu, the later a famous activit on > copyright reform and free software here in Brazil: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ALessig_sobre_a_Wikipedia.ogv > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AS%C3%A9rgio_Amadeu_fala_sobre_Wikipedia.ogv > > We should explore more this possibility as well! I hope this semester > in Brazil we can invite some prominent professors and make videos of > them commenting Wikipedia articles and wikipedians learning from their > comments and improving the articles while we debate the subject. > > Tom > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Gleiser > > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > Wikimedia Brasil > Wikimedia Foundation -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Wikimedia Brasil Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
