Hi Konstantinos, How exciting to see all of the great work! You are encouraged to use the logo you created; it's open to everyone who wants to affiliate themselves with the education program.
I encourage you to add it here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program_visual_identity#Gallery_of_logos LiAnna On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Konstantinos Stampoulis <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > the last 2-3 years I run a number of projects in the Aristotle University > of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. They were done with the invitation and > cooperation of dr. Bratsas from OKFN Greece. > > Two of the projects were with a postgraduate class on web science of the > School of Mathematics of AUTH and another one (for two years) was with an > undergraduate course (medical education) of the Medical School of AUTH, > which involved the translation of medical articles from english to greek > wikipedia . > > Both had very good results, especially the last project with the medical > students ( > http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Βικιπαίδεια:Πανεπιστημιακά_Εγχειρήματα/ΑΠΘ_Ιατρική_Εκπαίδευση). > They translated so many excellent articles (we had given them a selection > of top and high importance articles, of FA-class to B-class: most of them > chose FA and A class articles). We had asked them to form teams of two to > three students, each with a personal account, to work on the same article, > so we had a very good quality instead of asking an article from each > student (that would give just a big quantity of bad articles). > > For wikipedia it was great, as greek wikipedia has many gaps in medical > articles, and it is almost impossible to translate articles on an area with > such special terminology. The students except all the good things anybody > earns from contributing to Wikipedia, trained their vocabulary and english > and greek terminology of their science. The professor expressed his > interest to do something more than just an assignment. > > We are organising another project in the School of Mathematics ( > http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Βικιπαίδεια:Πανεπιστημιακά_Εγχειρήματα/ΑΠΘ_Μαθηματικό), > with undergraduate students this time. It will be again translation from > teams of students, of mathematical articles. This time we are planning it > better as we will be using online ambassadors to help with the students, > assigning them personally (last time there was just a list of wikipedians > willing to help). The assignment will be given to almost 140 students. > > I have created a logo ( > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Education_Program_Aristotle_University_of_Thessaloniki_logo.svg) > to use, is it ok or do I need something different since our project is not > a part of the official Wikipedia Education Program sponsored by the WMF? > > Konstantinos Stampoulis > [email protected] > http://www.geraki.gr > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Οι παραπάνω απόψεις είναι προσωπικές και δεν εκφράζουν παρά μόνο εμένα. Το > μήνυμα θεωρείται εμπιστευτικό μόνο εάν το έχω ζητήσει ρητά, διαφορετικά > μπορείτε να το χρησιμοποιήσετε σε οποιαδήποτε δημόσια συζήτηση. > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 [email protected]
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