Didn't know we had branding instructions! Nice to see that page Lianna!

 And good work with the Greek program  Konstantinos!

Alex Stinson


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:38 PM, LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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>>
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