Same from me, great to hear about this! What is the general feedback from students about writing on Wikipedia as a part of their education?
*Be Bold! Sophie Österberg 0733-832670 [email protected]* *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a gift of free knowledge to humanity. * 2013/5/16 Mina Theofilatou <[email protected]> > ** > Great work! As a Greek Wikipedian, I can ascertain that the medical > articles are much needed on Greek Wikipedia. I recently turned to one > myself for info, and was impressed by the quality and detail. Congrats > Konstantinos, from here as well:) > > Mina > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Alex Stinson <[email protected]> > *To:* Wikimedia Education <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:45 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia Education] Greek projects > > 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 >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Education mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >> >> > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > --
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