Hello all, The Wikipedia Education Team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on just this: figuring out what initiatives are happening in education all around the world, keep track of them, record what they are doing, what works and what does not work, and document that so that we can then spread the word about worldwide best practices and learnings that we have observed. Leigh mentions the education portal which is in the midst of its revamp (thanks for pointing that out Leigh!), and that will be the place where we will be sharing those learnings.
We hope to help volunteers worldwide so that they will not have to reinvent the wheel themselves and need to go through the exact same learning curve as others in other parts of the world. So yes, each country/region is different, but there are definitely trends or initiatives that can be spotted and applied in different settings. As far as having an official agreement with the government on using Wikipedia editing in education is concerned, to my knowledge there are now three countries who have something in place: Uruguay, Serbia and Israel. Yay for all three of them, I think they are setting some awesome precedents here! If anyone would like to know more, please feel free to contact me or my colleagues Tighe Flanagan, Anna Koval and Rod Dunican. Best, Floor Floor Koudijs Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6806 [email protected] education.wikimedia.org On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Tighe Flanagan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Charles Andrès < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> In this sense the WMF has done a great job with several brochures, but >> obviously they are in English and we do not have an efficient way to >> translate and localized them. >> > > In an effort to make translation and localization as easy as possible, we > have set up on-wiki translation for all the brochures > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures>, and Sage put > together a fairly detailed localization guide > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_guidelines_(Bookshelf)/Editing_Wikipedia> > to walk volunteers through using Scribus or InDesign to put together the > print documents. It's by no means a quick process, but we're hoping to get > more materials localized and make it more efficient :) > > I'd be happy to help anyone move from a complete on-wiki > translation/localization to a print layout document in your local language! > > Cheers, > Tighe > > -- > Tighe Flanagan > Manager, Wikipedia Education Program > Wikimedia Foundation > +1.415.839.6885 x6880 > [email protected] > education.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > >
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