Hi, LiAnna! Great read and very interesting initiative. I’d like to add another question. As you and others may know, I work in a particularly quarrelsome Wikipedia (PT), where there are lots of reversions of edits from newbies, even when they display knowledge of WP rules. What was the reception of the Fellows’ work among the community of editors?
Greetings, Juliana Enviado do meu iPhone Em 22 de mai de 2018, à(s) 16:02, James Salsman <[email protected]> escreveu: > LiAnna, I am very happy to see this. > > Would you please describe how you choose the subject matter of > articles and expertise for inviting Fellows? > > It's not clear whether the Fellows were paid or otherwise compensated; > were they? > > "In the past four years, the Wiki Education Foundation (Wiki > Education) has signed formal partnership agreements with academic > associations to improve Wikipedia in their topic area." -- how many? > Is the list public? > > When you select such subjects and topics, do you consider the number > of pageviews? Do you use existing WP:BACKLOG category membership? > Both? > > Do you consider the harm inaccuracy or bias can do to society by > infesting Wikipedia when selecting the subject and topics? > > Thank you! > > Best regards, > Jim > > > >> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:51 AM, LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greetings, all! >> >> At the beginning of 2018, the Wiki Education Foundation ran a 3-month pilot >> to engage academic experts (mostly professors at universities in the U.S.) >> to improve English Wikipedia articles related to their areas of expertise. >> We're pretty happy with how the pilot turned out -- we had some great >> improvements to articles, and, more importantly for a pilot, we learned a >> *lot* about how to run a program like this successfully. >> >> The team that worked on it put together this extensive evaluation report on >> what we did, what we learned, and what the outcomes were from the pilot: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikipedia_Fellows_pilot_evaluation >> >> I also put together a short blog post about it: >> https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/05/22/wiki-education-publishes-evaluation-of-fellows-pilot/ >> >> We already have calls for applications out for additional cohorts to begin >> in June, and we're eager to learn even more from future iterations of the >> Wikipedia Fellows program. I hope sharing our learnings like this can be >> helpful for other education programs in the Wikimedia movement who might >> also be interested in engaging subject matter experts to edit. >> >> We're happy to answer questions on this list or on the talk page of the >> evaluation report on Meta. >> >> LiAnna >> >> >> -- >> LiAnna Davis >> Director of Programs; Deputy Director >> Wiki Education >> www.wikiedu.org >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
