Thanks for the update Frank. A quick question: by "significantly increase the quality of Wikipedia's articles in a particular subject area", do you mean it will develop something that will help volunteers improve a specific content area, or do you mean direct work in say, GLAMs or schools?
Thanks, Steven Walling On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Frank Schulenburg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is a short update about some ongoing and new projects of the > Wikimedia Foundation's outreach department: > > (1) Aradhana Ravindra will support the Bookshelf project as a contractor > > It is my pleasure to announce that Aradhana Datta Ravindra started in > April to help us as a contractor. She will assist with structuring and > managíng the work for the Bookshelf Project. > > Aradhana has over ten years experience as a Learning Strategist and is > also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Recently, she > drove Palm's mobile learning initiative from functional and project > management perspectives. Prior to that, she worked for Nokia where she > designed, implemented and managed a mobile learning inititiative for > the organization. > > (2) Instructional video released > > Last week, we released our first educational video, covering the > concepts of "Verifiability" and "Neutral point of view". It is a > 2-minute video, produced by Common Craft and released under an > CC-by-SA 3.0 license: > > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verifiability_and_Neutral_point_of_view_%28Common_Craft%29-600px-en.ogv > > Many of you will know Common Craft as producers of witty videos which > are understandable to users with any level of computer proficiency. > Common Crafts strength is to introduce complex subjects with paper > cut-outs in a fun and accessible way. > > If you are curious about how Common Craft produces these videos, > please have a look at the following story on their blog: > > http://www.commoncraft.com/scenes-common-craft-video-shoot > > (3) Upcoming new outreach initiative > > Rod Dunican, who joined us as an Education Program Manager, will lead > a new outreach initiative which we are about to launch. > > The goal of this initiative will be to significantly increase the > quality of Wikipedia's articles in a particular subject area. > Additionally, we are planning to create structures that will support > continued improvement after the Initiative's conclusion. > > Right now, we are working on a FAQ that will be published later this > week. I will let you know once it is online. > > Thanks, > Frank > > ----- > > NB. This mail address is used for public mailing lists. Personal > emails sent to this address will get lost. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
