Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-29 Thread Pine W
Hi LiAnna, That's interesting and nice to hear. It's refreshing to hear good news. I wish you the best for future iterations of this program. Thanks,Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) null ___ Education mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-29 Thread James Salsman
> Fellows shared in surveys that they felt encouraged to apply to the program > because their academic associations see it as aligning with their mission > to disseminate knowledge to the public; at the end of the pilot, > participants saw it as professional development in refreshing how to >

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-25 Thread Pine W
inable, and > > cost-effective in the medium to long term. > > > > Pine > > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > > > > Original message From: James Salsman < > jsals...@gmail.com> > > Date: 5/23/18

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-25 Thread LiAnna Davis
m to long term. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > Original message From: James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> > Date: 5/23/18 7:07 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia Education < > education@lists.wikimedia.org>, Pine W <wiki.p...

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-24 Thread Pine W
/User:Pine ) Original message From: James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> Date: 5/23/18 7:07 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org>, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia F

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-23 Thread James Salsman
M (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia Education > <education@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation > report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot > Greetings, all! > > At the beginning of 2018, the Wiki Education Foundation ran a 3-month pilot > to engage academic e

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-23 Thread Pine W
lia...@wikiedu.org> Date: 5/22/18 9:51 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot Greetings, all! At the beginning of 2018, the Wiki Education Foundation ran a 3-month pilot to eng

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-22 Thread James Salsman
Note: I tried to ask some follow-up questions of LiAnna, but the "filter rules" rejected them somehow. There is a copy here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2018-May/006284.html Best regards, Jim ___ Education mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-22 Thread LiAnna Davis
Answers inline! On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Juliana Bastos Marques < domusau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-22 Thread James Salsman
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

[Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-22 Thread LiAnna Davis
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