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

[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

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

[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 they display knowledge of WP rules. What
> was the reception of the Fellows’ work among the community of editors?
>
> There were some minor disagreements with other English Wikipedia editors,
but conversations were ultimately productive. We did have one article
nominated for deletion, but the Fellow was able to successfully argue for
it to not be deleted.



> Em 22 de mai de 2018, à(s) 16:02, James Salsman 
> escreveu:
>
> > Would you please describe how you choose the subject matter of
> > articles and expertise for inviting Fellows?
>

Fellows chose their own articles to improve based on their interests and
expertise. We selected the associations to participate in the pilot based
on our relationships with them; we're expanding future Fellows cohorts to
other subject areas.


> > It's not clear whether the Fellows were paid or otherwise compensated;
> > were they?
>

There's a reference to this in the "Recruiting Wikipedia Fellows" section
(I know there's a lot in here, so I'm not surprised if you missed it!): "We
encouraged partners to consider offering Fellows honoraria, travel
scholarships to their conference, or conference fee waivers. Partners were
amenable to the idea but most said they needed more time to be able to
offer it. We hope this might be able to be built into future Fellows
cohorts."

> "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?
>

We've signed agreements with 12 academic associations; they're listed on
our website: https://wikiedu.org/partnerships/


> > When you select such subjects and topics, do you consider the number
> > of pageviews? Do you use existing WP:BACKLOG category membership?
> > Both?
>

We encouraged Fellows to choose articles that would receive large page
views or were core articles in their field -- subjects that they would be
able to improve but a student studying that topic would struggle to
effectively improve. Beyond that, we left the selection up to the Fellows.


> > Do you consider the harm inaccuracy or bias can do to society by
> > infesting Wikipedia when selecting the subject and topics?
>

We teach all our program participants about the importance of NPOV and
stress how writing for Wikipedia needs to be fact-based, encyclopedic
content, not persuasive, analytical content.
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

[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
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  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
>
>
> --
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> Wiki Education
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[Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

[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 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


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Re: [Wikimedia Education] An opportunity to influence UN policy on Open Educational Resources

[Elly Koepf]

Hi Agnes,

it would really be interesting to look at it.
Thank you for sharing. And thank you all for the insights!


best,
Elly

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2018-05-21 8:32 GMT+02:00 Nichole Saad :

> Hi Agnes,
>
> Can you attach the framework? I'm excited to look into it!
>
> best,
>
> Nichole
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Agnes Bruszik <
> agnes.brus...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > *Dear Colleagues,Thanks to Nichole for sharing this great news!  At WMUK,
> > we have recently carried out at a research exploring the potentials of
> > Wikimedia projects in digital and information literacy development. We
> > propose a framework of skills and education modules based on the
> framework
> > in the WM context, that are relevant for SDG4.*
> >
> >
> > *Although the document has a focus on the UK, other chapters and user
> > groups might benefit from our work, and use its findings to develop a
> > similar approach to integrate WM, OER, and digital skill education,
> taking
> > into account, of course, local environmental factors. Please find the
> > document attached.*
> >
> >
> >
> > Wishing you a nice day,
> >
> > WMUK team
> >
> >
> >
> > On 15 May 2018 at 10:45, Nichole Saad  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Mina,
> > >
> > > I can't promise that we'll have time to read them, but please do send
> the
> > > links! Thanks for already putting so much thought into this important
> > > topic.
> > >
> > > best,
> > >
> > > Nichole
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:18 AM, Mina Theofilatou <
> > saintfevr...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Nichole this is very interesting and promising! Unfortunately I do
> not
> > > have
> > > > the time to go through the jargon and add comments... I do however
> have
> > > > three things to offer that may help (if you - or someone else - would
> > be
> > > > willing to investigate where they could fit in!) I have co-authored
> two
> > > > conference papers - one in Greek and one in English - on the use of
> > > > Wikipedia as an OER (Greek) and teaching cultural heritage with the
> > > > Wikimedia projects (English). The third is a vision paper on Open
> > > Education
> > > > in Europe 2030 (this has been published on their website). If you
> think
> > > > these would help I would be happy to send links :)
> > > >
> > > > BW
> > > > Mina (User:Saintfevrier)
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Nichole Saad 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > *Dear colleagues,As you may have heard, in March I spent a couple
> of
> > > > weeks
> > > > > at UNESCO for Mobile Learning Week and to network with folks there
> > > about
> > > > > global goals for education and Wikimedia in education. A few really
> > > great
> > > > > opportunities came up, but one of them is quite pressing. The
> UNESCO
> > > > > Communications and Information Sector
> > > > >  (CI)
> > is
> > > > > leading the initiative for the General Conference
> > > > >  to adopt a
> recommendation
> > > > about
> > > > > the use of OERs to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4).
> > Some
> > > > > background information on recommendations can be found here
> > > > >  > > > > TOPIC_SECTION=201.html>.
> > > > > A quick summary is that a recommendation, though not an enforceable
> > > > policy
> > > > > mechanism, requires that member states who apply to it adopt
> national
> > > > > policies that align with the recommendation and report on their
> > > > compliance.
> > > > > Essentially, we have the opportunity to be a part of influencing
> > policy
> > > > > around the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in education.
> > UNESCO
> > > > > adopting this policy will mean that governments around the world
> will
> > > be
> > > > > strongly compelled to support the use of OER in education. For us,
> > this
> > > > > means that Wikimedia projects will have a stronger reputation in
> > > > education
> > > > > globally. Wikimedia projects are OERs that not only allow students
> to
> > > > > consume information, but that support the critical consumption of
> > > > > information as well as empower students and educators to be content
> > > > > creators. Contributing to this policy recommendation will give us
> the
> > > > > 

[Wikimedia Education] Regarding MOOC (massive open online course)

[Md Galib Hasan Abir]

Dear Wiki Education Enthusiasts,

Great Opportunity for all of you.I want to let you know about the following
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practice designed for post-secondary (tertiary) educators. Everyone that
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you believe would be interested.From *June 1-15, 2018*, a global
mini-MOOC (massive open online course) called Making Sense of Open
Education will take place through the *OpenLearn* UK Moodle platform. The
course will consist of short daily lessons and activities at an
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*There is no cost to participate in the course.* The full set of course
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Registration is open at the Following Link: https://bit.ly/2EV3FHV

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