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
Pine, why would you be concerned about the cost-effectiveness or sustainability. This program looks great to me, except for the mismatch between needs and recruiting. On that point, there is an alternative to

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

2018-05-23 Thread Pine W
Hi LiAnna, Thank you for this report. Increasing the number of good-faith contributors to Wikipedia is always nice to see. I believe that at least a few people in WMF, the affiliates, and the long-term volunteer population have been interested for many years in increasing the number of

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