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] [OER-advocacy] Re: MEC Brazil publishes an ordinance for OER!!!

2018-05-23 Thread Cable Green
+1 - Congratulations! This is a huge win ... and a policy roadmap for other countries to follow. Love Melissa's idea of you writing a blog post about this success and the work leading up to this new open education policy. Please do let us know if you do - so we can all help amplify the good