[Wikimedia-l] Project Grant: Twitterpedian-in-Residence -- Request for Review and Endorsement (10/11 -- today -- deadline)

2016-10-11 Thread Brill Lyle
*Apologies if you receive this as a cross-posting. I am re-sending this one last time as there is an October 11 deadline for review, and the grant has been updated a bit. **Thanks in advance.* Hi Wikipedians, I have written a *Wikimedia Grant Proposal: "Twitterpedian-in-Residence"* and would be g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-11 Thread Peter Southwood
Competition is healthy, it can be useful to test alternatives and separate out the ones that work from the ones that don’t. However I think Starlords may be one that doesn’t work and may bring down the project prematurely. I will watch in case they develop anything actually useful - who knows...

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-11 Thread Anders Wennersten
I think this initiative point to a weakness in our approach, that is worth discussing, independent if just this will be anything or not. In our version we have somewhat lower quality demand then enwp, and we can also be more pragmatic and handle cases individually, but still one of our most re

[Wikimedia-l] New partnership and expansion of Wikimedia Israel's Education initiative - WikiCampus

2016-10-11 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
Dear friends, On behalf of Wikimedia Israel, I'm pleased to announce a new partnership and expansion of our Education initiative - WikiCampus. WikiCampus it is a new initiative by Wikimedia Israel and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC) [1]. As part of the collaboration, during the u

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New partnership and expansion of Wikimedia Israel's Education initiative - WikiCampus

2016-10-11 Thread Anna Torres
Congrats!!! Always a great model to follow!! Hugs! 2016-10-11 11:15 GMT-03:00 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel : > Dear friends, > > > On behalf of Wikimedia Israel, I'm pleased to announce a new partnership > and expansion of our Education initiative - WikiCampus. > > > WikiCampus it is a new initiati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New partnership and expansion of Wikimedia Israel's Education initiative - WikiCampus

2016-10-11 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter
Congratulations! I agree this is the way to go with education, as it gets administrative support. This has been crucial for our program, as it tells teachers that their school supports what they do. For us, such an organizational effort has given us access to resources that individual teachers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Arbital, another Wikipedia competitor/complement

2016-10-11 Thread David Gerard
Followup on this: Arbital is still going (recent changes shows consistent activity, mostly from MIRI people) and now has the tag line "Arbital is the place for crowdsourced, intuitive math explanations." This is an area it might actually get somewhere with - en:wp's mathematics articles are notorio