Grants:Conference/Wikimedia Serbia/EduWiki Conference 2023/Community Engagement Survey Report

With what gender do you identify?

How likely are you to attend EduWiki Conference ?

Please mention the affiliate(s) you are associated with, if any

Participants of the survey represent/are part of the following Wikimedia affiliates;


Amical Wikimedia	Basque Wikimedians User Group	Dagbani Wikimedians User Group	GLAM Macedonia User Group	Grupo de Usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil	Hausa Wikimedians User Group
Igbo Wikimedians User Group	Karavali Wikimedians User Group	Open Foundation West Africa	Wiki World Heritage User Group	WikiJournal	Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
Wikimedia Argentina	Wikimedia Australia	Wikimedia Bangladesh	Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria	Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda	Wikimedia Ghana User Group
Wikimedia Indonesia	Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group	Wikimedia MA User Group	Wikimedia Mexico	Wikimedia Morocco	Wikimedia Polska
Wikimedia Portugal	Wikimedia Serbia	Wikimedia Spain	Wikimedia Sverige	Wikimedia Switzerland	Wikimedia TN User Group
Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand	Wikimedians for Sustainable Development	Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group	Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group	Wikimedistas de Bolivia	Wikimedistas de Uruguay
Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias	Wikipedia & Education User Group

To which Wikimedia projects do you usually contribute to?

I am / was ...

Participants of the survey come from the following broad categories/areas of work in the context of EduWiki;

How long have you been in involved with EduWiki?

What are your expectations from EduWiki Conference 2023?

Expectation

Percentage of choice

Learn about EduWiki and meet the Wikimedia community

82.7%

Improving my skills that help me to improve my EduWiki work

71.6%

Sharing my work / thoughts /skills regarding EduWiki or related aspects

79%

Participate and trying to resolve issues persistent with EduWiki community

67.9%

Please select any five of the below listed broad themes that are of your interest

Theme

Percentage of choice

External fund raising for Wikimedia activities and organisations

22.2%

GLAM-Wiki (Using Wikimedia projects in/with cultural organisations)

60.5%

Gender gap, diversity, and anti-harassment

51.9%

Governance within Wikimedia movement (Movement affiliates, Volunteer committee, WMF etc.)

35.8%

Internal and external communications (Wikimedia Space, Social Media best practices etc.)

22.2%

International / regional projects and collaboration

61.7%

Learning & Evaluation (evaluating your activities and organisations)

54.3%

On-Wiki technical skills (Automated tools, templates etc.)

29.6%

Organising for Wikimedia projects (Grants, project management, logistics etc.)

48.1%

Sustainability initiative

27.2%

Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy

34.6%

Coping with COVID-19

6.2%

What are the most important topics that your community needs to discuss in person?

Responses from the participants have been clustered into four broad themes, and relevant specifics for each theme are listed below;

Broad theme	Specific topics
Advocacy	Connecting EduWiki programs and campaigns around environmental sustainability
	Promoting Wikipedia and its sister's project as a reliable source of information for academic research and preventing misinformation
	Moving from being an educator on Wikimedia to being an education leader on Wikimedia
	Including EduWiki in official curricula
	Establishing multilingualism in the EduWiki movement
	Gender Gap Bridging
	Possibility of censorship from certain countries and sanction compliance imposed by US government
	Improving global understanding of EduWiki as an OER
	Using the larger concept of MOOCs for EduWiki work
Capacity development	Developing organizational skills
	Wikimedians and the Special Needs Individuals
	Best practices to avoid common pitfalls
	Creating capacity for tool development
	Using Wikidata in Education
	Available technologies for EduWiki work
	Capacity development of other community members to be able to run EduWiki programs
	Deciding on the best topics for an education program
	Developing an infrastructure for Wiki education programs
Partnerships / Networking	Building EduWiki programs with GLAM and other cultural institutions
	Organizing a community and support basis for kiwix4schools
	Leveraging Wikipedia as a learning tool by adopting the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Framework
	Establishing long-term partnerships with educational institutions
	Creating a Wiki Education Hub
	Assessing the program "Reading Wikipedia in the classroom"
	Connecting Wikimedia Education and the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy
	Networking of education program officers across the movement
Planning and management of EduWiki programs	Best practices on copyrights related to EduWiki programs
	Getting funding for EduWiki activities
	Evaluation of EduWiki projects/programs
	Engaging students in wiki programs
	Understanding specificities of programs for the elderly
	Designing EduWiki programs for higher education
	Establishing good connections between students and volunteers
	Evaluation of EduWiki projects/programs
	Sharing experiences with online wikicourses
	Organizing EduWiki programs relying on mobile phones
	Setting an on-wiki education program in the context of COVID-19

What are the top three things that you are good at and would like to share them with the community during EduWiki Conference 2023?

Responses from the participants have been clustered into three broad themes, and relevant specifics for each theme are listed below;

Broad theme	Specific topics
Planning and execution of EduWiki programs	Adapting existing programs to new contexts
	Educational strategies based on the needs of educational communities
	Establishing best practices to ensure good quality content
	Exploring Wikimedian-in-Residence model for EduWiki
	Negotiations with government bodies – a win win situation
	Using GLAM-Wiki for EduWiki programs
	Using various kinds of automated Wiki-tools for EduWiki programs
	Wiki Camp for students
	Ethno-wiki projects as the proposal for regional activists, univeristies
	Greening Wikipedia on Climate Education
	Kiwix4schools Education program implementation lessons learned and strategies devised
	Intersecting Education and GLAM
	Decolonizing the Internet from an educational perspective
	Using Wikidata in Education programs and as a teaching aid
	Wikicamps for people not receiving any formal education
Skills & Capacity Development	Event organization and management
	Leadership skills
	E-learning
	Non-formal and experiential education-lifelong learning approach
	Interculturality
	Facilitation of learning processes
	Design-thinking for short programs
	Long-term planning for education
	Creating outreach resources
	Competence based education
	Documenting programs for sharing learning
	Organizing an eduwiki program in an unwelcoming environment
Tools and technical skills	Citation technology
	Apps and Gamification of learning
	Petscan
	Program and Events Dashboard
	Lexeme
	Photo upload
	Semantic MediaWiki
	Translatewiki
	Scholia
	Spell4wiki
	Visual Editor
	Wikidata tools

What are the top three things that would like to learn at EduWiki Conference 2023?

Responses from the participants have been clustered into four broad themes, and relevant specifics for each theme are listed below;

Broad theme	Specific topics
Diversity of projects in EduWiki programs	Multilingual EduWiki programs
	Role of Wikiversity in EduWiki programs
	History of EduWiki
	Documenting EduWiki for spreading learning
	Wikidata for EduWiki
	Wikisource for EduWiki
	Wiktionary for EduWiki
	Wikivoyage for EduWiki
	Meta-wiki for EduWiki
Planning & execution of EduWiki programs	Alinging EduWiki programs with 2030 strategic direction
	Building an education-focused project from the start
	Collaborating with GLAMs for Education programs
	Convincing institutions and students
	Designing Education programs to improve language skills of the participants
	Developing short duration projects
	Coping with Covid-19
	Editor retention post-completion of a program
	Evaluating the impact of Education programs
	Fund an assignment-based education project
	Increasing participation from Global South
Skills & Capacity Development	Conflict resolution
	International collaborations
	Effective communication
	Social media outreach
	Negotiating partnerships
	Using maps in EduWiki
	Project management
	Public relations
	Leadership skills
Tools & technical skills	Creating on-Wiki templates
	UX design
	Program & Events Dashboard
	MediaWiki
	AI uses for education
	Querying Wikidata
	Wikicite

What is the most important goal, problem, or obstacle you think this community should focus on in the next 12 months?

Responses from the participants have been clustered into a broad theme and the rest into miscellaneous, and relevant specifics for each theme are listed below;

Broad theme	Specific topics
Planning & execution of EduWiki programs	Align Education programs plan to produce content according to local needs
	Developing Education programs with focus work area to serve students from marginalised communities
	Planning programs by keeping in view of Wikimedia 2030 strategy
	Improving tech development and support for EduWiki activities
	Post-COVID work and relationships in EduWiki
	Running Education programs in areas with low internet connectivity
	Building an education program that address the education needs in my local community
	Scalability of EduWiki national programs
	Creating new resources for design, implementation and outreach of EduWiki programs
Misc	Governance of the EduWiki Movement
	Coordination and implementation of the movement strategy for EduWiki
	Developing communication strategies to minimise the stigma around the use of Wikipedia in academia
	Education and special needs on wiki
	Leadership development
	A more efficient mobile editor to be used in a more user-friendly editing interface
	Sustainability initiative

How familiar are you with the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy?

What are the technological features that are missing in the tools you're already using for your EduWiki work, or what are the completely new technological tools that you believe should be developed to support your work so it is more efficient and less manual?

Improved mobile access and mobile editing platform

Translation tools

“Country” field for P&E Dashboard – for metrics per country

Assign articles to participants directly on Wiki – without the help of P&E Dashboard

UX Design

Kiwix

Data visualizations on the P&E Dashboard

ORES

Wikimedia powered Edu-software that works like the Encarta Educational software with a touch of kiwix to allow students search for things without having to be online

Video editing platform