Wikimedia Conference 2018/Program/17

17. Sharing approaches on educational partnerships

How to move forward

What was this session about?

Wikimedians from different countries were sharing there approaches on educational partnerships and answering questions from the audience.

What are the next steps to be taken?

Photos

see the Commons category

Slides

TBA

Speaker(s)

Justine.toms (Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group), Reda Kerbouche (Algeria Wikimedians User Group), Olga Viota (Wikimujeres)

Length (min)

60

Audience / Target group

everyone, particularly Wikimedians who start working with education institutions

Session Format

Every speaker has 10 min presentation, followed by 5 min Q&A.

Description

Among participants of the Wikimedia Conference 2018, there is a strong wish to learn more about partnerships with educational institutions.

4 speakers showing and explaining their approach, starting with the broadest and ending with 1-2 very specific ones. Every speaker has 3 template slides, filled with they have learned, what are the challenges/limitations of their approach, what the movement could learn from it.

Desired Outcome

More Wikimedians look for partnerships outside with education institutions

Documentation

Ana Torres

• Education program to improve Human Rights content of Wikipedia
• The aim is to scale this across Latin America
• Problems in measuring the social impact
• Strong retention

Were there any problems retaining content on WP? - Some policy problems but generally the content is well-researched and supported
Does this make getting other relationships a problem if you are partnering with a controversial organisation? - Not really, the culture in Argentina isn’t antagonistic to human rights as a subject
Did you get media attention? - Yes, and we have had new organisations approach us as a result of this.

Justine Toms (Wikimedians of Bulgaria)

• Worked with Goethe Inst in Sofia
• Created diverse content, such as LGBT related content
• Global Libraries training in 3 cities.
• Brought librarians from various places for training.
• She is incorporating Wikipedia into her courses at the New Bulgarian University
• Hard to turn established Wikipedians into trainers or people that can do outreach

Reda Kerbouche, Wikimedia Algeria

• Wikimedia Algeria has created a Wiki MOOC in Arabic
• Lot of registrations from other countries like Sudan
• Challenges in finding a good standard Arabic speaker

Was the MOOC in French useful for Algeria? - Yes, there were two versions and the one we have produced the same one in Arabic
Do people have tutors to guide them or is it just the MOOC? - There are no tutors, there are five lessons and a test, then the next stage opens. Support can be found via the Facebook group.
Are there good results in terms of article creation? - No, hard stats but 10,000 people passed it so there is potential there