Wikimania 2015/Education I

Experiences of teachers on school wikipedia lessons, few of them present on during this meeting. Many of these classes has taken place in Tecnologico of Monterrey.

Some lesson to create new content other for translation.

An example is WikiBorregos 2013

WikiBorregos 2013

Tec de Monterrey edit-a-thon "Experencias retadoras" was an example of program that has taken plase in a campus with 200 students. In September this experience will be redone but with less students (~70) to be more effective.

Both university and high school are target of these kind of ativities.

A representative of a local library explained that her support was mainly for logistic purpose, in order fo provide the place where the students can meet for this classes, researches, etc.

Challenges Arising in Practice

• Challenge for the institution as well as for the teaches and students.
• Support of the institution is crucial to expand the scope of the project.
• Coordination among different levels (management, the library, etc.)

Questions & Answers

• Q: Which is the role of the Library?
• A: 1) Awarness within authorities 2) Logistic & tutoring of both students & professors
• Q: Are you working with both public and private schools?
• A: Right now, maily with Tec of Monterrey
• Q: Can this model be applied with other university, possibly to the whole Mexico?
• A: Theoretically yes, but WMMX is not well recognize locally and is difficult to expand at the moment.

5.000 article has been wrote during the camp organized in Armenia. Because of the good success, have decided to repeat the experience again in another region of Armenia: Summer Wikicamp 2015

Criteria to choose the best location:

• Far from cities and other large residential areas
• Large halls ....

Write schedule

• Stroing schedule, everyone should copmay the schedule
• Editing and learning every day ~4h
• Time for entertainment and fun
• Time for intellectual and sport games
• Time for breaks and rest
• Time for excursions and parents' meeting
• Tasty, nourishing and diverse food
• Keep balance between editing, learning and fun

Organize editing process

• Editing in Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource
• Daily themes and article suggestions for every group and camper
• Encourage editing on themes camper is insterested
• Different workshop rooms for new, experienced and younger editors
• 2-4 trainers (Experienced editors) for every room

Approach individually

• Wiki team helps to edit during workshops
• Evelauate process

Create atmosphere of competition

• Campers compete individually
• Daily best editor and author of best article are announced
• Best group announced at the end

Motivate and share

• Motivate young editors to edit before and after the camp
• Announce next camp by social media and other sites
• Attract pyable participants
• Attract other sponsors
• Attract new volunteers

Wikicamp 2014 (with Armenian folk music)

Questions & Answers

• Q: How much time last the camp?
• A: 14 days. Many days are needed to engage and motivate the students.
• Q: Do you have any teachers involved in the camp?
• A: Yes we have some volunteer teachers. Usually we dedicate to them 5 days because most of the itme they became big editors.
• Q: Which is the average age of the students?
• A: from 9y and above, but the classes are not divided neither by age nor by sex.
• Q: How many times have you organized the camp?
• A: 2 last year, 1 this year another one is coming
• Q: How many students and articles?
• A: 300 and 5000. 80% of them has continued to edit
• Q: How the minor are protected in this environment?
• A: Never the children are left alone, and for all the activity they are "forced" to participate

presentation by Dr. Susanna Mkrtchyan, David Saroyan - Wikimedia Armenia

Access partnership

• Closed-access, paywalled sources
• Donation for mutual benefit
• Vetted, highly-active subject editors
• etc.

Better strategies: librarian do it better Think like a library

• Gain access to paywalled sources
• Facilitate research for editors
• Community reserach practice
• Lead readers to free ot local sources
• Promote open access

Wikipedia, libraries = natual allies Wikipedia is the starting point for reserach We need to explicitly lead readers back to sources at libraries to engage with knowledge

Re-imagine WM Specialists Wikipedian-in-residence Capacity focused, on-staff, wikipedia Meets a specific need---- big commitment Libraries are different Environment-signigicant underfunding More comfortable with discovery support

Wikipedia researcher Wikipedia visiting scholar

• research affiliate
• Small investment: create an account and provide a supervisor
• Fill a similar need to access donation
• Start institutions thinking GLAM

Wikipedia Interns

• What if we took the impulse to link-spam Wikipedia and harnessed it?
• Many of our best GLAM-Wiki contributors, started GLAM-Wiki in student learner roles
• Student resources are more expandable than staff and... we are good at students (Education Program)

Integrate into the library's process

• National Archive: Policy encourages Wikipedia editing
• State Library of New South Wales

Linking archives Structured (and simplified) guidelines for building citations to relevant archivial items, specialist collections, and findind aids

• Librarians don't frequently think themselves as content creators, but rather discovery enablers

Thikning out loud:

• What if we invited librarians to work?
• What if every library Network shared best practice for using Wikipedia? This is happening with Catalan Library Network 100+ libraries; editing information literacy, Wiki-takes activities; reward participation, scale happens because of the network support.

presentation by Alext Stinson - Wikipedialibrary.org