Thank you Veronica
This is welcomed development. I'll look through and give my feedback.
Tochi
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 12:47 PM Veronica Thamaini <vthamaini(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
In response to expressed needs of the communities in sub-Saharan Africa
to help achieve growth of the editing communities in the region, the
Wikimedia Foundation is working on an experiment-based project dubbed the
Africa Growth Project. The project seeks to enhance already existing
community efforts by creating a more effective online learning component,
which would allow in-person efforts to focus on already-engaged newbies who
have obtained a solid foundation in Wikipedia policies and collaboration
norms, maximizing the return on investment of human volunteer effort. The
hypothesis guiding this experiment is that providing high-quality training
to new and existing Wikimedians covering the basics of contribution to
Wikimedia (including introducing the many ways to contribute beyond article
writing) can double the retention rates of active editors in the
region.
For the pilot, we will be developing four modules, and we are inviting
you to share feedback on outlines for these training modules, which are:
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Module 1: Preparing to participate in Wikimedia projects
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module1>
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Module 2: 101 Ways to Contribute to Wikimedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module2>
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Module 3: The Voice of Wikipedia: Neutral Point of View
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module3>
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Module 4: Sourcing knowledge: Verifiability on Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module4>
We hope to benefit from your experience as a Wikimedian in sharing your
input on these module outlines, to ensure that they capture what is needed
to support community understanding of those policies.
We are interested to hear your thoughts on what's missing, what's good,
what could be improved, and any suggestions on the modules' and sections'
order and pace, great illustrative examples and helpful exercises that
would be useful to incorporate.
We await this input and will take it all into consideration as we
develop the full modules based on these outlines (including whatever change
suggestions we accept). We will also be publishing the complete modules on
the WikiLearn platform when they are ready.
See the details of each module here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_…
And share your comments here;
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_…
For your input to be useful in our module development, please share your
feedback by July 21st, 2023.
Thank you,
From the Africa Growth Pilot team (Dumisani Ndubane, Veronica Thamaini,
Asaf Bartov)
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Veronica Thamaini | Manager of Regional Programs, Community Resources
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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