[African Wikimedians] Re: Africa Growth Project Pilot : Invitation for Input

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&gt; 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: > > - > > Module 1: Preparing to participate in Wikimedia projects > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module1> > - > > Module 2: 101 Ways to Contribute to Wikimedia > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module2> > - > > Module 3: The Voice of Wikipedia: Neutral Point of View > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module3> > - > > 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) > > -- > > Veronica Thamaini | Manager of Regional Programs, Community Resources > > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list -- african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to african-wikimedians-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org