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Hi folks,
I'm Mike.lifeguard, and I've joined the outreach group to work on some
best practices documentation for Wikibooks, and look at developing
outreach materials in ASL to attract some Deaf contributors.
For the latter, networking will become quite important - if you know of
contributors to Wikimedia projects who know English and ASL (whether
Deaf or hearing), please let me know, I'd love to talk to them about
this project.
Cheers,
- -Mike
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Dear best-practices-team!
We are taking big steps forward on existing articles like *Assigning
Wikipedia articles as coursework to students, *and *Using Wikibooks in the
classroom *and on new pages like *Building a content partnership with a
cultural institution, *and *Wikimedia loves photography events.
*In the last weeks we had inspiring discussions, intensive conference calls
with many dedicated Wikipedians, and we were able to engage experts from the
outside!
That brought us a lot of attention, comments, and positive feedback from the
community!
Thanks to all of you for your hard work and support!
But I have the feeling that we just started and that we are now really
picking up speed!
Jan Eissfeld has his hands full to support a variety of university projects
starting this fall. And I know that many of you are deeply involved
contributing to Wikipedia's mission!
I am eager to hear about your plans! What else can we achieve in the next
months? What issues need to be addressed on the best-practices pages?
How could you contribute to this? Who else could join our team?
Do you know of any interesting activities in the chapters?
Should we change/ improve our communication channels (IRC-meetings)?
Please, share your ideas, thoughts, or plans with us (you can also use the
planning calendar):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_documentation_team )
Thanks again for your wonderful support!
Kathrin
Hello everybody working on Best-practices-project!
Please allow me to give a short introduction of myself: As a team we
should know each other :)
This year in may I was going to held a presentation about Wikipedia at
German Protestant Kirchentag in Bremen and asked Frank Schulenburg for
using his title and some more slides. The idea he got in this moment was
to collect all these presentations – the project expanded to collect all
practices in public outreach.
So there are two reasons I also work a bit for this project: I would
like to see it grow up and develop because I saw it from the beginning
and the second one is, that I have some expiriences in public outreach
which I would really like to share because I like the idea that not
everybody has to do that much of work to write a new presentation
develop a new concept. In fact I do not really have a focus on some
topic in the best-practices-project; I have to see, what work has to be
done and where I can integrate myself.
Regarding my person: I live in Germany, am 16 years of age and so I am
student in year 11 and in three years I will start studying at the
university. In german Wikipedia I am sysop, mentor for newbies, member
of Wikimedia Deutschland and do some other Wikimedia-projects.
If you have any other questions concerning my person, my work in the
wikimedia projects or my work in best-practices do not hesitate to
contact me via E-Mail (you got my adress right now) via Skype (you
should find me by searching for the real name Tim Moritz Hector) or via
my talk pages on meta or on german Wikipedia. My nickname in every
Wikimedia-project is "Bücherwürmlein" – something like a little
book-worm, just to give a translation of that funny german word ;-) My
signature is "buecherwuermlein". I should be also contactable via icq if
you prefer: 388-623-923.
Best regards,
Tim
(bücherwürmlein)
Hi all!
Our To-Do-list became confusing and unclear. So I replaced it by a weekly
planning calendar. Please add your to-do's, since it helps everybody to see
what you are working on!
Best,
Kathrin
Hi there!
I'm Elitre, it.wiki user and sysop, former member of Wikimedia Italia
and OTRS volunteer.
I am interested in the public outreach area (I just added myself to the
Public Speakers page), and willing to help with
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_setting_up_a_Wikipedia_boo…
.
There are some related tips I wrote in Italian with other members of
WMI: I could translate them. After double checking my English, someone
could try and add this text on Meta if relevant.
Regards,
Elitre
Hi all,
in our conference call we talked about the opportunity to develop a brochure
for universities. I started a first outline:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Educational_materials
Please edit and/or discuss!
John, I think we should integrate your work! What do you think?
Kathrin
Hi!
I would like to invite you to our conference call:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_documentation_team/Meetings/O…
Please, sign up if you want to attend!
This is our agenda:
1) Long-term objectives for the Best practices pages: What level is
realistic?
- Wikibooks: Günter
- Partnerships with universities: Jan and Piotr
2) Present the idea of a brochure for universities
3) How to collect on Best practices in exercises for Wikipedia
newcomers<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_exercises_for_Wikipedia_ne…>?
Moderator: Kathrin
Please, let me know if there is anything else you want to discuss!
Kathrin
Hi all!
Several times I came across with different exercises that should help to
become more familiar with Wikipedia and how to edit an article. But I think
they are not very organized or structured. So I set up a page to collect
these exercises and to categorize them. Please, let me know if you think
this makes sense and is helpful or if you know somebody who could contribute
to this!
Kathrin