Dear Collab members,
Happy almost September! We are pleased to report that we are almost ready
to proceed with the opening of the education campaign in the first week of
September.
For next steps, the campaign microsite
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Campaign> that we
have constructed has content that needs to be translated. If you are
looking forward to joining the campaign, we would like to kindly ask you to
translate the content of the website to the language used in your WEP, so
we can help engage as many teachers as possible. This includes the main
campaign page, and the subpages for registration, Lesson Plans and FAQ. We
have created a category on Commons to group the lesson plans PDFs:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:EduWiki_Campaign_2016
Please note that WMF Education Program team will not be responsible for
implementing the campaign in your respective country, but we will help
provide support in any areas you need. This means that each Collab member
who wants to be part of this campaign, has to promote the campaign in their
own context. This could include sharing the campaign on your affiliate
social media channels, creating a site notice banner for your language
version Wikipedia (if you choose to do so!), sharing broadly among your
network of educators, and any other means of collaboration you think could
be useful (for example, guest posting in an education blog, or working to
get local media coverage).
We have included a sign-up page
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Campaign/Participate>,
for educators to sign on-wiki and also via a form that we are finalizing.
We have also created a short survey to collect feedback on the campaign,
which will help the collab follow up after the campaign has ended. You can
review the draft surveys here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jHlSJS3wVCJUbzSDp5Y2Jgyc64LbJd6S1YGWJ8ZzZe8/edit>.
Thank you very much for your help and feedback. It is much appreciated, and
I look forward to working together to show the world that Wikipedia belongs
in the classroom.
Best,
Loreen