LiAnna, I am very happy to see this.
Would you please describe how you choose the subject matter of
articles and expertise for inviting Fellows?
It's not clear whether the Fellows were paid or otherwise compensated;
were they?
"In the past four years, the Wiki Education Foundation (Wiki
Education) has signed formal partnership agreements with academic
associations to improve Wikipedia in their topic area." -- how many?
Is the list public?
When you select such subjects and topics, do you consider the number
of pageviews? Do you use existing WP:BACKLOG category membership?
Both?
Do you consider the harm inaccuracy or bias can do to society by
infesting Wikipedia when selecting the subject and topics?
Thank you!
Best regards,
Jim
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:51 AM, LiAnna Davis <lianna(a)wikiedu.org> wrote:
Greetings, all!
At the beginning of 2018, the Wiki Education Foundation ran a 3-month pilot
to engage academic experts (mostly professors at universities in the U.S.)
to improve English Wikipedia articles related to their areas of expertise.
We're pretty happy with how the pilot turned out -- we had some great
improvements to articles, and, more importantly for a pilot, we learned a
*lot* about how to run a program like this successfully.
The team that worked on it put together this extensive evaluation report on
what we did, what we learned, and what the outcomes were from the pilot:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikipedia_Fellows…
I also put together a short blog post about it:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/05/22/wiki-education-publishes-evaluation-of-…
We already have calls for applications out for additional cohorts to begin
in June, and we're eager to learn even more from future iterations of the
Wikipedia Fellows program. I hope sharing our learnings like this can be
helpful for other education programs in the Wikimedia movement who might
also be interested in engaging subject matter experts to edit.
We're happy to answer questions on this list or on the talk page of the
evaluation report on Meta.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Director of Programs; Deputy Director
Wiki Education
www.wikiedu.org
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