Greek projects - Education

16 May 2013

Hello,

the last 2-3 years I run a number of projects in the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. They were done with the invitation and
cooperation of dr. Bratsas from OKFN Greece.

Two of the projects were with a postgraduate class on web science of the
School of Mathematics of AUTH and another one (for two years) was with an
undergraduate course (medical education) of the Medical School of AUTH,
which involved the translation of medical articles from english to greek
wikipedia .

Both had very good results, especially the last project with the medical
students (
http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Βικιπαίδεια:Πανεπιστημιακά_Εγχειρήματα/ΑΠΘ_Ιατ…).
They translated so many excellent articles (we had given them a selection
of top and high importance articles, of FA-class to B-class: most of them
chose FA and A class articles). We had asked them to form teams of two to
three students, each with a personal account, to work on the same article,
so we had a very good quality instead of asking an article from each
student (that would give just a big quantity of bad articles).

For wikipedia it was great, as greek wikipedia has many gaps in medical
articles, and it is almost impossible to translate articles on an area with
such special terminology. The students except all the good things anybody
earns from contributing to Wikipedia, trained their vocabulary and english
and greek terminology of their science. The professor expressed his
interest to do something more than just an assignment.

We are organising another project in the School of Mathematics (
http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Βικιπαίδεια:Πανεπιστημιακά_Εγχειρήματα/ΑΠΘ_Μαθ…),
with undergraduate students this time. It will be again translation from
teams of students, of mathematical articles. This time we are planning it
better as we will be using online ambassadors to help with the students,
assigning them personally (last time there was just a list of wikipedians
willing to help). The assignment will be given to almost 140 students.

I have created a logo (
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Education_Program_Aristotl…)
to use, is it ok or do I need something different since our project is not
a part of the official Wikipedia Education Program sponsored by the WMF?

Konstantinos Stampoulis
geraki(a)geraki.gr
http://www.geraki.gr
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