[MK-EDU] Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] Greek projects

Thu May 16 12:45:43 UTC 2013

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Subject: 	[Wikimedia Education] Greek projects
Date: 	Thu, 16 May 2013 13:42:17 +0300
From: 	Konstantinos Stampoulis <geraki at geraki.gr>
Reply-To: 	Wikimedia Education <education at lists.wikimedia.org>
To: 	Wikimedia Education <education at lists.wikimedia.org>

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/Âéêéðáßäåéá:ÐáíåðéóôçìéáêÜ_Åã÷åéñÞìáôá/ÁÐÈ_ÉáôñéêÞ_Åêðáßäåõóç 
<http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AC_%CE%95%CE%B3%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1/%CE%91%CE%A0%CE%98_%CE%99%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%95%CE%BA%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B7>). 
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/Âéêéðáßäåéá:ÐáíåðéóôçìéáêÜ_Åã÷åéñÞìáôá/ÁÐÈ_Ìáèçìáôéêü 
<http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AC_%CE%95%CE%B3%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1/%CE%91%CE%A0%CE%98_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C>), 
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_Aristotle_University_of_Thessaloniki_logo.svg) 
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 at geraki.gr <mailto:geraki at geraki.gr>
http://www.geraki.gr
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