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

Thu May 16 20:24:05 UTC 2013

Great work! As a Greek Wikipedian, I can ascertain that the medical 
articles are much needed on Greek Wikipedia. I recently turned to one 
myself for info, and was impressed by the quality and detail. Congrats 
Konstantinos, from here as well:)
Mina

        On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Konstantinos Stampoulis
        <geraki at geraki.gr <mailto:geraki at geraki.gr>> wrote:

            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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