Working with Wikimedia Serbia

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Slides for a talk on "Working with Wikimedia Serbia" given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of Bolton at the Eduwiki 2014 conference in Edinburgh on Friday 31 October 2013. See https://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-2014/

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Showcasing WMUK-supported projects:

Working with Wikimedia Serbia

Brian KellyInnovation AdvocateCetisUniversity of BoltonBolton, UK

Contact DetailsEmail: ukwebfocus@gmail.comTwitter: @briankellyBlog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/Cetis Web site: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/

Slides and further information available at http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-2014/

Event hashtag: #eduwiki

Filip MaljkovićPresident and board memberWikimedia SerbiaBelgrade, Serbia

Contact DetailsEmail: Filip MaljkovićTwitter: @dungodungWeb site: http://rs.wikimedia.org/

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Source cited!

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Wikimedia Serbia EduWiki Conference 2014 Scholarship

Background:• Scholarship announced on WMUK blog in Jan 2014

Requirement to:• Attend Learning Day and Eduwiki Serbia

conference on 23-24 March 2014• Participate in Learning day, sharing UK

experiences • Give 15 minute talk about UK educational

activities Write reports about trip before/after events

Successful bid submitted:• Based on recent WMUK activities• Proposal to raise visibility of educational benefits

of UK widely (in UK as well as Serbia)

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Blog Post

Post about WMUK’s educational work & related work published:

• During Open Education Week on 10 March 2014

• On UK Web Focus and WMUK blogs

Embraced a “Wikipedia approach to the presentation”:

• CC licence• Invited feedback

on slide preview • Links provided to

sources

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Blog Post (1)

Blog post covered:• Slow acceptance of

Wikipedia in HE• Highlights from Eduwiki

2013 (“Safe Use of Wikipedia …” by Birmingham Uni library staff & “Introducing Students to Independent Research through Editing Wikipedia Articles …” at Portsmouth Uni

• Work of the Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador

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Blog Post (2)

Blog post covered:• Looking to the

future: Wikimania 2014 (August 2014)

• Promoting greater use of Wikipedia: (a) JISC infoKit on crowdsourcing the Wikipedia way

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Blog Post (3)

Blog post covered:• Promoting

greater use of Wikipedia: (b) training the trainer programme and (c) plans for increasing nos. of female contributors

• Development of WMUK’s education strategy

Note too much material for 15 minute talk, so blog post cited in talk

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After the Event

Report on the event:

• Published on WMUK blog on 15 April 2014

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After the Event

Report on the event:

• Published on WMUK blog on 15 April 2014

• Storify summary of tweets (not sufficient to provide meaningful insights)

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Monitoring Effectiveness of Work

Topsy analytics & archive of tweets for blog post

What evidence is there of the effectiveness of the outreach plans for the proposal?

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Monitoring Effectiveness of Work

Slideshare analytics for nos. of views of slides (28 Oct 2014)

BK → FM

Note lies, damned lies and Web statistics, so treat nos. with pinch of salt!However evidence of success of outreach activities for this work

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Learning Day - Participants

Dom i n i km a t u s

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Learning Day - Participants

Wikimedia Serbia (Ivan Matejić, Đorđe Stakić, Filip Maljković, Mile Kiš)Wikimedia United Kingdom (Brian Kelly)Wikimedia Foundation (Rod Dunican, Anna Koval)Wikimedia Germany (Tim-Moritz Hector)Wikimedia Ukraine (Andriy Makukha)Wikimedia Czech Republic (Dominik Matus)Wikimedia Macedonia (Igor Sazdovski)

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Learning Day – Topics

Meeting, sharing, comparing, successes, problems

Project metricsLeader of an education projectTarget groups in education sectorQuality and quantity of the articlesHow to attract new potential editors?Wiki community response on education projectsChapter cooperation on education projects

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EduWiki Conference

Dom i n i km a t u s

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EduWiki Conference

Getting education institutions acquainted with education program

Wikimedia SerbiaEducation program of Wikimedia SerbiaWikipedia as an education platformCreative Commons1001 Arabic WordsSuccess storiesEducation program abroadQ/A

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Questions?

Any questions, comments, …?

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Slides and further information available athttp://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-2014/

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