Hi Sandra, The Wiki Education Foundation has done collaborations like that. We work with a handful of academic associations in the U.S. who encourage their members (professors who teach in that discipline) to assign their students to fill content gaps on Wikipedia. We've had a lot of success with the project. You can see the outcomes of the sociology one, which has had an impact on the gender gap on the English Wikipedia, in this recent article: http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/septoct14/wikipedia_0914.html
Our Educational Partnerships Manager, Jami Mathewson, is working with the National Women's Studies Association to form a similar collaboration right now; Jami and one of our volunteers spent last weekend at their annual conference, both hosting an exhibit about how to fill content gaps in women's studies through classroom programs and having a two-session workshop in the conference schedule. I know Jami's working on a blog post with more information about her experiences soon, so look out for that on Wiki Ed's blog. I definitely highly recommend projects like this as great ways to target content gaps (but I'll emphasize that the reason this works is because we have a vibrant support structure for our wider educational efforts -- see more at http://wikiedu.org/for-instructors/ ). I know Wikimedia Nederland has been talking about getting going with an education program; maybe you should talk with them to see if you can connect your idea to the existing education plan? More info on that is here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/August_2014/Pilot_projects_by_Wikimedia_Nederland Hope this helps, LiAnna On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Keilana <keilanaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sandra, > > You may find these educational materials helpful when you think about > designing your program. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemic_bias_workshop_kit.pdf > > Seeing some consistent programming with an organization would be great! > Good luck! > > -Emily > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The only thing I can think of is the fembot/femtech programs that have >> women editing in a myriad of things - education programs, events etc but >> its not a formal thing. Myself, Adrianne and Alex have been involved but >> again its not "formal" >> >> The Europeana fashion is sort what you are going for...or Wikimedia UK >> with their relationship with the Royal society...but it's more seasonal >> than ongoing... >> >> I'd love to see more formalized things. >> On Nov 19, 2014 11:57 AM, "Sandra Fauconnier" < >> sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Yes, I mean an ongoing thing - not just one or two edit-a-thons. >>> Not really a Wikipedian in Residence project - more like a long-term >>> commitment and project in which several activities take place over a longer >>> time, with maybe several Wikipedia volunteers involved. >>> >>> Perhaps Europeana Fashion comes close?? >>> >>> Greetings, Sandra >>> >>> > On 19 Nov 2014, at 16:18, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Do you mean more like an ongoing thing? Not just once a year? (Or >>> twice) >>> > >>> > Like a wikipedian in residence....sort of? >>> > >>> > Many of us collaborate with organizations and groups - often the >>> same..to do this kind of stuff but not many people have sat in a role and >>> did consistent programming...yet. >>> > >>> > Sarah >>> > >>> > On Nov 19, 2014 12:38 AM, "Sandra Fauconnier" < >>> sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Hi everyone, >>> > >>> > (This is still in the making, so no solid promises or plans yet.) >>> > >>> > In the Netherlands a small group of representatives of organisations >>> that deal with women’s history is seriously brainstorming about a >>> longer-term project to represent the Dutch women’s history better on >>> Wikipedia. Together with a few other Dutch Wikipedians, I’m brainstorming >>> together with them (and will probably help them during the actual process >>> when the project takes off). >>> > >>> > At this moment, our plan is to narrow our focus to the subject of >>> Dutch second-wave feminism and to ‘recruit’ university docents to do >>> Wikipedia-oriented courses with students. We hope that a few enthusiastic >>> university teachers will teach a term course on second-wave feminism >>> (probably one term of the 2015-16 academic year), and that students will be >>> asked to write or improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment. >>> > >>> > My question to this list is the following: >>> > The organisations’ representatives are curious whether there are any >>> earlier, similar projects that we can refer to, and learn from. Are there? >>> > I mean: projects in which local Wikipedians have worked together with >>> local feminist organisations, or women’s history organisations, in order to >>> structurally improve content on Wikipedia. >>> > I did a bit of searching around on the various Gender Gap project >>> pages (I admit: superficially) but couldn’t find any so far. I’m aware of >>> the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. >>> > >>> > In any case - all suggestions and tips are very welcome. >>> > >>> > Many thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster) >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Gendergap mailing list >>> > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Gendergap mailing list >>> > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gendergap mailing list >>> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- LiAnna Davis Director of Programs Wiki Education Foundation +1-415-770-1061 www.wikiedu.org
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