Thank you very much Veronica for the share. This is a good project, I will view and could share my comments accordingly.
All the best! Gilbert Ndihokubwayo. On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 1:47 PM Veronica Thamaini <vthama...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > In response to expressed needs of the communities in sub-Saharan Africa to > help achieve growth of the editing communities in the region, the Wikimedia > Foundation is working on an experiment-based project dubbed the Africa > Growth Project. The project seeks to enhance already existing community > efforts by creating a more effective online learning component, which would > allow in-person efforts to focus on already-engaged newbies who have > obtained a solid foundation in Wikipedia policies and collaboration norms, > maximizing the return on investment of human volunteer effort. The > hypothesis guiding this experiment is that providing high-quality training > to new and existing Wikimedians covering the basics of contribution to > Wikimedia (including introducing the many ways to contribute beyond article > writing) can double the retention rates of active editors in the region. > > For the pilot, we will be developing four modules, and we are inviting you > to share feedback on outlines for these training modules, which are: > > - > > Module 1: Preparing to participate in Wikimedia projects > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module1> > - > > Module 2: 101 Ways to Contribute to Wikimedia > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module2> > - > > Module 3: The Voice of Wikipedia: Neutral Point of View > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module3> > - > > Module 4: Sourcing knowledge: Verifiability on Wikipedia > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies/Module4> > > We hope to benefit from your experience as a Wikimedian in sharing your > input on these module outlines, to ensure that they capture what is needed > to support community understanding of those policies. > > We are interested to hear your thoughts on what's missing, what's good, > what could be improved, and any suggestions on the modules' and sections' > order and pace, great illustrative examples and helpful exercises that > would be useful to incorporate. > > We await this input and will take it all into consideration as we develop > the full modules based on these outlines (including whatever change > suggestions we accept). We will also be publishing the complete modules on > the WikiLearn platform when they are ready. > > See the details of each module here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies > > And share your comments here; > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Africa_Growth_Pilot/Live_Tutorials_on_Core_Policies > > For your input to be useful in our module development, please share your > feedback by July 21st, 2023. > Thank you, > From the Africa Growth Pilot team (Dumisani Ndubane, Veronica Thamaini, > Asaf Bartov) > > -- > > Veronica Thamaini | Manager of Regional Programs, Community Resources > > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >
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