Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7
Hi Nemo, I am happy to clarify! With "staff" I included university teachers and professors. I intentionally wrote it a bit more blurry as I figured that this might differ between different countries. :-) In Sweden we have so far worked directly with teachers and professors to formulate an interesting topic and they have added themselves - or colleagues - as supervisors. Wikimedia Sverige's staff is involved as external experts that will help guide the students. To make it more concrete I have included an example of a thesis topic that we have added to the university's database below: What role can Wikipedia’s material have in Sweden’s prisons? It is possible to provide prisons with an offline version of Wikipedia so that the prisoners can read and continuously educate themselves? This has already been tested in Switzerland in 2013-2014. It would be interesting to evaluate the possibilities for similar projects in Sweden and to find out what the possibilities and the obstacles are. Supervisor Henrik Hansson, DSV, John Andersson, Wikimedia Sverige https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix_-_Wikipedia_Offline https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_fängelser_2015 If there is interest from a student then the discussion continues in order to narrow down the topic - in a way that is good for both us and for the student. The result can then, hopefully, be used for an external application to fund a project. In Sweden many universities also offer the possibility for external organizations/companies to send in suggestions on thesis topics even without the contact with a professor/teacher in advance. The professors/teachers at the university will then decide if they care to be supervisors or not. A few months from now we will see if this works out well for us or not. John > From: wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7 > To: wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:57:40 + > > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wiki-research-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. List of student research assignment (John Andersson) >2. Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond) >3. Re: List of student research assignment (Federico Leva (Nemo)) >4. Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond) > > > ------ > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:48:25 +0100 > From: John Andersson > To: "Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org" > > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > > > The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a > number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing > them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for > either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I > gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great > interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students > (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and > projects next year! > > > > > I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled > somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but > anything would help)? We would especially like more ideas regarding technical > assignments that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - > during their thesis course. I.e. > not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more > comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC > - but during the semesters.) > > > > If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this > approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the > necessary structures for this in the future? > > > > PS. Wiki Education Foundation do n
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7
Hi Kerry, I agree that both aspects could be very relevant and rewarding to work on. You wrote "we probably need to have some information available to the students on the codebase and whatever else is required to be immediately productive", could you expand a bit about what you mean? Are you thinking about improving the documentation? Have you already identified some weak spots? John > From: wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7 > To: wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:57:40 + > > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wiki-research-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. List of student research assignment (John Andersson) >2. Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond) >3. Re: List of student research assignment (Federico Leva (Nemo)) >4. Re: List of student research assignment (Kerry Raymond) > > > ------ > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:48:25 +0100 > From: John Andersson > To: "Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org" > > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > > > The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a > number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing > them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for > either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I > gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great > interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students > (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and > projects next year! > > > > > I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled > somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but > anything would help)? We would especially like more ideas regarding technical > assignments that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - > during their thesis course. I.e. > not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more > comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC > - but during the semesters.) > > > > If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this > approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the > necessary structures for this in the future? > > > > PS. Wiki Education Foundation do not have one - I already asked. > > > > Best, > > John > > - - - - > > > > John Andersson > > > > Wikimedia Sverige > > > > Project Manager > > > > > > > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > > > > > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se > > > > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikiEuropeana and @WikimediaSE > Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider > becoming a member of Wikimedia Sverige! We need your support. > > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/attachments/20141110/654c93d7/attachment-0001.html> > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:44:15 +1000 > From: "Kerry Raymond" > To: "'Research into Wikimedia content and communities'" > > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment > Message-ID: <3c3663fd56044700b9b728bdafe62...@chapelhill.homeip.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8&
[Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment
Hi, The last year Wikimedia Sverige has deepened the cooperation with a number of universities in Sweden and we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great interest in this opportunity from staff and student - with around 10 students (out of ~300) deciding to do their thesis work about our movement and projects next year! I was wondering if there is a list of possible thesis assignments compiled somewhere (of course many different structures for thesis work exist - but anything would help)? We would especially like more ideas regarding technical assignments that the students could do - and investigate the effect from - during their thesis course. I.e. not just the Phabricator/Bugzilla bugs, but something a bit more comprehensive and structured. Is there anything out there? (Kind of like GSoC - but during the semesters.) If no such resource exists - and if more people/chapters/WMF would find this approach of involving universities interesting - perhaps we could create the necessary structures for this in the future? PS. Wiki Education Foundation do not have one - I already asked. Best, John - - - - John Andersson Wikimedia Sverige Project Manager Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se Skype: johnandersson86 Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikiEuropeana and @WikimediaSE Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider becoming a member of Wikimedia Sverige! We need your support. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia
I have been thinking that this is something we perhaps should approach university classes in game design about and see what they would come up with (perhaps as a formal assignement for them). However, I have yet to contact teachers to start talking to about this idea and also to list things that the game(s) could focus on. Any thoughts about this approach? Best, John Andersson WMSE From: deyntest...@hotmail.com To: e...@lists.wikimedia.org; wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 12:46:29 -0700 Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia I've asked these questions in other ways and places and I'd like to hear what other people on the Research and EE lists think. There are many video game players of diverse ages, genders, languages, and locations. How could Wikimedia editing be made into an appealing activity for people who are currently video gamers? How could Wikimedia market itself to gamers, including console, LAN, FPS, MMORPG, and mobile gamers? Pine ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
