Fantastic Project! On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 2:10 PM Tochi Precious <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Veronica > This is welcomed development. I'll look through and give my feedback. > > > Tochi > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 12:47 PM Veronica Thamaini <[email protected]> > 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/> >> > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list -- > [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] >
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