Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classroom coordination

message: User:Proteins and I are in contact with a technology company that wishes to use some software it has developed that is a kind of graphic interface for translators to increase the amount of health-related information in developing-world language Wikipedias. Since this is quite a large company, this project might eventually cover many languages, but we are thinking about starting off small at around five (eg transferring content from the English to the Swahili Wikipedia is one leading option). The real work will be in developing a community of translators and bilingual experts in each destination language, students and teachers are one possible community that could help us with this, so your expertise in co-coordinating these projects might be very useful. The company is willing to help with this as well. At our end we will need to provide a list of articles on "essential health information", internationalize these as much as possible, and polish them a bit. This proposal is still in its initial stage, but could people who would be interested in participating sign up here. Thank you Tim Vickers (talk) 17:14, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation project

message: There's a discussion going on at Wikipedia_talk:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism#Outreach to school network administrators that may interest some editors here. We're looking for more proactive ways of dealing with school IP editors than the present vandalise/warn/repeat-until-schoolblock cycle that clearly is not working very well. Please give it a read.LeadSongDog come howl 21:11, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outreach to schools to reduce vandalism 

message: Wikimedia's Public Policy Initiative has recruited (tentatively) 6 professors for Fall 2010 to do major Wikipedia assignments in their public policy courses.  We're working on course materials and model assignments now that will try to take a lot of what seems to have been effective with earlier courses listed on this page, and transform that into assignments that a professor doesn't have to be a serious Wikipedian to run effectively.  We're also looking for Wikipedians who want to help coordinate the student's editing over the course of the coming semester.  For details, check out:
*Introducing the Public Policy Initiative - The Signpost
*WikiProject United States Public Policy - this will be the hub of activity for the courses
*Guide for teachers - (in progress, help welcome)
--Sross (Public Policy) (talk) 12:05, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public Policy Initiative courses for Fall 2010: Help Wanted 

message: Related to the above, I want to invite editors interested in Wikipedia in the classroom to apply for the Wikipedia Online Ambassadors program.  It's a program for helping new users through their early edits, and will focus on students who are assigned to edit Wikipedia in their courses; it's part of the Public Policy Initiative, and will hopefully be the basis for a longer-term effort at improving the way we nurture newbies.--Sross (Public Policy) (talk) 18:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia Online Ambassadors program now accepting applications

message: Would someone here help User:Arria Belli, who has created Wikipedia:School and university projects/ESIT translation project - French to English (First semester 2011-12) and could doubtless use some assistance, but who knows even less than I about how to obtain help regarding a project of this nature. I believe from our email conversation she intended to obtain assistance from Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination] but created her page in the wrong place. KillerChihuahua?!? 21:12, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed 

message: Is there an official mechanism by which they can "stake their claim" to a certain topic? I want them to allow others who may wish to contribute to or create that topic during the semester to contact them and discuss an action plan for collaboration. We have had some disappointments in the past years when the topic they put a lot of work into was also being done by someone else, and there was no communication or collaboration between the two editors until the first one published their new Wikipedia article. Thanks for your advice!
Professorpotter (talk) 17:42, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How should my students let the Wikipedia community know they are working on a new article? 

message: I've just opened up a request for comment on whether to enable the Education Program extension for managing and monitoring courses. If it does get enabled, there are related technical (user rights) and policy (who should be able to use it, and how will user rights be assigned?) issues that will need to be sorted out. It looks like this wasn't ready soon enough to use this coming term for most classes, but if the community wants the extension, it should be ready to go for the next term.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 13:42, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education Program extension Request for Comment 

message: I'm cross-posting this question here and on the Wikipedia_talk:School_and_university_projects page, because I would really like to get some feedback.  
I've been working with the Wikipedia education program for a while now, getting a course going for this fall (it's in its first week now). It's been helpful, but it's also been a lot of extra overhead work. Just yesterday, the professor got a nice message on her talk page asking us to add links to our course pages on this school and university projects page. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, by now, because the Wikipedia community is so vast. But, I was already feeling that the Education program pages were way too fragmented and disorganized. Why all this duplication of work? Are there efforts to coordinate your activities? I have to say, there actually is such a thing as too much helpful information -- it adds quite a barrier to entry, because newbies like us have to sort through everything to get a feel for what is going on.  
I would add that, while I'm not completely surprised that there are two independent groups doing the same thing, I am surprised that there doesn't seem to be even a little bit of cross-linking.  There are no references that I can find to the education program from here, and I've read a lot of education program materials, and never seen any references there to this group. 130.14.254.25 (talk) 12:45, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't appear this page is being used, but you might consider seeing WP:Training, which simplifies things, and WP:Student assignments, which is a big-picture overview, in case you ever look here. The WP:ENB is also in use. Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 23:03, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the relation between this and the Wikipedia Education Program? 

message: Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on the WikiProject X proposal 

message: Hello everyone!
You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.
Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject X is live!