User:Ocaasi/WEP

Strategic planning and program design

 * How can we expand the program?
 * How will expansion impact editors and Wikipedia infrastructure?
 * How can we provide better support to professors and students?
 * How can we achieve a higher level of institutionalization?
 * How can we make individual courses more effective?
 * Securing the funding for the program
 * Being the "escalation point" for — and helping to address — any major conflicts and problems that arise
 * Designing English Wikipedia–specific training materials for professors, ambassadors, and students
 * Supporting the recruitment of professors and ambassadors
 * Day-to-day coordination with professors and regional ambassadors
 * Traveling to universities and professional conferences, as requested by program participants

WMF support

 * Global learning and documentation, i.e. ensuring that learnings and best practices are shared across different geographies.
 * Datatracking and analysis, i.e. defining metrics for success; measuring the impact of the program; providing the local teams across countries with periodic statistics.
 * Software development, i.e. improving the existing MediaWiki Education extension and developing tools for educators and students across different Wikipedia language versions.
 * Communications support, i.e. facilitating blog posts on the Wikimedia Foundation blog; including information about the U.S. and Canada programs in a bi-monthly newsletter about all countries participating in the Wikipedia Education Program.

Promotion

 * grassroots publicitly campaign involving alumni
 * video messages from program grads
 * local media coverage
 * promote use of Wikipedia in the classroom
 * on-wiki publicity e.g. Signpost/WMF Blog
 * target individual faculty first, whole universities later
 * be university focused not faculty focused
 * have past instructors be contact points for new instructors, even recruiting them
 * connect to professional societies/organizations
 * find a 'consortium' unit at each university (library/writing center/teaching&learning)
 * have periodic 'all-in events' (concerence calls/virtual meetings, annual conference)
 * host an annual interdisciplinary academic conference
 * publish a peer-reviewed journal
 * establish a research and teaching center at a major university
 * promote and expand ambassador network
 * promote and expand teaching network
 * send graduate students with Wikipedia experience to professional conferences/conventions
 * extend to k-12 after higher ed is established, extend beyond US and Canada after established
 * develop Centers of Excellence at Universities that have successfully implemented EP classes

Pedagogy

 * adapt to the schools learning culture and curriculum
 * align with school's Center for Teaching and Learning
 * develop both the needs of Wikipedia and the needs of the University
 * increase content review responsibility for professors
 * have to teach the faculty how to integrate Wikipedia into assignments
 * recruit faculty trainers for in-person or video-based training
 * align goals of instructors with those of Wikipedia
 * increase participation in academic literature with qualitative and quantitative assessment of the EP program
 * pedagogical assessment expert for instructional design/guidance/tutorials/seminars/project coordination/supervising publications

Organization

 * two boards, for legal and fundraising issues (board of directors, more formaland a second board for advisory relating to on-wiki experience with the WEP program (board of advisors, more flexible)
 * focus by discipline and scholarly societies
 * oversee and maintain topic advisory boards
 * innovations and feedback group
 * improve regional structure
 * support local Wikipedia student groups
 * charitable non-profit
 * solicit membership from universities
 * include an instructional designer
 * leverage wikiprojects
 * defer to an expert on organizational design (ideally flexible and decisive)
 * have professors and ambassadors/editors/wmf-types on the board
 * get pro bono advice from an international law firm
 * 7 member board with 3 wikipedians, 3 academics, and 1 WMF staffer
 * house the EP within a university
 * house the EP within existing chapters (DC/NYC/New England/Canada/Mexico)
 * nonprofit could be a subsidiary of the WMF
 * Keep at least 1 WMF staffer on the project
 * use Prometheus Process to align individuals around clear, concise, measurable, desireable goals
 * academic representative from STEM/health
 * academic representative from Humanities
 * Grant and finance expert
 * Outreach/PR expert
 * strong and dedicated leadership

Ambassadors

 * ambassadors provide curricula, activities, past data, help documentation, give presentations to professors and administration
 * encourage contributions across semesters, universities institutions and sister projects
 * give ambassadors freedom to adapt as needed (avoid strict bureaucratic parameters) (be campus-centric)
 * campus Ambassadors should have familiarity in the subject area
 * pay campus ambassadors
 * scrap Regional ambassadors
 * online, regional, and campus ambassadors to network with professors and career center
 * have college students who 'graduated' from an EP course act as preceptors for some (for academic credit, work/study, volunteer recognition, work experience, degreee honors, etc.)

Tie-ins

 * The Wikipedia Library
 * EP Librarian
 * Interlibrary loan
 * Badges for student recognition, motivation, and reward
 * Turnitin copyright violation detection
 * The Wikipedia Adventure learning game for new students
 * Teahouse support for classes and students
 * The plain and simple guide for new editors

Approach

 * goals: bring new editors to wikipedia, bolster wikipedia's reputation among academe, help teach how wikipedia works
 * emphasize individual contributors and spontaneous collaboration and consensus-building
 * needs: ambasaddors, guides, professional associations
 * leadership, initiative, authority, responsibility
 * address gap/bias in women and people of color and global south
 * have an RfC to address past successes and failures
 * must be sustainable by a purely volunteer community
 * EP is ideal for teaching media/internet literacy, basic research/writing, and collaborative online community participation
 * develop regional structure
 * WMF association is a powerful brand connection
 * Education Noticeboard
 * need data collection and analysis
 * what to do about courses that work outside of the EP framework?
 * fundraising
 * seek funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, Sloan, Packard, National Endowment for the Arts, etc.
 * develop metrics for effectiveness
 * nurture centers of gravity
 * develop a code of proper conduct and guidelines defining a broad space of possibility
 * host meetings online
 * provide training, mini-grants, merchanise, and dedicated ambassadors to students
 * focus on content quality not Wikipedia expertise
 * simplify participation and program management