Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting/March 2012

March 21, 2012

Country Updates

7 classes started
Most of on wiki editing happen in April or May
Only 5-15 of best students will be editing, so right now students are figuring out what they are doing
photography workshops underway
Classes are in midterms right now, so it's a bad time for midterms, but more of them will be in April

Working with 5 professors in Brazil
Classes started 2 weeks ago
Professors have enough Ambassadors
Students got really excited; people from Portugal have been helping a lot as Online Ambassadors
Tom talked with people from Wikimedia Portugal who want to have unviersities in Portugal help
Large media presence has led to a lot of professors who want to join the program, but we want to keep pilot small for now
Generally professors are starting to have students edit in April
Tom started a blog: http://wikipedianauniversidade.wordpress.com
Some competition ideas -- best student articles win Wikipedia T-shirts? Tom welcomes comments or ideas about this.
3 professors are working to expand Wikipedia's use within their institutions

Past the mid point of semester, regional ambassadors are checking in on CAs and professors to see how classes are going
Most students are starting to edit or will be starting to edit soon
We can see classes activity through leaderboard now
Having conversations about how to institutionalize
Trying to get leadership into volunteers' hands, looking to bring involved, passionte volunteers together
Working on timeline for the rest of the year to ensure we have appropriate targets for professors and Amabssadors next term
Rod is working to get training online
- Asked for OA orientation content suggestions
New Regional Ambassador in Canada

We have 4 classes planed, to students of IT faculty from university of "Sv. Kiril and Metodij", to students of history from university of "Sv. Kiril and Metodij", to students of Modern sciences and technology from university of SEEU and to student of economy from university of "Sv. Kiril and Metodij".

Open wiki days at SEEU (South East European University) from 10-13 April 2012. In the mean time we will start interwiki WikiProject at mk.wikipedia, sq.wikipedia and tr.wikipedia.

We started and finished one WikiProject on mk.wikipedia with the students from IT faculty from university of "Sv. Kiril and Metodij".

We finished with Activity plan where we have intention to include students from secondary schools in country, the plan waith for approval from our government.

US and Canada numbers only
Comparing students to general newbies
How much content survived?
- Students made an average of 302 bytes per edit that stayed
- New editors only made 90 bytes per edit that stayed
Editor impact: how much content did they add?
- 1,326 students added the same amount of content of 2,697 new editors
Student vs. new registered user
- Many create accounts; few make edits
- 1 student on average adds about the same amount of content of 9.2 people who join Wikipedia
- good metric of success of the program last term
What is a good edit metric? How can we say who is a good editor?
- How much content people add
- How much survives?
- Where does it survive?
Good metric
- Experienced Wikipedians: 500-900
- Students: 708
- New editor sample: 251
So we are bringing good editors
Retention: students are slightly more likely to return -- 4.23% students came back, vs. 3.5% of regular new editors
74% of students actually make an edit (vs. 22% of new editors)
44% of students' edits are in article namespace vs. 91% of new editors
- working on sandboxes
- do a lot more talk page conversations

Wikimedia Education Cooperative: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_Cooperative
Came up based on phone call with Denis Barthel
How are we working together -- WMF, chapters, unaffiliated volunteers?
- This document spells it out that we are all working together, not in a hierarchy
- Guiding principles: share learnings!, diversity and innovation, transparency
- Share common visual identity to make clear we are all part of global movement
What constitutes a local Wikipedia Education Program initiative?
- See bullet point list on outreach wiki
Frank would like to see dicsussion around document -- get feedback, edits, thoughts, then once we've finished it, we want people to sign it so that we are part of this global movement.

- Notes from Tom on chapters running their own program: 1. Manuel, from Wikimedia Portugal, has just proposed something similar to me and he is going to talk to some professors in Porto tomorrow. Tom has emphasized the fact that the project is a small pilot inside the Portuguese Wikipedia and that we have to thing way to make the project sustainable. 2. Volunteers from Wikimedia Brasil are also giving lectures about Wikimedia movement and how to edit Wikipedia. This is a good signal for us to think on how to involve chapters volunteers in the WEP.

How do we set appropriate goals for Education Programs?
- Measures of success here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Pilot_program_plan
- Setting goals so you know what you want to reach is most important
- SMART goals
- Start with a pilot; base goals on that pilot

What age students do we work with?
- Start with universities, but we believe high school students could also contribute
- Some high school teachers have one this
- We at WMF started with university students to do one thing at a time and get it right before we try with high school students