Talk:2014 Activity Plan/University and Education Outreach

These preliminary goals have been moved to the talk page in the process of having aspects of what was originally written adapted to a more concrete working plan for Education activities in 2014. --Toni Sant (WMUK) (talk) 13:51, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Goals

Build relationships with Education institutions, increasing their awareness of Wikimedia projects, open knowledge movement, and how they can work with Wikimedia UK. The aim is to encourage students to contribute, and to influence academics to accept Wikipedia as a valuable resource:

• Run an EduWiki conference to promote the use of Wikimedia projects in education and support dialogue of best practice
  • At least 10 new institutions attracted, 50% of which go on to run a project with WMUK.
  • Aim of 100 attendees (survey, event page, contacts on office wiki)
• One pilot project run with an organisation involved with education in schools with a view to developing strategies to promote wikis in schools
• Run activities with 5 institutions/year (contacts on office wiki)
• Presence at external sector conferences and events - up to 3 a year (wiki event list)
• Distribution/production of the education brochure, explaining the benefits of working with the Wikimedia projects - 300 copies circulated to educators within a year (stock on gdoc)
• Run activities (joint event, joint publication) with 2 sector bodies such as Jisc (building on our 2013-14 project) (contacts on office wiki)

Engage with Wikimedia community to gain new and retain existing volunteers:

• Opportunities for volunteers (including inactive ones) to contribute to the Education projects - 2 editathons bringing in on average 10 volunteers (event list on wiki).
• Education workshops - hold up to 8 Education related training sessions/editathons with focus on new contributors. They will attract an average of 15 people each, 10 of whom will be new to editing (event list on wiki).
• Student societies - working with 5-10 universities; presence at 5 Fresher’s Fairs; societies delivering 2 events/year each (on wiki).
• University classroom assignments - working with 2-3 universities on improving content created/edited by students for assessment.