Grants:PEG/Manos Kefalas/Wikipedia School in Athens, Greece/Reallocation

We have 255,48 EUROs remaining that are not spent. We request for reallocaton in order to:

Hold 2 contests, one for adult students and one for secondary education students, with the prize of 100 Euros for each. We should see how the contest would motivate both groups, especially inactive users.
Use the rest for travelling expenses to University of Peloponese (Korinthos city) in order to give Wikipedia courses to students of the university there, during Spring. After a bit of experience they will themselves train the local society to Wikipedia as part of the university offer activities to the local society.

Measures of success

Adult contest

(100 euros for prize)

The call for participation will be to 100 people, more or less. January and February are low participation periods, even for December participants, and this is being proved during this year too, now that it has been a month since lessons are over for Wikipedia School in Kaisariani (lessons begin again on March 2016). We only have prize for one winner so participation does not favor insecure editors. Highly active school students (like Aristoclass) will not participate so that weaker contributions have a chance. The contest will end on March 27, giving 2 months time for article creation.

Metrics

Comeback of 30 inactive users
20 articles produced by editors inactive more than a month
2 long inactive editors remain active 3 months after the contest
6 inactive (one month of inactivity or more) editors of 2015-2016 school year pop up

Secondary education contest

(100 euros for prize)

We do not have retained editors form last year 's secondary education program. Most students of Wikipedia class graduaded from gymnasium to lyceum. By the memory of last year 's project, students participating in Wikipedia program this year have doubled, including lower ages, reaching 40 students. It is hard for the professors to manage by themselves as this year we are not present in secondary school classes. We know a contest gives a target and we should also try to engage last year 's students and see what happens.

Metrics

Comeback of 5 lyceum students to Wikipedia
25 articles produced instead of only 8 (from the 8 teams of 5 students each)

University of Peloponese

(55,48 euros for travelling expenses)

In University of Peloponese we target a group of 40 students to instruct them to Wikipedia in 3 phases/visits. The cost to go and return by bus is 16 euros for each adult. We can cover the travelling expenses of only one instructor. We will cover the rest ourselves in order to have more helping hands available for the workshops.

Metrics

20 articles created/expanded by university students
10 articles created/expanded by local community (Korinthos city)
2 students remain active after four months. As with lyceum students, university students have a priority on their school 's classes and editor retention is extremely low, if not zero, as seen from Wikipedia university programs in Greece. We hope that giving the students the role of the teacher makes a difference.
3 local community members remain active after four months.

Copmletion date

The completion date for all (three) projects is May 22, 2016.

Report

Adult contest

Participation: 11 (editors / articles created)
Comeback of inactive users: 3
Users who stayed active after comeback: 1

Comments

The winner of the prize donated it for the creation expenses of Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece
Even if tenths of articles were more than half completed inside user sandboxes, a most inactive users chose not to compete

Secondary education contest

Participation: 11 gymnasium students
Articles completed: 6

Comments

2nd Gymnasium of Kaisariani was the only public school that had a Wikipedia program run as a whole year project, for school year 2015 - 2016, as far as it is known
There was only one comeback from lyceum students (last year's gymnasium students) and it was decided to let this participation compete with the adults group
The competition did not really motivate school students to compete with each other, contrary to the copetition between schools that took place last year

University of Peloponese

Participation: 11 university students

Articles completed: 3 (& only from University students)

Comments

We had a hold back brom university teachers who were afraid their books would be replaced by Wikipedia articles
The approach to give freedom of choice in article creation in order to create editors who remain active did not pay off.
The core of editors in UOP has not been created yet.