Grants talk:PEG/Vitor Mazuco/Universidade Federal de Uberlândia-01-2015

GAC members who support this request

1. I don't see any problem with this request. I would encourage user: Vitor Mazuco to aspire to help at least 1-2 students to become active contributors, but providing tutoring online for a few months after the course are over. In the long term, this is better than 10 articles... Alleycat80 (talk) 02:17, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

GAC comments

prior experience

Hi and thank you for desire to work on this project! You said that you had participated in two courses before: could you, please, share your feedback? What was done well and what was bad? How many of the users became the editors of Wikipedia? rubin16 (talk) 19:38, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Rubin16, my feedback about the past courses is written Here and here. In my opinion the bad situation is of student disinterest about the project. The number of users in Wikipedia is 20 or more. Vitor Mazuco ^Msg 20:19, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

metrics

What do you mean when you say "return rate" for teachers? 1 teacher who will become editor? What is the target audience - teachers or students? If the target is considered to be teachers, I think that 1 returning teacher is not a challenge, if the target is considered to be students - I would also expect some measures of students participating as editors. PS: Sorry for my English, there is too much work at the moment and it's difficult to speak in a foreign language now... rubin16 (talk) 19:38, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

At least 1 teacher will become editor, I don't know how many more, because this depends more of the others teacher than me. The target audience is for the both, teachers and students. Everybody can contribute and my supporter is for everybody in University. Vitor Mazuco ^Msg 20:24, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

WMF comments

Hi Vitor Mazuco. Thank you for this grant request and your continued support of the Wikipedia Education Program. We appreciate your willingness to train teachers and students about editing Wikipedia! We have a couple of remaining questions on the request:

1. The longer-term impact of this work will be the number of teachers and campus ambassadors you can recruit/retain. This should be a key focus of the project and we would hope that of the at least 7 teachers involved, more than 1 will continue to use Wikipedia in the classroom after this term.
2. We would encourage you to use Wikimetrics to track the students editing activity. If you need help with this tool, please let us know and Floor would be happy to help.
3. Have you thought about continued attention for the students after the semester is over? For example, making sure to invite them to keep editing, or become ambassadors themselves, or organize a local edit-a-thon. These encouragements can go a long way to keeping students editing actively.

Please let us know if you have any questions. Best, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 03:15, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Alex, yes I have gave attention for all students that asked for me in anything about Wikipedia. So about the local edit-a-thon of course I can do, but this resource depends on University, the teachers and students.

About the Wikimetrics, I didn know this resource, but I will use too. I have plan to increase the number of teachers inside the UFU too. Thanks. Vitor Mazuco ^Msg 15:52, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Change date

Hi, my professor asked me if is possible to change the date from 9, 10 and 11 of April to 16, 17 and 18 of April? Thanks. Vitor Mazuco ^Msg 18:14, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Vitor Mazuco. This change is fine. I will update the proposal page. Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 18:17, 2 March 2015 (UTC)