Grants talk:Project/OCLC/A Wikipedian-in-Residence to Engage 500 Librarians and their Communities/Final

Communication

It's a relief to see that other platforms have problematic forum systems too. :) Do you think it was nevertheless better than making them use a project talk page on wiki? --Nemo 19:37, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Material

Thanks for linking the materials. Please upload them on Wikimedia Commons! I'm sure I don't need to explain why. :-) --Nemo 19:43, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Final Report accepted

Dear Merrilee,

Thank you for submitting this Final Report. I am finally getting around to officially accepting it now, with apologies for how long it has taken me to formally mark it complete. I hope you already know from our verbal check-ins that we are huge fans of this project and what it achieved. :-)

For the sake of the onwiki record, a couple brief comments below:

• I learned so much for your team's thoughtful approach to design. It was fun and exciting to see how strongly you foregrounded learning about your prospective students before you began your curriculum design, and how tailored your approach was to your audience and to meeting their questions and concerns directly. It was such a relational and responsive methodology. In light of this, it's no surprise that graduates of the course were so markedly enthusiastic about their learning outcomes and the changes in their thinking about Wikipedia.
• The Wikimedia movement got so much more value from this project because of (1) how well you planned your evaluation so that you could tell a powerful story about the meaning of what you accomplished as you worked and after you finished, and (2) how much effort you put into telling that story in many different contexts, and in contexts that especially mattered because of their importance for open source education. Thank you for that.
• Monika was a standout Wikipedian in Residence. So much intelligence, enthusiasm and heart in how she embodied the role.
• Your team as a whole is dynamite and it was an unusually fulfilling experience to work with all of you. You taught me so much!

This project was so well done and I feel lucky to have gotten to be a partner in it. Thank you for all of your good work.

Warm regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 19:25, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Broken links

The "Project updates" links are broken, they all lead to pages which state "This link has expired. Please contact the sender of the email for more information." Please archive the content of those updates on the wiki, so that people can learn from them in the future as well. Nemo 20:30, 9 March 2020 (UTC)