2014 Activity Plan/University and Education Outreach

Lead member of staff

Daria Cybulska and Toni Sant}

Indicative budget amount

£18,000 to allow for an education event in the range of £10,000

Description and overall rationale

Timelines - i.e. what happens quarter by quarter

Success criteria and Metrics - overall and quarter by quarter breakdown if relevant

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.

Risks

EduWiki

Budget lead: Daria Cybulska with Toni Sant

We will hold our third international education conference in the UK. The target audience will not be chosen until we have evaluated this year’s EduWiki in November 2013 but will embrace representatives from the UK and international world of education.

We will expect over 100 delegates, speakers and representatives of the Wikimedia community. We will use our normal conference feedback mechanisms to assess success.

At least 10 new institutions attracted, 50% of which go on to run a project with WMUK.