MonthlyReport-Nov2020
November 2020
Wikipedia Education Programs
This month wikipedians have visited 3 universities for giving Wikipedia trainings for the students who are given Wikipedia assignments.
Training at Kadir Has University
After our talks with Kadir Has University Core program instructors they decided to work with a group of volunteer students from engineering, law and public administration departments who would like to contribute wikipedia. We have met with the group and their instructors after the course and explained the basics of editing.
Training with doctorate students of Uludag University doctorate students
The students of the social psychology doctorate program of Uludag University are assigned to edit articles on articles about indiviudal difffernets at Turkish Wikipedia. We have visited their online course at provided basic information they need for this work.
Undergraduate course at Yeditepe University Public Administration Department
We have visited the "Civil Society and Participation" course at Yeditepe University, Istanbul where the students will be contributing to Turkish wikipedia as a requirement of this course. This was the first time we worked with Yeditepe University. We believe our partnership with the instructor and the university after completing this Wikipedia Education Program in this course.
Gearing Roles Conference at Sabancı University
Our usergroup was invited by Sabancı University to organize an workshop at international conference hosted by the universtiy on Gender and Leadership in Higher Education Institutions. With the help of wikimedians in Europe, parallel workshosp were organized for participans speaking Italian and English. This event allowed us meeting a very diverse group of students and introduce them wikipedia editing.
Editor community meetings
In November, we organized one online community meetings on 17th. It was OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week and we had guest speaker from OSM Turkey who explained how the contribute Wikipedia. We have canceled our second Tuesday meeting and instead made an edit-a-thon where wikipedians and OSM volunteers create articles about women geopraphers on November 19th. The meeting notes in Turkish is available here: October 17 (in Turkish).
GLAM partnership talks
During November, we continued our GLAM Talks with Kocaeli Municipality. We made one more online meeting to trin the personnel on functioning of Wikipedia and also made an in-person visit. We mae a preliminatry meeting with Istanbul Theatre Festival; it's decided to meet again to discuss some document and image donations after this year's Festival.
