Slides for a talk on "Working with Wikimedia Serbia" given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of Bolton at the Eduwiki 2014 conference in Edinburgh on Friday 31 October 2013. See https://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-2014/

1. Event hashtag: #eduwiki
Showcasing WMUK-supported projects:
Working with Wikimedia Serbia
Brian Kelly
Innovation Advocate
Cetis
University of Bolton
Bolton, UK
Contact Details
Email: ukwebfocus@gmail.com
Twitter: @briankelly
Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
Cetis Web site: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
Filip Maljković
President and board member
Wikimedia Serbia
Belgrade, Serbia
Contact Details
Email: Filip Maljković
Twitter: @dungodung
Web site: http://rs.wikimedia.org/
Slides and further information available at
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-2014/

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3. Wikimedia Serbia EduWiki Conference
2014 Scholarship
Background:
• Scholarship announced on WMUK blog in Jan 2014
Requirement to:
• Attend Learning Day and Eduwiki Serbia conference
on 23-24 March 2014
• Participate in Learning day, sharing UK experiences
• Give 15 minute talk about UK educational activities
Write reports about trip before/after events
Successful bid submitted:
• Based on recent WMUK activities
• Proposal to raise visibility of educational benefits of
UK widely (in UK as well as Serbia)
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4. Blog Post
Post about WMUK’s
educational work &
related work published:
• During Open
Education Week on
10 March 2014
• On UK Web Focus
and WMUK blogs
Embraced a “Wikipedia
approach to the
presentation”:
• CC licence
• Invited feedback on
slide preview
• Links provided to
sources
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5. Blog Post (1)
Blog post covered:
• Slow acceptance of
Wikipedia in HE
• Highlights from Eduwiki
2013 (“Safe Use of
Wikipedia …” by
Birmingham Uni library
staff & “Introducing
Students to Independent
Research through
Editing Wikipedia
Articles …” at
Portsmouth Uni
• Work of the Jisc
Wikimedia Ambassador
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6. Blog Post (2)
Blog post covered:
• Looking to the
future: Wikimania
2014 (August 2014)
• Promoting greater
use of Wikipedia:
(a) JISC infoKit on
crowdsourcing the
Wikipedia way
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7. Blog Post (3)
Blog post covered:
• Promoting greater
use of Wikipedia:
(b) training the
trainer programme
and (c) plans for
increasing nos. of
female contributors
• Development of
WMUK’s education
strategy
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Note too much material
for 15 minute talk, so
blog post cited in talk

8. After the Event
Report on the event:
• Published on
WMUK blog on
15 April 2014
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9. After the Event
Report on the event:
• Published on
WMUK blog on
15 April 2014
• Storify summary
of tweets (not
sufficient to
provide
meaningful
insights)
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10. Monitoring Effectiveness of Work
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Topsy analytics &
archive of tweets
for blog post
What evidence is there
of the effectiveness of
the outreach plans for
the proposal?

11. BK → FM
Monitoring Effectiveness of Work
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Slideshare analytics for
nos. of views of slides
(28 Oct 2014)
Note lies, damned lies and Web
statistics, so treat nos. with
pinch of salt!
However evidence of success of
outreach activities for this work

12. Learning Day - Participants
D omi n i kma t u 1s2

13. Learning Day - Participants
Wikimedia Serbia (Ivan Matejić, Đorđe Stakić, Filip
Maljković, Mile Kiš)
Wikimedia United Kingdom (Brian Kelly)
Wikimedia Foundation (Rod Dunican, Anna Koval)
Wikimedia Germany (Tim-Moritz Hector)
Wikimedia Ukraine (Andriy Makukha)
Wikimedia Czech Republic (Dominik Matus)
Wikimedia Macedonia (Igor Sazdovski)
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14. Learning Day – Topics
Meeting, sharing, comparing, successes, problems
Project metrics
Leader of an education project
Target groups in education sector
Quality and quantity of the articles
How to attract new potential editors?
Wiki community response on education projects
Chapter cooperation on education projects
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15. EduWiki Conference
D omi n i kma t u 1s5

16. EduWiki Conference
Getting education institutions acquainted with education
program
Wikimedia Serbia
Education program of Wikimedia Serbia
Wikipedia as an education platform
Creative Commons
1001 Arabic Words
Success stories
Education program abroad
Q/A
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17. Questions?
Any questions, comments, …?
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18. Licence and Additional Resources
This presentation, “Working with Wikimedia Serbia” by Brian Kelly, Cetis
and Filip Maljković, WM Serbia is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 Licence
Note the licence covers most of the text in this presentation. Quotations
may have other licence conditions.
Images may have other licence conditions. Where possible links are
provided to the source of images so that licence conditions can be found.
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Slides and further information available at
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-2014/