Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Reports/EduWiki Conference 2023

EduWiki Conference 2023

The EduWiki Conference 2023 was an international conference of Wikimedia Foundation on Wikipedia Education Program organized by Wikipedia & Education User Group and Wikimedia Serbia which took place in Belgrade, Serbia on 26–28 May 2023.

Representative

The Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia was represented by:

• Dody Ismoyo, President

EduWiki Conference 2023 was the first time for the representative and anyone from the Malaysia user group to participate.

Discussions

I attended various talk sessions in this 3-day conference, which are:

Open Educational Resources

• Need to make learning curve and outcome on what we want to achieve for any new changes in education

Reimagining the Future of Wikimedia in Education

• EduWiki scope in K-12, higher education and lifelong learning
• Wiki clubs and camps and teacher/senior citizens training
• Main assessment on Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Teacher's training in collaboration with the ministry of education, where teachers obtain credits by working with EduWiki
• Partnering with other outreach efforts, such as cultural and governmental institutions, research institutions, science and medical institutions, knowledge gaps and DEI/EDI focus (equity, diversity and inclusion) and UNESCO's global education coalition
• Interactive platform for open educational resources, where Wikimedia Indonesia launched a book about Wikipedia
• Data literacy, digital literacy, academic skills, collaborative skills, social accountability and impact, reference and provenance
• Skills that can be improved by EduWiki programs: digital literacy, academic skill, collaborative skills and social skills
• Web 2.0 platform (web that have interactive between web and users): Wikipedia is the best one to improve skills
• Research (engagement with the research community has also led to a deeper, more sustainable support of the movement and it encourages the research in technological tools)
• Impact (education programs and initiatives demonstrated impact that needs to be widely understood, better tracked and shared)
• Mapping of challenges (internal: scattered efforts without a joint, global strategy and resources, missing suitable technological infrastructure, missing system for curating shared experiences and best practices, missing resources for capacity building; external: lack of awareness to our work by decision makers (ministry of education, universities etc), lack of knowledge/recognition by like-minded organizations (OECD etc), generative AI)
• Wikipedia is in a better position to explain to the public about the generative AI. When we write Wikipedia, generally we help the world, but specifically we help the AI to learn more.
• The future (opportunities: a moment in time for all stakeholders to come together and join forces, decide on a strategy for EduWiki work (goals, metrics etc), discuss the right organizational form for said strategy)
• Recommendations (increase the sustainability of our movement, improve user experience, provide for safety and inclusion, ensure equity in decision making, coordinate across stakeholder etc)

About the Program

• Wikipedia and Education User Group (2018 inception)
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Wikimedia Education

Wikidata for Education

• Curriculum modeling

Wikidata in Secondary School Classrooms

• Remembering
• Comprehension
• Application
• Evaluation
• Creation
• Examples
• Questions and answer session

Ikusgela

• Description
• Solid script
• Publishing
• Future plans

Education Project in Turkey

• Tactic to reach target
• Wikipedia Student Club at Uskudar University

WoALUG Experience in Class

• Wilkeys
• Career education through Wikipedia
• Wikiclubs
• University edit-a-thons
• High school edit-a-thons

Wikipedia and WikiClubs in Education

• Goals
• What did I do as a teacher?
• Issues
• How it started
• What are we doing?
• The importance of WikiClubs

Expanding the Scope of Edu Projects: The Valencian Institute of the Youth

• Expanded the limits
• Reading Wikimedia in the classroom formation for education professionals

Exploring the Power of Wikidata: Empowering Librarians in Brazil

• A Case Study of a Workshop for Brazilians Librarians (27 participants: librarians, professors, students)
• Jigsaw Method: Concept, data recording for Brazilian researchers, data visualization
• Feedback and results

PET Scan Tool

• https://petscan.wmflabs.org/
• It can extract a list of articles requiring translation, articles in need of expansion, articles requiring maintenance, sorting of pre-made articles list (draft-class articles)

Offline Tools

• People, tech, content and initiatives
• Kixiw focuses on knowledge sharing on public-domain data

The Future of Wikimedia and Education

• Wiki Goes to School in Indonesia
• Wikipedia gives education equally for everyone
• Kiwix, help people to get access to Wikipedia offline
• Challenges in bringing EduWiki to educational institutions, especially with the pessimistic opinions by the institutions. COVID-19 makes people become tech savvy.
• In Brazil, 10% of the school curriculum must have voluntary activities, thus Wikimedia program can be put into it
• Communities in Indonesia can organize education programs, but many times they still need to ask WMID for helps and assistance

Ways and Tools to Collaborate with Schools and Universities

• Village Pump drama
• Dealing with school libraries

Enhancing Education Program and Workshops Quality through Data Collections and Analysis

• Data science
• Empowering education programs though data-driven decisions and strategies
• Data collection method (surveys, interview, observations and discussion groups (focus groups))
• Data analysis tools (spreadsheets (Excel and Google sheets), programming languages (Python, R and SQL), data visualization tools (Tableau and Power BI), advanced programs (MATLAB, JMP and SPSS))

A Peacebuilding Approach to the Education Program

• Activities focus on social building
• Incise positively in structural violence

Let's Connect

• Peer learning program founded by WMF and led by community
• Space to share and/or different skills with other peers to contribute collectively

Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom: The Moroccan Story

• In collaboration with Colombia and the Philippines
• Challenges in EduWiki in Morocco: COVID (thus schools were closed)

Wikigraphers

• Creation go data-driven infographics
• Illustration or animation (for those cant be photographs, e.g. chemical reactions etc)

The Wikipedia Visiting Scholar Experience

• WikiProject Women Writers (2014)
• Wikipedia Visiting Scholar
• Northeastern University (Boston)
• Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Education Program in Palestine: Results, Challenges and Opportunities

• History
• Achievements
• Challenges
• Sustaining editions, empowering volunteers

How to Build Educational Materials to Work on Wikimedia Projects in the Classroom

• Wikimedia Argentina made booklets divided into several topics/themes (starting point, design your proposal, modality, support)

MCDC's Movement Strategy and Education

• Wikimedia in Philippines
• NDEC Wikipedia Editorial in Bangladesh
• Skills Development and Community Engagement in Movement Strategy 2030, Africa Great Lakes

Generative AI’s Impact on Wikimedia & Education

• AI can give answer, but it cant tell how it gets the answer.
• We are in control as the author as the input process generated by any generation software, e.g. Microsoft Word sentence completion or Google sentence completion. This is the one we author should have the say yes or no at the end of the day.

Tips and Tricks for the Programs and Events Dashboard

• History
• Basic program

Closing Ceremony

• Join Meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Education User Group/Members
• Future of Wikipedia and education
• Depths of Wikipedia

Improvements

• The organizer apologized to those (from some countries) who could not come to the event due to the inability for them to get the Serbian visa
• The Fly Dubai flight in which I (and other two EduWiki Conference participants) flew from Dubai (transit) to Belgrade had its air-conditioner broken and we were left in the heat and difficulties in breathing inside the closed aircraft at the Dubai airport tarmac for about one hour