Grants:Conference/Wikimedia Serbia/EduWiki Conference 2023/Community Engagement Survey Report
 | This survey report consolidates responses of the Community Engagement Survey conducted by the board of Wikipedia & Education User Group. The User Group is the host for EduWiki Conference 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia, along with Wikimedia Serbia. The Community Engagement Survey has been conducted from 18 July to 10 August 2022, as part of developing a Conference & Event Grant proposal to the Wikimedia Foundation. The purpose of the community engagement survey is to help organizers demonstrate how important it is to the community to have this event. The survey will also help gather consensus on what topics or priorities the community wants to focus on at the event. The number and quality of survey responses will influence the size of the event, so it is important to make sure you community knows this. |
With what gender do you identify?[edit]
How likely are you to attend EduWiki Conference ?[edit]
Please mention the affiliate(s) you are associated with, if any[edit]
Participants of the survey represent/are part of the following Wikimedia affiliates;
| Amical Wikimedia | Basque Wikimedians User Group | Dagbani Wikimedians User Group | GLAM Macedonia User Group | Grupo de Usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil | Hausa Wikimedians User Group |
| Igbo Wikimedians User Group | Karavali Wikimedians User Group | Open Foundation West Africa | Wiki World Heritage User Group | WikiJournal | Wikimedia and Libraries User Group |
| Wikimedia Argentina | Wikimedia Australia | Wikimedia Bangladesh | Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria | Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda | Wikimedia Ghana User Group |
| Wikimedia Indonesia | Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group | Wikimedia MA User Group | Wikimedia Mexico | Wikimedia Morocco | Wikimedia Polska |
| Wikimedia Portugal | Wikimedia Serbia | Wikimedia Spain | Wikimedia Sverige | Wikimedia Switzerland | Wikimedia TN User Group |
| Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand | Wikimedians for Sustainable Development | Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group | Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group | Wikimedistas de Bolivia | Wikimedistas de Uruguay |
| Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias | Wikipedia & Education User Group | ||||
To which Wikimedia projects do you usually contribute to?[edit]
I am / was ...[edit]
Participants of the survey come from the following broad categories/areas of work in the context of EduWiki;
| Category | Description of work | Percentage of survey participants | ||
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| educators | using Wikimedia projects in classroom | 50.6%
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| with general interest in Wikimedia & Education space | 46.9%
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| students | contributing to Wikimedia projects as part of an EduWiki program | 12.3%
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| Wikimedians | running an EduWiki program | 44.4%
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| with general interest in Wikimedia & Education space | 63%
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| researchers | researching about intersections between Wikimedia & Education | 38.3%
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| developers | building tools for management of EduWiki work | 9.9%
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| Staff of Wikimedia affiliates | running/coordinating an EduWiki program in staff capacity | 4.9%
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| Institutional partners | contributing to EduWiki programs from GLAMs, academic journals | 3.7%
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How long have you been in involved with EduWiki?[edit]
What are your expectations from EduWiki Conference 2023?[edit]
| Expectation | Percentage of choice | ||
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| Learn about EduWiki and meet the Wikimedia community | 82.7%
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| Improving my skills that help me to improve my EduWiki work | 71.6%
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| Sharing my work / thoughts /skills regarding EduWiki or related aspects | 79%
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| Participate and trying to resolve issues persistent with EduWiki community | 67.9%
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Please select any five of the below listed broad themes that are of your interest[edit]
| Theme | Percentage of choice | ||
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| External fund raising for Wikimedia activities and organisations | 22.2%
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| GLAM-Wiki (Using Wikimedia projects in/with cultural organisations) | 60.5%
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| Gender gap, diversity, and anti-harassment | 51.9%
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| Governance within Wikimedia movement (Movement affiliates, Volunteer committee, WMF etc.) | 35.8%
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| Internal and external communications (Wikimedia Space, Social Media best practices etc.) | 22.2%
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| International / regional projects and collaboration | 61.7%
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| Learning & Evaluation (evaluating your activities and organisations) | 54.3%
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| On-Wiki technical skills (Automated tools, templates etc.) | 29.6%
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| Organising for Wikimedia projects (Grants, project management, logistics etc.) | 48.1%
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| Sustainability initiative | 27.2%
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| Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy | 34.6%
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| Coping with COVID-19 | 6.2%
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What are the most important topics that your community needs to discuss in person?[edit]
Responses from the participants have been clustered into four broad themes, and relevant specifics for each theme are listed below;
| Broad theme | Specific topics |
|---|---|
| Advocacy | Connecting EduWiki programs and campaigns around environmental sustainability |
| Promoting Wikipedia and its sister's project as a reliable source of information for academic research and preventing misinformation | |
| Moving from being an educator on Wikimedia to being an education leader on Wikimedia | |
| Including EduWiki in official curricula | |
| Establishing multilingualism in the EduWiki movement | |
| Gender Gap Bridging | |
| Possibility of censorship from certain countries and sanction compliance imposed by US government | |
| Improving global understanding of EduWiki as an OER | |
| Using the larger concept of MOOCs for EduWiki work | |
| Capacity development | Developing organizational skills |
| Wikimedians and the Special Needs Individuals | |
| Best practices to avoid common pitfalls | |
| Creating capacity for tool development | |
| Using Wikidata in Education | |
| Available technologies for EduWiki work | |
| Capacity development of other community members to be able to run EduWiki programs | |
| Deciding on the best topics for an education program | |
| Developing an infrastructure for Wiki education programs | |
| Partnerships / Networking | Building EduWiki programs with GLAM and other cultural institutions |
| Organizing a community and support basis for kiwix4schools | |
| Leveraging Wikipedia as a learning tool by adopting the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Framework | |
| Establishing long-term partnerships with educational institutions | |
| Creating a Wiki Education Hub | |
| Assessing the program "Reading Wikipedia in the classroom" | |
| Connecting Wikimedia Education and the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy | |
| Networking of education program officers across the movement | |
| Planning and management of EduWiki programs | Best practices on copyrights related to EduWiki programs |
| Getting funding for EduWiki activities | |
| Evaluation of EduWiki projects/programs | |
| Engaging students in wiki programs | |
| Understanding specificities of programs for the elderly | |
| Designing EduWiki programs for higher education | |
| Establishing good connections between students and volunteers | |
| Evaluation of EduWiki projects/programs | |
| Sharing experiences with online wikicourses | |
| Organizing EduWiki programs relying on mobile phones | |
| Setting an on-wiki education program in the context of COVID-19 |
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Responses from the participants have been clustered into three broad themes, and relevant specifics for each theme are listed below;
| Broad theme | Specific topics |
|---|---|
| Planning and execution of EduWiki programs | Adapting existing programs to new contexts |
| Educational strategies based on the needs of educational communities | |
| Establishing best practices to ensure good quality content | |
| Exploring Wikimedian-in-Residence model for EduWiki | |
| Negotiations with government bodies – a win win situation | |
| Using GLAM-Wiki for EduWiki programs | |
| Using various kinds of automated Wiki-tools for EduWiki programs | |
| Wiki Camp for students | |
| Ethno-wiki projects as the proposal for regional activists, univeristies | |
| Greening Wikipedia on Climate Education | |
| Kiwix4schools Education program implementation lessons learned and strategies devised | |
| Intersecting Education and GLAM | |
| Decolonizing the Internet from an educational perspective | |
| Using Wikidata in Education programs and as a teaching aid | |
| Wikicamps for people not receiving any formal education | |
| Skills & Capacity Development | Event organization and management |
| Leadership skills | |
| E-learning | |
| Non-formal and experiential education-lifelong learning approach | |
| Interculturality | |
| Facilitation of learning processes | |
| Design-thinking for short programs | |
| Long-term planning for education | |
| Creating outreach resources | |
| Competence based education | |
| Documenting programs for sharing learning | |
| Organizing an eduwiki program in an unwelcoming environment | |
| Tools and technical skills | Citation technology |
| Apps and Gamification of learning | |
| Petscan | |
| Program and Events Dashboard | |
| Lexeme | |
| Photo upload | |
| Semantic MediaWiki | |
| Translatewiki | |
| Scholia | |
| Spell4wiki | |
| Visual Editor | |
| Wikidata tools |
What are the top three things that would like to learn at EduWiki Conference 2023?[edit]
Responses from the participants have been clustered into four broad themes, and relevant specifics for each theme are listed below;
| Broad theme | Specific topics |
|---|---|
| Diversity of projects in EduWiki programs | Multilingual EduWiki programs |
| Role of Wikiversity in EduWiki programs | |
| History of EduWiki | |
| Documenting EduWiki for spreading learning | |
| Wikidata for EduWiki | |
| Wikisource for EduWiki | |
| Wiktionary for EduWiki | |
| Wikivoyage for EduWiki | |
| Meta-wiki for EduWiki | |
| Planning & execution of EduWiki programs | Alinging EduWiki programs with 2030 strategic direction |
| Building an education-focused project from the start | |
| Collaborating with GLAMs for Education programs | |
| Convincing institutions and students | |
| Designing Education programs to improve language skills of the participants | |
| Developing short duration projects | |
| Coping with Covid-19 | |
| Editor retention post-completion of a program | |
| Evaluating the impact of Education programs | |
| Fund an assignment-based education project | |
| Increasing participation from Global South | |
| Skills & Capacity Development | Conflict resolution |
| International collaborations | |
| Effective communication | |
| Social media outreach | |
| Negotiating partnerships | |
| Using maps in EduWiki | |
| Project management | |
| Public relations | |
| Leadership skills | |
| Tools & technical skills | Creating on-Wiki templates |
| UX design | |
| Program & Events Dashboard | |
| MediaWiki | |
| AI uses for education | |
| Querying Wikidata | |
| Wikicite |
What is the most important goal, problem, or obstacle you think this community should focus on in the next 12 months?[edit]
Responses from the participants have been clustered into a broad theme and the rest into miscellaneous, and relevant specifics for each theme are listed below;
| Broad theme | Specific topics |
|---|---|
| Planning & execution of EduWiki programs | Align Education programs plan to produce content according to local needs |
| Developing Education programs with focus work area to serve students from marginalised communities | |
| Planning programs by keeping in view of Wikimedia 2030 strategy | |
| Improving tech development and support for EduWiki activities | |
| Post-COVID work and relationships in EduWiki | |
| Running Education programs in areas with low internet connectivity | |
| Building an education program that address the education needs in my local community | |
| Scalability of EduWiki national programs | |
| Creating new resources for design, implementation and outreach of EduWiki programs | |
| Misc | Governance of the EduWiki Movement |
| Coordination and implementation of the movement strategy for EduWiki | |
| Developing communication strategies to minimise the stigma around the use of Wikipedia in academia | |
| Education and special needs on wiki | |
| Leadership development | |
| A more efficient mobile editor to be used in a more user-friendly editing interface | |
| Sustainability initiative |
How familiar are you with the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy?[edit]
What are the technological features that are missing in the tools you're already using for your EduWiki work, or what are the completely new technological tools that you believe should be developed to support your work so it is more efficient and less manual?[edit]
Improved mobile access and mobile editing platform
Translation tools
“Country” field for P&E Dashboard – for metrics per country
Assign articles to participants directly on Wiki – without the help of P&E Dashboard
UX Design
Kiwix
Data visualizations on the P&E Dashboard
ORES
Wikimedia powered Edu-software that works like the Encarta Educational software with a touch of kiwix to allow students search for things without having to be online
Video editing platform
How would you prioritize the time we spend together at the conference?[edit]
How would you prefer to attend the conference?[edit]
