Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Article template libraries - user sandbox space organization/Report

Report accepted

Hello, ManosHacker; thank you for all your work on this project. We are also grateful for your thorough reporting on your work and lessons learned as you created the toolkit. We have the following comments:

1. A lot of time has passed since you submitted this report (thank you for your patience with our severe backlog), and you pointed out that the toolkit had not been tested in editathons. If this has changed, we would love to hear any updates you have.
2. We appreciate your commitment to creating a toolkit that could be used in different languages and we hope to see more Wiki projects with the same spirit.
3. You note that this project would have been better executed under a project grant than under a rapid grant. Seeing the scope of your labor, we are inclined to agree! We hope that this ambitious toolkit continues to move forward.

With this report acceptance, we confirm that we are closing your grant for Article template libraries - user sandbox space organization.

Thank you again for all your work for the Wiki movement. Regards, MMontes (WMF) (talk) 01:46, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello MMontes (WMF), I am glad my report is finally accepted.

1. Due to limited resources WCSAG did not organize any editathons in Greece to put the tool in massive article production.
   • Nevertheless, In Spanish Wikipedia they did develop their own library for using the tool in editathons and/or education. Rubén Ojeda (WMES) might enlighten us with more on this.
   • In our activities, since autumn 2018, we focused on training writing seminars to adults, university students, secondary education and special education. The results were encouraging.
   • By using the user sandbox+ tool, two university students run, all by themselves this year, their own training seminar to students in University of West Attica, at the Department of Archives, Library and Information Systems. They organized their team to visit the Forensic Museum in Athens (wich is not open to the public) and they produced valuable content altogether.
   • The tool was also used in a speedy writing seminar to university students of the Theological School in Athens, who performed well by creating an article each.
   • A two month seminar to adults had the same results, one article per person.
   • By using it in a 5-month Gymnasium school program, more students were able to participate and in fact started and finished even difficult articles, like for medicine.
   • A very challenging effort was to apply the usage of the tool in a group of secondary students, in special education. It is now proven that young people with disabilities can contribute to Wikipedia. They have already published 4 articles, working as a team. More drafts are semi-developed in their sandboxes, waiting to be finished and published. Here the results of the structured way of contributing were more obvious. The speech therapist of the school started to attend our classes after seeing the progress some of the students had after the Wikipedia classes.
2. It needed a lot of effort to build the project in all these languages. Template code is not suitable for multi-langiage projects, but gave the opportunity for testing the idea. Now we collaborate with people from the highest level of education in Greece in order to build a useful global library for articles, for use with either the template based project or a code spinoff of it.
3. There is already an IdeaLab for a wider project based on article template libraries.

I hope there will be more to come, indeed. Thank you.   ManosHacker ^talk 00:43, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for this update, ManosHacker!! We appreciate all the work you do. MMontes (WMF) (talk) 00:47, 4 July 2019 (UTC)