Wikimedia Education SAARC conference/Submissions/Wikipedia Education Programs in Palestine:Challenges and Case studies
- Submission no.
- Title of the submission
- Wikipedia Education Programs in Palestine:Challenges and Case studies
- Author(s) of the submission
- E-mail address
baraa.zamareh.95@gmail.com
mohammad.hijjawi1997@gmail.com
- City of origin
- Hebron and Tulkarm, Palestine
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Wikimedians of the Levant user group (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_the_Levant/ar)
- Main theme
free knowledge for the world
- Type of session
Presentations (20-25 min)
- Presentations
- Teachers, learners, editors, students from growing
- Length of session
(20-25 min)
- Do you want to submit a paper for peer-reviewing?
- no
- Abstract
Mohammad Hijjawi and I, we are engineers and active members of Levant user group (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_the_Levant/ar), We have been making a lot of valuable contributions towards, see here: (https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A9:%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1), (https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85:Mohammad_Hijjawi) we have created a set of educational programs in Palestine, more than 8 copies in universities, Schools, and Community. We taught them how to edit on Wikipedia, create articles according to the required standards, and how to identify reliable sources. Education programs that were new compared to other countries, which contributes to increase the number of editors as well as interested Wikipedians. Through our presentation we will present some of challenges we faced in education programs, how they affected the performance, some proposed solutions, we will present some of case studies and compare between them, we hope to share the benefits of each idea we take. also we can share all these experiences.
Important link:
- http://mhijjawi.blogspot.com/
- https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/ويكيبيديا:برنامج_ويكيبيديا_للتعليم/محافظة_الخليل
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrL_Fq8LiCQ&feature=youtu.be
- How does your proposal add knowledge to the international community in Wikimedia and education
Clearly the study findings are giving us another picture to think deeper and show some challenges of uses of Wikipedia in education; we will also have a way forward discussion with the audience. So that, we are sure the study findings and way forwards discussion will be guiding the communities who are having same challenges.
- Who is the intended ideal audience for the topic?
Educationalist, Students
- Slides or further information
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