Wikipedia Primary School/Scientific Committee
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A scientific committee is created within the frame of Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme. It is meant to contribute to Wikipedia Primary School start-up between 2014 and 2017 within the specific project Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme. The scientific committee is meant to make sure the project is conceived and implement by addressing and involving a team of experts and representatives of stakeholders; this team can contribute to Wikipedia Primary School beyond 2014-2017 but it has no control over the project and other people and institutions can promote Wikipedia Primary School without their involvement.
List of members
[edit ]- In alphabetical order:
- George Agbozo
- Daniel Andler
- Emmarentia Barkhuizen
- Fiona Beal
- Megan Beckett
- Hennette Calitz
- Lorenzo Cantoni
- Noelle Cowling
- Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
- Salah ElBaba
- Samuel Klein
- George Kyeremeh
- Niall Mcnulty
- Alco Meyer
- Daniel Mietchen
- Elena Pasquinelli
- Lane Rasberry
- Camilla Swart
- Maru van der Merwe
- Izak Van Zyl
Scientific committee tasks
[edit ]The scientific committee contributes to Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme strategy, its monitoring and evaluation.
The scientific committee is composed by the project stakeholders (scholars, researchers, experts on wikipedians and education, teachers and parents) and it guarantees that interests are represented and the different communities are kept informed.
The establishment of the scientific committee allows the project to broaden its network, to acknowledge the role and contribution of an international team and to assure that each step of the project is developed with a collaborative and sustainable methodology.
The scientific committee aims at:
- Defining a list of relevant articles which provide an indicator for the project overall milestone.
- Contributing to the qualitative analysis of the project through its feedback.
- Generating discussions and exchanges among people contributing to education, Wikipedia, ICT, Creative Commons and collaborative knowledge.
Calendar
[edit ]- By 30 April 2014: Members of the scientific committee confirm to be involved. Provide a biography to be published online under cc by-sa.
- By 30 June 2014 (in June also an online meeting is planned):
- Review of the structure of the journal (Wikipedia Scientific Journal - issue 0), example of texts and guidelines forcontributors. Draft of the peer-review system and text for the call for contributors.
- Review of the draft list of possible relevant articles, draft of thematic issues. Updates of them
- By 31 July 2014: Support in disseminating the call for contributors, invitation to contribute to the Wikipedia community and through academic networks. Invitation to specific scholars.
- By 27 February 2015 (in February also an online meeting is planned): Review of
- Review of the list of articles to focus on.
- Feedback on the structure of the journal and the guidelines
- Report
- By 31 July 2015 (in July also an online meeting is planned):
- Review of the list of articles to focus on.
- Feedback on the structure of the journal and the guidelines
- By 03 May 2016: Review of
- Review of the list of articles to focus on.
- Feedback on the structure of the journal and the guidelines
- Report
- By 31 July 2016 (in July also an online meeting is planned):
- Review of the project
- Ideas for the follow up.
Meetings
[edit ]- Live meeting
- Several commissioners took part to operational meetings in South Africa in June 2014.
- Online meeting
- An online meeting for the others was set up in October 2014. This is the etherpad for that meeting. Offline feedback provided over the course of the month will be added to this page ASAP.
Criteria for the selection of the scientific committee members
[edit ]Within the frame of the Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme the members of the scientific committee are selected by the team members according to those criteria:
- Pleasure in working with them. Members of the scientific committee should have time to answer questions, they should be interested in the project, and should contribute to the collaborative atmosphere of the discussions also in disagreements.
- Knowledge of English. Most of the communication will be in English.
- Geographic diversity. Team members should be based in different countries and have links with different countries. This is meant to provide the project expertise from different countries and links to institutions and people from different geographic area, and to create international bridges (also for the communication of the project).
- Representatives of stakeholders. The team should include stakeholders to make sure the project is accepted and acceptable from different points of view, to guarantee it serves different communities, it is sustainable and scalable
- Broad range of skills. We need a team with expertise in different areas: education, Wikimedia, Africa, ICT, visualization, research, links with journals, technical competences related to open licenses.
- Gender and diversity. Just because it is healthy and it is reasonable to include it and to make sure we notice it.
- Visionary. Members of the team should be capable of criticize, to rise issues, to make sure we think issues through and that we do not choose the easiest solution but we assume the reason why we make selections and decisions.
- Limited number. It is cool to have large teams but it is complicated to get the most out of all the people involved. It is easier to work with a selected and smaller team which can be really active (20 people is the number envisioned in the project).