Wikipedia Education Program/MENA/Goals and Timeplan

Goals and timeplan for the February–June 2013 term.

Measures of success for Arab region as a whole

1. Goal for Arab region as a whole: at least 400 students contribute content to the Arabic Wikipedia. (This means about 40 classes, with 5–15 students from each class contributing to Wikipedia, although this is just an average and in some cases there will be groups of students participating in the project who aren't a formal "class" with direct professor involvement!)
   • Goal for Egypt: at least 300 students contribute content to the Arabic Wikipedia
   • Goal for Jordan:  Faris: please fill in this section!
   • Goal for Algeria:  Faris: please fill in this section!
2. Each 15 students should have at least 1 Campus Ambassador and 1 Online Ambassador to support them. (The same Ambassador can support multiple sets of 15 students if he or she wants. The Online Ambassadors could be at one central place online supporting all students.)
3. Each participating student contributes at least 5 printed pages worth of content (or about 15,000 bytes) to the Arabic Wikipedia.
4. Program participants are satisfied with their experience in the program: (these can be measured from doing surveys or interviews with program participants)
   • More than 50% of the students indicate that they would prefer a Wikipedia assignment to a traditional assignment in the future.
   • More than 50% of the professors indicate that they would assign Wikipedia projects again.
   • More than 75% of the Ambassadors involved in the program indicate that it was worth their time.
5. Weekly updates are put on the Arabic Wikipedia, tracking the progress of the participating students.
6. The program follows the timeplan described below.

Timeplan

• 1 February: this document (goals and timeplan) is complete.
  
• 1 February: Egypt's new organizational/leadership structure is confirmed and approved by all Ambassadors. Y Done
  
• 15 February: all roles in Egypt's new organizational/leadership structure have been filled by qualified, motivated people.
  
• 28 February: all professors and students in Jordan and Algeria have been recruited and have confirmed their participation.
  
• 28 February: all professors and students in Egypt have been recruited and have confirmed their participation. (Remember to add their information to this spreadsheet!)
  
• 28 February: all Campus Ambassadors, Online Ambassadors, professors, and teachers in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria have been trained.
  
• 5 March: all participating classes are listed on the Arabic Wikipedia portal and each class has its own course page set up.
  
• 5 March: all participating students have created Wikipedia user accounts, and have added their usernames on-wiki.
  
• 10 March: all participating students have begun writing their Wikipedia assignment, either on-wiki or on paper.
  
• 15 April: all participating students are half done with their Wikipedia project.
  
• 20 May: all participating students have finished adding their Wikipedia contributions to live Arabic Wikipedia articles.