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1. Pitfalls, Protocols and Prior Planning:
a Panel on Making the Most of
the Wikipedia Education Program
Anna Koval
Wikimania 2015
Mexico City, Mexico

2. Argentina: Melina Masnatta
Armenia: Susanna Mkrtchyan
Bulgaria: Vassia Atanassova
China: Addis Wang
Egypt: Walaa Abdel Manaem
Estonia: Sven-Erik Soosaar
Greece: Konstantinos Stampoulis
India: Netha Hussain
Israel: Michal Lester
Macedonia: Cvetko Nedelkovski
Mexico: Paola Ricaurte
Serbia: Filip Maljković
Sweden: Sara Mörtsell
Tunisia: Habib M'henni
Ukraine: Vira Motorko
Uruguay: Roxana Sordo
Contributors

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8. pit·fall (noun)
Etymology
● pit + fall
● pit = a hole in the ground. fall = to drop, descend, or move downwards.
Pronunciation
● UK: pĭtʹfôl /ˈpɪʔfɔːl/
● US: pĭtʹfäl /ˈpɪʔfɑl/
Definition
● a potential problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious
● a type of trap or concealed hole in the ground: victims fall into the hole and are unable to escape
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pitfall

9. pro·to·col (noun)
Etymology
● Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”)
● Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”)
● Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (“first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”)
Pronunciation
● UK: pĭtʹfôl /ˈpɪʔfɔːl/
● US: pĭtʹfäl /ˈpɪʔfɑl/
Definition
● a set of formal rules or instructions; official formulas or guidelines
● notes of observations made during an experiment; also, the precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/protocol

10. ≠protocols pitfalls

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12. ≠:) :(

13. advice from 16 programs
education.wikimedia.org

15. 16 Countries

16. 71 Years

17. 12,575
Students

18. 1,707
Teachers

19. 178
Volunteers

20. 106
Cities

21. 70
Universities

22. 122
Secondary Schools

23. 21
Primary Schools

24. 5
Adult Schools

25. 12
Wikimedia Projects

26. Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Wikinews
Wikisource
Wikiversity
Commons

27. 21
Languages

28. Arabic Armenian Bulgarian
Chinese English Estonian
French German Greek Hebrew
Italian Japanese Korean
Macedonian Malayalam
Serbian Spanish Swedish
Turkish Ukrainian Võro

29. but wait, there's more! :)

30. 87,838+ articles created!
1,533+ articles translated!
925+ articles improved!
4,528+ files uploaded!
282,539,283+ bytes added!!
❤ education.wikimedia.org ❤

31. but wait, there's more! :)

32. ARGENTINA
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33. ARMENIA
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34. BULGARIA
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35. CHINA
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36. EGYPT
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37. ESTONIA
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38. GREECE
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39. INDIA
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40. ISRAEL
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[[pitfalls & protocols]]

41. MACEDONIA
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[[pitfalls & protocols]]

42. MEXICO
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[[pitfalls & protocols]]

43. SERBIA
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44. SWEDEN
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45. TUNISIA
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[[pitfalls & protocols]]

46. UKRAINE
[[program metrics]]
[[pitfalls & protocols]]

47. URUGUAY
[[program metrics]]
[[pitfalls & protocols]]

48. but wait, there's more! :)

49. [[Session Etherpad]]

50. [[Session Sandbox]]

51. [[Education Toolkit]]

52. VASSIA ATANASSOVA
[[Wiki Educator's Survival Kit]]

53. LIANNA DAVIS
[[The 7 Biggest Mistakes
the Wikipedia Education Program's Made
-- and What We've Learned From Them]]

54. but wait, there's more! :)

55. Proper
Planning and
Preparation
Prevents
Piss
Poor
Performance
7 Ps:

56. {{citation needed}}

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Thanks!