Tällä viikolla suomalaiset wikipedistit saivat tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon. 🎖️ Siis minäkin sain palkinnon. Tosin en yksin, vaan noin 400, 4 000 tai ehkä jopa yli 10 000 muun suomalaisen kanssa — riippuu vähän siitä, miten wikipedisti määritellään. Juuri tässä on palkinnon hienous. Se on yhteisön palkinto: tunnustus vapaaehtoisille, jotka ovat vuosien ajan kirjoittaneet, muokanneet, korjanneet, täydentäneet, […]
Category: Wikibooks
With the corona crisis many campus universities have fast moved to online teaching. To help people in the transition, with a group of volunteers, we wrote an open guidebook, for educators in difference educational levels, on how to start online teaching. I mainly contributed to the section about how to continue university education in times […]
In the last years the Wikipedia’s search has been improving. It still sucks, but it is getting better. There is a smart team working with the search and the Wikidata is giving a structure to the data. Think what Wikipedia Search could be? Think what Wikipedia Search could do? First of all, it could answer to […]
I just met with the BBC journalist, Tim Sebastian. He was visiting us to see the results from our study project exploring new media concepts for World Health Organization (thank you M4ID’s Mari for organizing this). The main issue discussed related to humanitarian emergency communication. How we could communicate fast and efficiently with the people […]
The Wikimedia community (e.g. Wikipedia, Mediawiki software and many more) is voting on Wikiversity idea. Wikiversity is a project “to build an electronic institution of learning that is relying on the wiki model”. The voting is made for making a decision on if the community should launch the project or not. I have rather contradictory […]
Teemu Leinonen 