Workgroup:Wikimaster criteria

Background

 * The WikiMaster community certification initiative was established to acknowledge skills achievements and to earn community kudos in preparation for the Learning4Content training initiative.
 * A draft Policy for skills certification was posted to the | group list on 15 Feb 2008 inviting comment and feedback
 * WE took a decision to hold back on specifying the criteria for the levels of WikiTrainer and WikiMaster until the community had more experience for specifying the criteria for these levels.
 * The popularity of the certification system has resulted in the existing criteria up to the level of WikiArtisan been applied as a de facto practice in WikiEducator's activities with numerous volunteer certifiers implementing the draft procedures.
 * Jim Tittsler has trialled a bot application which harvests an generates a list of certified users from the corresponding category pages for each level of the typology. These categories are automatically inserted on the user page of individuals certified.

Current challenges


 * We do not have an identifiable list of community certifiers who volunteer to monitor the Request for certification page and award certification requests from the community -- we should consider adding this as a criterion for the WikiTrainer certification level.
 * We do not have a list of criteria for the WikiMaster level -- this workgroup should consider developing a set of proposed criteria in consultation with the WikiEducator community.
 * We need to operationalise the listing of certified users in the main namespace.
 * Request to consider renaming "master" certifications using a gender-neutral term. See discussion thread on google groups: Nomenclature for WikiMaster.

Participants

 * Nellie Deutsch
 * Gladys Gahona
 * Wayne Mackintosh
 * Rob Kruhlak
 * --Dr. Gita Mathur 08:17, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * --Patricia Schlicht 17:37, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Add your names here

WikiTrainer

 * Online Facilitation
 * Face-to-Face Facilitation

The Workgroup charter
The charter is open to development but may address the following:
 * Identification information: name of Workgroup, link to WikiEducator Workgroup page,
 * What is the purpose for creating this workgroup? Include a list of Workgroup objectives.
 * List of participants and participant skills; Are any additional skills needed?
 * How do you plan to communicate among Workgroup members?
 * What outcomes are expected (include proposed projected completion dates, if desired)?
 * Practicality and Fit:
 * Does this Workgroup require financial resources?
 * Are there any legal issues that might be of concern?
 * Are there any security risks or technological dependencies which might be difficult to support?
 * How will the Workgroup process and outcomes align with core?

Feedback
A live discussion is going on in the Google discussion Group regarding 'gender' indications in WikiMaster terminology. Some suggestions are:
 * WikiGuru
 * WikiWiz
 * WikiChampion

Let us work it out & take a decision. Please add your views here.--Dr. Gita Mathur 18:21, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Evaluation of Workgroup
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