Wikipedia Challenge: Online program presentation

We are inviting secondary-EDUCATION students from various types of schools from Greece and abroad to come into contact with the historical period of 1821 and the history of their country.

In collaboration with a wide range of experts, they will write new entries or enrich existing ones about the Greek Revolution of 1821 in the Greek-language edition of Wikipedia. Participants can be students of secondary-EDUCATION state schools (from gymnasiums and lyceums including vocational, church, evening, art, ecclesiastical, and special ones) as well as private ones. They will also include students from Greek schools abroad.

The 200-year anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 and Wikipedia’s twentieth birthday are a double inspiration for the Panhellenic School Competition for Encyclopedia Entry Writing. The Competition is organized by ONASSIS FOUNDATION and ONASSIS LIBRARY in collaboration with Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS), PostScriptum and the General State Archives, under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of EDUCATION and Religious Affairs.

Through this process, students and the teachers leading the teams will familiarize themselves with the notion of contemporary encyclopedia as this has developed throughout the centuries. They will also benefit from collaborative writing, development of new digital skills leaving their digital footprint and making use of important artifacts of our cultural heritage.

In this context, we would like to invite you to the online presentation of the Panhellenic Student Competition: “Wikipedia Challenge: Become a Contemporary Encyclopedist”.

More on how to participate here

18:30-18:40 | WELCOME

Representatives from Hellenic Ministry of EDUCATION and Religious Affairs / ONASSIS FOUNDATION / General State Archives

18:40-18:50 | OPEN ACCESS POLICY OF THE ONASSIS FOUNDATION

Dr. Prodromos Tsiavos, Head of Digital and Innovation, ONASSIS FOUNDATION

18:50-19.00 | THE VALUE OF OPEN CONTENT ACCESSIBLE TO ALL

Professor Chariton Polatoglou, Department of Physics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Coordinator of the work group Open Design, Open Hardware, and Open Wifi – Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS)

19:00-19:10 | DIGITAL FOOTPRINT & DOCUMENTATION, ESTABLISHING ACTIVE COMMUNITIES AROUND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS IN WIKIPEDIA

Kostas Konstantinidis, CEO of PostScriptum

19:10-19:20 | THE CULTURE AND VALUES OF WIKIPEDIA

Manos Kefalas, President and Founder of the Wikipedia Society Schools Association in Greece

19:20-19:30 | MAPPING WIKIPEDIA ON THE TOPIC OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION OF 1821

Aris Katopodis, Historian-Researcher

19:30-19:40 | THE CHALLENGE OF THE PANHELLENIC STUDENT COMPETITION: “BECOME A CONTEMPORARY ENCYCLOPEDIST!”

Vicky Gerontopoulou, ONASSIS LIBRARY Coordinator

19:40-20:00 | Discussion / Q & A