Pitfalls, Protocols and Prior Planning: a Panel on Making the Most of

the Wikipedia Education Program

Anna KovalWikimania 2015

Mexico City, Mexico

Argentina: Melina MasnattaArmenia: Susanna MkrtchyanBulgaria: Vassia Atanassova

China: Addis WangEgypt: Walaa Abdel ManaemEstonia: Sven-Erik Soosaar

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Israel: Michal LesterMacedonia: Cvetko Nedelkovski

Mexico: Paola RicaurteSerbia: Filip MaljkovićSweden: Sara Mörtsell

Tunisia: Habib M'henniUkraine: Vira MotorkoUruguay: Roxana Sordo

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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

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

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