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Welcome to my page!
Hello, Wikiverse! My name is Shani Evenstein, I live in Israel and I'm an educator, researcher and free-knowledge advocate. As of August 2019, I'm a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. As of June 2021, I serve as the Acting Vice Chair.
I work as an EdTech Innovation Strategist at the the NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University [TAU], where I focus on Curriculum Development, E-learning Strategies and Medical Education. I'm also lecturer at TAU, and lead 2 Wiki-related academic courses on campus that I've created, designed and lead since 2013.
I am currently a PhD candidate at the School of Education at TAU, focusing on how Semantic Web technologies, more specifically Wikidata, are changing teaching and learning processes. As of October 2019, I'm an Azrieli Foundation Fellow for my PhD research in Education.
I have a B.A. in English Lit and French Culture, Faculty of Humanities, TAU, and an M.A. in Education, focusing on Technology & Learning.
Am also deeply involved with Project Ben-Yehuda, which is the Hebrew equivalent of Project Gutenberg.
On my free time (which as you can imagine is almost non-existent), I enjoy learning to play the harp, which is the 6th musical instrument I've learned to play.
But most important of all -- I am the (proud) mother of Lyra, who I happily raise with my husband, Vadim.
My main focus contributing to our movement has always been Wiki outreach, on both the local and global levels.
After attending Wikimania Haifa, I joined the Hebrew Wikipedia community and became a member of Wikimedia Israel. Since joining, I've served as WM-IL's National GLAM Projects Coordinator, leading collaborations with the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the National Library of Israel and the Israeli Cartoon and Caricature Museum (to name a few). I've also been been a WM-IL board member for about 2 years. On Jan 2014 I resigned both roles to focus on my M.A. My thesis focused on a new course model I've developed for implementing Wikipedia into the curriculum. I keep being involved with the chapter and supports GLAM-Wiki, EDU-Wiki, WikiWomen & Wikidata initiatives, as well as serve as a He-Wiki Admin.
Internationally, I've been involved in Wikipedia & Education, Wikipedia & Medicine, GLAM-Wiki (including initiating a collaboration with TED), Wikipedia & Libraries, WikiWomen & Wikidata. I am also a victim of the "100 Wikidays", (though I failed miserably).
I lecture about Wikipedia and its sister projects frequently, lead various workshops teaching Wiki-literacy and wiki-editing for newcomers, and support fellow faculty in adding Wikipedia-related assignments into their curriculum. In recent years, I've become especially interested in Wikidata. I am conducing my PhD about the new learning opportunities it enables and have opened the first academic course in the world that features Wikidata, called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata".
Please feel free to reach out to me with anything relating to my role at the BoT via this email: shaniwikimedia.org, or through my official BoT username: user:Shani (WMF).
For other issues relating to my volunteer work at the Wikimedia movement, such as outreach, please feel free to leave a message via this username.
Music - almost all genres and forms
Art in almost all its forms, specifically Literature, Painting, Architecture, Interior Design, Cinema, Modern Dance and High Fashion.
Yoga on its various branches - specifically Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, Jyotish, Vastu Shastra and Tantra.
Holistic medicine, Herbalism, Iridology, Feng Shui.
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