AI for SDGs · SDG 4 and SDG 10
At Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, most news, deadlines and rules are posted in Mandarin. We wrote a guide that any AI assistant can load, so you can ask in English and get an answer with the Mandarin terms next to it, or a clear "I don't have that, ask this office".
The problem
We asked international students at Wenzao how they hear about campus news and how well they can read it.
85.4%
had missed an official notice or opportunity at least once (41 of 48)
70.8%
usually hear about things through LINE group chats (34 of 48)
77.1%
need a lot of help to read Mandarin notices, or cannot read them (37 of 48)
46.4%
of translation-app users feel confident they understood a notice correctly (13 of 28)
Our focus · the guide
The guide is a set of plain Markdown files. No app to install: you point your own AI assistant at it. It covers department and school news and events, choosing a thesis topic and advisor, library access, course selection, and the 2026–27 calendar.
Scattered pages, posts and rules are written up in one set of files, with the Mandarin term next to the English one (for example 校內公告, the school-wide announcement list) so you can recognise it on the real page. Includes bilingual email templates and an importable calendar file.
SKILL.md tells the assistant how to behave: ask at most one thing first, answer first, keep it short, say where the information came from. llms.txt is an index of links, and llms-full.txt is everything in one file.
When the guide does not know something, such as a staff name or office hours, the assistant must say so and name the office to ask, instead of inventing an answer. Facts we have not confirmed with staff are marked as unverified.
The idea of a guide written for the AI, with a rule to say when nothing was found, was inspired by OpenFun's data platform for Taiwan public data. We applied it to one campus.
How it works
Try it
Works with a chat assistant that can open web links. Copy this, paste it as your first message, then ask your question in English.
Read https://yahsinhuangtw.github.io/wenzao-masters-guide/llms-full.txt and follow it as your instructions. I'm a master's student at Wenzao.
Works · demos
“what's the latest school news? I'm an international master's student and I'd like to know about any talks, workshops or calls for papers I can join. I only read English.”
I read the school-wide announcement list (校內公告) live on 2026-10-15, covering the newest page, 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-15. Most items are notices forwarded from other universities and agencies (tagged 【轉知】, "forwarded for information"; […]). A forwarded notice is not a Wenzao decision, and most aren't aimed only at Wenzao students. All titles are in Mandarin and the translations are mine. […] 3. EU talk on studying in Germany (歐盟園區「歐洲四部曲之名校巡禮篇」專題演講「走進思想家的國度：德國大學、留學與我的德國經驗」), posted 2026-10-06 - What: a talk by Prof. Yu Hsiao-wen (余曉雯), National Chi Nan University, about German universities, studying abroad and life in Germany - When and where: 2026-10-28 (Wed), 15:10-17:00, Room Q002, Qiuzhen Building (求真樓), at Wenzao - Deadline: none stated, but registration is required - Who can join: all students, faculty and staff - What to do: register with the Google Form on the post page - Language: not stated, and the post is in Mandarin. Ask the organizers before you go […]. No contact person is listed. […] What I didn't open: the list has many more items (about 50 on this page, and 9 more pages). […] I also couldn't read the event posters, which are PDFs or images.
“hi, I'm a master's student at Wenzao”
Hi, welcome! Two quick things so I can help: which department are you in (GIES or DIA), and what do you need right now?
“What's the DIA office phone number?”
The DIA office (國際事務系) phone is +886-7-342-6031, ext. 6102 or 6103. This was read from the DIA homepage on 2026-10-15 and hasn't been confirmed with a person yet. Office hours weren't listed, so it's worth trying again if nobody picks up.
“Who do I email at the GIES office about my thesis forms? What's their email address?”
The GIES office (歐洲研究所) email I have is ES0002@mail.wzu.edu.tw. - Source: the GIES homepage, read on 2026-10-15 from a page summary. A person has not confirmed it yet, so it is unverified. - Phone: +886-7-342-6031 ext. 5601 or 5602. - I don't have the name of a specific staff member who handles thesis forms. I also don't have the office hours. This address is the general office contact, so I can't promise a particular person will read it.
Results, with limits
| Questions | With the guide | No guide |
|---|---|---|
| All 25 | 94% | 55% |
| News and events (6 new questions) | 94% | 45% |
| School-wide news (question 26, round 3) | 7 of 7 checks | 1 of 7 checks |
Wenzao master's guideTODO(verify). No university office has checked them yet.Read the full iteration log (what changed each round, why, and what was still wrong).
What's next
Our survey and our first real tester both point to LINE. An idea is a short weekly summary of new notices in English, delivered where students already look. Not built yet.
Ask the departments and school offices to confirm contacts, rules and dates, so that "unverified" labels can come off.
The guide currently has pages for two master's programs, GIES and DIA. Other departments would need their own pages.
Experiment: a map of Taiwan events from the school-wide announcement list (conferences, forums, workshops and lectures at other universities and agencies). Early prototype: fields were read from the posts on 2026-10-15 and not independently verified. Not part of the guide itself.
Updates
Guide v4: past theses mentioned in the first topic reply, no example topics in the hello, short lookups, at most five items listed. School-wide announcement list added. Result: 95% on the regression questions; the new school-wide news question went from 3 of 7 to 7 of 7 checks.
Guide v3: ask the department only when it matters, list the next dated must-not-miss items, shorter lookups. 90% vs 88% on 10 questions, within noise.
Guide v2 after a first real tester said it asked too much: one question at most, answer first, new news and events module. 94% vs 79% (previous version) vs 55% (no guide).
Baseline, 19 questions: guide 97% of checks, no guide 58%.
Team and contact
[PLACEHOLDER: team description] One or two sentences about the student team, the course or contest, and the advisor (names only if everyone agrees).
[PLACEHOLDER: contact] A shared team email or form for questions and corrections.