Hey everyone,
this is just a reminder that tomorrow, Friday, 20 September 2013, is the
last day open to submit session proposals and apply for scholarships to the
Wikimedia Diversity Conference [1], taking place on 9 and 10 November 2013
in Berlin, Germany.
You may still register for participating in the conference until *20
October 2013*, but there will no longer be an option to apply for
scholarships and submit session proposals.
For further questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the
organising team [2].
Kind regards,
Cornelia
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
[2] diversity(a)wikimedia.de
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Cornelia Trefflich
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstraße 72
10963 Berlin
Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0
www.wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hello everyone, do we have a bugzilla tracking bug, wiki page or other
central technical wishlist for things which would help education
partnerships/activities? For instance, I have no idea how to tag this
bug for future discoverability by someone interested in the topic.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10384
Nemo
Hi all lovely people!
I'm happy to share with you a blog-post about the EU project WikiSkills and
how it has furthered teachers understanding of Wikipedia in Sweden. Anna
Bauer has been working on this project as an employee for Wikimedia Sweden
where she organised and held three courses for Sweden in different cities,
ranging from the very north to almost the furthest south.
Find the blog-post by Anna Bauer about WikiSkills here;
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/09/06/wikiskills-helps-teachers-use-wikipedia
-part-one/
Have a beautiful day!
*Be Bold!
Sophie Österberg
sosterberg(a)wikimedia.org*
*Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a
gift of free knowledge to humanity. *
Thought you all would be interested in this op-ed from Jami Mathewson,
who's been running the US and Canada program for the last two years. While
we often focus on the impact to Wikipedia our education programs have, Jami
provides a good reminder that the program also has a real impact on student
learning, too.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/09/10/student-learning-op-ed/
Enjoy!
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://education.wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Hello,
I have previously reported about some of our activities in the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
I have generated some statistics based on a questionnaire we had given to
the students, and wrote about this in OKFN Greece blog:
http://gr.okfn.org/en/blog/
Konstantinos Stampoulis
geraki(a)geraki.gr
http://www.geraki.gr
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Hi,
I wrote you a message a month ago about Wikikids/Vikidia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids. I recently had a discussion on
IRC about this proposal.
Someone pointed out firstly a 2006 UK act that regulate internet
moderators on children website, and require a vetting process for them.
That's the UK Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguarding_Vulnerable_Groups_Act_2006
It defines "regulated activities" among which: "moderating a public
electronic interactive communication service which is likely to be used
wholly or mainly by children;" then "a person moderates a public
electronic interactive communication service if, for the purpose of
protecting children, he has any function relating to—(a)monitoring the
content of matter which forms any part of the service,(b)removing matter
from, or preventing the addition of matter to, the service,
or(c)controlling access to, or use of, the service."
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/47/schedule/4/paragraph/2/2006-11-…
I'm afraid that's what the sysop do on Vikidia. This wiki is hosted in
France for a content in french, but I wonder if it would prevent to run
a similar wiki in english, be it hosted in the US or elsewhere.
What do you think about it ?
I was also told that they were a kind of unexpressed policy on the
English Wikipedia that would be "Don't tell us you're a minor". As it
would be likely extended to another Wikimedia project, it would make
very tricky to make Wikimedians accept a Wikikids project, that aims to
enable children and teenagers (though not only them) to write and to be
involved in building the encyclopedia.
I have to recognize that Simple English Wikipedia actually seems to me
to follow this pattern, with a kind of similar principle that would be
"don't say that it fits/it's for children"...
The rest of the reasoning was about the "cultural climate surrounding
kids in America", especially concerns about pedophiles.
I responded that they were also legal standing for children empowerment
which meet the project (especially referring to the 1989 Convention on
the Rights of the Child:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Relation_to_the_Rights_of_the_Child
)
I had quite an idea about these issues before, both knowing some
specificities in the UK and the US, and because theses concerned have
raised and evolved in similar period in France, certainly with some
differences. But now I wonder if these concerned are too weighty to be
oversteped. Then if a wikikids were unlikely to be launched in English,
has the adoption of the project and opening in other languages
(German...) any chance to be accepted and uphold by the Wikimedia
community ?
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06 27 13 65 51
mathias.damour(a)laposte.net
Hey all,
you may already have seen the announcement on the meta page [1] or on
Facebook [2]; nevertheless we would like to inform you that the official
registration [3] for the Wikimedia Diversity Conference is now open!
For details of the conference, please check out the meta page [1]. The
conference will be addressing an international audience and therefore be
held in English.
The registration form allows to propose your submissions for the conference
and to apply for a scholarship. If you would like to be part of this
conference, please do not forget to register until the 20 September, which
is the final deadline.
If you are not yet sure about attending, but are interested in the topic,
feel free to ask us [4] anything you’d like or engage on the talk page [5].
Best regards,
Conny
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
[2] https://www.facebook.com/events/279067432232107/?fref=ts
[3]
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.de/forms/d/1nOfqQkUbNYmECDsO8v0bfgMClXP…
[4] diversity(a)wikimedia.de
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
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Cornelia Trefflich
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstraße 72
10963 Berlin
Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0
www.wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.