We wanted to tell you about some changes to how Wiki Ed will be working
with ambassadors. As our organization has grown, the pace of our
understanding of best practices has accelerated. We’ve been developing new
tools and resources, too. It’s unfair to expect volunteers to keep up with
that pace. And no volunteer wants to deal with negative feedback from other
editors when a course has problems. So it’s no surprise that we’ve seen a
drop off in the level of engagement from our ambassadors. All these reasons
have factored in to a change we're making in the program.
Wiki Ed will be rolling out a new system for connecting volunteers and
courses this week. As part of this shift, the Wiki Education Foundation
will no longer affiliate individual volunteers as Wikipedia Ambassadors;
instead of a complicated application process with a time commitment
requirement, we want to make it more wiki-like and open to anyone in the
editing community. We want to give volunteers tools to contribute in ways
they find satisfying and meaningful.
>From now on, we'll put staff in the position of being the liaison between
the community and each class, and free up time from community volunteers
like you to focus on the aspects of helping with the class you like most,
rather than a one-size-fits-all approach as we have in the past.
In fact, we’ve developed ways to make volunteering easier: we’ve set up a
new categories system for student work. Our goal is to tag student work
with specific suggestions for how to improve them. If you enjoy copyediting
or wikifying articles, you'll find find pages to copyedit or wikify. If you
want to provide feedback on a draft, you can find student drafts awaiting
feedback. If you like finding freely licensed images for articles, you can
see student articles that would benefit from images. For an example of the
new system, check out our central portal for tagged articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program/Tasks
You have demonstrated your commitment by generously giving your time. We
are grateful for all of your hard work and recognize the critical role you
have played for our professors and students! If you do have a class you've
been helping out with as an Ambassador and wish to continue doing so,
please feel free to, but don't feel obligated to. You're also welcome to
continue using the Wikipedia Ambassador title, but as a community
designation rather than a formal affiliation with Wiki Ed.
So we can be sure to recognize volunteers who continue to go above and
beyond, we've created a self-report form for you to track your volunteer
time. The self-report form will help Wiki Ed write letters of
recommendation for your work, scholarships, fellowships, grants, or
academic applications if you ever need them. We will also be using data
reported in this form to prioritize passionate volunteers for Wiki Ed
scholarships to events like WikiConference USA. You can find the form here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oEhI3BYqISaQcCkG6NY5CsMONjJxfmUpFmX8NFpSHb…
We hope that this change of direction gives volunteers like you more power
over how you spend your time.
If you have any questions, please let me know offlist.
LiAnna Davis
on behalf of the entire Wiki Ed team
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Director of Programs
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Dear reader,
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Mexico law students' work profiled on blog
A post on the Wikimedia blog last week highlighted the work that instructor Jorge Luis Esquivel Zubiri from the Universidad de Ecatepec has been doing in Ecatepec de Morelos, a municipality of Greater Mexico City, Mexico. Esquivel Zubiri invited his law students to edit the Spanish Wikipedia and Wikisource about Mexican legal concepts and laws, supported by Wikimedia Mexico. Learn more about their activities by reading the post.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/20/wikimedia-mexico-education-program/
Journal article highlights Wikipedia in the classroom
Professor Piotr Konieczny has published an article in the journal "Contexts" highlighting his experiences using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in his classroom, both in the United States and in Korea, as well as his supporting work as an Ambassador for other classes. In the article, Konieczny explains the history of how Wikipedia has emerged as a teaching tool and talks about contributions his students have made. He argues that Wikipedia is a key way to democratize knowledge. Read the journal article.
http://ctx.sagepub.com/content/13/1/80.full
HASTAC blog features why you should teach with Wikipedia
Professor Adrianne Wadewitz, a longtime Wikipedia contributor, professor, and Ambassador in the United States program, has published a short post on the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) blog, titled "Teaching with Wikipedia: the Why, What, and How." In the post, Wadewitz explains that students can affect Wikipedia's coverage of missing academic topics and can serve a variety of learning objectives. Read her post.
http://www.hastac.org/node/109234
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Results from med school pilot in Israel released
The first academic course in Israel dedicated to Wikipedia editing to offer full academic credit has wrapped up at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University — and the results are astounding. Sixty-two students improved nearly 130 medical-related articles on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Course leader Shani Evenstein wrote a detailed description of her course's successes for the Wikimedia blog, including her learning points and results. Read the blog post.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/13/wiki-med-israel-wikipedia-education-co…
Louisiana State U faculty Becky Carmichael profiled
If you teach in the science department at Louisiana State University and want to incorporate a Wikipedia assignment into your classroom, Becky Carmichael is the person to meet. She began volunteering as a Wikipedia Ambassador in the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States in 2011, during her graduate studies and work as a teaching assistant for a Conservation Biology course. Now, she's helped 13 classes at Louisiana State University use Wikipedia as a teaching tool. Read a profile of Becky on the Wikimedia blog.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/10/louisiana-state-university-faculty-mem…
Frank Schulenburg selected as Wiki Ed executive director
Frank Schulenburg was the driving force behind the pilot edition of the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States, and his dedication to the program led the Wiki Education Foundation's board to select Frank as the first executive director of the organization. Frank left the Wikimedia Foundation last week, and today is his first day as executive director of the Wiki Education Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation and Wiki Education Foundation put out a joint release announcing the move and thanking Frank for his great work on the program over the years. Read the release.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Frank_Schulenburg_named…
Welcome, Floor Koudijs!
A warm welcome to Floor Koudijs (pronounced cow-dice)! Floor has joined the Wikipedia Education Program team at the Wikimedia Foundation to assist on program management duties. She's a native of the Netherlands who has worked for the Dutch National Government as a program manager with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Justice. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter, and is looking forward to learning about the Wikimedia world and helping support Wikipedia Education Program activities around the globe. Send her a welcome message at fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org.
Celebrating 100 editions of this newsletter!
A note from the author of this newsletter, LiAnna Davis: The newsletter you're reading right now is the 100th edition of the Wikipedia Education Program Update! I've been publishing this newsletter (first weekly, then twice a month) since September 2010, and I'm thrilled that you're still reading it! Thanks for all the feedback over the years. As always, I welcome suggestions for the newsletter at ldavis(a)wikimedia.org.
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Interactive elements added to editing tutorials
This term, we've started enhancing the Wikipedia training for students with interactive editing tutorials. Using the "guided tours" framework that was introduced to help newcomers find productive ways to get started, student editors can practice formatting text, creating links, and adding citations, with step-by-step instructions from [edit] to [Save page]. So far, feedback from the student editors has been very positive; many note the interactive tutorials as their favorite part of the training. Log into your Wikipedia account, then click the link below to try the first interactive tutorial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students/My_sandbox
US, Canada students fill 1/3 Encyclopedia Britannica
Quantitative success numbers are in for the fall 2013 term of the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada. In the fall term, 1,347 students added 11.6 million bytes to Wikipedia, including creating 251 new articles. In the seven terms of the program, students have added enough words to the English Wikipedia to fill 1/3 of Encyclopedia Britannica. And qualitative research projects have found students in the United States and Canada program have added high-quality content to Wikipedia. Learn more about last term's student work.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/04/wikipedia-education-program-us-canada-…
Online screencast of workshop helps Arab students
The academic term in the Arab world has come to an end, and students at Ain Shams University in Cairo are finishing up their Wikipedia assignments. Over the course of the semester, Campus Ambassadors help each group get familiar with Wikipedia and editing on-wiki. One ambassador for students the Korean Faculty made a screencast walking new students through the basics — from creating a username to editing in a sandbox and in the article namespace. Especially given the disruptions in classes due to the political situation in Egypt, video screencasts are an important learning tool for students who may not be able to attend in-person workshops. Watch the Arabic screencast here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSKMEEpkJo
New features for course pages released
Several much-requested features have been added to Wikipedia's course page system: instructors and course volunteers can now add batches of students to a course all at once, assign articles to students, and send a message to everyone in the class at once by posting to the course Talk page. You'll also be able to identify students and see which courses they are in whenever you look up their contribution history. To keep up with the latest improvements to course pages, you can sign up for periodic technical updates, delivered straight to your Talk page.
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U.S. professor blogs about course experiences
University of Memphis professor Robert Connolly assigned his students to contribute to Wikipedia as part of their coursework for a class titled "Wikipedia as a Research Tool" last term. In a series of posts on his personal blog, Dr. Connolly writes about his students' experiences and highlights specific things he will change next time he runs this class assignment. Learn more about his experiences.
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Online Ambassador profiled on Wikimedia blog
Many professors and students in the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada have interacted with Evangeline Han. An Online Ambassador since the first term of the pilot, Evangeline (User:Bejinhan) has helped hundreds of students make their first edits to Wikipedia. Even more impressive, Evangeline has done it all as a teenager. She started editing Wikipedia in 2009 at age 15, and she's become a prolific editor since then. Learn more about Evangeline by reading a profile of her on the Wikimedia blog.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/02/evangeline-han-set-a-high-standard-for…
Term wrapping up in Arab World
Students in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia are finishing up the term and finalizing their Wikipedia assignments. At Ain Shams University, articles are being translated from English, French, Turkish, Korean, and Italian, while students in Jordan are writing diverse articles from local topics to technology. You can check out their progress on the course pages (in Arabic).
http://ur1.ca/gd31u
Next EduWiki conference slated for Serbia
Wikimedia Serbia is the latest chapter to host an EduWiki conference aimed at connecting local education leaders with Wikipedia editors to grow Wikipedia's use in education. EduWiki Belgrade will take place on March 23-24. The two-day conference will be split into a learning day and a conference day. Learn more about EduWiki by visiting their website.
http://edu.wikimedia.rs/index.php?title=EduWiki_Conference_2014
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U.S. professor blogs about course experiences
University of Memphis professor Robert Connolly assigned his students to contribute to Wikipedia as part of their coursework for a class titled "Wikipedia as a Research Tool" last term. In a series of posts on his personal blog, Dr. Connolly writes about his students' experiences and highlights specific things he will change next time he runs this class assignment. Learn more about his experiences.
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Online Ambassador profiled on Wikimedia blog
Many professors and students in the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada have interacted with Evangeline Han. An Online Ambassador since the first term of the pilot, Evangeline (User:Bejinhan) has helped hundreds of students make their first edits to Wikipedia. Even more impressive, Evangeline has done it all as a teenager. She started editing Wikipedia in 2009 at age 15, and she's become a prolific editor since then. Learn more about Evangeline by reading a profile of her on the Wikimedia blog.
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Term wrapping up in Arab World
Students in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia are finishing up the term and finalizing their Wikipedia assignments. At Ain Shams University, articles are being translated from English, French, Turkish, Korean, and Italian, while students in Jordan are writing diverse articles from local topics to technology. You can check out their progress on the course pages (in Arabic).
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Next EduWiki conference slated for Serbia
Wikimedia Serbia is the latest chapter to host an EduWiki conference aimed at connecting local education leaders with Wikipedia editors to grow Wikipedia's use in education. EduWiki Belgrade will take place on March 23-24. The two-day conference will be split into a learning day and a conference day. Learn more about EduWiki by visiting their website.
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Egyptian students help close gender gap
The Wikipedia Education Program Egypt is successful not only in adding a large quantity of high-quality content to the Arabic Wikipedia, but it's also successful at challenging the gender gap. Three female students, May Hachem, Eman Sawabi, and Amira El-Gamal, were profiled in a post on the Wikimedia blog written by Samir El-Sharbaty, the volunteer leader of the Wikipedia Education Program Egypt. Samir's post explains how May, Eman, and Amira are adding articles about women to help close the systemic bias that comes from a significantly male contributor base. Read the article.
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Students in Mexico contribute to Wikipedia, Commons
Leigh Thelmadatter, a Wikimedian, Regional Ambassador, and Professor at ITESM Campus Ciudad de México, contributed a post to the Wikimedia blog about the activities on her school's campus last term. International Baccalaureate students contributed content to Wikipedia as part of their coursework, and undergraduate students also wrote articles on Wikipedia, translated articles to the Spanish Wikipedia, and added photos and sound files to Wikimedia Commons. See more about the busy term by reading Leigh's post.
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Ole Miss offers open education class
A new graduate-level course at the University of Mississippi will be the first to add open components to a traditional course. Taught by Robert Cummings, the course features a two-week module covering open educational resources, or OER, and a six-week module in which students will learn to collaborate on Wikipedia articles. The course is open to Ole Miss students for course credit as well as to anyone who wants to participate in the course online. Learn more about the course.
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Wiki Ed Foundation seeks executive director
The Wiki Education Foundation is a new non-profit organization which supports innovative uses of and content creation for Wikipedia and related projects in communities of teaching, learning and inquiry by encouraging collaboration among Wikipedia editors, educators and researchers and students. The Wiki Education Foundation's principal initiative is the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada, which connects Wikipedia editors with professors interested in using Wikipedia in their classrooms. The Wiki Education Foundation is now accepting applications for the post of Executive Director. See details of the job and how to apply.
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Education program kicks off on English Wikinews
Wikipedia isn’t the only Wikimedia project students contribute to as part of their coursework. Over the last few terms, more and more journalism classes have started doing classroom projects on English Wikinews. In a post on the Wikimedia blog, The Wikinewsie Group’s Laura Hale offered an explanation of what students can accomplish on Wikinews and why the students benefit from this learning opportunity. Read Laura’s post.
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Planning the future of course pages
Have you used the Education Program MediaWiki Extension? If so, you may notice there’s room for improvement with course pages. With our new developer Andrew Russell Green, we've started planning out the future of our course pages and other software features for Wikipedia assignments. Let us know what improvements to the software you would most like to see. Check out the planning page.
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Arabic Web Days video features education program
Arab World Education Program Manager Tighe Flanagan was invited to participate in a Google Hangout conversation as part of an Arabic Web Days program. Arabic Web Days is an initiative of tech companies across the Arab World to improve the availability of information in Arabic on the internet; while more than 5 percent of the world’s population speaks Arabic, only 3 percent of the digital content available today is in Arabic. The Wikipedia Education Program Arab World is trying to change that by adding more content in Arabic to Wikipedia. Watch the video of the Hangout (in Arabic).
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Saudi Arabia program kicks off
The Wikipedia Education Program officially kicked off in Saudi Arabia last week, when program manager Tighe Flanagan and Jordan program leader Dr. Nidal Yousef visited Riyadh for the introductory workshop. The program is starting at King Saud University's Wikipedia Training Center for Translation, which has had Wikipedia assignments in place since 2011. More than 100 students and faculty members from King Saud University and Princess Nora University received training on Wikipedia basics. The program is also looking to expand in Qatar and Oman in 2014. Learn more about current expansion within the Arab World by reading Tighe's blog post about the trip.
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EduWiki Conference discusses Wikipedia in education
Program leaders, educators, students, staff, and Wikimedians gathered for two days in Cardiff, Wales, in early November for the second annual EduWiki conference. The conference, focusing on U.K. efforts to integrate Wikipedia into education at all levels, featured a keynote by Wikipedia Education Program Director Rod Dunican about the program, as well as several other presentations about the state of education and Wikipedia. Read a wrap-up of the even on the Wikimedia UK blog.
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Saudi visit featured in local media
Arab World Education Program Manager Tighe Flanagan's visit to Riyadh was covered in local media within Saudi Arabia. The Al-Jazirah article focused on the kick-off of the Wikipedia Education Program at King Saud University's Wikipedia translation efforts, part of the coursework. Read the article (in Arabic).
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Education Program featured at Diversity Conference
While the Wikipedia Education Program didn't have a specific conference speaking slot, the program was referenced many times throughout the Wikimedia Diversity Conference in Berlin, Germany, last week. The conference focused on how to create more diversity both with the content of Wikipedia articles and the make-up of the contributor base. With an Arab World ratio of 87% female students and a U.S./Canada ratio of 65% female students, the program has been one of the most successful programs at getting women to contribute to Wikimedia projects. And targeted outreach to disciplines under-covered on specific language Wikipedia has been a good way to improve the diversity of content as well. See more in the documentation page of the conference.
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