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Professor reflects, Update from Sweden - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives. U.S. professor shares student experiences Anne Nelson, a professor from Columbia University participating in the Wikipedia Education Program United States, contributed a post to the Wikimedia Foundation blog last week on her experiences with the program. Many of her students are English as a second language learners, and she asked those students to contribute to Wikipedia in both their native languages and English, leading to a unique multilingual learning experience for both Anne and her students. Read more of her reflections on the project. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Spanish Wikipedia's art coverage grows thanks to professor Lila Pagola, a professor at the National University of Villa María in Argentina, started teaching with Wikipedia back in 2007. The lack of good information on the Spanish Wikipedia on topics related to art, her specialty, spurred her to work with her students to add articles on Latin American photography to Wikipedia, and she's been hard at work using Wikipedia in her classroom ever since. Read about her project in Argentina. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Meet Ambassador Mike Cline! Unless you're in Montana today, you won't be able to meet him in person, but do check out the Wikimedia Foundation blog for a profile of Ambassador extraordinaire Mike Cline. Mike, a longtime Wikipedia editor, is featured in a series of video profiles about contributors to Wikipedia called "The Impact of Wikipedia" used as part of this year's fundraiser. His post talks about his outdoor activities, including fishing and the geography of Yellowstone National Park. Read the blog post about Mike. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Swedish program shares learnings Sophie Österberg, the education program leader in Sweden, contributed a long post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog talking about her experiences so far as she has been having workshops with professors and launching the Wikipedia Education Program in Sweden, Wikipedia i utbildning. Sophie's post explains some of the mistakes she has made, and what she has learned from them. Her post encourages people worldwide to share learnings so we can ensure we are not repeating mistakes in different geographic regions. Read her post. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Farewell, Annie! Annie Lin, who's been with the Wikipedia Education Program since its beginning in 2010, will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation on February 22 to pursue other opportunities. The entire Wikipedia Education Program team will miss her tremendously. Annie is sad to leave, and she says she is very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with so many brilliant, inspiring educators and volunteers. If you're curious what she's moving on to, or just want to wish her farewell, leave her a message on her talk page. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe&rese… To unsubscribe from all Wikimedia Foundation newsletters, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/optout&reset=1&j… This email is sent from: Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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Annie leaving Wikimedia Foundation in late February
by Annie L. Lin 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi everyone, After nearly 3 years at the Wikimedia Foundation, I am moving on to new opportunities [1]. My last day at WMF will be Friday, 22 February. This has been a very difficult decision. The work that all of us engage in on a daily basis in the Wikipedia Education Program has been so incredibly inspiring, and I know I will miss you all. You are such an amazing and brilliant group of people, and I feel enormously fortunate to have had the opportunity to work closely with so many of you. I plan on staying in touch with many of you, and I hope you'll do the same. My personal email address is a12lin(a)gmail.com; I can also be reached via Facebook (feel free to contact me anytime, about anything). And, you'll likely still see me lurking around Wikipedia Education Program -related activities as a volunteer, and I'll still be more than happy to help out in the ways that I can with the development of Wikipedia education programs worldwide, so don't hesitate to reach out to me anytime! For more formal WMF-related things that you used to send to me, please send them to my colleague LiAnna Davis after 22 February — ldavis(a)wikimedia.org. Take care, everyone. Thank you all, so very much. Annie [1] If you want to know what I'm moving on *to*, just email me at the personal email address above and I can tell you!

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Cairo class creates portal, Czech students add content - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives. Cairo class creates Spanish literature portal Dr. Abeer Abd El-Hafez teaches Spanish at Cairo University, and her class has participated in both terms of the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt so far. Last term, her students excelled at adding content related to Spanish literature to the Arabic Wikipedia. This term, her students have added three Featured Articles and one Good Article, but they didn't stop there. Students also created a portal on the Arabic Wikipedia about Spanish literature, and they've nominated that for Featured status as well. Check out the portal. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Brazil program organizes Campus Party activities Wikimedia Brasil together with the Wikimedia Foundation organized activities supporting the use of Wikipedia in education in Brazil through Campus Party. Mateus Nobre, a Wikimedia Brasil volunteer, talked about Wikipedia and Free Culture, giving a general panorama on the history of encyclopedias, from the medieval to the information age, where we have Wikipedia as part of the free culture movement. The coordinator of the Wikipedia Education Program in Brazil, Everton Zanella Alvarenga, also talked about Wikipedia and the Future of Education. Learn more about the Campus Party activities. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… U.S., Canada Thematic Organization proposed A group of Wikipedia Ambassadors and program instructors known as the Working Group have developed a plan for supporting the Wikipedia Education Program in the U.S. and Canada starting in Summer 2013. The group is in the process of applying for Thematic Organization approval through the Affiliations Committee. All current instructors and Ambassadors are encouraged to stay up-to-date on the next few months' progress. If you plan to continue using Wikipedia in the classroom in the U.S. and Canada and would like to become a member of the new organization, please sign up on the interest list linked from the proposal! To read more about the current plans, see the current proposal and feel encouraged to provide and feedback or ask questions on the talk page. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Czech Republic students improve content Petr Brož from Wikimedia Czech Republic wrote a post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog about the status of Studenti píší Wikipedii, the Czech branch of the Wikipedia Education Program. Petr worked as an Ambassador with Jiří Reif's class at Charles University in Prague again last term to create articles and take photographs of Protected Areas in the Czech Republic. A total of 36 students participated this term from this class, and Petr's blog post contains before and after views of each of the articles the students worked on. The course is one of 10 that participated in the Czech program last term. Learn more by reading the blog post. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Welcome (back), Rod Dunican! Rod Dunican re-joined with Wikimedia Foundation family last month as the director of the Wikipedia Education Program. Frank Schulenburg, the former director, has been promoted to Senior Director of Programs. Rod was previously the project manager for the Public Policy Initiative, the pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States, so he is extremely familiar with the program and the Wikimedia projects. In his new role, Rod is responsible for building systems that enable quality at scale in different educational environments. Leave a welcome note for Rod on his talk page. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe&rese… To unsubscribe from all Wikimedia Foundation newsletters, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/optout&reset=1&j… This email is sent from: Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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"Ask a WikiWoman" is happening now!
by Jami Mathewson 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hi, Ambassadors! One of our fellow Ambassadors (and a past instructor), Adrianne, is hosting "Ask a WikiWoman" on Twitter right now (see details below). Many of you know Adrianne, as she has been extremely involved in the Education Program and helping create resources for professors, Ambassadors, and students. Some of you may know that the Education Program is one of the leading groups to bring women onto Wikipedia, since there are so many women at universities. So if you're on Twitter today (and, you know you are :) ), let's support Adrianne and pick her brain about what it's like to be a female Wikipedian! Thanks, all. Let's #askawikiwoman! Jami ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sarah Stierch <sstierch(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:10 AM Subject: [Wmfall] Ask a WikiWoman is happening now! To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, Just a reminder that #askawikiwoman is taking place on Twitter right now. I know many of us are wiki-know-it-all's, but, this is an experimental event that we're trying out as part of my fellowship :) It'd be great to have you ask Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz (User:Wadewitz) anything and everything about Wikipedia! Simply use the hashtag #askawikiwoman on Twitter and Adrianne will answer your question via the @WikiWomen Twitter. https://twitter.com/WikiWomen Adrianne will be online from 10-5 answering questions. Please forward to any groups or individuals you think might want to participate. Thanks everyone. Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* *Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow* >>Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today<https://donate.wikimedia.org/> << _______________________________________________ Wmfall mailing list Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- Jami Mathewson U.S./Canada Education Program Associate Wikimedia Foundation jmathewson(a)wikimedia.org http://education.wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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Final call for spring participants, Brazil professor profiled - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives. Blog profiles design professor in Brazil The Wikimedia Foundation blog recently published a profile of Iara Camargo, a professor of design in Brazil who participated in the Wikipedia Education Program last term. She joined students in her Editorial Design course in improving articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia about subjects such as designers, design concepts, and publishing houses. Iara wrote an article on book design as part of her work with her students. Learn more about her experiences by reading the post. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Program update from Wikimedia Argentina Wikimedia Argentina has been hard at work on encouraging the use of Wikipedia in education for several years. In 2010, they published a brochure in Spanish titled "Wikipedia en el aula", or Wikipedia in the classroom. Last month, they released a translated version of the brochure in Guarani, an indigenous language spoken by people in northeastern Argentina, southern Brazil, western Bolivia, and Paraguay. The Spanish version is so popular that the Argentine government highlighted it in a space on their education website. See more about the program. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… U.S. student achieves Good Article on Mu wave Ingrid Haugen, a recent graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago, was excited to learn that in her final term of work, she would be taking a class participating in the Association for Psychological Sciences Wikipedia Initiative. Ingrid's professor, Lisa Lu, asked Ingrid and her classmates to work together to improve articles related to brain and behavior on the English Wikipedia. Ingrid chose to work on the article Mu wave, and though her and her classmates' efforts, the article achieved Good Article status in December. Learn more about Ingrid's work. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Final call for spring U.S. and Canada participants The new term is upon us, and many professors and Ambassadors have already begun using the new MediaWiki education extension. If you are a professor who plans to use Wikipedia in the classroom this term, please make sure you have been in touch with a Wikipedia Education Program representative for the next steps. To finalize your assignment, create a Course Page, and pair with an Ambassador for your students, please fill out this Google Doc interest form by Thursday, January 17. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… If you are an Ambassador, even if you will not be active this term, you must receive the appropriate user rights and create a profile as either an Online Ambassador or a Campus Ambassador with the new extension. Then you will be able to sign on to any courses you will be supporting and monitor student contributions. To request user rights, please see this page. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe&rese… To unsubscribe from all Wikimedia Foundation newsletters, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/optout&reset=1&j… This email is sent from: Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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Spring 2013 Courses: Information about signing up!
by Jami Mathewson 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hi, Ambassadors! This is just a reminder that if you have any professors you're planning to work with in incorporating a Wikipedia assignment into the class this semester, please have them either fill out this interest form[1] OR, if they've worked with you to complete the assignment design, they can begin the Course Page process[2], which you should note is new for this semester! Also, you should ping the relevant Regional Ambassador if you have not yet been given the user rights on-wiki that you'll need to access those course pages! Thanks for everything, and don't hesitate to ask any questions or send any professors who'd like more information my way or to your Regional Ambassador! Jami [1] https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNHeG… [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_educators/Setting_up_yo… -- Jami Mathewson U.S./Canada Education Program Associate Wikimedia Foundation jmathewson(a)wikimedia.org http://education.wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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Trophy Case debuts, New resources page - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

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Professor featured, Swedish program kicks off - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives. U.S. student profiled on Wikimedia blog Washington University senior Kevin Li's work on Wikipedia was featured on the Wikimedia Foundation's blog earlier this month. Kevin, a student in Joan Strassmann's Behavioral Ecology course, contributed an article on worker policing to the English Wikipedia. Kevin started the article, and it has now achieved Good Article status. Read more about Kevin's experiences. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Education Program kicks off in Sweden Sophie Österberg, the education manager for Wikimedia Sverige, has written a detailed update on the kick-off of the Wikipedia Education Program in Sweden. She and the rest of the team in Sweden have been meeting with instructors and institutions to determine the best ways of working Wikipedia into the curriculum in Sweden. Wikimedia Sverige has also produced T-shirts and brochures for the program, and they're excited about the results so far: many instructors have expressed interest in being part of the program, and they've started to build relationships. Learn more about the Swedish education program's activities. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Brazilian professor's work featured on blog Professor Yuri Leite of the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo in Vitória, Brazil, has been using Wikipedia in his courses since 2009, when he taught a class on the Charles Darwin book "The Origin of Species" and had his students update the article on the book on the Portuguese Wikipedia as he went along. Now, his students have contributed to improving the information on evolution available on the Portuguese Wikipedia for several terms, and Yuri looks forward to continuing to grow the available articles. Read more about his motivations for doing the project. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Fundraiser highlights program participant Adrianne Wadewitz is a pioneer in teaching with Wikipedia. She asked her students to contribute articles as part of coursework before there was a formal program, and she has participated in the program as both a professor and a Campus Ambassador. This year, Adrianne's work is being recognized as well by the Wikimedia Foundation fundraisers, who featured her in a blog post and video interview about the impact of Wikipedia. Adrianne talks about her experiences teaching with Wikipedia in the interview. Watch the video. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Cairo student creates "class struggle" article A student in Dr. Hoda Abaza's French translation class at Ain Shams University in Cairo created the article on the Arabic Wikipedia on "class struggle" as part of her coursework. User:Sherine_ashraf translated the extensive article from the French Wikipedia, including 42 citations. Read the article. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe&rese… To unsubscribe from all Wikimedia Foundation newsletters, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/optout&reset=1&j… This email is sent from: Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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Action request: please showcase good student work in our new trophy case
by Jami Mathewson 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Hi, Ambassadors! Sorry to ping you so late on a Friday. A few community members have made a request for examples of good student work, and some Ambassadors have mentioned a desire to create a trophy case so we can notify editors in our program that we've seen their great work. I've added a few examples to this page[1], but I'd like to see some contributions that you, as Wikipedia contributors, have found to be good quality! You take a much closer look at a lot more student work, and you'll know what students have improved the articles they've worked on. Thank you ahead of time for everyone working together to add to this page! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Trophy_case Jami -- Jami Mathewson U.S./Canada Education Program Associate Wikimedia Foundation jmathewson(a)wikimedia.org http://education.wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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Open call for spring, Ambassador featured - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives. Call for Spring 2013 courses opens in US, Canada The United States and Canada branches of the Wikipedia Education Program are now accepting applications for instructors interested in formally participating in the program in Winter and Spring 2013. Instructors who participate in the program have access to Wikipedia Ambassador resources and support from the Wikimedia Foundation. A new integrated course page system will also be available for instructors in 2013. Program participation is limited due to support resources available, so interested instructors are encouraged to apply today by filling out a simple form expressing your interest. See the form. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Ambassadors in Cairo hold many student workshops Campus Ambassadors in the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt spent the month of November holding workshops for participating students to train them how to edit Wikipedia. Several Ambassadors at both Cairo University and Ain Shams University held workshops for students, and students responded in large numbers. The latest news about students' work and Ambassador workshops is always available by checking out the running Updates page on the Arabic Wikipedia. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Brazil student creates important chemistry article Students in Professor Regina de Almeida Santos's class at the University of Sao Paulo have been active in the main space of the Portuguese Wikipedia over the last few weeks. The students are taking a class on experimental general chemistry, and they have been writing articles on course-related topics. One student created a new article on the valence shell electron pair repulsion theory, which had articles in 20 language versions but not Portuguese until the student started the article. Read the student's article. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… Canadian Ambassador featured in Maclean's article Online Ambassador David Purdy was recently featured in an article in Canadian publication Maclean's. David has more than 130,000 edits on Wikipedia, and he is active in supporting courses in the Canada Education Program. Read the feature on David. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe&rese… To unsubscribe from all Wikimedia Foundation newsletters, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/optout&reset=1&j… This email is sent from: Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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