This autumn we hope to see this course:
http://kurser.ku.dk/course/hmea03174u/2013-2014
It requires ten students, which shouldn't be a problem :-)
If you don't read Scandinavian: Workshops will be held and the students
will have to pitch article proposals.
Regards,
Ole
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Dear all,
In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we have the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.
Is there a trick to force the activation of Visual Editor for a specific user?
Thanks
Charles
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Hi all! I know plagiarism is something a lot of us face around the world,
so I thought you all might be interested in a blog post Sage Ross put
together about a plagiarism study we did on the English Wikipedia,
comparing student contributions to other editor cohorts:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/
I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well --
and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down
on student plagiarism?
LiAnna
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Hello all
I just wanted to share a link that I just found. It seems that Facebook is running a campaign to encourage Computer Science students to earn academic credits by contributing to opensource projects:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/13/facebook-partners-with-22-universities-to…!
I don't think Facebook should be allowed to do this. Imagine Facebook tried to pry its way into Wikimedia: I would expect all of us to revolt. A for-profit organization taking advantage of non-profit ideals??? MAKING PROFIT on non-profit? Would they even consider converting THEIR project into an open-source one? Of course not. Don't Mozilla and other Open Source Projects have ways of campaigning to attract CompSci students in their own organisations? Why does Facebook have to be the middleman? I find it revolting... if this is their idea of corporate social responsibility, I'll have to find away to stop using Facebook altogether in reply.
I don’t remember if I answered you James, but you’re totally right the problem was the browser, now we invite people to use only chrome or Firefix and we had no problem.
cheers
Charles
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Le 15 oct. 2013 à 20:32, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit :
> On 15 October 2013 00:58, Charles Andres <charles.andres.wmch(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we have
>> the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor
>> activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.
>>
>
> Charles,
>
> Is this because of the browser they are using, the wiki they are trying to
> edit on, or specific to their account? Which wiki are you talking about
> this happening on?
>
> There was a configuration that we used in June for just over a week to A/B
> test VisualEditor, but that code is no longer around, so this should not be
> happening.
>
> However, users of Internet Explorer and some marginal or old browsers
> cannot use VisualEditor yet as we have not been able to get it to work
> there, which may explain the issue?
>
> Yours,
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> James D. Forrester
> Product Manager, VisualEditor
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
> jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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I wanted to thank wikimedia UK for organizing EduWiki 2013. I think they
did a fantastic job with the conference, managed to get the right people
there, opened doors to make things happen and left me motivated to continue
to do educational outreach for Wikinews. Combine that with good wifi and
decent food, I cannot wait for next year's conference. My only request
would be less rain.
Great job. :)
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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