Education October 2014

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola"
by Pine W 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Forwarding an article from Wikimedia-l about readership and authorship of English Wikipedia's information about Ebola, and the quality and authorship of English Wikipedia's medical content in general. Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:27 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola" To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> http://nyti.ms/1rHy4fK Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola Noam Cohen October 26, 2014 The New York Times Neat! (And a bit terrifying.) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Introducing Learning Quarterly, the newsletter from Learning and Evaluation team
by Maria Cruz 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi all, A few months ago, the Learning and Evaluation team started a new communication outlet to reach out to the Wikimedia community: Learning Quarterly, a newsletter that has recently launched its second issue. Find it on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Newsletter/2014/1/2 Through this means we seek to share the learning about programs and practices taking place in the movement, including information around new learning resources, blog posts written by the team, learning patterns, and recent initiatives in IdeaLab that need community support. Learning is a key aspect of community and program development[1], and we strive to socialize this knowledge to the community at large. Help us by spreading the word! [2] If you want to find out what were the hot topics from the past quarter, read further on metrics, or learn what other community members are doing in different parts of the world, subscribe to the Global Message delivery list [3] and have it sent to your wiki of preference. You can also read the latest issue on the Evaluation portal on Meta [4] or subscribe to our bi-weekly announcements *[5]*. If you are coordinating a Wikimedia program or project, and would like to be featured in the newsletter, please leave a comment on the Second issue Discussion page or email eval(a)wikimedia.org Cheers! *María Cruz * \\ Community Coordinator, PE&D Team \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ <https://twitter.com/marianarra_> [1] More on Participatory Grantmaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_grantmaking [2] Use our Twitter handle @WikiEval https://twitter.com/WikiEval [3] Subscribe to the newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Learning_Qu… [4] Learning Quarterly on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Newsletter [5] Announcement list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ped

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Editor interaction data sets and visualizations
by Pine W 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, As you may have heard, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Interaction_Data_Extracti… is an individual engagement grant proposal. I am working on this proposal with volunteer assistance and advice from Aaron Halfaker (WMF), Haitham Shammaa (WMF), and Fabian Flöck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Technology>). We are still developing this proposal, and plan to have it finalized in the next few days. We would greatly appreciate your comments on whether you support or oppose the general concept of this project, and any suggestions about how to refine the proposal. Additionally, we would like to hear from you about which sets of editor interaction data, and what visualizations of editor interaction data, would be most relevant to your interests. We intend to prioritize our outputs with your comments in mind. Please comment on the proposal talk page. Questions and feedback, both positive and critical, are helpful to us as the proposers, and also help the Individual Engagement Grants Committee [1] to assess the proposal. Regards, Pine [1] I am a member of the Individual Engagement Grants Committee. I am recusing from reviewing proposals in this funding round.

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Question on editing course pages: page title and term
by yurkobb＠gmail.com 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hi! A small technical question on the EduProgram extension. A teacher has created a course page with a typo in the name and I've noticed I can't change it. When I click Edit on a course page, I'm only allowed to edit the description text field, start and end dates and the enroll token. There's no fields for the corse name and term. This is the same with other course pages including those I created myself. I have the ep-coordinator user right. How does it work?

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[Call for Submissions] Stories needed for the October issue of the education newsletter
by Anna Koval 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Hey everyone, School's started. What's going on where you are? Tell the world about it in the education newsletter! Head to the newsroom on Outreach wiki and give us an update. We'll format, proofread and copyedit it for you. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom The deadline for submissions is next Wednesday 15 October by midnight UTC. Thanks! Anna Koval & Leigh Thelmadatter This Month In Education -- Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 akoval(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Be part of the most epic data collection and analysis of Wikimedia programs!
by Maria Cruz 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hi all, this is a short announcement to say we are hosting Office Hours for consultation on program reporting. If you want to contribute to Round II of Data Collection *[1]* and are struggling with the report form, or have questions about the process, we are here to help. Join us next Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, on IRC ‪#‎wikimedia‬-ped: Oct 13, from 1500 - 1700 UTC (8 to 10 am PDT) Oct 16, from 00 - 0200 UTC (October 15, 5 to 7pm PDT) Oct 16, from 1400 - 1600 UTC (7 to 9am PDT) Thanks for your time and attention! Cheers, *María Cruz * \\ Community Coordinator, PE&D Team \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ <https://twitter.com/marianarra_> *[1] * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/News/Round_II_Announcement On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Anasuya Sengupta <asengupta(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Wikimedian friends and colleagues, > > > tl;dr We have just launched our second round of voluntary reporting. This > is the most epic data collection and analysis of Wikimedia programs we've > done so far as a movement, and all program leaders are invited to take > part. :-) You can do so here: > https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0B3azKpdZ7ggCtD (or get in > touch with the L&E team for support). > > As we did in the Fall of 2013, we invite community members leading and > evaluating Wikimedia programs to share their data with the rest of the > movement (i.e., Edit-a-thons, Editing Workshops, On-wiki Writing > Contests, Photo Events, etc.). Last year’s data was collected and > analysed in a series of reports that was the beginning of telling the > Wikimedia story of impact: the incredible work of over 60 program leaders > implementing 119 programs or projects in 30 countries across the world. > This helped us start building a set of good and best practices for > effective programs across our movement.[1] This year’s data drive will be > critical to help us continue to do and learn better from each other. > > To best prepare, program leaders can review the reporting items [1] and > start gathering that data you have filed away about your programs since the > last reporting round. We are looking for data on programs completed any > time from September 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014. You can ask > questions directly on the reporting form preview [2] or on our portal talk > page [3]. If you are planning to report and may need support from us, do > let us know so that we can help in any way needed. > > When ready, you will find the reporting collector at: > > https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0B3azKpdZ7ggCtD > > We also welcome your data in different formats. For example, if you have > already reported data elsewhere, we are happy to work with you to make the > process as easy as possible. Message eval(a)wikimedia.org and we can work > out the easiest way to include your data. > > We are expanding the number of programs covered in the reporting this > year, and extend the reporting window longer for some new programs, GLAM, > and Wiki Loves Monuments. See the schedule below for timelines for > reporting for each program type. > > Data submission deadlines by program: > > Due by October 20th > > - > > Edit-a-thons/editing parties > - > > Editing Workshops > > > Due by November 3rd > > - > > On-wiki Writing Contests > > > - > > Photo Events (Wiki Loves Earth, WikiExpeditions, WikiTakes, etc.) > - > > Wikipedia Education Program > > > Due by November 17th > > - > > Conferences > - > > GLAM Content Donation > - > > Hackathons > - > > Wiki Loves Monuments (2013 and 2014) > - > > Wikimedian in Residence > > > Remember, reporting is voluntary but the more people do it, the better > representation of programs we can make. This voluntary reporting allows us > to come together and generate a bird’s eye view of programs [4]. We want to > understand the impact of programs across different contexts, to examine > both more broadly, and more deeply, what works best to meet our shared > goals for Wikimedia and to, together, grow the awesome [5] in Wikimedia > programs! > > On behalf of the Learning and Evaluation team, thank you for your time and > support in this initiative. > > Warmly, > > Anasuya > > Resource links: > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Evaluation_reports/2013 > > [2] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CG-K8I1d9JPqyRRyHTIQ5x7fASQXcHZsEMKutdA… > > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Evaluation > > [4] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evaluation_Report_(beta)_Poster_Wik… > [5] http://www.nbp.org/nbp/images/book_photos/MAG-AWESOME.jpg > > > > -- > > > *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >

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A question about Education program extension
by yurkobb＠gmail.com 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Dear edu community, After the Education Program extension was recently enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia, the next step for us is to learn how to use it:) And while there's plenty of useful information about it on English Wikipedia as well as on Glamwiki, I wasn't lucky enought to find out one thing: are the course pages (in the Education program: namespace) supposed to be reused when fresh group of students comes in on the following year? I.e., do the teachers usually just edit the old course page, remove all the students and start again with the same page or copy the course plan into a new page? Thanks, Yury Bulka

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Question from Metrics tool
by Anna Koval 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Thanks so much, Dan. :) Hope this helps, Kosta. :) CCing [Education-l] so they know that we got answers to these questions. Anna On Thursday, October 2, 2014, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > I have some questions about the metrics tool: >> >> 1. Can I share my cohorts with other users, so that they can produce >> their own reports? >> > > Not yet, but this is a feature that we'll be working on sometime in the > near future. > > >> 2. I'm sure there was an option for individual results on users. I do >> have some old analysed data but I cannot find it now that I want to create >> new reports. Is it removed? Without it I can see that a number of students >> are still active editors but I cannot find who they are. >> > > On the report creation page, in the "Configure Output" section, click on > the metric you want individual results for, then check the "Individual > Results" checkbox. Use this feature with care if your cohort is really big > (like many thousands of users or more) because if combined with time series > or long time ranges it can produce a lot of output. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

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Metrics tool
by Konstantinos Stampoulis 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hello, I have some questions about the metrics tool: 1. Can I share my cohorts with other users, so that they can produce their own reports? 2. I'm sure there was an option for individual results on users. I do have some old analysed data but I cannot find it now that I want to create new reports. Is it removed? Without it I can see that a number of students are still active editors but I cannot find who they are. Konstantinos Stampoulis geraki(a)geraki.gr http://www.geraki.gr ---- Συνεισφέρετε στην Βικιπαίδεια. https://el.wikipedia.org Φτιάξτε λογαριασμό στο Dropbox: https://db.tt/G0jOavL ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Οι παραπάνω απόψεις είναι προσωπικές και δεν εκφράζουν παρά μόνο εμένα. Το μήνυμα θεωρείται εμπιστευτικό μόνο εάν το έχω ζητήσει ρητά, διαφορετικά μπορείτε να το χρησιμοποιήσετε σε οποιαδήποτε δημόσια συζήτηση. Δεν έχω τίποτε να κρύψω. :-)

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives
by Tilman Bayer 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Minutes and slides from last week's mid-year review meeting of the Foundation's Wikipedia Education Program team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course > corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me > and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process, > starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according > to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the > Board [1]: > > - Visual Editor > - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero) > - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams) > - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity > > I'm proposing the following initial schedule: > > January: > - Editor Engagement Experiments > > February: > - Visual Editor > - Mobile (Contribs + Zero) > > March: > - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects) > - Funds Dissemination Committee > > We’ll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly > metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on > their recent progress, which will help set some context that would > otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will > also create open opportunities for feedback and questions. > > My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly > review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as > meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this > discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here > which we can use to discuss the concept further: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r… > > The internal review will, at minimum, include: > > Sue Gardner > myself > Howie Fung > Team members and relevant director(s) > Designated minute-taker > > So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual > Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker. > > I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a > duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks: > > - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter, > compared with goals > - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would? > - Review of challenges, blockers and successes > - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other > action items > - Buffer time, debriefing > > Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved > structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases > where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world. > > In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be > to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than > a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews > may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally > to the departments. We’re slowly getting into that habit in > engineering. > > As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can > help inform and support reviews across the organization. > > Feedback and questions are appreciated. > > All best, > Erik > > [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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