Hi all!
Shani wrote a great post for the Wikimedia blog about her work running a
Wikipedia class for medical students at Tel Aviv University. I found it
incredibly inspiring and thought it provided some great information! I
encourage you all to read it:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/13/wiki-med-israel-wikipedia-education-co…
As always, I welcome blog posts about all education projects on the
Wikimedia blog! :)
LiAnna
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Education folks -- some news today. Forwarding on if you're not on the
Wikimedia Announce list.
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From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:16 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] (press release) Frank Schulenburg named
executive director of new Wiki Education Foundation
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Passing along for your information. This release is posted on the WMF wiki
at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Frank_Schulenburg_named…
An accompanying Q&A can also be found here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/QA_Frank_Schulenburg_announcement_Febr…
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Frank Schulenburg named executive director of new Wiki Education Foundation
(San Francisco, California) 12 February 2014 -- The Wiki Education
Foundation, a new nonprofit organization that supports the Wikipedia
Education Program in the United States and Canada, has named Frank
Schulenburg as its inaugural executive director. Schulenburg, formerly
senior director of programs at the Wikimedia Foundation, will begin
his new role February 18, 2014.
"I look forward to leading the Wiki Education Foundation," said
Schulenburg. "We are off to a great start, and will build on the
strong success of the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Education
Program to further engage educators, researchers and students to
provide more high-quality content for Wikipedia's readers."
Started by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2010, the Wikipedia Education
Program encourages students to contribute content to Wikipedia
articles on course-related subjects as part of classroom assignments
developed by their faculty and instructors. Over the past four years,
more than 6,000 students in the United States and Canada have
contributed content to Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education
Program, adding the equivalent of 36,600 printed pages of content to
Wikipedia and significantly increasing the amount of high-quality
content that Wikipedia offers its half-billion readers.
In response to that success and to give the program more focused and
specialized support, in 2012 the Wikimedia Foundation began a process
to spin off the United States and Canada work into its own,
independent nonprofit organization. The resulting Wiki Education
Foundation was created in late 2013, and Schulenburg will be its first
executive director. The Wiki Education Foundation will continue to
support the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and
Canada, and will develop additional programs to promote academic
research and teaching that engage with Wikipedia.
"I am delighted that Frank has agreed to lead the Wiki Education
Foundation as executive director," said Dr. Diana Strassmann, Carolyn
and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor in the Practice at Rice
University and chair of the board of the Wiki Education Foundation,
who began using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in her classes in 2007.
"Under Frank's leadership, the Wiki Education Foundation will continue
to expand engagement among educators, students, and Wikipedia, and
will continue to diversify the community of Wikipedians, while
improving the quality and depth of Wikipedia."
"Frank is the perfect person to lead the Wiki Education Foundation,"
said Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner. "Frank's a
very experienced Wikipedia contributor with a long track record of
inventing and leading successful programs that make Wikipedia better
and more useful for its readers. I am sorry we will lose him from the
Wikimedia Foundation, but I look forward to seeing the Wiki Education
Foundation thrive and succeed under his leadership."
A longtime Wikipedian and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation
since 2008, Schulenburg has focused on broadening participation and
developing the public understanding of Wikipedia, especially among
subject matter experts. He has spoken globally about efforts to
increase the relevance of Wikipedia in academia. In 2006, he founded
Wikipedia Academy, an event aimed at cultivating dialogue between
Wikipedia contributors and academics. In 2009, he initiated the
Bookshelf Project, which created the first educational materials for
new Wikipedia contributors. In 2010 he designed and implemented the
Wikipedia Education Program. From 2012 on he was a member of the
executive management team of the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing the
Wikipedia Education Program, Wikipedia Zero, and a new initiative to
evaluate the impact of programmatic activities across countries.
Schulenburg has been involved with Wikipedia since 2005, both as an
author and as a photographer.
The Wiki Education Foundation board conducted an extensive search for
an executive director before selecting Schulenburg. The board includes
educators from a variety of backgrounds, Wikipedia volunteers, and
other key stakeholders. The Wiki Education Foundation is currently
supporting university instructors in the United States and Canada.
Interested instructors are encouraged to send an email to
contact(a)wikiedfoundation.org.
About the Wiki Education Foundation
The Wiki Education Foundation supports innovative uses of Wikipedia
and related projects in communities of teaching, learning, and inquiry
in the United States and Canada. The Foundation aims to improve the
breadth, scope, and quality of Wikimedia content; enhance student
information fluency; and increase the number and diversity of
contributors to the free knowledge movement by engaging educators,
researchers, and students. The Wiki Education Foundation has applied
for 501(c)(3) charity status.
About the Wikipedia Education Program
http://education.wikimedia.org
The Wikipedia Education Program means the end of throwaway assignments
and the beginning of real-world impact for students. The premise is
simple: Instructors assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia
as part of their coursework. The Wikipedia Education Program is a
global initiative, with activities in more than 60 countries. The
Wikimedia Foundation launched the Wikipedia Education Program in 2011
after a successful pilot. It supports the program with brochures,
online trainings, a MediaWiki extension enabling educators to track
student work, and other resources.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.orghttp://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive more than 490 million unique visitors per month, making them
the fifth-most popular web property worldwide (comScore, December
2013). Available in 287 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 30
million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of
roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the
Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded
primarily through donations and grants.
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*NOT a CFP!* ;)
Hello all!
I have been thinking about using the criterion of a minimum number of bytes
to evaluate the students' edits for my next course - together with content,
of course. This came up because I noticed some students were editing as
little as possible, and this time I want the whole group to start new
articles from scratch.
Has anyone used this approach? Pros/cons? What would you consider a
reasonable number for the minimum of bytes in the final article?
Juliana.
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Hi,
I’m working in an Educational Program in Mexico with the Universidad de las Americas Puebla. I agree that adding a lot of bytes doesn’t necessarily contribute to the quality of an article. We have been working on the development of the nanotechnology entries in Spanish, since this topic is kinda new in developing countries but there’s a lot of research in the last 20 - 30 years. One of our goals was to improve the quantity and quality of references, in order to provide little but accurate information rather than a lot of unreferenced data. This standpoint was well perceived by the Spanish Wikipedia community as the entries has not been deleted but improved by other Wikipedia users.
You may know a little bit more about this program in https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Programa_Educativo_UDLAP#Introducci… (in Spanish). The report isn’t finished yet but it’s illustrative about the importance of working toward reference quality instead of volume (bytes).
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En 28 de enero de 2014 at 18:42:23, Juliana Bastos Marques (domusaurea(a)gmail.com) escrito:
I forgot to mention a couple of important things I'm expecting to happen. First of all, I thought about measuring bytes *only after* the qualitative part is assessed (kinda like publishing guidelines, which I'm trying to make them acquainted with). But I think the reason this could work is because at least half of the enrolled students have already worked with me in other previous classes with Wikipedia editing. My idea is to make them help the other students learn how to edit during the course, together with the ambassador.
In the last course I offered, some students later got Good Article status, and they were very excited and proud (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotdel, https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipa_de_Lencastre). This wasn't the main goal, but kept them engaged even months after the course. A Facebook group helped with continuous lively discussions - the students are always there, anyway. I'm also relying on word of mouth, which has actually been proven quite effective. ;)
Juliana.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Jon Beasley-Murray <jon.beasley-murray(a)ubc.ca> wrote:
Indeed. The WMF repeatedly bandied around the number of bytes produced by education projects, and it was (understandably) hugely controversial, not least given the problems that the program has had with plagiarism (most notoriously with the Pune project).
I would strongly suggest that bytes are a very poor indication of success.
Take care
Jon
On Jan 28, 2014, at 4:31 AM, Craig Franklin <cfranklin(a)wikimedia.org.au> wrote:
> The obvious problem I see is that adding a lot of bytes to an article doesn't necessarily equate to adding a lot of *value* to an article. On enwiki at least, it's probably very easy to inflate the bytecount by inserting superfluous templates and the like into an article, without actually adding any content. At most I'd recommend using it as a rough guide for students as to when an article may be ready, and then assess the articles qualitatively after that.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
>
> On 28 January 2014 11:12, Juliana Bastos Marques <domusaurea(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> *NOT a CFP!* ;)
>
> Hello all!
>
> I have been thinking about using the criterion of a minimum number of bytes to evaluate the students' edits for my next course - together with content, of course. This came up because I noticed some students were editing as little as possible, and this time I want the whole group to start new articles from scratch.
>
> Has anyone used this approach? Pros/cons? What would you consider a reasonable number for the minimum of bytes in the final article?
>
> Juliana.
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Excuse me, could you please help me with my paper by filling out a questionnaire? I am currently doing a project about personality traits and knowledge sharing in Wikipedia.
The survey will take about 5 min of your time.
Link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1538439/Wikipedia-Survey-Personality
I need about 200 respondents, so your little help counts A LOT to me and I would GREATLY appreciate it!
Thank you so much in advance!
PS: If something is unclear or difficult to understand (English is not my first language), please tell me. I will fix it immediately.
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Just a reminder that the Wikimania 2014 scholarships deadline is 17
February:
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
We're planning some great programs for the Future of Education track, and I
highly encourage everyone involved in education programs to apply for a
scholarship to come to London. It would be great to have professors,
Ambassadors, and student editors from all over the world participating in
the event!
(I have no influence on the selection of scholarship recipients, I just
want to see lots of education volunteers in London!)
LiAnna
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