Good evening, Professor Christie. My name is Lixxx235, and I'm a Wikipedia
editor and an Online Ambassador with the Wikipedia Education Program. (
userpage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lixxx235>)
It's come to my attention (through a student's request for help via
Wikipedia's live chat) that you have given your students assignments
relating to editing Wikipedia. While the Wikipedia Education Program fully
supports such assignments, and endorses a number of courses at various
universities around the world, according to one of your students, an
assignment you've given seems to have students confused and is causing
submissions in violation of some Wikipedia policies and wasting volunteer
and student time. For example, this
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fuel_controlled_fires_…>
is an entry one of your students tried to get help on from our live help
chat. This submission does not meet Wikipedia guidelines such as notability
policies, policies requiring verifiability of material, and policies
requiring a neutral point of view (NPOV) to be kept. In addition, it was
not in Wikipedia's standard format.
We'd love to get in touch with you. Please reply back to
lixxx235wikipedia(a)gmail.com and education(a)lists.wikimedia.org to see how we
can help you develop good assignments for editing Wikipedia and how we can
resolve some issues with your current assignment.
All the best,
Lixxx235
English Wikipedia
Hello everyone,
I want to remind you of the following deadlines coming up with regard to
Wikimania 2016:
Wikimania Scholarships will be open until 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC. for
more information see: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
Wikimania Call for Submissions is up and will be open until 07 January 2016.
See:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
If you have any questions about Wikimania, please get in touch with Ellie
Young, the Wikimedia Foundation's events manager at eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
Good luck with your submissions and scholarship applications!
Best,
--
Samir Elsharbaty,
Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+20.100.944.3478
education.wikimedia.org
Thank you for reminding me of that!
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <
ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I'm unaware of any in English, but there may have been efforts in other
> languages. I know that User:Ocaasi was asked to do this with The Wikipedia
> Adventure a while ago.
>
> The most recent documentation effort in English can be found at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_editing_with_VisualEdito…
> It is not an interactive program.
>
>
> --
> Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder
> Community Liaison
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe that was being planned but fell by the wayside. Pinging Sherry
>> to see if she knows.
>>
>> Pine
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Vojtěch Dostál <
>> vojtech.dostal(a)wikimedia.cz> wrote:
>>
>>> For anyone interested, we also incorporated Citoid into the
>>> Wikipedia:Tutorial page:
>>> https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Pr%C5%AFvodce
>>> (and yes, the Czech tutorial now almost completely deals with
>>> VisualEditor, except for discussion page guidelines where VE is not
>>> enabled).
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if there are GuidedTours using VisualEditor? That would
>>> be lovely.
>>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Guided_tours)
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Vojtěch Dostál
>>>
>>> předseda rady / chairman of the board
>>> Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
>>> http://www.wikimedia.cz
>>> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter
>>> <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter
>>> <http://eepurl.com/FsHJr>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-09-02 2:01 GMT+02:00 Anna Koval <akoval(a)wikimedia.org>:
>>>
>>>> Yep, Leigh, woohoo indeed. :)
>>>>
>>>> Whatamidoing (WMF) confirms that citoid is configured on es.wiki. [1]
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Pine and Vojtěch.
>>>>
>>>> Happy referencing, everyone. :)
>>>>
>>>> Anna
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid#cite_note-2
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Anna Koval, M.Ed.
>>>> Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> +1.415.839.6885 x 6729
>>>> Skype: annakoval.wiki
>>>> akoval(a)wikimedia.org
>>>> education.wikimedia.org
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter <
>>>> osamadre(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> whoohoo!
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 13:10:01 -0700
>>>>> From: wiki.pine(a)gmail.com
>>>>> To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in
>>>>> VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just tried this on ESWP. With VisualEditor enabled, it does work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pine
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Vojtěch Dostál <
>>>>> vojtech.dostal(a)wikimedia.cz> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You need to (get someone to) install the citoid:
>>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
>>>>>
>>>>> Vojtěch Dostál
>>>>>
>>>>> předseda rady / chairman of the board
>>>>> Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
>>>>> http://www.wikimedia.cz
>>>>> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter
>>>>> <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter
>>>>> <http://eepurl.com/FsHJr>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2015-09-01 22:04 GMT+02:00 Leigh Thelmadatter <osamadre(a)hotmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this true in all languages? es.wiki until now at least has not
>>>>> been able to process doi or pmid script references.
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:27:39 -0700
>>>>> From: wiki.pine(a)gmail.com
>>>>> To: glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org; glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org;
>>>>> education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>> CC: werespielchequers(a)gmail.com
>>>>> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in
>>>>> VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News
>>>>>
>>>>> A little good news for GLAM and education folks:
>>>>>
>>>>> "VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or
>>>>> paste an ISBN
>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number>,
>>>>> PMID <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMID>, or RFC
>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments#Production_and_evolution>.
>>>>> [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54204>[2]"
>>>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109498>
>>>>>
>>>>> Pine
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Forwarding because of the University of Washington and Stanford connections.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:16 PM
Subject: [Analytics] What Wikimedia Research is up to in the next quarter
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, "A
mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an
interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey all,
I’m glad to announce that the Wikimedia Research team’s goals
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Goals#January_-_March_201…>
for
the next quarter (January - March 2016) are up on wiki.
The Research and Data
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research#Research_and_Data> team
will continue to work with our volunteers and collaborators on revision
scoring as a service <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:Revscoring> adding
support for 5 new languages and prototyping new models (including an edit
type classifier
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Automated_classification_of_edit_t…>).
We will also continue to iterate on the design of article creation
recommendations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage>,
running a dedicated campaign in coordination with existing editathons to
improve the quality of these recommendations. Finally, we will extend a
research project we started in November aimed at understanding the behavior
of Wikipedia readers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…>
, by combining qualitative survey data with behavioral analysis from our
HTTP request logs.
The Design Research
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research#Design_Research> team
will conduct an in-depth study of user needs (particularly readers) on the
ground in February. We will continue to work with other Wikimedia
Engineering teams throughout the quarter to ensure the adoption of
human-centered design principles and pragmatic personas
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Personas_for_product_development> in our
product development cycle. We’re also excited to start a collaboration
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Publicly_available_online_learning…>
with
students at the University of Washington to understand what free online
information resources (including, but not limited to, Wikimedia projects)
students use.
I am also glad to report that two papers on link and article
recommendations (the result of a formal collaboration with a team at
Stanford) were accepted for presentation at WSDM '16 and WWW ’16 (preprints
will be made available shortly). An overview on revision scoring as a
service
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/> was
published a few weeks ago on the Wikimedia blog, and got some good media
coverage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service/Media>
.
We're constantly looking for contributors and as usual we welcome feedback
on these projects via the corresponding talk pages on Meta. You can contact
us for any question on IRC via the #wikimedia-research channel and follow
@WikiResearch <https://twitter.com/WikiResearch> on Twitter for the latest
Wikipedia and Wikimedia research updates hot off the press.
Wishing you all happy holidays,
Dario and Abbey on behalf of the team
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This is at least the 4th time this month I've wanted to access something on
the times so... signed up for at least a 3 month trial.
The original letter to the editor is short:
Sir, I am — as he knows — an enthusiastic admirer of Giles Coren, but he is
> badly misinformed about Wikipedia (“Why stop at Trump?”, Dec 12). As a
> writer of history I resort to it at least a dozen times a day. I could
> never have written my last two books without it, and I have never caught it
> out yet, which is more than I can say of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Its
> range is astonishing: it is almost impossible to find a person, place or
> subject that it has left uncovered.
>
I believe that we now have at our elbow a work of reference as useful as
> any in existence; I can only implore Giles and any others who doubt these
> words to cast aside their prejudices and try it for themselves. As for me,
> I can’t believe my luck.
>
John Julius Norwich
> London, W9
There are some good comments too. The #1 is a poem which is awesome:
ROBERT Vincent2 days ago
>
> At breakfast John Julius Norwich
> nearly choked on a spoonful of porridge
> when Giles Coren, he'd heard,
> had clamed it absurd
> for research Wikipedia to forage.
James Alexander
Manager
Trust & Safety
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> This does sound pretty good! I don't have access to the Times either, and
> asking around it seems not many do...
>
> On 16 December 2015 at 07:44, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The lead is promising, though much of the letter is paywalled.
>>
>> "Sir, I am — as he knows — an enthusiastic admirer of Giles Coren, but he
>> is badly misinformed about Wikipedia (“Why stop at Trump?”, Dec 12). As a
>> writer of history I resort to it at least a dozen times a day. I could
>> never have written my last two books without it, and I have never caught it
>> out yet, which is more than I can say of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Its
>> range is astonishing: it is almost impossible to find a person, place or
>> subject that it has left uncovered (end of my preview).... a work of
>> reference as useful as any in existence..."
>>
>> Thanks to Johnbod for pointing this out!
>> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article4639798.ece
>>
>> Pine
>>
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