Hi all,
Is there a lesson plan available for an editor training workshop that uses
VisualEditor? New editors seem to prefer learning VE but all lesson plans
that I know of use the traditional wikitext interface.
I would like to be able to teach new editors the basics of editing and
referencing using VE, plus talk pages using wikitext, in a one hour format.
Thanks,
Pine
Hello everyone,
If you're subscribed to the gender gap mailing list, then you may have seen
this message from Fabrice Florin. It would be great if we participate with
post(s) about Wikipedia Education Program and the role it plays to increase
gender diversity on Wikipedia.
If you have any ideas, please let me know. I will be happy to help and work
together with you on such ideas!
Thank you,
Samir
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> In March 2015, the Wikimedia Blog will focus on women and the gender gap
> on Wikipedia and sister projects, to coincide with International Women's
> Day and related events such as WikiWomen's March.
>
> We aim to raise awareness about issues faced by women on our sites — and
> invite ideas for solving them together, as part of the new Inspire Grants
> program that launches next week.
>
> We are looking for a few more authors to write stories about practical
> solutions to this important challenge, such as:
> • reports on programs that seem to be addressing these issues successfully
> • overview of the best research studies on this topic
> • best practices for increasing diverse contributions
>
> Here are some of the questions we hope to answer through this coverage:
> • How are women contributing to our sites today?
> • What can we do to support them more effectively?
> • How can we get more articles written about women and women’s issues?
>
> We will publish up to a dozen stories on this topic throughout the month,
> including:
> • profiles of WikiWomen that are making exceptional contributions and
> changing our culture
> • reports about worldwide edit-a-thons on International Women’s Day
> • community picks of great articles and images about women on the wikis
>
> Here are some of the stories now on our calendar for the month of March:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Calendar#March_2015
>
> What are we missing? Would you like to submit a story on this topic?
>
> If so, please respond on this list, or contact me directly — or better
> yet, post your draft on the blog, after reviewing these guidelines:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines
>
> We will be reviewing new submissions for this campaign until March 10th,
> 2015.
>
> Learn more about this editorial campaign here:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Topics/Women_and_the_gender_…
>
> We look forward to working with you to spread the word about this
> opportunity to grow and diversify our movement.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Fabrice
>
>
> _______________________________
>
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> Movement Communications Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
> fflorin(a)wikimedia.org
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>
> @fabriceflorin
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Samir Elsharbaty,
Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+2.011.200.696.77
selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
We are happy to announce a new channel of discussion and collaborative
work. Wikipedia Education Program Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram/>. Please join
us in the group and add your facebook friends who are involved/interested
in Wikipedia in Education.
Here's part of the education newsletter post announcing it:
Since the beginning of the program, volunteers around the world were in
contact with each other and with the education team
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Staff> at the
Wikimedia Foundation using several ways including the Wikimedia Education
mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education>,
regular meetings in which program leaders worked together such as Wikipedia
Education Collaborative
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collabora…>
meetings,
and social media website accounts for local and regional programs like Arab
World Education Program <https://www.facebook.com/arwep>, Czech Republic
Education <https://www.facebook.com/studenti.pisi.wikipedii?fref=ts>
program accounts on different social media websites, Armenian WikiCamps
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/wiki.camp>, Wiki Education Foundation
<https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation> and other similar
examples, While the global education program stayed away from social media
websites for a while.
There was a growing need for an easier method for program leaders,
professors, students, staff and everyone to discuss their ideas, chat,
brainstorm and work virtually on their new projects. Social media websites
are believed to be quicker, easier way, and reachable from mobile and
tablet devices than other talkpages and mailing lists. The new Facebook
group will not replace the existing mailing list and other contact options.
It will work alongside with them trying to reach out to everyone who is
involved or interested in Wikipedia in Education.
Join us in the new Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram/> and meet the
people who brought success to Wikipedia in Education around the world.
Discuss, work together and seek help from elder users and the WMF education
team.
Meet you there!
--
Samir Elsharbaty,
Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+2.011.200.696.77
selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
You may know that we usually receive your contributions to the monthly
education newsletter until the 28th of every month so that we can happily
review and publish the new issue at the end of each month. But since this
month is an exception in which we will publish the newsletter on 28th, it
will be great if you send any updates you have for this month by February
26.
We will be happy to receive any updates you post to the newsroom
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom> after
this date but probably they will be published in next month's issue.
*New userbox templates!!*
We now have new userbox templates on Outreach wiki for the education
newsletter readers and editors. You may want to indicate that you read
and/or contribute to This Month in Education on your user pages.
To add the newsletter reader userbox just copy this code with the braces to
your user page: {{User Education NL reader}}
To add the newsletter editor userbox just copy this code with the braces to
your user page: {{User Education NL}}
If you have some experience with templates and want to localize these
userbox templates to your home wiki please notify me here or off list.
Looking forward to your seeing great updates from you as usual!
Cheers,
--
Samir Elsharbaty,
Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+2.011.200.696.77
selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Samir Elsharbaty <selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org
> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> You may know that we usually receive your contributions to the monthly
> education newsletter until the 28th of every month so that we can happily
> review and publish the new issue at the end of each month. But since this
> month is an exception in which we will publish the newsletter on 28th, it
> will be great if you send any updates you have for this month by February
> 26.
>
> We will be happy to receive any updates you post to the newsroom
> <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom> after
> this date but probably they will be published in next month's issue.
>
> *New userbox templates!!*
>
> We now have new userbox templates on Outreach wiki for the education
> newsletter readers and editors. You may want to indicate that you read
> and/or contribute to This Month in Education on your user pages.
>
> To add the newsletter reader userbox just copy this code with the braces
> to your user page: {{User Education NL reader}}
>
> To add the newsletter editor userbox just copy this code with the braces
> to your user page: {{User Education NL}}
>
> If you have some experience with templates and want to localize these
> userbox templates to your home wiki please notify me here or off list.
>
> Looking forward to your seeing great updates from you as usual!
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Samir Elsharbaty,
> Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program
> Wikimedia Foundation
> +2.011.200.696.77
> selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org
> education.wikimedia.org
>
--
Samir Elsharbaty,
Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+2.011.200.696.77
selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
Hi
A number of my students are currently translating technical articles from English to Spanish and we have run into a problem....
Es.wiki does not recognize the database reference templates such as cite pmid and cite doi. A student who knows something about computers looked into it a bit and told me that the reason is that those templates function with a bot that scrapes the reference information from the database. However, it only functions in en.wiki. We either need a bot for es.wiki or the en.wiki bot needs to be modified to be able to send the scraped info to other languages. This student tells me he does not know how to do either.
In two weeks we have a major editathon, with a large chunk of the student/participants working on translations, preferably articles relating to their majors. We are talking 250+ students on three campuses.
Right now, we get around this problem by using the cita publicación template in es.wiki but of course it would make life a lot easier if we dont have to teach dozens of students or more how to do this.
Can anyone help?
Leigh
First, thanks to John Vandenberg for considering co-mentoring the
accuracy review project for the Indonesian Wikipedia. I think he would
be an excellent co-mentor. But ideally I also hope to also obtain at
least one co-mentor from WMF engineering, design, or education
divisions, and a co-mentor from the WEF too, please:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review#Mentors_needed_.28at_least_t…
Oliver Keyes wrote:
>... the question Rachel [asked] was (to rephrase it):
> 'community people, what ideas do you have for better
> ways for us to communicate around software?'
> 'Work on my thing' does not answer that question.
Co-mentoring the accuracy review project is literally nothing but
communication. Community members ask for the Foundation's help all the
time. And even if the mentors end up helping with some of the code,
Rachel asked about interacting with the community, not just
communicating with it.
And it should not be "my thing" -- it is supposed to improve
wikipedias and similar references in all languages, by addressing
their primary existential crisis: more out of date content than
volunteer editors are willing or able to maintain. It's lucky that we
may be able do that with the side effect of creating the largest
automatic computer-aided instruction system ever, by several orders of
magnitude. But that's more than just I can possibly do just in my
spare time. It will have to be a community effort. The Foundation
can't directly sponsor content improvements, but creating a system to
support the community's efforts in that regard is fine. Assuming
everyone approves after testing, either Foundation could, if they
wanted to, cause it to be used in many ways which would not risk the
WMF's safe harbor provisions. That would be more difficult for the
community.
Furthermore, there was no way 2.5 years ago, when I was asking that
the Foundation pay market rate for technical staff to compete in
retaining and attracting the best and brightest, that I would have
known this would become a GSoC proposal under a new co-mentor
requirement today. So the insinuation that there is some kind of a
preconceived attempt at quid-pro-quo is absurd. There are some very
serious downsides to repeatedly being the only one opposed to
groupthink, and I have no regrets about bringing up the fact that I've
repeatedly had to deal with that kind of impediment to progress
without even a single word of thanks. I'm not asking for a medal, just
common courtesy. And maybe people who find themselves in situations
where they might be involved with groupthink mistakes should be a
little less harsh against those who are trying to fight such mistakes.
Our contemporary top-heavy economic predicament is the result of too
much groupthink leveraged by the sociopathic few, resulting in the
vast majority of consumers having lost ground during the current
economic expansion (e.g., as shown in
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/upshot/the-benefits-of-economic-expansion…
-- especially its graphs.) If there is a better example of
unsustainability, I would like to see it. Yes, I stick my neck out to
fight for people who are getting the short end of the stick, and
causing their own organizations, whether they be foundations or
nations, to be less effective because of it, and I'm proud I am one of
the very few who do.
On Saturday, 14 February 2015, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rachel diCerbo wrote:
> >...
> > Community Engagement is continuously considering effective ways of
> > interacting with you around product development and would love your
> > suggestions. What kinds of communications from WMF would you like to see?
>
> Please volunteer to co-mentor my GSoC proposal:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
>
> There is absolutely no way I can possibly do this without a co-mentor
> from the WMF or WEF. It's not a hard task, and one of the major
> benefits I just learned yesterday is a robust implementation of
> per-word text attribution, which amazingly still hasn't been available
> to the wider community in a way that handles reverted blanking and
> text moves since WikiTrust went offline. Maribel Acosta, Fabian
> Floeck, and Andriy Rodchenko did a suitable replacement algorithm in
> 2013, but it hasn't been folded back into the Wikimedia Utilities
> distribution....
>
> Best regards,
> James Salsman
Hi all,
(Pardon the cross-posting)
Starting today, we want to show Wikimedia some love in a very special way:
talking about diversity! [1]
Diversity in Wikimedia projects is key to achieve our shared vision: that
anyone can contribute in the sum of all knowledge. We know many efforts
have been made to bridge many gaps.
Have you:
* preserved your cultural or national history through photo contests and
editing events?
* worked to enrich a particular language or cultural group on Wikimedia?
* studied diversity issues in online communities?
_What have you learned when trying to encourage diversity on Wikimedia?_
The Learning and Evaluation team invites all community members to share
what they know about bringing diversity on Wikimedia projects. This
initiative seeks to create a body of knowledge around diversity outcomes
for events, projects and programs, in a way to give support to
Grantmaking’s Inspire Campaign (coming up the first week of March). If you
worked to make Wikimedia projects more diverse, in content or community, what
has worked for you? what has not worked? Share what you know with the world!
There are multiple ways to engage:
1. Share a problem
2. Share a solution
3. Endorse problems and solutions to vote them up in importance
4. Writing a Learning Pattern (that addresses any of the problems/solutions
shared)
We will be awarding our brand new L&E Barnstars[2] to contributors during
this special campaign =)
Visit the campaign page [1] to contribute and discuss, and if you are
twitter user, use #ILoveDiversity to promote the campaign for others to
participate.
Happy editing!
*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:Learning_patterns/Project/Diversity_…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_and_Evaluation_barnsta…
Brian Wolff wrote:
> Have you run this by Wikipedians? ... since it involves adding a
> bunch of templates....
The 2009 strategy proposal linked towards the end, of which the
GSoC proposal is a limited subset, did not get any criticism after several
high-profile opportunities. Both proposals are intended to be language- and
keyword-neutral. It would be best if the initial bot were built and tested
on some other wiki than the English Wikipedia, so the Bot Approvals Group
will be able to get concrete answers to any questions they might have.
The use of templates should be optional; one way to do that would be to
allow the use of a mirroring namespace to hold the templates, instead of
the primary namespace. But there is probably a better way. Thank you for
something so interesting to think about.
>> *Prepare a table of each word in article dumps indicating its age. *
*> *
*> *This in itself is a non-trivial problem (for a gsoc student anyways),
It would be non-trivial for a large production dump, but for a small
subset of articles in a given dump, there are deterministic algorithms
which perform with sufficient accuracy to form the specified partial basis
of a selection heuristic. Creating such a table is at worst O(N) in
revisions, but there are ways to hash words with N-gram contexts so that
moved and blanked text is more likely to be treated correctly than what raw
diffs would lead people to believe might happen. This is equivalent to the
general blame problem, and I look forward to explaining the history of the
problem (see e.g., http://wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu/talks-and-papers ) to show
why the N-gram hash solution is best.
>> *Convert flagged passages to GIFT questions for review and*
*>> present them to one or more subscribed reviewers *
>
> Wouldn't you want to give the reviewers an actual form where
> they can fill out the questions?
Yes, and I want to store questions in GIFT format to allow follow-on
integration
with the Global Learning Xprize Meta-Team deliverables. Presentation of a
GIFT question means converting it to a form instead of just displaying it
in markup. The question pertaining to whether direct integration is a
reasonable follow-on goal depends on the extent to which branching scenario
interactive fiction role-play content, such as shown in
http://www.capuano.biz/papers/EL_2014.pdf
and http://talknicer.com/GLMORS_2014.pdf
can be automatically created. I think it can be, and look forward to
discussing the matter in detail with co-mentor volunteers.
<http://talknicer.com/GLMORS_2014.pdf>
On Thursday, February 12, 2015, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I invite review of this preliminary proposal for a Google Summer of
> Code project:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
>
> If you would like to co-mentor this project, please sign up. I've been
> a GSoC mentor every year since 2010, and successfully mentored two
> students in 2012 resulting in work which has become academically
> relevant, including in languages which I can not read, i.e.,
> http://talknicer.com/turkish-tablet.pdf .) I am most interested in
> co-mentors at the WMF or Wiki Education Foundation involved with
> engineering, design, or education.
>
> Synopsis:
>
> Create a Pywikibot to find articles in given categories, category
> trees, and lists. For each such article, add in-line templates to
> indicate the location of passages with (1) facts and statistics which
> are likely to have become out of date and have not been updated in a
> given number of years, and (2) phrases which are likely unclear. Use a
> customizable set of keywords and the DELPH-IN LOGIN parser
> [http://erg.delph-in.net/logon] to find such passages for review.
> Prepare a table of each word in article dumps indicating its age.
> Convert flagged passages to GIFT questions
> [http://microformats.org/wiki/gift] for review and present them to one
> or more subscribed reviewers. Update the source template with the
> reviewer(s)' answers to the GIFT question, but keep the original text
> as part of the template. When reviewers disagree, update the template
> to reflect that fact, and present the question to a third reviewer to
> break the tie.
>
> Possible stretch goals for Global Learning Xprize Meta-Team systems
> [http://www.wiki.xprize.org/Meta-team#Goals] integration TBD.
>
> Best regards,
> James Salsman