Hello everyone,
We are 3 weeks away from Wikimania 2015 which is held in Mexico City,
Mexico. Wikimania is the annual conference of the Wikimedia movement and
its volunteers from around the world.
Registration for Wikimania is still open. Now is your opportunity to
register for Wikimania, attend, discuss education programs, other Wikimedia
projects and initiatives with the world-wide community.
You can find more information about registration on this page:
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have.
Regards,
--
Samir Elsharbaty,
Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
+2.011.200.696.77
selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
I'm interested in hearing experienced educators' and researchers' thoughts
about what roles Wikipedia, and Internet-based learning in general, can and
can't do well.
Articles for consideration:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0608-godsey-altschool-teachers-2…http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/04/technology-wont-…
What does Wikipedia education do well, and what doesn't it do well?
Is Wikipedia-based education amplifying the learning of students who are
likely to be from highly resourced schools?
Do we have evidence that Wikipedia based education has outcomes for
students that are similar to, or better than, other kinds of online
learning?
How can we offer a service that is widely beneficial for students and
teachers with limited technological resources? Or should we not try because
of the additional challenges?
Thanks,
Pine
Hello all,
On 14-16 November the OpenCon 2015 conference is organised in Brussels.
This conference is about Open Access, Open Education and Open Data, which
is practically the same subject as the one of the Wikimedia movement, only
from a different perspective. Therefore I think it is good to support this
conference and visit it.
If you want to attend, sign up before 22 June: http://opencon2015.org/attend
Greetings,
Romaine
Hi Aaron and Pine,
Please see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2015-May/031684.html
I was thrilled to see Maribel Acosta's WikiWho check-in for
Mediawiki-Utilities today, and I hope you are, too:
https://github.com/maribelacosta/wikiwho/pull/3
I intend to raise money independently so that someone such as Maribel
or perhaps one of her colleagues recommended by Fabian Flöck can work
on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
Once that is complete, the project calls for human fact checkers to
work on the suggested passages for proofreading and fact checking
review. I intend to raise money for them, too, but I understand that
the WMF can't have any part of hiring them to preserve the safe harbor
DMCA provisions. Earlier in the year, I administered qualifying
examinations to hundreds of fact checker candidates, and have
transferred the results of those examinations to Lila and Dario, in
case I get run over by a bus, and also so that they can independently
confirm the quality of the examination process, questions, and
responses which they should have.
Aaron, can you please confirm that Lila and Dario have those and don't
need anything more from me to read them? I would love to do this
myself, but I will be very busy through the end of the year.
Best regards,
James
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> I've been away traveling for the last couple of weeks. Regretfully, I don't
> know what you are talking about. I see that a link was censored from a
> previous email in the thread.
>
> What exactly are you hoping for? That we'll dedicate some researcher time
> to a specific project? Maybe you're just looking for feedback. I see you
> mention hiring people -- but for what purpose?
>
> -Aaron
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:11 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> P.S. I mean, the WMF can't hire them but the WEF can, and I hope they do
>> soon to complement the accuracy metric without expenditure.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Aaron,
>>>
>>> Could you please confirm that Lila and Dario are in receipt of the
>>> fact-checker candidate list and associated materials? Please remember that
>>> the WEF can't hire them but the WikiEd Foundation has not yet achieved
>>> IdeaLab technology, so your assistance may still be required. Thank you for
>>> your patience.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> James Salsman
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sunday, May 31, 2015
>>> Subject: comments on Annual Plan
>>> To: Lila Tretikov <lila(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> Cc: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Dario and Lila,
>>>
>>> Are you both able to see the human fact checker and proofreader
>>> candidates in
>>> [censored] ?
>>>
>>> Please keep the contents of that file confidential, as I promised I would
>>> not share it with commercial interests.
>>>
>>> Please let me know your thoughts on the next best steps.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:05 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Lila,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much. I will help Dario as much as I can. You are both so
>>>> great.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Lila Tretikov <lila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi James,
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure we can "take this away" better than another volunteer, but we
>>>>> do plan to focus on quality measurements. I am CCing Dario who is in charge
>>>>> of Analytics Research to look into the specifics of what's involved here and
>>>>> how it may link to the general quality metrics.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lila
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:54 AM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Lila,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please take this away from me. I do not want to be in a position where
>>>>>> my influence over it can unduly enrich my new client by degrading the
>>>>>> quality of the encyclopedia. Please let me know your decision.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> James
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
>>>>>> Date: Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM
>>>>>> Subject: comments on Annual Plan
>>>>>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regarding
>>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2015-16#En…
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will key quality metrics for reading include accuracy of articles on
>>>>>> the Simple English Wikipedia?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To that end, will the Wikimedia Foundation please take over this
>>>>>> project in full as stated here:
>>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2015-May/031684.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a new contract through the end of the year and will be unable
>>>>>> to devote the time I had planned. Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> James Salsman
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
Forwarding to the Education list in case anyone who teaches science with
Wikipedia is interested.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Dan Bolser" <dan.bolser(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2015 2:03 AM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia-Europe PMC hackathon
To: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Sorry if this is the wrong list, please feel free to distribute as
appropriate.
Details (developing) here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/E…
Message from Jo McEntyre:
We are organising a Wikipedia-Europe PMC hackathon on 4th Sept on the
genome campus, around the Wikipedia Science conference
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference.
With Daniel Mietchen, the three themes we have identified are:
- contributing datasets e.g. data citations, text-mined entities from
Europe PMC to Wikidata & possibly seeing this pushed through to some
Wikipedia pages
- import of full text articles into Wikisource and potential
highlighting named entities
- pushing PMID-PMCID-DOI mapping to Wikidata/Wikipedia
We would very much like you to attend!
_______________________________________________
Wiki-research-l mailing list
Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
While writing my letter of GLAM lists I recalled that I was once
rejected membership in Education-coop mailing list. The reason was
"Closed List".
As far as I know it's a list for a cabal of people who are working on
Education (an[1] Education Collaborative). I know of them since their
meeting in Prague[2] as a friend-wikimedian of mine attended it. The
process of selecting people to that meeting was quite cabalish (with
absolutely no public announcement) as well, iirc. During the meeting it
was completely ungooglable, iirc. IIRC, the only mention I found back
then was in some affiliate's google calendar. But I'm not about a
meeting ages ago. I'm about the collaborative itself.
I'm not actually a person of WEP[3] but still I'm a person who don't
likes when things are hidden but there's no real reason to do it. It
looks like the case for me. I don't see why should it all be that much
cabalish. Doesn't collaborative a derivative from collaboration? My
views on word are often somewhat perfectionist but anyway I just can't
see how collaboration and making things that closed can co-exist.
I'm fine with closed lists, teams and stuff in general as there are
things which should not be discussed in public or it could because it's
easier to make a tiny group of people do something instead of crying out
to a lazy unorganised crowd. But just make it clear how can one (apply
to) join or e.g. just join as a observer/non-voting commentator/whatever.
Footnotes:
[1] afair the page on outreachwiki was about some older formation under
the name. it's probably fixed since that time) Education Collaborative
[2] was it already 2 years ago? time sure runs fast
[3] which means that it's not like I can e.g. go organise a WEP thing
offline — the most I can do in real actions is helping a WEP person.
That's if actions are about WEP and not about something general which
any wikimedian can do.
Yours sincerely,
Base
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Hi Aaron,
Could you please confirm that Lila and Dario are in receipt of the
fact-checker candidate list and associated materials? Please remember that
the WEF can't hire them but the WikiEd Foundation has not yet achieved
IdeaLab technology, so your assistance may still be required. Thank you for
your patience.
Best regards,
James Salsman
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *James Salsman* <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, May 31, 2015
Subject: comments on Annual Plan
To: Lila Tretikov <lila(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Dario and Lila,
Are you both able to see the human fact checker and proofreader candidates
in
[censored] ?
Please keep the contents of that file confidential, as I promised I would
not share it with commercial interests.
Please let me know your thoughts on the next best steps.
Best regards,
James
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:05 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jsalsman(a)gmail.com');>> wrote:
> Lila,
>
> Thank you so much. I will help Dario as much as I can. You are both so
> great.
>
> Best regards,
> Jim
>
>
> On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Lila Tretikov <lila(a)wikimedia.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lila(a)wikimedia.org');>> wrote:
>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Not sure we can "take this away" better than another volunteer, but we do
>> plan to focus on quality measurements. I am CCing Dario who is in charge of
>> Analytics Research to look into the specifics of what's involved here and
>> how it may link to the general quality metrics.
>>
>> Lila
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:54 AM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lila,
>>>
>>> Please take this away from me. I do not want to be in a position where
>>> my influence over it can unduly enrich my new client by degrading the
>>> quality of the encyclopedia. Please let me know your decision.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> James
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
>>> Date: Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM
>>> Subject: comments on Annual Plan
>>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regarding
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2015-16#En…
>>>
>>> Will key quality metrics for reading include accuracy of articles on
>>> the Simple English Wikipedia?
>>>
>>> To that end, will the Wikimedia Foundation please take over this project
>>> in full as stated here:
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2015-May/031684.html
>>>
>>> I have a new contract through the end of the year and will be unable to
>>> devote the time I had planned. Thank you.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> James Salsman
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>