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
I appreciated this video from our colleagues at Wiki Learning Tec de
Monterrey. I tried to send this awhile back but was having technical
difficulties with Mailman, so I hope that this post reaches the Education
mailing list. I hope that others also enjoy this video.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tec-de-monterrey-student-activiti…
Pine
(Cross-posting)
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:17 PM
Subject: WikiConference USA coming in October 2015
To: Wikimedia-announce <wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wiki Research-l <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Wikimedians,
WikiConference USA 2015 will be held *October 9–11* at the U.S. National
Archives in Washington, D.C.
Registration and scholarship applications are open. Session proposals may
be submitted.
Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org
Pine