Dear fellow Wikipedians:
This is to let you know about my most recent article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray. We’re especially proud of this piece, in which we make a pedagogical and public-service case for writing and editing Wikipedia articles for law school credit. The article has just been published in the Journal of Legal Education, which, appropriately, is an open-access journal. The current volume can be found here: http://jle.aals.org/home/. You can also read an abstract and download the article from my SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network) website, here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241.
Yours truly,
John Kleefeld
Associate Professor, College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
15 Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6
tel: (+1) 306.966.1039
email: john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca
skype: johnkleefeld
twitter: @johnkleefeld
web: http://law.usask.ca/find-people/faculty/kleefeld-john.php
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 friends,
I don't know anyone has encountered the situation, but the outreach
dashboard cannot find the editing history of Chinese Wikipedia
participants. Please refer to the following phabricator for further
details: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149516 .
Liang
Hello!
I'm excited to announce the newest addition to the education team here at
the Foundation, Nichole Saad. Nichole started last week, and going forward
will be the team's main point of contact for the Asia region as well as
managing our team's communications work.
Here's a snippet about Nichole
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)> in her own words:
Hello! I'm excited to meet you all! As an educator, I'm thrilled to be part
> of the Wikimedia Foundation, whose work has contributed to improving access
> to knowledge worldwide. My own work is fueled by the theory that improving
> the access to and quality of education globally is the key to a more
> prosperous and peaceful world, and I'm eager to begin work as the new
> Program Manager on the Education Team!
>
> Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I worked as an education
> professional in seven countries in diverse roles. Most recently I was based
> in Jordan as an Associate Project Officer with UNESCO, working on the
> educational response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Throughout these
> experiences I’ve been very interested in how innovative technological
> solutions can be used to provide quality education to the most
> marginalized, and can’t wait to explore this further here!
Please join me in welcoming Nichole to the foundation. Feel free to reach
out here, directly over email (nsaad(a)wikimedia.org) or on her talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NSaad_(WMF)>.
Tighe
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Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
Welcome, Nicole!
Best,
Isaac
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
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Welcome Nichole :)
On Wednesday 26 October 2016, Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm excited to announce the newest addition to the education team here at
> the Foundation, Nichole Saad. Nichole started last week, and going forward
> will be the team's main point of contact for the Asia region as well as
> managing our team's communications work.
>
> Here's a snippet about Nichole
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)> in her own words:
>
> Hello! I'm excited to meet you all! As an educator, I'm thrilled to be
>> part of the Wikimedia Foundation, whose work has contributed to improving
>> access to knowledge worldwide. My own work is fueled by the theory that
>> improving the access to and quality of education globally is the key to a
>> more prosperous and peaceful world, and I'm eager to begin work as the new
>> Program Manager on the Education Team!
>>
>> Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I worked as an education
>> professional in seven countries in diverse roles. Most recently I was based
>> in Jordan as an Associate Project Officer with UNESCO, working on the
>> educational response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Throughout these
>> experiences I’ve been very interested in how innovative technological
>> solutions can be used to provide quality education to the most
>> marginalized, and can’t wait to explore this further here!
>
>
> Please join me in welcoming Nichole to the foundation. Feel free to reach
> out here, directly over email (nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nsaad(a)wikimedia.org');>) or on her talk page
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NSaad_(WMF)>.
>
> Tighe
>
> --
> Tighe Flanagan
> Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
> Wikimedia Foundation
> tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org');>
> education.wikimedia.org
>
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*Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ*"
Programme Associate, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
Phone: +91-7537097770
*LinkedIn* : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4
*Twitter* : @saileshpat
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality"
You are invited to contribute, participate and/or submit your research
paper.
The Fifth International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Welfare and
Digital Forensic (CyberSec2017)
St. Mary's University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
April 22-24, 2017
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/6th-international-cyber-security-cyber-welfare…
Paper Submission Deadline: March 1, 2017
==========================
Call for Special Session
==========================
The conference also welcomes researchers to organize special session in
any one of the tracks in cyber security and digital forensic with
regards to the conference topic.
Mechanics:
Special Sessions may address one or more tracks, but they should be
organized under a unified theme. Each special session should attract 6
registered papers. These papers will be part of the Conference
Proceedings, and they will be published in the proceedings of the
conference and will be sent to at least 10 indexing places.
Submission:
Send your session title and summary as detailed in the conference
website.
Hello colleagues,
Some of you might be interested in this news article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/can-wikipedia-save…
When we know that we have countless shortcomings in Wikimedia, I found it
refreshing to hear that some aspects of our content and community are
performing well and, on the whole, are serving the public interest.
Regards,
Pine
Dear Edu community,
In case some of you hit the issue where you can't add a Facilitator to a
course in the Outreach Dashboard - the workaroud is to have the user
login to English Wikipedia at least once.
Meanwhile I'm looking forward to the time when someone with the
knowledge of Ruby will get their hands dirty and fix this for us:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147787
Best,
Yury
Hello, Wikimedia Education!
My name is Daniel Bogre Udell and I'm a co-founder at Wikitongues, a
non-profit organization and international volunteer community dedicated to
defending linguistic diversity. We're building the world's first public
archive of every language in the world, and counting some very enthusiastic
Wikimedians among our ranks, we're excited to announce that we've submitted
a proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Feature_Set…>
for
this upcoming round of Wikimedia Project Grants to support Poly, an open
source platform for sharing and learning languages.
Poly stands to improve the language content for both Wiktionary and
Wikivoyages by creating a broader network of language content aggregation.
Through it, the breadth of these projects will be expanded and their
language accuracy improved. Furthermore, in gaining access to new language
communities working with Wikitongues, Wikipedia stands to benefit from the
incubation of new language editions.
We're eager for community feedback, so if you think there are any points of
alignment between Poly and Education, or any other Wikimedia projects,
please let us know in the project's discussion section
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Featur…>
.
Finally, if you believe this project to be worthwhile, we would be honored
to have your endorsement, which you can enter in the project's Endorsements
section
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikitongues_Poly_Feature_Set…>.
We would also greatly appreciate it if you can spread the word among your
fellow Wikimedians.
Thank you very much!
Warmly,
Daniel Bogre Udell
Director
*Wikitongues*
www.wikitongues.org
Every language in the world
+1 (917) 975 1410
@dbudell
Thank you, Michal!
John Kleefeld
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 21:33:09 +0300
From: Michal Lester <mlester(a)wikimedia.org.il>
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Assessment Rubrics for Wikipedia
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Thank you Vahid for sharing with the education mailing list WMIL article
assessment. We also have another grading tool:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Article_Quality_in_WMIL…
Please feel free to contact me if you need any further information.
Kind regards, Michal
*Regards,*
*Michal Lester,*
*Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
*http://www.wikimedia.org.il <http://www.wikimedia.org.il/> *
*972-50-8996046 ; 972-77-751-6032 *
2016-10-08 1:43 GMT+03:00 Vahid Masrour <vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org>:
> Israel has developed quite an advanced model to assess student work in
> Wikipedia. I recommend you look at their classroom-tested work here:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Article_
> Assessment_for_Student_Assignments_%E2%80%93_For_Teacher.pdf
>
> This guide also written by WMIL may also be of interest (and used as a
> starting point for your own adaptation?):
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/WMIL_-_A
> _Guide_to_Writing_Articles_about_Awards_Winning_Scientists.pdf
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vahid.
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Kleefeld, John <john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all:
>>
>>
>>
>> I’d like build a catalogue or inventory of assessment (grading) rubrics
>> for Wikipedia assignments, ranging from the simplest assignments to the
>> most complex. I’m not referring to a grading structure (10% for this, 50%
>> for that, etc.), but to a set of objective criteria for assessing the
>> contributions within that structure. Usually, this will be in a
>> two-dimensional format with “descriptors” that assess proficiency in
>> various “dimensions” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>> Rubric_(academic)), though other formats are possible. I’ve reviewed
>> various materials, including the WikiEdu grading page (
>> http://ask.wikiedu.org/questions/scope:all/sort:activity-
>> desc/tags:grading/page:1/) and found some useful guidance at pages 14-19
>> of the Case Studies document. But I’d like to see if any of this has been
>> translated into the kinds of rubrics I’m thinking of. I’m open to seeing
>> what you’ve done in any discipline, even if it doesn’t follow the format
>> I’m describing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Apologies for any duplication between this list and the education-request
>> list.
>>
>>
>>
>> John Kleefeld
>>
>> Associate Professor, College of Law
>>
>> University of Saskatchewan
>>
>> 15 Campus Drive
>>
>> Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6
>>
>>
>>
>> tel: (+1) 306.966.1039
>>
>> email: john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca
>>
>> skype: johnkleefeld
>>
>> twitter: @johnkleefeld
>>
>> web: http://law.usask.ca/find-people/faculty/kleefeld-john.php
>>
>>
>>
>> Read my most recent article, co-authored with former student Kate
>> Rattray, on editing Wikipedia for law school credit: *http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241
>> <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241>.*
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, just published—“Contributory Fault at 90,” my book chapter in Quill
>> & Friel’s *Damages and Compensation Culture: *
>> http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/damages-and-compensation-cultur
>> e-9781849467971.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
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> Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
> vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
>
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Vahid, thank you very much. It’s just the sort of thing I’m looking for. This would require some adaptation (for instance, the Wikimedia Israel rubric is premised solely on writing, rather than editing, articles), but it’s a good start.
John
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Israel has developed quite an advanced model to assess student work in
Wikipedia. I recommend you look at their classroom-tested work here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Article_Assessment_for_…
This guide also written by WMIL may also be of interest (and used as a
starting point for your own adaptation?):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/WMIL_-_
A_Guide_to_Writing_Articles_about_Awards_Winning_Scientists.pdf
Best regards,
Vahid.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Kleefeld, John <john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca>
wrote:
> Hello all:
>
>
>
> I’d like build a catalogue or inventory of assessment (grading) rubrics
> for Wikipedia assignments, ranging from the simplest assignments to the
> most complex. I’m not referring to a grading structure (10% for this, 50%
> for that, etc.), but to a set of objective criteria for assessing the
> contributions within that structure. Usually, this will be in a
> two-dimensional format with “descriptors” that assess proficiency in
> various “dimensions” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubric_(academic)),
> though other formats are possible. I’ve reviewed various materials,
> including the WikiEdu grading page (http://ask.wikiedu.org/
> questions/scope:all/sort:activity-desc/tags:grading/page:1/) and found
> some useful guidance at pages 14-19 of the Case Studies document. But I’d
> like to see if any of this has been translated into the kinds of rubrics
> I’m thinking of. I’m open to seeing what you’ve done in any discipline,
> even if it doesn’t follow the format I’m describing.
>
>
>
> Apologies for any duplication between this list and the education-request
> list.
>
>
>
> John Kleefeld
>
> Associate Professor, College of Law
>
> University of Saskatchewan
>
> 15 Campus Drive
>
> Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6
>
>
>
> tel: (+1) 306.966.1039
>
> email: john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca
>
> skype: johnkleefeld
>
> twitter: @johnkleefeld
>
> web: http://law.usask.ca/find-people/faculty/kleefeld-john.php
>
>
>
> Read my most recent article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray,
> on editing Wikipedia for law school credit: *http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241
> <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241>.*
>
>
>
> Also, just published—“Contributory Fault at 90,” my book chapter in Quill
> & Friel’s *Damages and Compensation Culture: *
> http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/damages-and-compensation-
> culture-9781849467971.
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Education mailing list
> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
>
>
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