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
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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
[Forwarding to the Education and PE&D lists]
Hello all,
As you may know, this year the Community Tech team at the Wikimedia
Foundation hosted a new Community Wishlist Survey. During the proposal
phase, participants could submit proposals for features and fixes they’d
like the team to work on.
Now Phase 2 begins: time to vote! We know program leaders have many wishes
for program tools that can better support the implementation of
edit-a-thons, editing workshops, photo competitions, GLAM initiatives,
education programs, conferences and many more programs that are designed
every year. You can find those wishes at the Program and Events wishes page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/P…>
[1],
and vote for them! A few highlights are:
* Make finding and sharing documentation much easier
* Tool to post barnstars after large scale meetups
* Article tracking tool for Wikiprojects, edit-a-thons and other campaigns,
based on Wikidata
* Enable on-wiki lift for account creation limit at a specific IP range
* and more!
The voting phase goes from today, November 28, to December 12. Please make
sure to vote, pass this message on to your community, and encourage others
to vote, too!
After the voting phase, Community Tech plans to allocate 75% of the
wishlist work to the top 10 wishes, and 25% to proposals important to
smaller groups. This will include campaign and program organizers and GLAM
participants, among others. So, voting is important, even if you don't
think you'll get into the top 10!
Please do reach out to me if you have any questions about the voting
process.
Best,
Amanda
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_
Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Programs_and_events
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From: Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:59 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Voting's open on 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
The voting has started on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey, and all
Wikimedia contributors are invited to come and vote on the projects that
WMF's Community Tech team will work on next year:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
There are 267 proposals this year, on a wide range of subjects that I'm
pretty sure you have an opinion about.
You've got two weeks to vote, from now through December 12th. You can vote
for as many proposals as you like, by adding a {{support}} tag under the
proposals that you think are worthwhile.
Once the voting's over, we'll have a ranked list of projects for the
Community Tech team to work on, as well as other developers and volunteers
who want to build features and make changes that the core contributors
really want.
This is an opportunity for you to help set the agenda for a WMF product
team, so I hope everybody comes and participates!
Danny Horn
WMF Product Manager
Community Tech
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Hello all,
As some of you may have seen there are two open positions (both paid) in
the Community Engagement department for internships on the Learning &
Evaluation team:
-
Communications Intern:. (6 months, up to 30 hours/week) We are looking
for a candidate who works and / or studies in the field of communications,
has excellent verbal and written English communications skills and the
ability to excel in a fast-paced, multitasking environment. Knowledge
and/or experience with Wikimedia Projects a plus!
The Communications Iintern will primarily support conference communications
for the Community Engagement Team (including event planning and materials
preparation), help plan workshops and community events for program leaders
(as well as document the outcome of those events), and assist with the
coordination of technology supports for communications and events. You can
find the complete job description here:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/488571#.WCHxXOErKRs
-
Technical Intern (3 months up to 20 hours/week) We are looking for a
candidate that has experience in Mediawiki mark-up and technical
communications experience in designing for web content curation and user
flow, has proficiency in at least three of the following programming
languages: Javascript, Lua, Python, MySQL, has experience developing or
administrating MediaWiki websites. The candidate should have a strong
interest in archival systems, searchability and usable portals on wiki, and
technical skills for designing Wikimedia templates and pages.
The Technical Design Intern will work closely with the Communications and
Outreach Coordinator (that would be me!) on the Wikimedia Resource Center,
the redesign of the Evaluation Portal on Meta Wikimedia, and migration and
archiving of L&E portal pages from existing namespaces to new namespace,
among other tasks. You can find the complete job description here:
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/488570#.WBE6X-ErKRs>
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/488570#.WBE6X-ErKRs
If you are interested, please apply. If you know someone who might fit this
position, please forward the email to them!
Cheers,
María
Hello Education list,
Many of you are already quite familiar with the Dashboard, but here's the
email we are sending around to let program leaders know there is a stable
beta version to use:
There is a beta version of a new tool to help you track your program and
measure its impact on any Wikimedia project, in any language--the Program
and Events Dashboard. [1]
In the past few months, we have been working to develop a web application
where Wikimedia program leaders can enter information about their program,
enable registration for participants, and keep track of activities… all in
one place! We call it the Programs and Events Dashboard, and it will allow
you to see in all the metrics you need to track your program.
Using the dashboard is very easy. You can login with your Wikipedia
username through OAuth and create a program right away. Among other fields,
you can enter home language, home project and start and end dates for your
program. When you create your program, the dashboard generates a link for
people to enroll, where participants can assign themselves articles to
work, or review articles created by others. You can see what articles
participants are working on, and also connect to other program leaders, all
in the same platform.
If you want to learn more about how the Dashboard works, join us on
Tuesday, November 29th, at 16:30 UTC on Tuesday, November 29th for a
demonstration via Google Hangout. [2]
We will really appreciate your feedback on how this new tool works! If you
find bugs, there are two ways to report them:
- privately via email to dashboard(a)wikimedia.org
- and publicly on Phabricator (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1052/)
Your experience is key to improve this new tool, so we thank you in advance
for exploring and using the Dashboard in its beta version. We hope it is
useful to you in managing and tracking your programs!
Best,
Amanda
WMF Learning and Evaluation
[1] outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/
[2] www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdmZZiiDbU4
Hello all,
Please see this year's Community Wishlist announcement below. This year,
"Programs and events" and "Chapters and affiliates" are special categories
that will be considered outside the top 10 wishes.
"After the voting phase, when we have the prioritized backlog, we plan to
> allocate 75% of our wishlist work to the top 10 wishes, and 25% to
> proposals important to smaller groups....So – yes, please come and post
> your proposals, even if you don't think you'll get into the top 10!" [1]
The proposal phase lasts until Nov 20th--this is the time to propose *and
refine* proposals. Check back often and collaborate with your program and
affiliate peers to craft the best proposals. So far, there are 3 Program
and events proposals and 0 Chapter and affiliate proposals.
A wish can't be voted on or selected unless it's created during this
proposal phase--if you want to see a tool, a metric, or extension, now is
the time to propose it. And please share with every program leader you
know! More people means more and stronger proposals.
[Cross posting to wikimedia-ped, education, and affiliates--sorry if you
see this multiple times, but it's really important and we don't want to
leave anyone out!]
All the best,
Amanda
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
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From: Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:49 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
The second annual Community Wishlist Survey starts today, and you're
invited to post proposals for projects that you'd like WMF's Community Tech
team to work on:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes that active
Wikimedia contributors want, and the Wishlist Survey sets the team's agenda
for the year.
The Wishlist Survey starts with a two-week proposal period, when
contributors from all Wikimedia projects are invited to post, discuss and
improve propsals. After that, there's a two-week voting period, when
everyone can post support-votes on the proposals that they think are
worthwhile. We end up with a ranked list of wishes, measured by the
participants' enthusiasm for each idea.
Community Tech is responsible for addressing the top 10 wishes on the list,
as well as some top wishes from smaller groups and projects that are doing
important work, but don't have the numbers to get their proposal into the
top 10. The Wishlist is also used by volunteer developers and other teams,
who want to find projects to work on that the community really wants.
So I hope that everybody comes and participates; it's an opportunity to set
the agenda for a Wikimedia Foundation product team.
We would also ask that you help us spread the word. Please do post on your
wikis and tell others this is happening, and that if they don't feel
comfortable writing in English, proposals are welcome in any language.
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Jon,
At the October Metrics and Activities meeting, you asked for feedback
on the Related Articles feature. Please have a look at this:
http://i.imgur.com/2aujFL7.png
The Making Work Pay Tax Credit was a provision of the Emergency
Economic Stabilization Act of 2008; possibly the most effective
provision responsible for ending and reversing the recession. And
perhaps for that reason, Republicans in Congress refused to renew it
in 2010 during the same series of negotiations in which they refused
to advance the infrastructure bills which did not pass from 2010 until
this year. I believe that the Making Work Pay Tax Credit is fully in
line with the Foundation's Mission and stated public policy
objectives, and so I have recommended that the Foundation endorse it:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2016-September/001527.ht…
The FairTax is a flat tax which is considered very popular among
Libertarians and Objectivists. However, it has never had much
congressional support, likely because nearly all economists think it
would lead to ruin because it is so regressive. Libertarian
presidential candidate Gary Johnson recently became very upset when
asked by a British newspaper reporter about this subject:
https://youtu.be/vvULsrjLdI4?t=3m12s
Do you think FairTax is a useful related article to suggest to people
interested in the Making Work Pay Tax Credit?
To what extent does systemic bias towards fringe Libertarian and
Objectivist economics influence the Related Articles feature?
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 1:11 PM, FRED BAUDER <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
> The subject affected in this way are "hot," in the news, sometimes hourly,
> or involve major financial interests. Austerity economics is as good an
> example as major political candidates. I think statistics would show a
> relationship between news mentions and editing conflict, and, also, the
> amount of profit associated with marketing of a product.
>
> Fred
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 12:52:58 -0600
> James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Fred and Craig,
>>
>> Do you think a comparison of the effects of bias in individual
>> candidates' articles to the effects systemic bias towards trickle-down
>> austerity economics and the social implications thereof in light of
>> the WP:MEDRS-grade source at http://talknicer.com/ehip.pdf might
>> produce a helpful indication of where counter-advocacy efforts would
>> best be focused?
>>
>> I'm un-crossposting this reply to just wiki-research-l and the
>> Education list because I've been told to not crosspost to more than
>> two lists.
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 12:59:09 -0400 Craig Newmark <craig.newmark at
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Fred, thanks!
>>>
>>> Worth reviewing, after people have recovered from the election. How
>>> about...reminding me two weeks from today. I might've recovered by
>>> then,
>>> seriously...
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Craig Newmark
>>>
>>> founder, craigslist
>>>
>>> On Nov 2, 2016 12:44 PM, "FRED BAUDER" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Craig,
>>>>
>>>> I don't expect you to do anything about it, but Hillary Clinton
>>>> presidential campaign, 2016 has been so much an object of political
>>>> editing
>>>> by Clinton supporters that it looks more like an ad for Hillary than
>>>> a
>>>> Wikipedia article.
>>>>
>>>> Fred Bauder
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:43:32 -0400
>>>> Craig Newmark <craig.newmark at craigconnects.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Wikipedia is where facts go to live.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It helps that folks on US Capitol Hill are receptive to quiet
>>>>> suggestions
>>>>> that Wikipedia avoid becoming a partisan battleground.
>>>>>
>>>>> Craig Newmark
>>>>>
>>>>> founder, craigslist
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 1, 2016 7:35 PM, "Olatunde Isaac" <reachout2isaac at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hoi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pine, thanks for sharing this article. I found the entire article
>>>>>> very
>>>>>> interesting. I am glad that Wikipedia is not seen as a vehicle for
>>>>>> political campaign. Sometimes, people create account on Wikipedia
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> aim to use the encyclopedia for political campaign and a good number
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> them end up getting blocked either for POV pushing or other
>>>>>> disruptive
>>>>>> editing/behavior.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW....I have a few question. Is it a good idea to protect a page
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> creation if there are indications that the overall intention of the
>>>>>> creator
>>>>>> is to use Wikipedia as a platform for political campaign? If yes,
>>>>>> how is
>>>>>> such protection necessary if the page is neutrally written?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There was an incident that happened sometimes last year when an
>>>>>> article
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> "Akinwunmi Ambode" was protected from creation and unprotected
>>>>>> after his
>>>>>> election.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this really a good idea?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Isaac
>>>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Pine W <wiki.pine at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Sender: "Wikimedia-l" <wikimedia-l-bounces at
>>>>>> lists.wikimedia.org>Date:
>>>>>> Wed,
>>>>>> 26 Oct 2016 20:31:59
>>>>>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>;
>>>>>> Wikimedia
>>>>>> Education<education at lists.wikimedia.org>; Wiki
>>>>>> Research-l<wiki-research-l@
>>>>>> lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>>>> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>>>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> political neutrality
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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-the-internet-a7380786.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>
>>
>
Fred and Craig,
Do you think a comparison of the effects of bias in individual
candidates' articles to the effects systemic bias towards trickle-down
austerity economics and the social implications thereof in light of
the WP:MEDRS-grade source at http://talknicer.com/ehip.pdf might
produce a helpful indication of where counter-advocacy efforts would
best be focused?
I'm un-crossposting this reply to just wiki-research-l and the
Education list because I've been told to not crosspost to more than
two lists.
On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 12:59:09 -0400 Craig Newmark <craig.newmark at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Fred, thanks!
>
> Worth reviewing, after people have recovered from the election. How
> about...reminding me two weeks from today. I might've recovered by
>then,
> seriously...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Craig Newmark
>
> founder, craigslist
>
> On Nov 2, 2016 12:44 PM, "FRED BAUDER" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
>wrote:
>
>> Craig,
>>
>> I don't expect you to do anything about it, but Hillary Clinton
>> presidential campaign, 2016 has been so much an object of political
>>editing
>> by Clinton supporters that it looks more like an ad for Hillary than
>>a
>> Wikipedia article.
>>
>> Fred Bauder
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:43:32 -0400
>> Craig Newmark <craig.newmark at craigconnects.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Wikipedia is where facts go to live.
>>>
>>>
>>> It helps that folks on US Capitol Hill are receptive to quiet
>>>suggestions
>>> that Wikipedia avoid becoming a partisan battleground.
>>>
>>> Craig Newmark
>>>
>>> founder, craigslist
>>>
>>> On Nov 1, 2016 7:35 PM, "Olatunde Isaac" <reachout2isaac at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hoi,
>>>>
>>>> Pine, thanks for sharing this article. I found the entire article
>>>>very
>>>> interesting. I am glad that Wikipedia is not seen as a vehicle for
>>>> political campaign. Sometimes, people create account on Wikipedia
>>>>with
>>>> the
>>>> aim to use the encyclopedia for political campaign and a good number
>>>>of
>>>> them end up getting blocked either for POV pushing or other
>>>>disruptive
>>>> editing/behavior.
>>>>
>>>> BTW....I have a few question. Is it a good idea to protect a page
>>>>from
>>>> creation if there are indications that the overall intention of the
>>>> creator
>>>> is to use Wikipedia as a platform for political campaign? If yes,
>>>>how is
>>>> such protection necessary if the page is neutrally written?
>>>>
>>>> There was an incident that happened sometimes last year when an
>>>>article
>>>> on
>>>> "Akinwunmi Ambode" was protected from creation and unprotected
>>>>after his
>>>> election.
>>>>
>>>> Is this really a good idea?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Isaac
>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Pine W <wiki.pine at gmail.com>
>>>> Sender: "Wikimedia-l" <wikimedia-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org>Date:
>>>> Wed,
>>>> 26 Oct 2016 20:31:59
>>>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>;
>>>>Wikimedia
>>>> Education<education at lists.wikimedia.org>; Wiki
>>>> Research-l<wiki-research-l@
>>>> lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia
>>>>and
>>>> political neutrality
>>>>
>>>> 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-the-internet-a7380786.html
>>>>
>>>> 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
