Dear WEP community,
I know we've been introduced before, but let me reintroduce myself and some
exciting new things I'll be working with you on. I'm Nichole, the new
addition to the education team, and I'll be working on communications and
as the regional focal point for Asia.
I've been working on a plan to improve communication about the education
program, including thematic elements, and along with Tighe and Vahid have
concluded that the best place to start is with the newsletter. I know some
of you were volunteering to produce the newsletter before, and I would love
to hear from you if you have worked on this or are interested in starting.
We've already got some great submissions in the Newsroom. Thanks to
everyone who submitted their stories--The December Newsletter will go out
by the end of the month :)
Now for news about news!
While we've currently been producing quarterly newsletters, I'm proposing
to go back to monthly newsletters but smaller in scale with only 4 features
per newsletter (the learning quarterly
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Newsletter/2016/3/10>offers
a good example). Each issue would be thematic, with a preceding community
conversation around the theme taking place on Twitter, Facebook, the
mailing list, and on the Wiki and synthesized as one of the features for
the newsletter. The other features will be submissions from the community
on project highlights or op-eds relevant to the theme.
I would really like to get this off the ground for January, and that will
require your cooperation! How can you get involved?
1. Submit your ideas for newsletter themes. Submissions needed by 12/24 on
the Newsroom page, under the heading "Theme Ideas"
To get the ball rolling here are a few general ideas:
- Teacher Training/Professional Development
- K-12
- Higher Education
- Politics in Wikipedia Education Projects
- Regional themes
- Themes on specific Wiki projects
2. Once the theme is announced participate in the conversation!
3. Volunteer to help produce the newsletter. We're going to need a team to
help with:
- content curating
- revising the newsletter pages on the wiki
- formatting and publishing the monthly newsletters
- distribution/promotion on various channels
Any questions can be directed to me nsaad(a)wikimedia.org.
I'm looking forward to working closely with you all!
best regards,
Nichole
This is wonderful, Shani! You put an incredible amount of work into this,
so much to be proud of.
Thank you for sharing :)
Tighe
--
Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Anna Torres <de(a)wikimedia.org.ar> wrote:
> Congrats! :)
>
> 2016-12-14 8:54 GMT-03:00 Michal Lester <mlester(a)wikimedia.org.il>:
>
>> Congratulations!! Such interesting and important article.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thank you Shani
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Regards,*
>>
>>
>> *Michal Lester,*
>>
>> *Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
>> *http://www.wikimedia.org.il <http://www.wikimedia.org.il/> *
>> *972-50-8996046 ; 972-77-751-6032 *
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-12-12 16:01 GMT+02:00 Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hello Education & Research enthusiasts,
>>>
>>> Happy to share some good news with you -- an academic article I wrote
>>> about implementing Wikipedia in higher education has been accepted to the
>>> journal "Education and Information Technologies" (of Springer Nature
>>> publishing house) and finally published online today!
>>>
>>> The article is called "Wikipedia as a platform for impactful learning:
>>> A new course model in higher education" and is attached below in a PDF
>>> form. Unfortunately, I did not have 3000$ to publish it via their "Open
>>> Access" option, but if your academic institution is subscribed to
>>> Springer, it is also available via this link - http://rdcu.be/nLxs
>>> <http://em.rdcu.be/wf/click?upn=KP7O1RED-2BlD0F9LDqGVeSNV04Bi9eNZdn8IE1uoBDt…>
>>> .
>>>
>>> Really hope this will inspire other institutions, educators and
>>> researchers to further explore such endeavors.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Shani.
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Education mailing list
>>> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
>>>
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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>
>
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> Anna Torres Adell
> Directora Ejecutiva
> *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*
>
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>
Hello Education & Research enthusiasts,
Happy to share some good news with you -- an academic article I wrote about
implementing Wikipedia in higher education has been accepted to the journal
"Education and Information Technologies" (of Springer Nature publishing
house) and finally published online today!
The article is called "Wikipedia as a platform for impactful learning: A
new course model in higher education" and is attached below in a PDF
form. Unfortunately,
I did not have 3000$ to publish it via their "Open Access" option, but if your
academic institution is subscribed to Springer, it is also available via
this link - http://rdcu.be/nLxs
<http://em.rdcu.be/wf/click?upn=KP7O1RED-2BlD0F9LDqGVeSNV04Bi9eNZdn8IE1uoBDt…>
.
Really hope this will inspire other institutions, educators and researchers
to further explore such endeavors.
Cheers,
Shani.
WikiProject Medicine, Translators Without Borders, and the Wiki Education
Foundation are all mentioned in this post from NPR. I'm forwarding the post
for others involved with medical content, Wikimedia education, or Wikimedia
translation who might like to read it:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/08/501087493/should-i-trus…
Regards,
Pine
[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
---------- Forwarded message ----------
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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