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
Forwarding announcement.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:09 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] 6-April-2016 CREDIT call for demos
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
As I noted recently, we're merging the WMF technical showcase with the
lightning
talks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks> into what we're
calling *CREDIT <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>.*
The next CREDIT showcase will be 6-April-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100 SF).
Please add your demos to https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Thanks!
-Adam
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2016 Universal Technology Management Conference (UTMC)
Bemidji State University, Minnesota, USA
May 26-28, 2016
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/itmc2016/
The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by
researchers from the international community, including presentations
from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. The conference
welcome papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics:
*Information Technology
-Information and Data Management
-Information Content Security
-The Management of IT Investments
-Computational Intelligence
-Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
-Information Management
-Enterprise Architecture Management
-The Management of “Green” IT
-Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications
-Web Services Security
-Information Ethics
-Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
-Information Security and Cryptography
-Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks
*Computer Science
-Biometrics Technologies
-Computer Forensics
-Computer Security
-Data Mining
-Distributed and Parallel Applications
-Wireless Communications
-Cloud Computing
-Access Control
-Network Security
-Digital Signal and Image Processing
-Multimedia Computing
-Computer Animation
-Computer Architecture
-Artificial Intelligence
-Information Retrieval
-Natural Language Processing
*Business, and Technology In Education
-Educational Technology
-Computer-aided Systems
-Mobile Computing
-Education In Computational Science
-Mobile Learning
-Business Intelligence and Web Services
-E-commerce Business Models
-Future Development of E-Business
-E- Learning
-E-Government
-Debugging Tools and Learning
-E-Business Applications and Software
*Manufacturing Systems
-Design and Manufacturing
-Intelligent Processing of Materials
-Human-Machine Interface
-Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing, and Engineering
-Modeling and Design
-Design and Green Manufacturing
-Automation
-Networks Design, Protocols and Management
*Engineering Technology
-Bioinformatics & Biomedical Imaging
-Robotics and Atomization Engineering
-Globalization of Engineering
-Applications of AI Techniques in Design and Manufacturing
-Industrial Engineering
-Biomedical Signal Processing
-Robotics and Mobile Machines
-Computer Architecture for Intelligent Machines
Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All
papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees.
Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered.
IMPORTANT DATES
===============
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2016 (EXTENDED)
Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2016 or 2-3 weeks after date of
submission
Camera Ready Submission Deadline: May 15, 2016
Registration Deadline: May 15, 2016
Conference Dates: May 26-28, 2016
Forwarding the campaign announcement, and ideas from Aaron Halfaker.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Aaron Halfaker" <ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Feb 29, 2016 16:00
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation &
review launches today!
To: "Chris Jethro Schilling" <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: "Staff All" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I just finished submitting two ideas that I'd like to advise.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Automated_good-faith_newcome…
Build and deploy a machine learning model for flagging newcomers who are
editing in good-faith. This has the potential to mitigate some of the
secondary, demotivational effects when good-faith newcomers' work passes
through curation/review processes.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Fast_and_slow_new_article_re…
Concerns about the introduction of spam into Wikipedia has lead Wikipedians
towards implementing high speed new article review/curation processes. The
speed at which editors tag articles for deletion via these processes is
great for dealing with spam, but it might also be faster that good-faith
new article creators can build their articles. We could build a machine
learning classifier that is tuned to detect spammy article drafts. This
would allow the new pages queue to be split into a high-speed spammy
article review, and a low-speed article review that allows creators time to
make a better first draft.
I'll submit some more when I can. :)
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce the launch of the second Inspire Campaign for
> IdeaLab.[1] The theme of this campaign is focused on improving tasks
> related to content curation & review in our projects:
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
>
> Reviewing and organizing tasks are fundamental to all WIkimedia projects,
> and these efforts maintain and directly improve the quality of our
projects
> in addition to increasing the visibility of their content. We invite
> everyone to participate by sharing your ideas and proposals on how to
> enhance these efforts. Constructive feedback and collaboration on ideas is
> encouraged - your skills and advice can elevate a project into action. The
> campaign runs until 29 March.
>
> All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions,
> community organizing and outreach, or something completely new! Grants are
> available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects developed during this
> campaign that need financial support.[2] Google Hangout sessions are
> available in March if you'd like to have a conversation about your
ideas.[3]
>
> Join the Inspire Campaign and let’s work together to improve review and
> curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and
> accessible.
>
> With thanks,
>
> Jethro
>
> [1] You can learn more about the results of the first Inspire Campaign
> here: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign>
> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start>
> [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events> (Note: If
> another time would work better for you, feel free to e-mail me or ping me
> on-wiki).
>
> ---
> Chris "Jethro" Schilling
> I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
> Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
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