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
Hi all,
I'm fond of this cheatsheet for wiki mark-up, we use it in Ukrainian a lot
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheatsheet-en.pdf
Is there anything similar in idea but focused on visual editing?
Maybe someone has designed such already. Some leaflet that can be printed
and distributed widely.
Thanks for help,
*--*
*Vira Motorko (user:Ата)*
Wikimedia Ukraine <https://ua.wikimedia.org/> non-profit organisation
+380667740499
Are you saving your documents in free formats? ;)
Help save natural resources – please think twice before printing this
e-mail or any attachments.
Hello all,
*First of all, sincere apologies for sending this so late. The earlier post
got deleted for some reason while it was under moderation.*
As many of you might know, there is a new issue of The Wikimedia Education
Newsletter, now a quarterly publication, to be published by June 1. [1]
Would you like to showcase your Education Program, its outcomes and impact,
in this newsletter? The way the submission works is really simple. First,
you draft a post in the newsroom [2] by following the guidelines [3], and
then we work together in shaping it better.
Please submit your draft by May 18th. Once the story is up on the newsroom,
the newsletter content leads [4] will work to make any needed corrections.
Feel free to write back to me if you need any more clarification on the
process
Looking forward to hear more from you either here or offlist.
Thanks,
Subha
1. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter
2. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom
3. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Publication_Guidelines
4.
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Team#The_newsletter_roles
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best,
Subhashish Panigrahi | @subhapa
Communications, Program Capacity & Learning
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Hi all,
I am looking for a brochure or folder that informs teachers and staff of a
university about the advantages/benefits of using Wikipedia in the
classrooms, as well as why that is important, good to do, etc etc etc. In
other words, a brochure or folder that we can send out to universities to
convince. To avoid we invent the wheel, I would be happy to learn from what
others use (or know to be used elsewhere) for convincing the use of
Wikipedia. Does anyone have an example available?
(I do not see any brochure/folder of this kind linked on
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures )
We are planning (Netherlands) to create such one and I hope you can share
good examples with us.
Thanks!
Romaine
Dear education colleagues,
I'm delighted to introduce the newest member of the WMF education team, Vahid
Masrour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VMasrour_(WMF)>. Vahid joins
as our Community Capacity Manager, and will be working with groups
like the Wikipedia
Education Collaborative
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collabora…>
and
other global education program leaders and affiliates to make sure they
have the support they need to be successful.
Vahid will be working remotely from Quito, Ecuador for his first few months
before moving with his family to San Diego. A little more about Vahid in
his own words:
World citizen, with a strong experience in South America, I have resided in
> 6 countries so far, and plan to keep on moving. I am keenly interested in
> transformation of educational processes using technology as a lever. I have
> been part of the Ecuador User Group since its inception (2013), as the
> education program specialist, and am a firm believer that “Knowledge is as
> wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is
> incumbent upon everyone.”
>
Originally trained as a psychologist, I’ve been learning about community
> development through development projects and volunteer service. The overlap
> of my interests in education, technology and community development now
> finds a peculiarly interesting expression through my work at the WMF, where
> I can now serve by enabling a global community’s efforts towards the
> “growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational
> content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to
> the public free of charge”.
Please join me in welcoming Vahid to the education team (on-list or on-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VMasrour_(WMF)>)!
Tighe
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org