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,
As we have stated in our annual plan [1], “currently, community members
must search many pages and places to stay informed about Foundation
activities and resources.” We have worked in the past two quarters to
create a single point of entry. We call it the Wikimedia Resource Center,
and its alpha version is now live on Meta Wikimedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center
As the movement expands to include more affiliates and more programmatic
activities every year, newer Wikimedians are faced with lack of experience
in the movement and its various channels for requesting support. In order
to expand Wikimedia communities’ efforts, we want to provide easy access to
resources that support their very important work. The [[m:Wikimedia
Resource Center]] is a hub designed in response to this issue: it is
intended to evolve into a single point of entry for Wikimedians all over
the world to the variety of resources and types of staff support they may
need to develop new initiatives or also expand existing ones.
This version of the Resource Center is only the beginning. For phase two of
the project, we will enable volunteer Wikimedians to add resources
developed by other individuals or organizations to the Wikimedia Resource
Center, and in phase three, the Wikimedia Resource Center will include
features to better connect Wikimedians to other Wikimedians that can
support them.
We want to hear what you think about this prototype and our plans for it!
If you have comments about the Wikimedia Resource Center, you can submit
your feedback publicly, on the Talk Page, or privately, via a survey hosted
by a third party, that shouldn’t take you more than 4 minutes to complete.
A feedback button is on the top right corner on every page of the hub.
Looking forward to more collaborations!
Best,
María
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
--
María Cruz
Communications and Outreach Project Manager, Community Engagement
Dear global colleagues:
This is to let you know of a new blog series that I’m writing in my capacity as a teaching fellow at our teaching-and-learning centre at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. I plan to write every week to promote the use of Wikipedia in higher education, and will strive to make the content topical and rich with links to what others are doing. I’m open to receiving your suggestions on how best to do that.
The first post, “The Wikipedia Manifesto,” went live last week: http://words.usask.ca/gmcte/2017/01/17/the-wikipedia-manifesto/.
The second post, “How Students Are Learning Medicine and Collaborative Skills, And Transforming Wikipedia,” went live today: http://words.usask.ca/gmcte/2017/01/24/medicine-and-wikipedia/.
Yours truly,
John Kleefeld
Associate Professor, College of Law
2017 Teaching Fellow, Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness
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
mission: http://www.usask.ca/leadershipteam/documents/president/MissionVisionValues.…
Read my article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray, on editing Wikipedia for law school credit: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241.
And my tribute to Lord Atkin, “The Donoghue Diaries”: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2470647.
Also, “Concurrent Fault at 90,” my book chapter in Quill & Friel’s Damages and Compensation Culture: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/damages-and-compensation-culture-9781849467971.
Dear colleagues:
My third post in the blog series, “What Does It Mean to Say That “Anyone Can Edit” Wikipedia?” is up. It includes a helpful screencast by Pete Forsyth<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peteforsyth> on how to use an article’s History Page. Thanks, Pete!
Several of you have asked whether you can subscribe to these posts by email. I appreciate the interest. Unfortunately, I’m told that our university blogging software doesn’t accommodate this right now. Two other options have been suggested to me: an RSS service such as Feedly<https://feedly.com/>; or a generic blog subscription service such as Blogtrottr<https://blogtrottr.com/>. I’m not entirely satisfied with either option, so I’ll do it my own way until I figure out something better. I’m providing short links to all the posts to date, in reverse chronological order, with the most recent on top:
What Does It Mean to Say That “Anyone Can Edit” Wikipedia? http://bit.ly/2jqMV5y
How Students Are Learning Medicine and Collaborative Skills, And Transforming Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/2jt5fH7
The Wikipedia Manifesto: http://bit.ly/2jGlAc1
This will serve as a sort of table of contents for those who come in to the series at a later point.
Yours truly,
John Kleefeld
Associate Professor, College of Law
2017 Teaching Fellow, Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness
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
mission: http://www.usask.ca/leadershipteam/documents/president/MissionVisionValues.…
Read my article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray, on editing Wikipedia for law school credit: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241.
And my tribute to Lord Atkin, “The Donoghue Diaries”: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2470647.
Also, “Concurrent Fault at 90,” my book chapter in Quill & Friel’s Damages and Compensation Culture: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/damages-and-compensation-culture-9781849467971.
Hello!
Are you currently implementing a Wikipedia Education Program? Have you
updated your country’s outreach page to reflect your great work? If not, we
would love to see what you’ve been doing!
If you need some ideas about what to include, let us know. Some great
information to add or update includes: institutions, numbers (courses,
students, educators), key contacts and any links to other documentation on
wiki (in any language -- English summaries are helpful but not required).
If you have any ongoing programs we would love to hear more about them! You
can always get in touch with your regional focal point on wiki or by email.
Here is our contact information:
Tighe Flanagan <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TFlanagan-WMF> (US
& Canada, Africa and the Middle East) tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
Vahid Masrour <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VMasrour_(WMF)> (South
America and Europe) vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
Nichole Saad <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)> (Asia
and the Pacific) nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
Remember to update your outreach page, so we can send you some Wikilove :)
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries
It seems that a blogging trend is starting. I will send out a separate email about my own recent efforts, including a piece that just went live on the medical content.
John Kleefeld
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A new blog post for the Wikipedia Education Program. It is a series of 3
articles, with the first one published. The link to the blog post:
Click here
<https://mywikieducation.blogspot.in/2017/01/change-in-modern-schooling-educ…>
Please do view, share, and comment.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:03 AM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks very much for all your answers guys, please keep them coming :)
>
> On 11 January 2017 at 22:22, Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I think the medical accomplishments would be great to share in terms of
>> Wikimedia's relevance in humanitarian response. For the UNESCO Mobile
>> learning week they are looking for presentations on technology that impacts
>> learners, teachers or education systems. You can check out ineesite.org
>> to get an understanding of Education in Emergencies and hopefully that will
>> help you with some ideas :).
>>
>> all the best,
>>
>> Nichole
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> Sounds like a great opportunity, and the WikiMed example is super
>>> relevant, indeed
>>>
>>> Nichole and I (on the WMF education program team) were actually
>>> discussing this very event yesterday. I'm copying her as well as the
>>> education list, in case there are additional ideas we can surface.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tighe
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 6:21 AM Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I understand you correctly, seems like a good opportunity to mention
>>>> medical content on Wikipedia, and the efforts to translate the 100 most
>>>> important medical articles (now already 700) to as many languages as
>>>> possible, as well as create an offline app with all medical content, which
>>>> we now have in 10 languages. This can literally be the difference between
>>>> life and death in the developing world and could come in handy in times of
>>>> various types of crises.
>>>> CCing Doc James, who can direct you to the best and most updated
>>>> resource about that.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Shani.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:06 PM, john cummings <
>>>> mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> I have the possibility of presenting at the UNESCO Learning Week in
>>>> March on the role of open licensing and Wikimedia in education in
>>>> emergencies and crises. I haven't been able to find out much information
>>>> about the subject, does anyone have any resources they could recommend?
>>>>
>>>> www.unesco.org/new/en/mlw
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> John
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Sounds like a great opportunity, and the WikiMed example is super relevant,
indeed
Nichole and I (on the WMF education program team) were actually discussing
this very event yesterday. I'm copying her as well as the education list,
in case there are additional ideas we can surface.
Cheers,
Tighe
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 6:21 AM Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, seems like a good opportunity to mention
> medical content on Wikipedia, and the efforts to translate the 100 most
> important medical articles (now already 700) to as many languages as
> possible, as well as create an offline app with all medical content, which
> we now have in 10 languages. This can literally be the difference between
> life and death in the developing world and could come in handy in times of
> various types of crises.
> CCing Doc James, who can direct you to the best and most updated resource
> about that.
>
> Best,
> Shani.
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:06 PM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have the possibility of presenting at the UNESCO Learning Week in March
> on the role of open licensing and Wikimedia in education in emergencies and
> crises. I haven't been able to find out much information about the subject,
> does anyone have any resources they could recommend?
>
> www.unesco.org/new/en/mlw
>
> Thanks
>
> John
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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