Dear colleagues,
16 y.o. Timerkhan Shaykhutdinov of Zelenodolsk obtained his high school director approval to work on improving https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Галимҗан_Ибраһимов article instead of writing a regular research essay for Tatar language and literature class. Photos from his presentation of the results in front of his class are available on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/352291514949017/permalink/887636508081179/
This is the first such precedent in Tatar-speaking world, in the Republic of Tatarstan and, possibly, even within the Russian Federation. I'm obviously proud to have been mentoring the guy within Selet WikiSchool project https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Сәләт_викимәктәбе
regards,
farhad
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Hi all,
We wanted to remind you about the Case Studies campaign from the Programs
team at the Wikimedia Foundation: our hope is to collect case studies of
program or activities that haven’t been documented before. We hope to
collect more representatives case studies for Education, GLAM and other
program areas to better support and inspire other program leaders! To learn
more see: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_studies
If you would like to learn more about what might make great Case Studies,
or if you want some help thinking through what might be in a good case
study, we are holding office hours on Tuesday:
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1800 MYT/1000 UTC on November 28:
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/case-studies_utc0800
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1200 EST/1600 UTC on November 28:
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If you can’t attend these office hours, but would like help thinking about
your potential case study, please let us know: astinson(a)wikimedia.org or
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
Hope you share!
Nichole Saad, Education Program Manager
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Hi Mathieu,
I was heartened to read your questions and conclusions:
> If you take that into consideration, how might you even begin to consider
> that there are any consensual ordering possible? ...
> you can not provide a well-order[ing.]
Referring to why I want to offer eligibility in the essay contest to
the top half of student editors, I agree with you that any assessment
of overall student rank from any set of metrics will not be a scalar
value, but a confidence interval or a central tendency and variance.
Therefore, since my actual intent was to offer eligibility to the top
35%, I nominally offer it to the top 50%.
The present value of outcomes is not always equal to nominal values,
e.g. in societies which could die of preventable communicable diseases
arising among the poor and thus would all be better off if the rich
are taxed to pay for the healthcare of the poor -- thereby increasing
the actual wealth of everyone including those whose nominal wealth
decreases -- but the proportion of optimal transfer incidence relative
to the expected amount of charity and philanthropy is another matter
for a future essay proposal.
> what if "the best" essay writer in the pool you are targeting will be on the contrary repelled by such a contest?
That is a risk well worth taking.
> I'm not against fostering the idea of writing orignal essays around and within
> the Wikimedia movement....
> maybe a dedicated project for essays might make some sense.
I am only proposing a periodic contest, to be archived e.g. on Meta. I
look forward to further engagement from the foundations. Back when I
was the only one arguing for market rate Foundation staff salaries,
some of the most fervent opponents were in the Foundation. It is not
uncommon to see people voting against their own interests
occasionally. It's quite common in some parts of the U.S. Thank
goodness the foundations have a higher grade of thinkers.
Best regards,
Jim
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:57 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz
<psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:
> Saluton,
>
> To my mind, this whole discussion doesn't make any sense as it is all
> grounded on suspect hypotheses.
>
> First, what do you call an essay? I think that for such a work the author
> must instill selfness in it. As say Montaigne "c’eſt moy que ie peins". If
> you take that into consideration, how might you even begin to consider that
> there are any consensual ordering possible? Actually, a "commissioned essay"
> sounds more like an oxymoron than anything else.
>
> Concerning the proposed subject, I would advise any person considering
> answering such a tricksy question to first question its premises. You might
> even explore the strict opposite question: can any institution ever give
> enough to a person for all the time dedicated into integrating its
> expectations? All this time that nothing will ever give back, and not spent
> in other life experiences that the said institution might not care about but
> that would be far more enjoyable.
>
> So, to answer the last question, that's not simply your dichotomy which is
> false, it's the whole underlying premise set your are pushing that is total
> nonsense. No, you can not provide a well-order relation on any set for any
> property.
>
> Moreover you seems to think that it suffices to drop money to achieve
> attracting "the best possible essay" in the scope of your nonsense contest.
> But what if "the best" essay writer in the pool you are targeting will be on
> the contrary repelled by such a contest?
>
> Now, I'm not against fostering the idea of writing orignal essays around and
> within the Wikimedia movement. Currently, I don't think we have a clear
> dedicated project for that, although I come across some of them which are
> usually stored on Meta, in user namespaces, or on Wikibooks (for example A
> Lecture on the Limits of Human Knowledge). So maybe a dedicated project for
> essays might make some sense.
>
> Eseete,
> mathieu
>
> Le 22/11/2017 à 19:05, James Salsman a écrit :
>
> Thanks, Lucas. I am happy to discuss the idea.
>
> I believe that there is strong evidence against the proposition that
> the best editors are skilled in writing articles but not essays.
>
> LiAnna and Tighe, do you have any reasons to believe that editors
> skilled in composing both articles and essays are not superior to
> editors skilled in articles only? Is there a false dichotomy in
> believing that one or the other could be preferable to both?
>
> Best regards,
> Jim
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Lucas Teles <teleswiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe you should first discuss any contest like this with community and
> then come with a suitable idea.
>
> Your willingness to invest on this is something valuable and should be used
> on a project that fits with WMF goals.
>
> Teles
>
> Em ter, 21 de nov de 2017 às 14:19, Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org>
> escreveu:
>
> To echo LiAnna and Wiki Education's take, the Wikimedia Foundation's
> education team support activities that get students to contribute to
> Wikimedia projects as part of their learning. While the contexts may vary
> from country to country and classroom to classroom, the students contribute
> according to Wikimedia project norms (neutrality, citations, etc). This
> type of proposed assignment/competition seems out of scope and we could not
> support it on our end either.
>
> Best,
> Tighe
>
> --
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> Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
> Wikimedia Foundation
> tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
> education.wikimedia.org
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:52 AM, LiAnna Davis <lianna(a)wikiedu.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:27 AM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
>
> I offer $50 USD first prize and $25 for the runner-up for the best
> twelve paragraph essay on the topic of whether college students are
> likely to pay more in income taxes over their lifetime than the
> present value of the entire amount of their college tuition, room, and
> board expenses.
>
> This contest is open only to the top 50% of participants in the
> Wikimedia Education Program or WikiEd Foundation's student editors.
>
> If there are any objections to this contest, please let me know. If
> there are any reasons it shouldn't be communicated to the eligible,
> please let me know. I ask both foundations to match my award, taking
> the prizes to $150 and $75 if they agree. Thank you!
>
>
> No. At the Wiki Education Foundation, we focus on teaching students to
> write neutral, fact-based encyclopedia articles instead of essays; our
> asking them to write essays would be counterproductive given the mission
>
> of
>
> our program, our organization, and the Wikimedia movement. We will not
> support this effort, and ask that you do not reach out to them on your
>
> own.
>
> LiAnna
>
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I offer $50 USD first prize and $25 for the runner-up for the best
twelve paragraph essay on the topic of whether college students are
likely to pay more in income taxes over their lifetime than the
present value of the entire amount of their college tuition, room, and
board expenses.
This contest is open only to the top 50% of participants in the
Wikimedia Education Program or WikiEd Foundation's student editors.
If there are any objections to this contest, please let me know. If
there are any reasons it shouldn't be communicated to the eligible,
please let me know. I ask both foundations to match my award, taking
the prizes to $150 and $75 if they agree. Thank you!
Sincerely,
James Salsman
Hi all!
Since July 2016 [1], the Learning and Evaluation team has been invested in
understanding what leadership means in our movement, and how we can best
support it. On Thursday, November 16 at 9 am PST (1700 UTC), we will host a
public meeting to share what we have learned so far, and how we have been
working to support community leaders. Follow the stream here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJbg2w0RnFk and ask questions via IRC
(#wikimedia-office).
The first step was the Leadership Development Dialogue, a conversation
about what leadership means for our communities, and how the Wikimedia
Foundation can best support it. It was hosted by the Learning and
Evaluation team, part of the Community Engagement department.
The conversation touched on topics like what words best suited this area of
work, and also what skills identified a good leader, and how we could best
collaborate across the movement to provide support within our existing
infrastructures (e.g., Learning Days [2] and the Wikimedia Resource Center
[3]) and beyond.
What does this mean to your local community and your work? How can you join
these efforts?
Join us to learn more about what we have learned from community members
about leadership in the movement, and where we want to go next.
Participation is encouraged via IRC (#wikimedia-office). A recording of the
event will be available later on our youtube channel.
Hope to see many of you there!
Best,
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Leadership_Development…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_Day_events
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Resource Center
Hello fellow Education Program Leaders!
Let the world know what you are doing in your Education Program!
It doesn't have to be very long, if you have a picture or two it will make
it more attractive, and remember we can learn from both has worked and what
didn't!
Go to https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom,
write an indicative headline and then put together 3-4 paragraphs so the
world knows what is going on in your education project.
Please share your news for the rest of us to learn from!
Vahid.
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https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Calling all program leaders and admirers!
Is there an education, GLAM or other programs that you really admire? One
you would like to know more about? Have you seen via the newsletter, blog,
or social media a project that you think would make a great case study?
The WMF Programs team would like you to encourage program leaders now to
submit their case study to the Programs Case Studies Campaign. We will be
accepting submissions until January 8, 2017 . We will then select projects
in Education, GLAM and across all program areas to be highlighted in new
case study brochures and materials.
See this page <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Case_studies> for more
information about submission criteria and the selection process.
Thanks much,
Nichole Saad, Education Program Manager
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Hello, education community!
I'm happy to announce that the new issue of This Month in Education
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News> is out. It's another
short issue this month, but there are still some great articles!
Like an article? Have a question?* Please contribute your thoughts* on the
article's talk page!
Finally, we want your stories! *Don't forget to submit your stories for the
next issue by 20 November! *You can submit by heading to the newsroom
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom>and
using the input box.
Have a great week!
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