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 Olayinka,
Thanks for your request for review. Are you are developer? I have copied
Felix Nartey and Olaniyan Olushola who are members of of the African
Developer group perhaps they could help. I will send you a personal mail
later.
Regards,
Isaac Olatunde.
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> A couple of announcements for the December edition of our Newsletter:
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> grant) are very welcome:
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/
> November_2017/A_Proposal_for_Education_Team_endorsement_criteria
> (the Talk Page has more details and room for plenty comments)
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> I am Peter Olayinka,
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> I have been working on this application for a while now, built with
> python/django. And i ll really love to get your reviews and recommendation
> for improvement sake.
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> Quizboot (www.quizboot.com) is a social learning platform where you can
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> engaged with quizzes like brain teasers, riddles, past questions, interview
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> Also you get to create your own quizzes then share and challenge your
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Hello,
I am Peter Olayinka,
I have been working on this application for a while now, built with
python/django. And i ll really love to get your reviews and recommendation
for improvement sake.
Quizboot (www.quizboot.com) is a social learning platform where you can get
engaged with quizzes like brain teasers, riddles, past questions, interview
questions, etc. for fun and educational purpose.
Also you get to create your own quizzes then share and challenge your
friends with it, see what they scored and just have fun.
You could also chat with your friends, comment on quizzes and follow your
favorite quiz creator.
you could send me your review directly on the platform. **Search for
peterolayinka**
Thank you.
Dear Education Enthusiasts,
A couple of announcements for the December edition of our Newsletter:
- The deadline for submitting articles is extended to December 31 (in
consideration to the holidays that many parts of the world will be going
through in the last week of this month)
- The publication of the December issue is set for January 5th.
- As usual, you can start working on your contribution on
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom
We really look forward to your contributions! (Feel free to email me if you
have questions on how to participate)
In case you haven't yet, the November edition is there for your delight:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
Many thanks to those that contributed to this edition. This is how we all
learn together!
Also, please remember that your thoughts and contributions to the
discussion of the criteria to endorse an education program proposal (and by
the same token, key pointers on what to include in your next APG/MYG/Rapid
grant) are very welcome:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/November_2017/A_Proposal…
(the Talk Page has more details and room for plenty comments)
Best Regards,
Vahid.
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Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Dear Education Enthusiasts,
Welcome to the latest edition of the Education Newsletter! You can find it
here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2017
For November, we have very interesting contributions:
- France's experience with high school contests
- Jordan's program at Hashemite University
- In Brasil, a team is exploring how far they can take Wikiversity to
use it as a MOOC engine
- Wikidata + Education programs: hard to imagine? Learn how they do it
in the UK!
- From the Basque country, learn how they prioritized articles to
be created for the needs of their high school students
- News from the Education Program in Thailand
- Though it suffered from terrible earthquakes, that did not stop
content editing in Mexico
- In Serbia, an editathon was dedicated to a specific social issue:
human trafficking
- What can be done in schools that have no Internet access? There's an
experience in Africa
The education Team also wants to invite all education programs enthusiasts
to participate in a conversation about the criteria to endorse Education
Programs, please share your thoughts on the Talk page!
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2017
While you're reading all those exciting news, think about sharing your
experience next month! All it takes is 3-4 paragraphs describing the
project and what you are learning from participating in it, and preferably
a picture or two.
Also, you are most welcome to join our Facebook group [1], and if you like
Twitter, you can also livetweet events to @wikieduprogram []
Have a wonderful month!
[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram
[2] https://twitter.com/Wikieduprogram
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Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education