Education June 2017

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Writing or Editing a Wikipedia Article for Law School Credit
by Kleefeld, John 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

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

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Wikipedia assignment at Ulster University
by Lixxx235＠Wikipedia 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

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

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Introducing the Wikimedia Resource Center
by Maria Cruz 29 Jul '17

29 Jul '17

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

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Test message 3-1
by Pine W 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

**I am testing the filters for the Education mailing list. Please ignore this message if it passes through to the list. Thanks for your patience.** Dear Colleagues: My most recent blog posts comprise a two-part article entitled “Wikipedia’s Ways of Knowing.” I outline two contrasting ways of organizing and accessing knowledge—“rhizomatic” and “arborescent”—and explain how they relate to Wikipedia. In the process, I also deal with Portals and Categories, two powerful Wikipedia concepts. Part 1: http://bit.ly/2p20MkJ Part 2: http://bit.ly/2qxO9eG

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Last call for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference
by MCANDREW Ewan 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Please disseminate to interested colleagues as appropriate. Last call: registration is closing for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference this week. The Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference<https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_nr4uufq9>– This full day conference on 6 July is for colleagues interested in how technology can support language communities. Guest speakers from all across Europe will be joining us in Edinburgh to showcase and discuss a range of exciting open education, open data and open knowledge initiatives. Registration for this event closes 27th June so don’t delay in booking your place<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017>. New satellite event: Introduction to Wikidata and the Wikidata Query Service<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-wikidata-and-wikidata-query-…> – this event is now scheduled 11am to 1pm on Tuesday 4 July presented by Léa Lacroix (Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland). Léa will also be joining us at the Celtic Knot as part of the Wikidata workshop on 6 July too. Just one of the many great speakers<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Speakers> and presentations<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme> at the Celtic Knot discussing community engagement and how to make Celtic and Indigenous languages a shared hub of online knowledge. Includes presentations from Catalan Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Scots Gaelic Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia and more. Navino Evans from Histropedia will also be joining us for Wikidata I/O: a showcase event at the Repository Fringe 2017<http://www.repositoryfringe.org/> conference in August. Three workshops will include: (1) how to add data in bulk (2) the wide variety of ways the data can be consumed, queried and visualised and (3) how to build SPARQL queries. 4th August 2017<http://rfringe17.blogs.edina.ac.uk/registration/> Very best regards, Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk

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Student learning outcomes research results
by LiAnna Davis 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

I'm really excited to be able to share the results from a research project Wiki Ed undertook this year to measure the student learning outcomes from Wikipedia assignments. There's an overview of the findings up now on the WMF blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/19/wikipedia-information-literacy-study/ Or if you want to jump straight to the report: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Student_Learning_Outcomes_using_Wik… In conversations with many education program leaders over the last few months, I know this report is useful to many of you as well. Having this kind of data on what the impact of Wikipedia assignments is to student learning is helpful for conversations with potential instructors, school administrators, and others. I encourage you to use and share the report widely! We also included all of the data and questions from it under a free license, so if you'd like to repurpose some for your own use, please feel free. LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Director of Programs; Deputy Director Wiki Education Foundation www.wikiedu.org

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New satellite event for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference - Booking closes 27 June
by MCANDREW Ewan 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, How can technology support language communities? Join us at the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language conference<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> taking place Thursday 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh Business School to find out. Booking closes 27 June so don’t delay! The main objective for Celtic Knot 2017 is the coming together of those working to support Celtic and Indigenous Languages in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds into a 'knot' and leading into action. We welcome diverse attendees ranging from Wikimedians, linguists, educators, researchers, information professionals, media professionals, translators, learning technologists and more coming together to share good practice and find fruitful new collaborations to support language communities as a result of the event. New satellite event: Introduction to Wikidata and the Wikidata Query Service<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-wikidata-and-wikidata-query-…> – this event is now scheduled 11am to 1pm on Tuesday 4 July presented by Léa Lacroix (Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland). Léa will also be joining us at the Celtic Knot as part of the Wikidata workshop on 6 July too. Just one of the many great speakers<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Speakers> and presentations<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme> at the Celtic Knot: Keynote speakers * Professor Antonella Sorace<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh<http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/%7Eantonell/> and founding director of Bilingualism Matters<http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/> will be speaking on ‘Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an opportunity’. * Jason Evans<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_th…> will discuss his strategy for working with Wikimedia UK and the Welsh Government to develop the Welsh Wicipedia using a combination of community engagement, data manipulation and the implementation of Open Access policies. Confirmed speakers also include: * Susan Ross – Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national-library-of-…> at the National Library of Scotland.<http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2017/01/gaelic-wikipedian-begins> * Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot<http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sharon-arbuthnot%28519b4b40-d075-4b…> - Research Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting on the AHRC-funded eDIL project<http://www.dil.ie/> (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5th July. * Gareth Morlais – the Welsh Language Unit, Welsh Government. Gareth will speak about how mapping how much importance major companies (Google, Twitter, Apple) attach to creative activity on Wikipedia led to the Welsh Government helping to fund two Welsh-language Wikipedia initiatives. * Delyth Prys – Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, will speak on Welsh/Celtic speech technology and why text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important in our digital world. * Àlex Hinojo<http://www.alexhinojo.cat/en/bio/> – Executive Director, Amical Wikimedia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia> on the Catalan language project. * Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga – Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From corpus expansion to outreach. * Astrid Carlsen – Executive Director, Wikimedia Norge speaking on Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and building a project to revitalize the Northern Sami Wikipedia. * Robin Owain – Wales Manager, Wikimedia UK, speaking on recent developments supporting the Welsh language community. * Mina Theofilatou presenting on ‘The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language projects’. * Duncan Brown - Llên Natur<http://www.llennatur.com/Drupal7/llennatur/>, presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of life’. * Rémy Gerbet - Wikimedia France; presenting on the Lingua Libre project<https://www.lingualibre.fr/> for massive open audio recording. * Käbi Suvi - Wikimedia Estonia on the ‘Miljon+’ project as part of Estonia’s 100th anniversary. * Ilario Valdelli - Wikimedia Switzerland, speaking on the Digital Library in Romansch and the new initiatives to map the archeological sites connected with Celtic culture in the Alps. * Wikipedia’s new Content Translation tool and how it has been successfully employed in Higher Education to share knowledge between different language Wikipedias and give students meaningful published practice – Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence. It promises to be a great event – including a panel on the Politics of Language Online, excellent papers, workshops and discussion spaces. Please feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network. If you would like to learn more then please contact me direct at ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>. Very best regards, Ewan Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Done testing for now
by Pine W 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Sorry about the multiple test emails that passed through. I thought they were still being rejected but a batch went through as a group. In the interest of not continuing to spam the list as well as getting on with other business, I'm going to stop testing for now. I think that I've narrowed down the problematic email filters on the list to 2 possibilities. In the future if an email gets held for moderation or rejected, at least we now have a good idea of where to start looking. Thanks again for your patience, Pine

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Test message 4
by Pine W 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

**I am testing the filters for the Education mailing list. Please ignore this message if it passes through to the list. Thanks for your patience.** 4 Dear Colleagues: My most recent blog posts comprise a two-part article entitled “Wikipedia’s Ways of Knowing.” I outline two contrasting ways of organizing and accessing knowledge—“rhizomatic” and “arborescent”—and explain how they relate to Wikipedia. In the process, I also deal with Portals and Categories, two powerful Wikipedia concepts. Part 1: http://bit.ly/2p20MkJ Part 2: http://bit.ly/2qxO9eG

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Test message 2
by Pine W 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

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