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 everyone,
Wikipeda & Education User Group [1] was formally approved recently and
we have started with our work! We want to help facilitate, support, and
advocate for educational work in the Wikimedia community and if you want
to support us in that, please join our user group by filling in a simple
form. [2]
We from the group's board are still in the process of setting things up
for the user group, but we want as many people as possible joining us,
especially people that believe that Wikimedia belongs in education,
because there's a lot of education things to do in our movement.
Also, don't let the user group's name fool you: we support all Wikimedia
projects and all Wikimedians and Wikimedia friends are welcome! :)
Cheers,
Filip Maljković
Wikipedia & Education User Group Membership Admin
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group
[2] https://goo.gl/forms/lPURTqy3wAOtM0B13
Calling all event organizers interested in the coming Event Metrics tool: As the Community Tech team has started working on the first two of six new reports planned for the tool, we’ve learned a lot about what numbers we can and can’t get at scale from our databases. In response, our plans have had to evolve.
In this post [1], I lay out details on which of the metrics we’d planned to include we’re now either adapting, delaying or dropping. We’re interested in your feedback, so please have a look and let us hear from you!
Yours,
Joe
[1] Oct. 26: Metrics changed, delayed or dropped
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics#Metrics_droppe…
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Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
TL:DR Vote
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/voting_for_new_logo> on the
color for our new logo!
In January 2018 the Education Team at the Wikimedia Foundation published a
report based on a survey that asked all of the Wikimedia & Education
stakeholders for input about our communications and branding. The research
conducted last year found that our communications materials and resources
were not reflecting the work of our large and active community of program
leaders, educators, students, policy makers, and many more.
We announced in July that we would start making some initial revisions to
the Education space on Outreach Wiki
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education>. Including phasing out the
current visual identity, archiving outdated pages and information,
developing new content that is relevant and current, and improving overall
usability.
The first step in this process is to decide on a new logo. The
Communications team at the Wikimedia Foundation has designed something for
us, and has asked us to choose a color from three that they have provided.
We need your help to decide on the right color for our logo. Please look at
the options here
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/voting_for_new_logo>, and
vote for the one you like best.
After we have decided on the design that we like, the Education Team will
work with the Communications team to provide usage guidelines similar to
the one that was developed for the Wikimedia Hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Hackathon_logo_gudielines.pdf>.
This will include guidelines on variations of the logo, and how it can be
customized for different communities, groups, and events related to
Wikimedia & Education.
Voting starts today and will end on October 28, 2018. Again, the link is
here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/voting_for_new_logo
We look forward to seeing what you choose!
--
*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Hello again!
Reminder: Tomorrow (12th October) is the last date to answer the Doodle
poll for the Office hour. :)
Best!
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 11:09 PM Sailesh Patnaik <spatnaik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians and Education leaders,
>
> As we are preparing for the office hours for the month of October, Here is
> a link to Doodle <https://doodle.com/poll/iuucynva78sh9s6q> which will
> help us to decide the date of the Office hour for this month. We request
> everyone to answer the doodle* on or before 12th October*.
>
> To receive updates on Office hours at your talk page, Please subscribe
> here
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikimedia_E…>.
> The date of the office hours will be announced on 15th October.
>
> Best!
> --
> *Sailesh Patnaik*
> Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
>
>
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear All,
It's time for the October edition of the Education newsletter, to let
everyone know about the amazing things happened in this month related to
Wikimedia & Education.
Please share your article at the newsroom:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom
Some updates for the October newsletter, we have extended the date of
submission of Education newsletter till 28th of this month and we will
publish the newsletter on the first week of November.
In case you have missed the September newsletter, find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/September_2018
Regards
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear Wikimedians and Education leaders,
As we are preparing for the office hours for the month of October, Here is
a link to Doodle <https://doodle.com/poll/iuucynva78sh9s6q> which will help
us to decide the date of the Office hour for this month. We request
everyone to answer the doodle* on or before 12th October*.
To receive updates on Office hours at your talk page, Please subscribe here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikimedia_E…>.
The date of the office hours will be announced on 15th October.
Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
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