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
Do you organize wiki events? Would you like to have a convenient tool that provides metrics about the impact of your events? Then you are a potential user of Event Metrics [1], a new tool under development. I’m writing now to find event organizes who can help us test the usability of this new metrics program, to make sure people such as yourself can understand and easily use its functions.
The test will involve a videoconference session with a design researcher, who will lead you through a series of tasks on the program and talk to you about how well the tool's user interface works for you and how it could be improved. Sessions will take place the second and third weeks of January.
If you’d like to help out, please email Daisy Chen, dchen(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:dchen@wikimedia.org>, and let her know:
* The email address where you prefer to be reached.
* Your time zone
* General times when you prefer to meet (evenings, mornings, etc.)
Daisy will follow up to schedule a time. Thanks for helping to make Event Metrics a tool that event organizers will find easy and empowering!
Joe
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics>
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Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Education community,
It's almost 2019! It's been an exciting year for education in the Wikimedia
movement. There were a lot of great stories shared in the Newsletter
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>. We got a new logo,
and we're about to get a new, more user friendly and engaging design for
Education on Outreach (coming in Jan 2019!). We added Melissa and Sailesh
to the education team. The User Group was approved, elected a board, and
had its first meeting. What a year!
As we prepare for the new year, here are just a few things to keep in mind:
- The Dec and Jan issue of the newsletter will be published on *Jan 21*.
Deadlines for submissions are *Jan 15th*.
- The Education Team (and all WMF) will be on holidays from Dec 24-Jan
2.
- We'll communicate the January office hours dates and times the first
week in January.
We wish you the best for the rest of 2018, and look forward to catching up
with you in 2019!
--
*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Dear EDUWiki enthusiasts,
I have a huge favor to ask of everyone in this mailing list --
TLDR: *please fill out* *this questionnaire
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://goo.gl/forms/WMFb6j2mpG2H…!!>!*
And now in more details:
As some of you may know, I'm a PhD candidate at the School of Education,
Tel Aviv University, and my research focuses on Wikidata as a learning
platform.
To succeed in my research, I need data about how users (such as
yourselves) interact
with Wikidata, so it would be of great help if you could take the time to
fill out the questionnaire linked above.
It's estimated that it should take between 15-30 minutes, depending on how
detailed your answers would be.
I'm striving for at least 100 replies, but this is one of those cases of
"the more, the merrier", so every person filling it out is of huge help.
Please feel free to ping me privately or send me an email if you have any
questions, or if you are willing to participate in a follow up
interview (there's
also an option to mark that in the questionnaire itself).
Thanks in advance for considering filling it out. I will be forever grateful
to anyone who can help and promise to update you on my progress. :)
Cheers,
Shani.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
*+972-525640648*
Dear EDUWiki enthusiasts,
Since being elected in October, the Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>Board
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/People>
has been quietly working, setting the infrastructure for engaging and
working more closely with our members and the broader community, i.e.
anyone else interested in advancing global efforts around Wikimedia
projects and Education.
To this end, we will be starting to host monthly meetings (Yay!), where our
members and other interested parties could share experiences, challenges
and opportunities, while strengthening our global network.
Our first meeting will be held *next Monday, Dec. 17, between 17:00 - 18:30
UTC*. While for various reasons, we've had to set up a specific time for
this meeting, our next meetings will be scheduled using doodle to maximize
the number of participants.
*The agenda for the meeting includes:*
* Introduction of members attending
* Overview of what the board has been doing so far
* Introducing working groups
* Intro to the Annual Plan
We will be using "Meet" which allows for up to 50 participants to join, so
hopefully will not have issues of people unable to join, and we will do our
best to record the meeting, so if you can't join us, you'll still be able
to catch up.
*Here is a link to the meeting - meet.google.com/xzw-mqpa-pmn
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmeet.google.com%2Fxzw-mqpa-pmn…>*
Please spread the word wide and join us!
We have lots to discuss and we're excited to include all of you!
Best,
Shani and the Wikipedia & Education UG Board.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
*+972-525640648*