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 All:
I don't think this has been posted here yet, but I apologize if it has.
The CFP for Wiki Conference North America is now out. There are two tracks: one academic, and one non-academic, and both have potential funding arrangements (scholarships) to help out with costs. The conference will be in Columbus, Ohio, USA,
Please do note the relatively quick deadline of 15 August 2018.
The CFP is here:
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Submissions
And the general conference page is here:
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Main_Page
Yours,
Bob
cummings(a)olemiss.edu<mailto:cummings@olemiss.edu>
Of considerable interest:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326141291_Towards_an_inclusive_dig…
"Policy makers can use this transformational model to extend the reach
and effectiveness of Digital Inclusion through the last mile enhancing
existing training and service centers that offer the traditional model
of Digital Literacy Education.... This education model can be
replicated and scaled by the Digital India program by extending the
reach of existing rural Common Service Centers centers to reach remote
areas that lack infrastructure, thereby reaching the last mile for a
transformative impact across the nation."
I was particularly impressed with Figure 4: https://i.imgur.com/s30xY4C.png
Best regards,
Jim
*From:* Septian Dwi Cahyo <dcseptian735(a)gmail.com>
*Subject:* CALL FOR PAPERS: *IJERE, **International Journal of Evaluation
and Research in Education*
IJERE (http://www.iaescore.com/journals/index.php/IJERE/) is
an interdisciplinary publication of original research and writing on
education which publishes papers to international audiences of educational
researchers. We are inviting every scholars, teachers, education activist,
to publish your current research on Evaluation and Educational Research.
IJERE is an open access journal, indexed by ERIC and now IJERE is
ACCREDITED (recognized) by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher
Education, Republic of Indonesia. The journal publishes every March, June,
September, and December (Archive
<http://www.iaescore.com/journals/index.php/IJERE/issue/archive>).
Regards,
Septian Dwi Cahyo, on Behave Editor In Chief
Lina Handayani, PhD
http://www.iaescore.com/journals/index.php
Dear Wikimedia + Education Enthusiasts,
Reminder: the Wikimedia&Education pre-Wikimania session [1] is happening
tomorrow (Wednesday) morning in Cape Town!
Join us physically at the Wale room of the SunSquare City Bowl Hotel, or
virtually in this room: http://meeting.uct.ac.za/emerge2018room1 (participation
will require you to download the Adobe Connect software)
We will be live from 09:00 to 13:00 (South African time, GMT +1).
Best Regards,
The Education Team (WMF)
[1] https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%26Education
--
Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Dear Wikimedia & Education Community,
I’ve still not met many of you, so first allow me to briefly introduce
myself. :-)
My name is Ben Vershbow and I joined the Wikimedia Foundation a little
under a year ago to direct our Community Programs team, which supports our
communities of practice working in Education and GLAM. My background is in
libraries, cultural heritage, scholarly communication, technology, and the
arts. I worked for more than eight years at The New York Public Library
running digitization, crowdsourcing, and open access initiatives. I have
long been a supporter, user, and friend of the Wikimedia movement, but had
not been deeply involved in the community until now. It is a great honor to
be here, and to have the opportunity to expand my horizons into the world
of education. My goal is to understand how we at WMF can provide the best
possible support and collaboration to leaders and organizers across the
movement who are working to bring the worlds of Wikimedia and education
into greater harmony.
I’m writing now (my first time on this list!) because we have some exciting
news from the Education Team at the Foundation, and some updates about
what’s to come in the near future.
This is a rather long email, so I will summarize here:
*Nichole Saad is now leading the Education Team*
*Workflows and priorities will evolve in Fiscal Year 18-19 (July-June)*
*We will be: *
*revising our materials and resources on Outreach Wiki*
*mapping Wikimedia & Education globally *
*exploring new ways to support the education community in their local
contexts*
*building relationships that can improve, grow, and create new
opportunities for Wikimedia & Education *
*Personnel updates*
First, I’d like to announce an exciting change in team leadership. Going
forward, Nichole Saad will be leading the team as Senior Program Manager,
Education.
Nichole came to WMF in October 2016, bringing a wealth of experience in
global education: from running a kindergarten in Shanghai, to leading
teacher training for the Malaysian ministry of education, to evaluating
refugee education projects in the MENA region for UNESCO, and more. This
broad spectrum of international experience positions Nichole to design (in
deep dialog and collaboration with our community) a bold, effective, and
scalable strategy for Wikimedia in global education.
Already, over the past year, Nichole has been an inspiring thought leader
on our education team, challenging us to re-examine assumptions about how
we support our community of practice, and to think more expansively about
the Wikimedia movement’s current and potential contributions to digital
equity and the kinds of global education goals enshrined in the UN’s SDG 4
<https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg4>.
As we continue to explore long-range strategy, Nichole and I have already
established some near-term priorities and goals, which we would like to
share with you here. In the coming month, we will also be posting a new
Education Program Officer role to fill out our team, so stay tuned for more
news on that.
*We are changing how we work*
Earlier this year the education team published a report
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/23/education-survey-report/>based on
research done with our many stakeholders. In light of the findings from
this report, insights gleaned from site visits in Asia
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Asia_report_summary> last year,
and the new Movement direction
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction>,
we will be rethinking *how* we achieve our goals and initiating some
significant changes:
*We will be revising our materials and resources on Outreach Wiki*
The research conducted last year found that our communications materials
and resources were not meeting your needs, or reflecting the work of our
large and active community of program leaders, educators, students, policy
makers, and many more. Based on that research we are going to start making
some initial revisions to the Education space on Outreach Wiki
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education>. This will include phasing
out the current visual identity, archiving outdated pages and information,
developing new content that is relevant and current, and improving overall
usability. We ask for your patience as we do this initial remodeling over
the next few months!
It might be the case that we need to reach out to some of you for more
information about pages you’ve created or contributed to. At this time, we
will not be revising country pages, brochures, or the newsletter. We will
be focusing on making sure that information is discoverable, accurate, easy
to use and understand, and relevant to our audiences.
*We will begin mapping Wikimedia & Education globally *
We’ve welcomed two summer interns, Sailesh Patnaik and Alen Amini, who will
be undertaking an exercise to comprehensively map programs, projects, and
activities involving Wikimedia & Education globally. We intend this mapping
exercise to inform future communications and resources, like new case
studies, best practices, regional snapshots, and more. You may be contacted
by the interns for information about your programs and activities. Or, you
can reach out to them directly to share your work! You can inquire at
education(a)wikimedia.org
*We will be streamlining and focusing global support, and exploring new
ways to support the education community in local contexts*
We’ll be piloting some new ways of supporting the Wikimedia & Education
community. We’ll be scaling back on the number of 1:1 consultations that we
conduct — we have determined that this is not a scalable or efficient way
of supporting the community. Instead, at least twice a month we’ll be
holding “office hours
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/about/office_hours>” or “Ask
me anything/tell me anything” events where you can get help with challenges
you are facing, or highlight activities and accomplishments. This will be
in addition to a quarterly “Community Programs Showcase” event where we
will highlight community activities in GLAM and Education. The showcase
will launch sometime in the next 6 months.
Finally, we will be piloting an “Education project incubation” program,
where those of you with fresh ideas can develop skills on how to plan,
implement, and evaluate education projects with a cohort of program
leaders. One project will be selected for hands on, in-context support and
a small amount of seed funding. This pilot is in development, and we’ll be
communicating more on it in the coming months.
*We will build relationships that can improve, grow, and create new
opportunities for Wikimedia & Education*
We’ll be spending more time building relationships that can help improve
and grow the use of Wikimedia projects in education. We’ll be undertaking
more activities like the OER Recommendation Comment
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Comment_on_the…>we
asked for your input on earlier this year. We’ll be thinking about our
travel and conference attendance more strategically, while looking ahead at
how to increase our reach and document our impact.
-----
We will continue to communicate and consult with you as we work together to
promote the value of Wikimedia projects in education. We hope you are as
excited as we are about these new activities! We welcome any questions and
ideas, and look forward to deepening our dialog with you as Movement
Strategy Phase II gets underway.
I also hope to perhaps meet some of you in Cape Town next week. Please
don’t hesitate to reach out to me or Nichole to find some time to connect
in person!
All best,
Ben
--
Ben Vershbow
Director, Community Programs (libraries, education, cultural heritage)
Community Engagement Dept.
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
As you may know I have been working as Wikimedian in Residence for the past
3 years. I have been developing a process to use existing open license text
in Wikipedia to help organisations share their knowledge and a metrics tool
to measure results. Currently English Wikipedia has over 250 articles using
UNESCO publication text.
Recently I worked with Wiki Education Foundation to create a course around
this process. You can read about it here:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/07/06/university-students-are-collaborating-w…
My colleague Celina Recalde who works at UNESCO’s Education Sector and
myself will be presenting this project @Wikimania on Saturday 21 July from
11-11:30 in room Hong Kong. *How can experts share their knowledge on
Wikipedia more easily: Using open license text to collaborate, a case study
from UNESCO.*
We would be very interested to discuss with people working on education
programmes how to include the reuse of open license text in their projects.
We'll be available Friday, Saturday and Sunday at most times.
J.Cummings(a)unesco.org
cm.Recalde(a)unesco.org
Best
John
At least some of you may be familiar with the '7 Things you Should Know
About' series of resources for educators. They are concise (~2 pp),
well-written information sheets, VERY widely read, & they've been around a
while.
Just last week a new '7 Things' resource was published titled '7 things you
should know about Open Education: Practices' & it mentions 'editing a
Wikipedia article' as a prominent activity. You might like to read more
(the download links are at the bottom of this page):
https://library.educause.edu/resources/2018/7/7-things-you-should-know-abou…
Hi Fabian et all, and thanks!
Yes, The soldier of Calais <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elis_Gruffydd> has
been on Wikidata for some time, and is one of the 95% biogs with automated
Wikidata infoboxes on cywiki! Take a look here:
https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elis_Gruffydd
But as you say, not on Wicidestun <https://cy.wikisource.org/wiki/Hafan>!
Best regards
Robin
On 15 July 2018 at 21:04, <leutha(a)fabiant.eu> wrote:
> Bore da,
>
> Congratulations
>
>
> So you've been stirring the cauldron
>
> Their language they shall keep,
> Their land they shall lose -
> Except wild Wales.
>
> Perhaps we'll see "The soldier of Calais
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elis_Gruffydd>" on Wicidestun
> <https://cy.wikisource.org/wiki/Hafan> some day?
>
> all the best,
>
> Fabian
>
> aka Leutha
>
> On 11 July 2018 at 07:27 Robin Owain <robin.owain(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Bore da everybody!
>
> Thanks to our project WiciMon, editing Wikipedia is now on the National
> Curriculum of Wales. It is an official Community Challenge within the
> WJEC's Welsh Baccalaureate.
>
> Here's a short video about the project, by Aaron Morris, which was released
> over the weekend at the Celtic Knot Conference at Aberystwyth.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVah3DQ3fwo
>
> Best regards
>
> Robin
>
> -----
>
>
> --
> --
> *Robin Owain *
> *Rheolwr Wikimedia UK yng Nghymru*
> *Wikimedia UK Manager in Wales*
> (0044) 7967814334 / (0044) 207 065 0990
> @WiciCymru
>
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> Mae Wikimedia UK
> yn siaptr lleol o fudiad byd-eang Wikimedia. Gweinyddir prosiectau
> Wikimedia gan Wikimedia Foundation ac yn eu plith y mae Wikipedia.
>
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>
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>
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*Rheolwr Wikimedia UK yng Nghymru*
*Wikimedia UK Manager in Wales*
(0044) 7967814334 / (0044) 207 065 0990
@WiciCymru
Mae Wikimedia UK yn Gwmni sy'n Gyfyngedig dan Warant ac wedi'i gofrestr yng
Nghymru a Lloegr, Rhif Cofrestredig 1144513. Swyddfa
Gofrestredig: Europoint. 11 Lavington St, London SE1 0NZ. Mae Wikimedia UK
yn siaptr lleol o fudiad byd-eang Wikimedia. Gweinyddir prosiectau
Wikimedia gan Wikimedia Foundation ac yn eu plith y mae Wikipedia.
*Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office Europoint. 11 Lavington St, London SE1 0NZ, United Kingdom.
Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. *
*Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open
knowledge movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our
work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting
Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk
*The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *
Ymwelwch â / Visit https://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page/cy a
http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/
