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
Hello All,
A middle school has approached us to run a Wikipedia program for them. We
are considering training the students on how to effectively use Wikipedia
as well as hinting them on the ability to correct basic things such as
typos and grammar. We also intend to teach them how to play the Wikidata
game.
Is our approach good? or what alternative activities we can have with the
school.
Thanks in advance for your comments or suggestions.
Regards,
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*Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>*
*+233242844987 | **+447452508504*
*Skype:Flixtey*
*Website: **https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/
<https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>*
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Dear Wikimedia & Education enthusiasts,
Here is what was shared for the month of August 2018 issue of the Education
Newsletter:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
Read news from:
- Brasil
- India
- Jordan
- Tatar
And also, learn from the Education activities mapping by the Education Team
at WMF.
Best Regards,
Vahid.
--
Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Dear Wikimedia & Education Community,
The Education Team at the Wikimedia Foundation is happy to launch a new
“Office Hours” initiative! The Education Team will be holding at least 2
office hours per month. The goal is to have dedicated "real time"
conversations about your questions, and first hand accounts of your
activities. Having set times for this type of interaction will make sure
that everyone has a fair chance to receive real time support. We will make
sure to schedule for different time zones so that everyone has a chance to
participate.
Please bring topics you want to discuss, ask, or share about! It will be an
opportunity to have a conversation about them with the Education Team, and
also with those that participate in the meeting.
We will be using Google Meet to host the meeting, so please make sure you
have it installed before the meeting starts. You can download it from:
https://meet.google.com/
For the month of August, the meetings are set as follows:
-
August 30, 16:00 UTC (probably most practical for participants from the
Americas, Europe and Africa)
-
Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/dsu-dhaz-ezm
-
August 31, 13:00 UTC (probably most practical for participants in Asia
and Oceania)
-
Meet link: https://meet.google.com/ioq-msev-eny
If you have any questions, please address them to education(a)wikimedia.org
or reply to this message. We look forward to speaking with you at office
hours!
--
Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Dear all,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group is choosing its first board!
The elected board members will be guiding the Wikipedia & Education User
Group, making key decisions and leading the user group.
The election process will run between August 28 and will end with an
announcement of the new board October 6, according to the timeline below:
* Self-nomination period: 28 August 2018 — 14 September 2018 (Midnight UTC)
* Vetting period: 15 September 2018
* Voting period: 16 September 2018 — 30 September 2018
* Results by: 06 October 2018
Follow the link
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/User_Gro…>
to see the instructions and nominate yourself or suggest someone else as a
nominee (after getting their consent, of course).
Please help us spread the word and share widely. :)
Good luck to everyone!
Shani Evenstein (on behalf of the founding members).
Event Tool (working title) is a Wikimedia Foundation project designed to help organizers of editathons and similar events by making the process of creating and running events easier and more efficient. Better event metrics is a focus of the project, and we’re planning the metrics features now. We need to hear from event organizers: What data and reporting features do you need?
There’s a post on the project talk page that asks a series of questions designed to guide the discussion [1]. If you’re an event organizer, please come and help us help you. We’re listening!
Joe
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Tools_for_program_and_e… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Tools_for_program_and_e…>
________________
Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
Now that the Wikipedia & Education User Group has been officially approved
and Wikimania is over, it's time to jump-start our activity and start
working together again. Exciting, I know! :)
To do that, we'd like have an online meeting, where we will share updates
and will determine our next steps as a user group, the first of which would
be to start an election process to choose a board for our user group.
*Here's a link to a doodle <https://doodle.com/poll/zb5q8ph4zstv9u3b> which
will help us determine a time for a meeting.* As we are an international
crowd, an effort was made to include time slots that might work for
different places in the world simultaneously. You should be seeing this in
your own time zone.
Please vote on the best dates & times for you* by next Wednesday, August 15
at midnight (whenever that is :)). *A final date will be announced on
Thursday, August 16.
Who is invited to participate in the meeting?
Anyone who's doing work around Wikipedia & Education is invited, no matter
where they are from, or from which group or chapter. As long as
participants are polite, friendly and ready to work with others, they are
welcome!
Best,
Shani.
we have to change the venue
please join
Meeting URL: https://meet.google.com/obg-fvoh-pyp
Phone: +1 402-369-5229 PIN: 266 200 001#
Meet supports 50 participa
Mardetanha
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 9:11 PM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Abel, we begin in 20 min.
> please use this link -
> https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/dpogce2jwvdnvdvkc4rxx4sm2ue
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Abel L MBULA <news.abel(a)protonmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am the only one there!
>>
>>
>> Abel Lifaefi Mbula
>>
>> Free Software Dev
>> Free Culture Enthusiast
>>
>> Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
>> OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
>>
>> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
>>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On August 17, 2018 6:36 PM, Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > Please use this link to the hangout --
>> > https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/dpogce2jwvdnvdvkc4rxx4sm2ue
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Shani.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:49 PM, Shani Evenstein shani.even(a)gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Dear all,
>> > > The Wikipedia & Education User Group meeting has been set to Friday,
>> > > August 17th (tomorrow!), between 17:00-19:00 UTC,which was the date
>> and time most participants of the doodle chose.
>> > > Here's a link to the hangout - https://hangouts.google.com/h…/_/
>> > > exlj3u7z6navdimipdufd63wfue
>> > > https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/exlj3u7z6navdimipdufd63wfue
>> > > See you tomorrow!
>> > > Shani.
>> > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:08 AM, Shani Evenstein shani.even(a)gmail.com
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Dear all,
>> > > > Now that the Wikipedia & Education User Group has been officially
>> > > > approved and Wikimania is over, it's time to jump-start our
>> activity and
>> > > > start working together again. Exciting, I know! :)
>> > > > To do that, we'd like have an online meeting, where we will share
>> updates
>> > > > and will determine our next steps as a user group, the first of
>> which would
>> > > > be to start an election process to choose a board for our user
>> group.
>> > > > Here's a link to a doodle
>> > > > https://doodle.com/poll/zb5q8ph4zstv9u3b which will help us
>> determine a
>> > > > time for a meeting. As we are an international crowd, an effort
>> wasmade to include time slots that might work for different places in the
>> > > > world simultaneously. You should be seeing this in your own time
>> zone.
>> > > > Please vote on the best dates & times for you* by next Wednesday,
>> August
>> > > > 15 at midnight (whenever that is :)). *A final date will be
>> announced on
>> > > > Thursday, August 16.
>> > > > Who is invited to participate in the meeting?
>> > > > Anyone who's doing work around Wikipedia & Education is invited, no
>> > > > matter where they are from, or from which group or chapter. As long
>> as
>> > > > participants are polite, friendly and ready to work with others,
>> they are
>> > > > welcome!
>> > > > Best,
>> > > > Shani.
>> >
>> > Education mailing list
>> > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
>>
>>
>>
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