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
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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
Dear Wikimedia & Education Community,
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
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For the month of September, the meetings are set as follows:
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September 20, 12:00 UTC (probably most practical for participants in
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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!
Best Regards,
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
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https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Today I proposed a product plan [1] for Event Tool based on the two Sept. 6 metrics posts—here [2] and here [3]—that I brought to this list a few weeks ago. The proposed program of work is designed to turn Grant Metrics into a simple but capable tool that will meet the metics needs of most event organizers—a “one-stop shop,” as one organizer called it, for getting the data that many organizers now laboriously assemble from multiple sources.
I’ve called the project laid out in the two posts reference above “ambitious but achievable,” and I think that’s a good description. Now it’s your turn again: does this direction look right? Is there anything we can add that would make it work better for you? And—since it’s possible we won’t get to everything—are there any features here you think we could drop or put on our low-priority list? If you have ideas or questions, now is the time to bring them forward. We’re listening!
[1] Sept. 19, 2018: Proposing a product plan for ‘Event Tool’ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Tools_for_program_and_event_…
[2] Sept. 6, 2018: Proposed metrics features—what do you think? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Tools_for_program_and_event_…
[3] Sept. 6, 2018 (continued): New data and reports in detail https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Tools_for_program_and_event_…
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Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation
Greetings!
Apologies for cross-posting. This is to introduce a new Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine Project".[1] This new project is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this (or you're already active in this area), by coordinating local programmes around African cinema (independently or otherwise) in your community or local Wiki, kindly list your username or organization as a participant on the meta project page cited above.
Furthermore, In the months of October and November, we are organizing a global contest and edit-a-thon tagged: "The Months of African Cinema".[2] If you would love to join this exciting event, also list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page. If you would love to lead this contest (or any other relevant program) for a non-English Wikipedia community, please feel free to translate the English Wikiproject page to your local language Wikipedia, or you can create one from scratch!
If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project talkpages.
Thank you!
Sam Oyeyele.
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Af…
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine
Good Morning,
Please open the attached document. It was scanned and sent to you using a Samsung MFP.
It was nice working with you.
MCANDREW Ewan
T: 0151 458 8709
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e:Ewan.McAndrew@ed.ac.uk
Greetings!
Apologies for cross-posting. This is to introduce a new Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine Project".[1] This new project is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this (or you're already active in this area), by coordinating local programmes around African cinema (independently or otherwise) in your community or local Wiki, kindly list your username or organization as a participant on the meta project page cited above.
Furthermore, In the months of October and November, we are organizing a global contest and edit-a-thon tagged: "The Months of African Cinema".[2] If you would love to join this exciting event, also list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page. If you would love to lead this contest (or any other relevant program) for a non-English Wikipedia community, please feel free to translate the English Wikiproject page to your local language Wikipedia, or you can create one from scratch!
If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project talkpages.
Thank you!
Sam Oyeyele.
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Af…
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine
Dear EDUWiki Enthusiasts,
*Voting for the new Wikipedia & Education User Group is now open
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/User_Gro…>!*
Please vote by adding your support under the relevant candidate's
nomination.
We will be selecting 5 board members and you are welcome to vote for as
many candidates as you wish to support, once per candidate.
Please note that you have to be a supporter of the user group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group> in
order for your vote to count.
*Voting will remain open** till September 30th*, so please participate and
vote!
Good luck to all! :)
Shani.
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