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
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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
Hi everybody,
thank you so much for sharing. Very intersting to read!
Can you tell me where I can find out more about the way there?
It would be very interesting for the GLAM-work to know about what happend
before and what brought the change?
And thank you Shani and Cabel for the wrap-ups.
Best from Berlin,
Elly
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Am Do., 24. Jan. 2019 um 13:09 Uhr schrieb Vincenza Ferrara <
vincenza.ferrara(a)uniroma1.it>:
> Greetings
> Thanks you for sharing
>
> sincereley
> Vincenza
>
> Dott.ssa Vincenza Ferrara
> Laboratorio Arte e Medical Humanities
> Facoltà Farmacia e Medicina
> Università "La Sapienza"
> 0649918298
>
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 12:47, Jagadish Aryal <jaryal(a)soscbaha.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Cable,
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Wow! it's really a good news. Thank you for sharing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jagadish
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:00 PM Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings Open Education Friends:
>>>
>>> Good news!
>>>
>>> Creative Commons worked with the Cleveland Museum of Art to dedicate
>>> 30,000 high resolution images into the public domain using CC0.
>>>
>>> - Site: http://www.clevelandart.org/open-access
>>> - Article:
>>> https://www.cleveland.com/expo/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/01/fe82a74cbf1054…
>>> - Blog: https://creativecommons.org/2019/01/23/cleveland-museum/
>>> - Tweets:
>>> - https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1088079123963088896
>>> - https://twitter.com/ClevelandArt/status/1088081616059228161
>>>
>>> Enjoy,
>>>
>>> Cable
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Cable Green, PhD
>>> Director of Open Education
>>> Creative Commons
>>>
>>> - Join: CC Open Education Platform
>>> <https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-pl…>
>>> - Tw: @cgreen <http://twitter.com/cgreen>
>>> - CC Global Network: get involved today
>>> <https://network.creativecommons.org/get-involved/>
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Dear all,
(and sorry in advance for x-posting -- we are sharing this a bit wider to
draw attention to not only the education group, but also the Libraries and
GLAM groups, which we believe have a lot in common with ours and hope will
be active partners in our work throughout the year)
Below is a report of what we've been up to during 2018, including a few
updates looking forward to 2019. We've tried keeping it short and to the
point.
Best,
Shani.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
** 2018 Report - *
Our group has been recognized during 10/2018, so we don't have much to
report about, but here is a short summary of what we've been up to since
being elected -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2018_Ann…
** Revamping our User Group Page - *
Check out our (a bit more) updated page on Meta. The work is far from over
and the key areas identified are especially a work in progress and will
keep evolving as we do more work. That said, you can now easily find who we
are, how you can get involved, how governance works, various resources and
a way to contact us, which is a good start.
** Logo - winner - *
As some of you remember, we've ran a logo challenge, in order to determine
what our logo would be. We finally have a winner - a logo that most people
voted for, which was designed by krishna chaitanya velaga (who also happens
to be one of our board members :)). The new logo will be implemented soon!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_and_Education_User_Group_…
** Bylaws -*
We have started working on a draft for our bylaws here (which, once done,
will be moved to Meta) -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hsEXVCnLrqC7qcGYXinEZENIDsZIvPnBcInh_bf…
We are looking for people with experience in governance to join the board
as we finalize our bylaws. If you're interested in working on it with us,
please contact us privately.
** Annual plan *-
We've also started working on an annual plan. Again, this is a draft, and
once done, it'll be moved to Meta. In the meantime, we are inviting anyone
who's interested in affecting what we'll be focusing on this coming year,
to comment on the (really not final!) doc -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wBR-tAHwpwsCo24tu7mL0QNgUJEebSA18_rbZF8…
** Working groups -*
As part of working on our annual plan, the board has recognized key focus
areas for our work: *Community, Resources & Outreach. *
It was decided to open *working groups* that will be working separately on
advancing each of these focus areas. So what do we want from you?
*Please check out the different working groups
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Get_invo…>
**and sign up* to the group(s) that interest you. We will soon start
working in those groups (also in accordance with the movement strategic
process) and interested users will be contacted directly. Each group will
have a facilitator from the board, and each group will determine its own
annual plan and tendency of meetings throughout the year.
** Monthly Open Online Meetings - *
As of January 2019, we will be conducting open online meetings at *the last
Monday of each month, between 1630-1800 UTC* (that is the time-slot most
people voted for in a doodle poll we conducted). We will send a reminder a
few days before, but this means you can already mark your calendars!
This is *a link to the meetings <https://meet.jit.si/EDUWikiUG> *(at least
for the coming 6 months) and a *the minutes from the meeting
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6jrTGrFIS51L9qGIWXZiLfRBHSNZF8vKcO1uST…>
*(which
we'll also be using for the coming 6 months). We are hoping to record our
next meetings for those who cannot attend.
In addition, in every coming meeting *we will feature 3 stories* of
initiatives from around the world. I*f you'd like to be featured* in one of
the coming meeting, please *contact me privately*.
*Finally,* we realize that while all of this makes perfect sense to us, it
might not be so clear to others, *so p**lease feel free to ask us anything
at all*. We are really looking to involve as many people from around the
world as possible in order to achieve our goals. In other words, we do not
want to rely only on the board to develop these key areas for the global
community; rather it is hoped that board members will take more of a
facilitator role, especially as our network strengthens and our
organization evolves.
Looking forward to working with as many of you in the coming year!
Shani and the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board.
-----------------------------------------------
*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 all,
Our next open online meeting has been scheduled for *this coming Monday,
Jan 28, between 17:00-18:30 UTC*.
We'll be using Meet so there shouldn't be any issue with the number of
participants. Here's a link to the call -
https://meet.google.com/pqs-ewoi-tmb
The meeting will include:
* A short introduction and update by participants.
* A short update regarding what we've achieved during 2018.
* A short update on our annual plan & bylaws.
* An invitation to our new working groups (explanation and call of action).
Hope to see many of you there! :)
Best,
Shani Evenstein
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group.
-----------------------------------------------
*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*
Hola Wikimedia & Education community!
The new Education newsletter is out! Find the stories shared from December
2018 - January 2019 here:
*https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2019
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2019>*
In this edition we present you the new design of the Education space on
Outreach, you'lld find more info about the Wikimedia+Education conference,
and you'll read stories from our community in Ecuador, Portugal, India, and
many more!
In case you missed the newsletter at your talk page, you can subscribe to
the Education Newsletter here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…
Cheers!
--
*Melissa Guadalupe Huertas*
Wikimedia Foundation | Education Program Officer
mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org
user: MGuadalupe (WMF)
Just so -- the fact that not only the images but also their metadata was
released under CC0, is highly important.
It allowed us to add it to Wikidata, which offers new and exciting
opportunities of discoverability, while ensuring easy dissemination, reuse
and remix throughout Wikimedia projects, and also across different
languages, as Wikidata is multi-lingual (unlike Wikipedia, where each
language has its own site).
This is a big step forward toward helping people across the world find and
use this wonderful collection.
Kudos again to all those involved and hope to see many more institutions
opening up their collections in the coming years.
Shani.
-----------------------------------------------
*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*
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:21 PM Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org>
wrote:
> +1 Thanks Shani. Here is a full list of the launch partners.
> <http://www.clevelandart.org/open-access-partners>
>
> This amazing Wikidata gallery will make it simple to update Wikipedia
> articles.
>
> The remix opportunities are exciting!
>
> Cable
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:43 AM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great work.
>> As far as I know, this was also in collaboration with the Wikimedia GLAM
>> & Wikidata communities, which uploaded the images to Wikimedia Commons as
>> well as added the metadata to Wikidata.
>> Here's a link to the query that shows a gallery of all the items added to
>> Wikidata - http://tinyurl.com/y94k7col
>>
>> Best,
>> Shani.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:15 Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings Open Education Friends:
>>>
>>> Good news!
>>>
>>> Creative Commons worked with the Cleveland Museum of Art to dedicate
>>> 30,000 high resolution images into the public domain using CC0.
>>>
>>> - Site: http://www.clevelandart.org/open-access
>>> - Article:
>>> https://www.cleveland.com/expo/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/01/fe82a74cbf1054…
>>> - Blog: https://creativecommons.org/2019/01/23/cleveland-museum/
>>> - Tweets:
>>> - https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1088079123963088896
>>> - https://twitter.com/ClevelandArt/status/1088081616059228161
>>>
>>> Enjoy,
>>>
>>> Cable
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Cable Green, PhD
>>> Director of Open Education
>>> Creative Commons
>>>
>>> - Join: CC Open Education Platform
>>> <https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-pl…>
>>> - Tw: @cgreen <http://twitter.com/cgreen>
>>> - CC Global Network: get involved today
>>> <https://network.creativecommons.org/get-involved/>
>>>
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>
> --
>
Hey everyone,
We're organising the second office hours of January today (23rd January).
Join us at 11:30 AM (UTC) : meet.google.com/drr-zntw-twz
Looking forward to seeing you there and in case you have missed the 15th
January Office hours, here's the minutes of the meeting :
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/January_15…
Regards
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear EDUWiki enthusiasts,
We've just wrapped 2018 and heading toward 2019, about which I'll be
sending a separate email in the coming week, with information about what
we've been up to till now and most importantly, what we're planning next.
In the meantime, however, *we'd like to schedule our next open online
meeting. *
To that end, we've *created a doodle*
<https://doodle.com/poll/id2bmreyqsf7gvh2>, with 3 different options on the
last week of January.
As we are an international group, we've tried to pick different time-slots
during the day.
*Please fill it out by the end of this Friday, 25/01/19, at midnight
*(whichever
time zone you are in). It's important for us to see how many people are
able to participate in the different time slots, as it'll also affect our
future scheduling as well. The final date will be announced Saturday, Jan
26.
The meeting will include:
* A short update (and intro) by participants.
* A short update regarding what we've achieved during 2018.
* A short update on our annual plan & bylaws
* An invitation to the working groups (explanation and call of action)
Yours,
Shani Evenstein
Chairperson, The Wikipedia & Education User Group.
-----------------------------------------------
*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*
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