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
Juhar,
Hope you are all doing well. It is time for the October edition of
the Education newsletter, and we are excited to read about the amazing work
you have done or planning to do this month.
The last date for submitting your article for the education newsletter is
18th of October. Please submit your article at the Education newsroom:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
We encourage you to go through the publication guidelines (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Publication_Guidelines )
before submitting the article. In case you have any questions, feel free to
ask me.
If you have missed the September edition of the newsletter, find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/September_2019
Dhanyabaad!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
If you have 3-5 minutes today, read Melissa's article about Unit 1 of the
Greenhouse Online Course! We're really proud of the student engagement in
the forums and assignments--we've learned so much from all of you! Keep up
the wonderful work, we can't wait to review Unit 2.
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/10/16/wikimedia-education-greenhouse-highlig…
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*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
(please excuse the cross-post)
The Wiki Education Foundation is committed to publishing evaluation reports
about our new programmatic work, and I'm happy to announce our newest
report, on our Wikidata courses.
Here's the blog post about it:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2019/10/16/widening-wikidatas-impact/
And the report itself if you're interested in a lot of information!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikidata_Program_…
Many thanks to our Wikidata Program Manager, Will Kent, who both ran the
program and authored the report with support from other colleagues. We're
happy to answer any questions on the talk page on Meta if you have them.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Chief Programs Officer; Deputy Director
Wiki Education
www.wikiedu.org
Dear all,
I'm thrilled to introduce a new instructional tool available for Arabic
readers and editors globally! After two years of brainstorming and planning
, the instructional website Wiki Warsha ويكي ورشة is out! This is yet
another step for Wikimedia Israel in developing instructional tools.
Wikiwarsha.org <http://wikiwarsha.org/> is a multimedia instructional
website designed to introduce Wikipedia to Arabic readers, to invite new
editors to write and edit content on Arabic Wikipedia, to assist teachers
in school activities, and instructors in editing workshops.
Warsha is the Arabic word for ‘workshop’, the website includes short
instructional films, texts and images and is divided into 13 informative
and instructional lessons:
-Wikipedia homepage structure
-About Wikipedia articles
-Create account
-Sign in to a registered account
-Create a userpage
-Create a new article
-Edit an article
-Formatting the article
-Request edits approval on Arabic Wikipedia
-Adding image
-Adding internal and external links
-Adding references
-Adding categories
In addition to those lessons, the website contains informative sections
about copyright issues, FAQs, good article criteria, and talk pages, all in
order to facilitate understanding how Wikipedia communities function.
Promo video:
https://youtu.be/WaouO28qNsY
For further details and info:
warsha(a)wikimedia.org.il
*Bekriah Mawasi*, Arabic Education Coordinator WMIL [[user: bks-WMIL]]
*Michal Lester*, Executive Director, WMIL