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
Dear Wikimedia and Education community,
We are hosting a 10 days long asynchronous edit-a-thon for Wikimedia
Education mapping exercise [1] from 10th December 2019 till 20th December
2019. The goal of the edit-a-thon is to get feedback on the existing
data[2] in the mapping exercise database and also to add the missing
activities[3] with the help of community members and affiliates.
We are also looking for regional collaborators to help us in successfully
organising this event, to work closely with the affiliates and find
documentation of education activities on their Wikimedia project and add
them to the mapping database. If you are interested, please write to me
before 30th November.
You can find resources on how to add and update data to the mapping
exercise on the Outreach wiki page, we are also working to develop more
resources, and will share in this thread soon. If you have any questions,
Please let me know.
You can also take part in this event from now, and add your name as a
participant[4].
Best!
[1] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Mapping_Exercise
[2]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wekxbA21QM9ZcXFw0aKkKFc-jl8DEEhCly8…
[3]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQjiOWBzZvvRsoIj1r5omoJm84FoIlVG5…
[4]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Mapping_Exercise#Role_of_regi…
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear all,
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) <https://www.alt.ac.uk/>
and Wikimedia
Germany <https://www.wikimedia.de/en/homepage/> are inviting you to an open
evening “Education, open participation and democracy: critical reflections”
on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 from 5pm – 9pm (CEST). The event, inspired
by the OER20 Conference <https://oer20.oerconf.org/> theme “The Care in
Openness” will focus on the ways in which Openness, individuals and
communities can foster a participatory and democratic culture in Open work
and in society in general. The event will run in parallel to #OEB19
<https://oeb.global/> and will take place in the main offices of Wikimedia
in Berlin.
Through the event we aim to open a space for critical conversations and
questions: Who is Open for and who is it open to? How can Open be leveraged
as a force for participatory culture in society and education? Which roots
of Openness do we need to be especially critical of when we claim that Open
is here to save us all from the world of proprietary, industry-driven and
techno-solutionist claims around education and participation in society?
How do larger narratives around web culture play into the ways in which
education, participation and the web are framed?
We are delighted to have a group of dedicated activists and researchers as
guests and contributors to this evening: Lorna Campbell, Laura Czerniewicz,
Maren Deepwell, Martin Hawksey and Audrey Watters. Find out more on our
guests and the agenda on our blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2019/11/07/open-for-a-cause-fostering-participati…>.
We hope that this event will stimulate discussions that can continue at the
OER20 Conference and encourage participants to consider making a submission
for the OER20 Conference <https://oer20.oerconf.org/call-for-proposals/>.
The event’s facilities put a limit on the maximum number of attendees.
Registration
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrh5vmgl8vYyPhg7_3iuqseQlPw_dbTrC…>
is free and open until November 22, 2019.
So please feel free to sign up and bring your colleagues and friends who
are interested in Open movements and communities in general and/or in Open
Education in particular. We are very much looking forward to welcome you
here in Berlin!
Best regards,
Christina
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Christina Rupprecht
Projektmanagerin Bildung, Wissenschaft & Kultur
Twitter: @c_rupprecht
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der
Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns
dabei!https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Juhar,
Hope you are all doing well. It is time for the November edition of
the Education newsletter, and we are excited to read about the amazing work
you have done or planning to do this month.
Starting this month, in every Education newsletter we would like to
highlight at least one person who is impacting or who has been impacted by
Wikimedia & Education work. This person can be a movement organiser,
volunteer, teacher, student, school leader, policy maker, anyone you think
we should know about!
Please nominate someone other than yourself, to nominate someone please
write an email to me. Find more details here:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/highlighting-individuals-involved-with-…
The last date for submitting your article for the education newsletter is
18th of November. Please submit your article at the Education newsroom:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
If you have missed the October edition of the newsletter, find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/October_2019
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hi everyone,
A gentle reminder, we have the education office hours scheduled today at
12:00 PM UTC.
We will give some updates from the education team, and also excited to hear
about some of the amazing work you are doing. The space will also be open
to discuss the challenges you are facing with your Wikimedia and Education
projects. Along with that, we also have these topics to discuss:
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Sharing and gather feedback on the draft guidelines for inclusion by the
education team.
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How and where to look for in-kind resources to support your work
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Reading Wikipedia project
To join the call, you have to click on this link:
https://meet.google.com/wfq-qiyh-pdg
Please let me know if you need a calendar invitation.
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hello colleagues,
I have resumed work on my video tutorial project for Wikipedia and the
sister sites. I am hoping that eventually there will be video tutorials
and/or interactive tutorials in multiple languages, but for now I am
focusing on producing a small number of videos for English Wikipedia to
test the process and to get feedback from the community. These videos will
be designed for "organic" new users who become active on Wikipedia without
first being involved in a formal program that provides guidance for new
contributors, but I think that the videos may also be useful for formal
Wikimedia program organizers to share with their participants.
A project space is live on Outreach Wiki:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NavWiki. I invite you to look at the
organization of the space and let me know if you have any feedback.
Comments and questions may be left on the project talk page
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:NavWiki>.
I am hoping to publish two videos for English Wikipedia by the end of 2019,
and to collect feedback on them until at least January 2020 before deciding
on significant next steps. If the feedback is positive then then I hope to
produce more videos in the future and/or to adapt the videos for additional
languages.
If you would like to sign up for the project newsletter, you can do that at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tutorials_N….
Regards,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hey everyone,
The Education office hours for this month is scheduled on 13th November at
12:00 UTC.
We will give some updates from the education team, and also excited to hear
about some of the amazing work you are doing. The space will also be open
to discuss the challenges you are facing with your Wikimedia and Education
projects. Along with that, we also have these topics to discuss:
-
Sharing and gather feedback on the draft guidelines for inclusion by the
education team.
-
How and where to look for in-kind resources to support your work
You can find more details at the Wikimedia Space:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikimedia-education-office-hours-novemb…
Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation,
request for a slot for Education Office Space (
ttps://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space> ) by
filling this google form ( http://bit.ly/EduOfficeSpace )
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hi everyone,
We’ve received an interesting proposal that we want to run by you. The team
working on Wikimedia Space <https://space.wmflabs.org/> wants to start
experimenting with mirroring mailing lists as a way to unify and improve
movement communication. They have reached out to us about the possibility
of mirroring this mailing list in Space. While an experiment like this
seems to make sense to the admins of this list, we wanted to run the idea
by you first.
Concretely, this would mean that:
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We would create an Education list subcategory in Discuss Space, and any
emails sent to the mailing list would appear there as well.
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It would function like a web archive: users are able to read but no
reply or start new topics. For that, they would need to use the mailing
list exactly as it is done today. For the mailing list subscribers
everything would stay the same.
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The topics mirrored in Space would appear in the Latest list on the
Discuss main page and in the search results.
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Users can tag topics and "like" comments. If a subscriber of the mailing
list is registered in Space with the same email address, they will earn the
"likes" to their messages and this will help them build their trust in
Space, without doing anything extra.
If you want to read about how this experiment fits into the larger picture
of the development of movement communications, they’ve released a short
blog post about the future of mailing lists and Wikimedia Space
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/testing-the-path-from-mailing-lists-to-…>.
But again, for now this is just an experiment that we can start and stop at
any time.
What do you all think? Are you interested in taking part in this
experiment?
Best,
Nichole
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*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)