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
Greetings from CIS-A2K,
I am writing this email to inform you about the Wikimedia Education SAARC
conference which is going to be organised at Christ University on 20-22
June 2019. The CIS-A2K team has been working with the language department
of Christ University and other institutions to enrich the content of Indic
Wikimedia projects with the help of students.
Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind
conference in SAARC countries which will engage students, education program
leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free
knowledge movement. This conference will allow us to understand the
different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia
Education movement.
We're thankful to Christ University for helping us to the host the event,
for more details and further updates, Please have a look at this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference>[1].
[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
Co-founder of Lakshya
<https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…>
+91-9739811664
Today WMF Community Tech launched the big upgrade to Event Metrics I’ve been talking about in recent moths. This is the answer to last year’s #3 Community Wishlist wish. With this release, event organizers get many new metrics and powerful new features for measuring event participation, contributions and impact. Please try it; all you need is a wiki login. [1]
The sooner people give Event Metrics a spin the better. Right now, CommTech is on assignment to fix Event Metrics problems. We’re open for bug business. But such is the nature of our team that in a few weeks we’ll move on to start granting our next Wishlist wish.
Consider the program in beta right not; we tested it but are bound to have missed things. So please have a look and tell us what's broken, what's confusing and what you love! Here’s the talk page for your comments. [2]
[1] Event Metrics program
https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/programs <https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/programs>
[2] Event Metrics talk page—leave comments here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Event_Metrics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Event_Metrics>
Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. I was honoured to speak in the education office hour last month and explain what we do in Tunisia for Wikimedia Education Programs. For years, Wikimedia TN User Group has participated in Wikimedia Education Programs. Ms. Afek Ben Chahed and Mr. Sami Mlouhi are involved for years in applying WEP techniques such as WikiFundi in Tunisia. Unfortunately, these interesting techniques cannot be easily implemented in the South of Tunisia without funding. So, as several active wikimedians are from the South of Tunisia (Mainly me, Mr. Houssem Abida, and Mr. Mounir Touzri), we decided to find other simpler hacks to teach people how to edit Wikipedia or add images to Commons. We found interesting free techniques that can be used during WEP. We are honoured to share them with you through this email:
1. Use these simple three sentences to explain how to cite references in Wikipedia
Cite whenever you write
One sentence = One reference
If you use the same reference for two sentences, feel free to put it twice.
2. Know laws
If the laws in your country places images aged more than 35 years in public domain, participants in WEP can just use them to illustrate their new Wikipedia articles instead of going long ways to take new images for that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Tunisia.
3. Adjusting the work of vandals
As you already know, vandals are creating Wikipedia articles without putting references. If a user regularly adjusts their works, they will learn how to edit Wikipedia and after a short period, they will become excellent Wikipedia editors. We tried this with Wikipedia vandals from the South of Tunisia and we had important results.
During the 10 years of my work as a wikimedian beginning on March 19, 2009, these hacks were useful for me to enhance WEP in my region. I invite you to apply them as well for your WEPs.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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Hola Wikimedia education community!
The March edition of the Education Newsletter has been published:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/March_2019
In this edition we're sharing some insights from Wikimedia's participation
in UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week 2019, a call to review the Education
Mapping exercise, stories about WikiClubs, Wikipedia Fellows program,
MediaWiki trainings, and many more. Thank you to our awesome contributors
for sharing their stories this month!
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)
Hey everyone,
The March edition of the Education Newsletter has been published.
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/March_2019
In this edition, we have news from different affiliates, countries and the
education team. Thanks for sharing your stories! Hope you will enjoy
reading this edition of the Education newsletter.
If you want to receive 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_…
Dhanyabaad!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hey everyone,
It is a reminder about the Education Office Hours scheduled for today at
13:00 PM UTC. You can add this: *http://bit.ly/22MarchEducationOfficeHours
<http://bit.ly/22MarchEducationOfficeHours>* to your calendar to get a
reminder about the call or click on this link to join the call:
meet.google.com/vew-qabi-uus at 13:00 PM (UTC).
Looking forward to seeing you there.
PS: Almost 2 hours and 30 minutes left for the Office hours.
Dhanyabaad!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hey everyone,
Here we are with the Education Office Hours for the month of March. This
month one of the topics of discussion is to understand the different
evaluation strategies by different affiliates. We have two office hours
this month too:
- Office Hours (1): March 19, 15:00 UTC (
*http://bit.ly/March19EducationOfficeHours
<http://bit.ly/March19EducationOfficeHours>* )
- Office Hours (2): March 22, 13:00 UTC (
*http://bit.ly/22MarchEducationOfficeHours
<http://bit.ly/22MarchEducationOfficeHours>* )
Please add the Office hours to your own calendar by clicking on the
bit.ly links
in the brackets above.
Looking forward to seeing you all in the coming office hour. In case, you
have missed the previous meetings,
*https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/February_15_2019
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/February_1…>*
and *https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/February_19_2019
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/February_1…>*
and
for any other queries, feel free to reach out to me.
Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor