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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Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6
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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
Thank you, Pine!
Will do :)
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> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 22:59:07 -0700
> From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse -
> updates and helpful resources!
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> Hi Melissa,
>
> Thanks very much for the update. This sounds like a good experiment. I hope
> that you'll continue to provide occasional updates.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 10:11 Melissa Guadalupe Huertas <
> mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Hola education community!
> >
> > I wanted to first say thank you to everybody who has expressed their
> > enthusiasm about the Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse, to those who have
> > sent us questions or feedback, and specially to those of you who have
> > already joined in one way or another! So far we have received:
> >
> > - 1 team application
> > - Over 50 individual applications for the online course (from all over
> the
> > world!)
> > - 16 applications to join as volunteer collaborators
> >
> > We'd like to continue encouraging you to prepare your team and individual
> > applications and submit them before May 12! In addition to the
> information
> > available in the outreach space
> > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Greenhouse> we have
> > prepared
> > some additional communication materials with details and support that you
> > might find helpful:
> >
> > - Overview of the W&E Greenhouse
> > <
> >
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v1XVAFOURx0eS42nUYEcrplygfm_p_enagG…
> > >
> > - What topics will be covered in the online course?
> > <
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W%26E_Greenhouse_Curriculum_for_Onl…
> > >
> > - What is the timeline of the online course?
> > <
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W%26E_Greenhouse_online_course_-_Ti…
> > >
> > - How do I start with a team application?
> > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Team_Application_Guidance.png>
> > - What is the team application like?
> > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/13H-hbzp44lprnZKZV8UoMywgBFQ3w0nx/view>
> > (video
> > guide)
> >
> > We hope you find these helpful! Please, do send me a message if you have
> > any additional questions or need some more focused support. And don't
> > forget to share this opportunity among your networks!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -Melissa
> >
> > --
> > *Melissa Guadalupe Huertas*
> > Wikimedia Foundation | Education Program Officer
> > mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org
> > user: MGuadalupe (WMF)
> > Check out our newsletter: This Month in Education
> > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
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mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org
user: MGuadalupe (WMF)
Check out our newsletter: This Month in Education
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
Hello everyone,
Greetings from CIS-A2K. We are happy to announce that, Wikimedia Education
SAARC conference 2019 programme submissions (proposals) are open[1]. It
will be a full-weekend Conference to talk about the relation between
Wikimedia and our education projects, and the way Education is being shaped
in SAARC countries.
We request all the interested Wikimedians to submit the programme
submissions (proposals). Please note the date to submit the proposal will
start from today (25 May 2019). The last date for submission is 10 May
2019.
The other important dates for the conference are
- Scholarship applications open: 10 May 2019
- Deadline for applying for scholarships: 20 May 2019
- Applicants will be notified about final decisions: 25 May 2019
- The final list of recipients will be announced: 25 May 2019
[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
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Hi everybody!
The April edition of the Education Newsletter has been published:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/April_2019
In this edition you can read highlights from the Wikimedia+Education
Conference, learn about the Wikipedia Student Scholar program at Oregon
State University, and more! As usual thank you to our 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)
Check out our newsletter: This Month in Education
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
Hey everyone,
We have the second office hours for the month of April today at 14:30 PM
(UTC). You can join the call by clicking on this link (
https://meet.google.com/vyb-fojh-zxn ) or add it to your calendar (
http://bit.ly/OfficeHoursApril23 ).
Agendas for today's office hours:
- Using mobile phones in Wikimedia Education activities
- Wikimedia Education Greenhouse
- Data mapping exercise
Looking forward to seeing you today.
Dhanyabaad!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hey everyone,
Hope you are all doing well. It is time for the April edition of the
Education newsletter, and we are excited to know about the amazing work you
have done/ going to do in this month.
Please submit your article here: 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.
In case, you have missed the March edition of the newsletter, find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/March_2019
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
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> > Here we are with the Office Hours for the month of March. This month we
> > have two office hours, where the first office hours is dedicated to
> > Education Greenhouse virtual information session. For more information:
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> > - Office Hours (1): April 17, 13:00 UTC (
> > http://bit.ly/OfficeHoursApril17 )
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> > http://bit.ly/OfficeHoursApril23 )
> >
> > Please add the Office hours to your own calendar by clicking on the
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> > in the brackets above.
> >
> > Looking forward to seeing you all in the coming office hours, for any
> > other queries, feel free to reach out to me.
> >
> > Dhanyabaad!
> > --
> > *Sailesh Patnaik*
> > Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
> >
> >
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Hey everyone,
Here we are with the Office Hours for the month of March. This month we
have two office hours, where the first office hours is dedicated to
Education Greenhouse virtual information session. For more information:
- Office Hours (1): April 17, 13:00 UTC (
http://bit.ly/OfficeHoursApril17 )
- Office Hours (2): April 23, 14:30 UTC (
http://bit.ly/OfficeHoursApril23 )
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 hours, for any other
queries, feel free to reach out to me.
Dhanyabaad!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor