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 all,
As you know, Wikimania is happening in a couple of week and we'll soon have
a chance to meet in person with at least a few of you in Stockholm.
I'm happy to report that the Education Space is 90% ready (and will be 100%
ready in the coming days), which give me a good opportunity to thank the
Program Committee that worked on making our Space's program a reality!
I'd also like to thank Krishna
<https://www.facebook.com/KCVelaga?fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARCIUxMK-iQM…>,
who've created this beautiful page that lists all sessions
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Education/Program>in our space
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Education/Program> and their
rooms. You can of course see it as part of the whole Wikimania Program,
which is also linked at the top of this page.
Please note:
1. 1) The content of each submission page will be edited further in the
coming days so you'll have an updated version of the speakers and content.
Still if there are any questions, please let us know.
2. 2) We're planning a meetup for everyone interested in Education.
It'll be on Friday at 21:00, probably at one of the hotels, after dinner,
so stay tuned. We'll update exactly where when we are there.
3. 3) Some session will be featuring people joining us remotely. We're
really hoping all sessions will be recorded, but as of now, that's not
confirmed yet.
Finally, we've made an effort to have an active and engaging program,
preferring this year more panels and workshops, and keeping personal
lectures to a minimum, with only 2 keynote lectures and 1 session of
TED-like 10 minutes lightning talks. We've also made an effort to identify
missing topics and "invite" speakers to explore them. *If you have any
questions or comments on the program and its format, please feel free to
contact us. *
Looking forward to meeting you all,
Shani (on behalf of the program's committee)
-----------------------------------------------
*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
* Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
* EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
* PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
* OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology, Internationalization
and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>.
* 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
Hi Federico,
It seems this email by Nichole didn't reach the list. As Nichole said, we
are not removing information from anywhere. We will use all the existing
platforms which are being used by the community, also in the meantime
explore how the Wikimedia Space could be integrated to them.
Best!
Sailesh
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 9:23 PM Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Federico,
>
> We're not removing any information from anywhere. Instead, we'll be
> posting event notices on Space, and hosting more engaging discussions. If
> you explore Space a bit, you'll find it's a very positive environment for
> fostering discussions and collaboration. We'll still share links to events
> and other notices on the list, as well as in our other communication
> channels. The link would lead you to the post on Space. I hope that
> clarifies.
>
> best,
>
> Nichole
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 5:39 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sailesh Patnaik, 25/07/19 17:38:
>> > You’ll still be able to find static
>> > information and resources on Outreach Wiki, with more dynamic
>> information
>> > living on Wikimedia Space.
>>
>> Can you clarify what kind of information or updates are being removed
>> from other venues?
>>
>> Federico
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Education mailing list
>> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
>>
>
>
> --
> *Nichole Saad*
> Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
> nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
> user: NSaad (WMF)
>
>
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear Wikimedia Education community,
We’re so excited to invite you to explore Wikimedia Space [1] with us
through a new category just for Education[2]. We’ll be piloting the use of
this category to centralize communications about Wikimedia & Education,
share active discussions, and announce events on the
centralized map[3] and calendar[4]. You’ll still be able to find static
information and resources on Outreach Wiki, with more dynamic information
living on Wikimedia Space.
Wikimedia Space is a new platform introduced by the Wikimedia Foundation
which aims to become a point of centralization and redistribution of news
and conversations. The Space is also a place where anyone can ask any
question related to Wikimedia and find answers. Wikimedia Space has a
variety of multilingual features [5] that are currently being expanded, and
can already host resources and conversations in multiple languages. As the
Wikimedia Space is still a prototype, together we can explore different
opportunities and collaborations.
Some of the future possibilities include adding lesson plans, publishing
event reports, sharing news, and even fostering mentorship in closed
groups. Let’s brainstorm together[6] on what we want for our Education
category!
[1]
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/introducing-wikimedia-space-a-platform-…
[2]https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/education
[3]https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/events/l/map
[4]https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/events/l/calendar
[5]
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/discussions-in-many-languages-organized…
[6]
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/07/24/welcome-education-community-to-wikimed…
Dhanyabaad!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hey everyone,
Hope you are all doing well, the Office hours for July is scheduled today
at 10:30 AM (UTC), which is almost 5 hours from now. Looking forward to
seeing you all in today's office hours. The agenda for today's meeting can
be found here:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikimedia-education-office-hours-july-2…
You can join by clicking on this link:
https://meet.google.com/_meet/wfq-qiyh-pdg
Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hi,
For some reason this email from Melissa didn't reach to the education
mailing list.
The July edition of the Education Newsletter has been published:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2019
Best!
Sailesh
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Melissa Guadalupe Huertas <mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:47 AM
Subject: [Education-collab] This Month in Education, July 2019 edition
To: <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <education-collab(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hola everybody!
The July edition of the Education Newsletter has been published:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2019
This month's contributors have shared stories about the first WikiEducation
gathering in Mexico, the Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference in Bangalore,
a Wikimedian in residence at SEABA International Public School in Punjab,
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_…
--
*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>
_______________________________________________
education-collab mailing list
education-collab(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education-collab
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear all,
Sharing news of an event that will take place during October. Here's the
invite I got from Alek Tarkowski. Please see it as if it was made to you
individually. It is really important that we send someone from our
community to interact with this community, so anyone interested in Open
Education Advocacy, this one's for you!
Note that there are scholarships, but you need to *apply by July 28t*h, so
please hurry up. Here's a link to the application form
<https://oerpolicy.eu/oe-policy-forum/> is in the first link.
Best,
Shani & the Wikipedia & Education User Group.
--------------------------------------------------------
I am writing to invite you to the fourth edition of the Open Education
Policy Forum. Every year, we bring together advocates, activists, and
policymakers working on Open Education policies, in Europe and beyond.
This year, we are introducing some changes to our concept and hope to
provide stronger support for people working on open education policies. I
hope that you will consider joining us this year and becoming one of our
Forum’s Fellows.
Our call for participation is open until 28 July. Please visit our website
for detailed information concerning the Forum, participation in the policy
incubation program and scholarship opportunities:
https://oerpolicy.eu/oe-policy-forum/
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Foerpolicy.eu%2Foe-policy-forum…>
For this year’s edition, we chose the theme “Empowering Advocates for
Change”. The two-day event will be the beginning of a six-month policy
incubation process that will help Forum participants develop open policies
in their institutions, regions or countries.
This year’s Forum will take place on 7-8 October in Warsaw, Poland. We are
very happy to partner with SPARC and Open Education Consortium, two leading
organisations in the field of open education advocacy.
We are seeking activists and advocates - both experienced and beginning
Open Education policy work - who want to become this year’s Fellows of the
Open Education Policy Forum. We are looking for people who are developing
open education policies on the international, national or institutional
level. We are keen to support policies that concern various aspects of open
education, as well as related fields of openness. Participants in our Forum
will get support for their policy work from key experts in our field.
We are also seeking mentors for our program - please get in touch if you
would like to share your knowledge and experiences with others.
We will also be grateful for sharing this information with your colleagues
who might be interested in participating.
We are looking forward to having some of you as our Fellows,
Alek (and the Open Education Policy Forum team)
-----------------------------------------------
*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
* Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
* EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
* PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
* OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology, Internationalization
and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>.
* 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
Attention Nichole Saad,
I am using this list to bypass a technical problem. Apologies to the uninvolved
There seem to be technical problems with the Greenhouse course on Moodle
At https://wikimedia-education.moodle.school/mod/forum/view.php?id=23 there is no way apparent for me to open a thread to explain that there is no way to open a thread on the forum specifically intended for asking general questions about navigating the unit. It would be more amusing if it was not so frustrating. Thee does not appear to be any obvious way to communicate with the course providers through the current setup of the course.
Cheers,
Peter Southwood
-----Original Message-----
From: Education [mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 2:00 PM
To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Education Digest, Vol 98, Issue 7
Send Education mailing list submissions to
education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org
You can reach the person managing the list at
education-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Education digest..."
Today's Topics:
1. Re: Moodle at Wikimedia (Gabriel Thullen)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:06:15 +0200
From: Gabriel Thullen <gabriel(a)thullen.com>
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Peter Southwood <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>, Melissa Guadalupe
Huertas - EDU WMF <mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Moodle at Wikimedia
Message-ID:
<CAPKdw6CEn_W3v5X3eaDseSiONA-K9viR6nvwK+QvT0fr212DBQ(a)mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
The Geneva (Switzerland) education department has been using Moodle for
years and is quite satisfied with the platform. A few films were produced
on the subject:
https://edu.ge.ch/site/archiprod/?s=DIP-Moodle
That been said, Moodle is great for online courses with a Classroom size
number of attendees. That is probably fine for us, I do not think that we
will have hundreds and hundreds of simultaneous participants. I do have not
any personal experience with a Moodle course addressing thousands of
attendees.
Best regards
Gabe
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:12 PM Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Can you be more specific on the kind of information you are looking for?
> With more details we can be of more assistance.
>
> all the best,
>
> Nichole
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 6:44 PM Ilario Valdelli <ivaldelli(a)wikimedia.ch>
> wrote:
>
> > To follow-up what Federico Leva said, Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia CH
> > did an analysis to check the best platform for a MOOC.
> >
> > Moodle is good for small classes and for well targeted trainings but
> > cannot be "massive" because its architecture is not to be massive.
> >
> > Anyways Moodle comes with a lot of gadgets and plugins.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > --
> > Ilario Valdelli
> > Education Program Manager and Community liaison
> > Wikimedia CH
> > Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
> > Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre
> > Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera
> > Switzerland - 8008 Zürich
> > Tel: +41764821371
> > http://www.wikimedia.ch
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Education <education-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> On Behalf Of
> > Shani Evenstein
> > Sent: 14 July 2019 18:39
> > To: Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>; Education ML <
> > education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Cc: Peter Southwood <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>; Melissa Guadalupe
> > Huertas - EDU WMF <mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Moodle at Wikimedia
> >
> > The WMF Education team is indeed using Moodle to develope the Greenhouse
> > online course on Wikipedia.
> > CCing Nichole Saad & Melissa who can share more details.
> >
> > Best,
> > Shani.
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, 17:21 Charles Matthews via Education <
> > education(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > On 13 July 2019 at 10:47 Peter Southwood
> > > > <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The current Greenhouse course is running on Moodle. Where can I get
> > > > more information on the use of Moodle by Wikimedia projects?
> > >
> > > I was involved in developing Moodle content for Wikimedia UK in the
> > > period
> > > 2012 to 2014. As the domain moodle.wikimedia.org.uk is currently
> > > offline, there is nothing to show for this project right now. There is
> > > some accumulated experience in the practical side of hosting Moodle.
> > >
> > > Charles
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Education mailing list
> > > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Education mailing list
> > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
> > _______________________________________________
> > Education mailing list
> > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
> >
>
>
> --
> *Nichole Saad*
> Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
> nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
> user: NSaad (WMF)
> _______________________________________________
> Education mailing list
> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
>
------------------------------
Subject: Digest Footer
_______________________________________________
Education mailing list
Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
------------------------------
End of Education Digest, Vol 98, Issue 7
****************************************