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
(usual cross-posting apologies!)
TL;DR version:
* What: Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting
* Who: Guest speakers Florencia Claes and Goran Milovanović
* When: Monday, September 30, from 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC
* Where: https://zoom.us/j/876197184
* Why: Be inspired about programs related to Commons and Wiktionary
Full version:
On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group, we cordially invite you
to attend our next Open Meeting on Monday, September 30, from 17:00 UTC to
18:30 UTC. While our name includes Wikipedia, we support the use of all
Wikimedia projects in educational contexts. Our guest speakers this month
showcase that well!
Florencia Claes, Communication and Journalism professor at Rey Juan Carlos
University in Madrid, Spain, will speak about how she's helped her students
contribute multimedia projects to Wikimedia Commons and add them to
Wikipedia, and her current project to collaborate with a documentary
filmmaking class to have students shoot videos for Commons. Florencia's
talk should be inspiring for anyone who has noticed a trend of students
preferring video over text, as we can all learn from her experiences!
Goran S. Milovanović, PhD, Data Scientist, Software Department, Wikimedia
Deutschland, will speak about the Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard [1], and how
it can be used for identifying places for improvement on your language
Wiktionary. This is super relevant for anyone running programs on
Wiktionary!
[1] http://wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/Wiktionary_CognateDashboard/
To join the meeting on the 30th, click this link:
https://zoom.us/j/876197184
To add the invite to your calendar:
* Google Calendar:
https://zoom.us/meeting/tZMrduCvrzMup3tg0j_JqfZsHGec7RZlUw/calendar/google/…
* Outlook Calendar:
https://zoom.us/meeting/tZMrduCvrzMup3tg0j_JqfZsHGec7RZlUw/ics
* Yahoo Calendar:
http://calendar.yahoo.com/?v=60&VIEW=d&TITLE=Wikipedia%20%26%20Education%20…
Full agenda:
* Intros
* Update from UG board
* Updates from Wikimania
* Updates from working groups
* Featured speakers: Florencia Claes, Goran Milovanović
* Q & A
Hey Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse participants, We have some news!
Unit 2 of our online course is launching on Monday (Sep. 30)! This unit
will be focused on developing your project management skills: developing
needs assessments, logic models, stakeholders relations, budgets, and
grant-writing. Oh and there’s a cool new badge waiting for you upon
completion of this unit!
Would you like to take this unit but you didn’t register for the course in
June? Now is your chance! Register on this link: https://bit.ly/2m6aYsL
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hi everyone,
Apologies if you have already seen a similar notification from the watchlist or on a different mailing list elsewhere.
We are currently proposing to establish a new Wikimedia sister project called WikiJournal. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group
Our goal is to bridge the academic-Wikipedia by enabling academics, scholars and professionals to contribute expert knowledge to the Wikimedia movement in the familiar academic publishing format while providing scholars with citable articles for performance evaluation.
Currently, WikiJournal is hosted under Wikiversity and is divided three journals (WikiJournal of Medicine, WikiJournal of Science and WikiJournal of Humanities). We are providing an avenue for academics to publish in open-access peer-reviewed journal with no publication cost (i.e. open access diamond/platinum). We accept articles in various formats: reviews (with many of them integrated directly into Wikipedia), original research, case studies, and images/galleries (with integration into Commons).
A full description of the sister project proposal can be found at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal. You are also encouraged to provide feedback and comments about the proposal.
Andrew Leung, Ph.D
Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
University of Toronto Scarborough
"Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."
Forwarding to the Education mailing list.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder158(a)hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 07:17
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the extension of funding by the Basque
Government
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear wikimedians,
Three years have gone since we started with the Basque Wikimedians User
Group Education Program, funded by the Basque Government. After two years
and a half of great enhancing of Basque Wikipedia (more than 2.500 students
adding more than 1.5 million words on fundamental topics) the Basque
Government has announce us today the extension of the funding for four more
years.
In this four years we will try to strengthen our Educaton Program but also
open to new areas in order to make our knowledge equity vision possible. By
2024 we will have taken sure steps towards creating a free knowledge
ecosystem centered at Wikimedia.
Sincerely,
Galder
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Juhar,
Hope you are all doing well, we are organising the Education office hours
for the month of September on 18th at 12:00 PM UTC. The Office hours is a
collaborative space for Wikimedians and education leaders to meet the
education team at the Wikimedia Foundation, share their work and learn from
others.
The agenda for this months' office hours are:
- Volunteer group for education newsletter.
- Discussion on updating the existing Education brochures.
- Mapping exercise brainstorming and update-a-thon ?
You can find more details at the Wikimedia Space:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/education-office-hours-september-2019/1…
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 )
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Juhar,
Hope you are all doing well. It is time for the September 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 September. 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 August edition of the newsletter, find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/August_2019
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor