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 & Education community,
Wikidata's 8th birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday> is next week, and
in honor of this we're hosting "Wikidata Education Week." Join us for fun
events and activities! Don't miss live interviews with Wikimedians who do
amazing things in education with Wikidata! You can find everything you need
to know here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_W…>
.
Let's get #Wikidata and #EduWiki trending! Wikidata in education is the
future :)
See you next week!
-Nichole & the Education Team
--
*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Dear Wikimedians,
Join the education team for this months' Education office hours on 22nd
October 2020 at 13:00 UTC! The office hours are a dedicated time and an
online space to have conversations and discussions related to Wikimedia and
education activities, listen and learn from each other's projects and
experiences.
We will be providing some updates on Wikidata Education Week, and to learn
from your work in Wikidata and education. If you are interested, join us!
You can find more details to join the meeting here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/October_22…
Looking forward to seeing you all then, Please let me know if you have any
questions, also reach out to me if you want a calendar invitation for this
meeting.
Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation?
Request for a slot for consultation for your education work (
https://outreach.wikimedia. org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space ) Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Wikimedia Foundation | Program Associate, Education
User:SPatnaik (WMF)
Hi everyone!
Somehow we got hacked/spammed for the office hours. Very sorry about this!
Please do not join the previous link.
Please join this new link: meet.google.com/vir-fqjr-ocj
Thank you! Hopefully, see you in the new link, and fingers crossed the
hackers don't follow us.
best,
Nichole
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*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
As many of you may know, Wikidata's 8th birthday celebration
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday> is coming soon!
The Education Team hopes to participate in the birthday celebration by
raising awareness of the educational value of Wikidata.
During the week of October 26-30th we plan to celebrate "Wikidata in
Education Week" with the following activities:
- Hosting a Wikidata in Education meetup
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/24-hours_meetup>
- Sharing a Communications Tool-kit with messaging the community can
share on their social media channels
- Hosting live interviews with Wikimedians who have used Wikidata in
education
- Launching a consultation with key influencers on how Wikidata can be
used for curriculum digitization
Would you like to participate in a short interview to discuss how you have
used Wikidata in Education? Please respond to myself (nsaad(a)wikimedia.org)
or Sailesh ( spatnaik(a)wikimedia.org) by October 16th.
Do you have an idea of other activities we could do during this week to
raise awareness of Wikidata in education? Share it here!
all the best,
Nichole
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*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Dear members of the Wikipedia & Education User group,
It's been two years since the Wikipedia & Education User group was
founded and the time has flied by. We did a lot of things and there were
a lot of things that we wanted to do, but didn't.
Now it's time to refresh our board. Namely, according to our By-laws
[1], board members have a term of two years, meaning our terms end on
October 2. Also, according to our By-laws, we are supposed to hold a
General Assembly meetings annually, so this is the perfect time for that.
Therefore, I hereby invite all user group members [2] to the General
Assembly online meeting, that will take place on October 1, 2020
starting at 4 PM UTC. The link for the meeting will be provided at a
later time. At the meeting, we will present a two year activity report
and hold elections for board members.
If you want to put yourself up for election as a board member, please
apply by sending me an email off-list with your full name and a brief
statement on why you think you should be a board member.
I hope to see as many members as possible on October 1.
Until then, take care,
Filip Maljković
Chair
Wikipedia & Education User group
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/By-laws
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Members#…