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
Hello everyone,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group is conducting a survey to understand
the technological needs of EduWiki community across the movement. The
results of this survey will not only assist to map the global needs of the
leaders of Wikimedia in Education, but also help us to prioritize the
needs. The Wikipedia & Education User Group’s goal is to support the
development of better resources and technical tools to support the work
happening around the world. Please help us spread the word. Every EDUWiki
user/leader counts, and the more people fill out this survey, the easier it
will be to advocate for our needs.
Link to the survey form:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0jupLRlhxRpPGWp
Also, as some you of might already be aware that the User Group is
organizing EduWiki Conference 2020, in Serbia, we have proposed a grant to
WMF in this regard. We would like community members to go through it and
endorse it at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Wikimedia_Serbia/EduWiki_…
.
Let us know if you have any questions regarding the survey or the
conference.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
Hi everyone,
I am looking for someone to co-write an article for an ethnographic
scientific magazine in Poland "Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne" (Łódzkie is
from Łódź - the town in central Poland). They asked me specifically about
the subject of education & Wikipedia. It can be even a news-style article,
but 20,000 letters minimum. I am myself an ethnographer and I coordinated
two GLAMwiki-projects about ethnography, so that would be my part. And
maybe someone could add information about the Wikimedia Education movement
(idea, events, goals etc.)?
I can't write it by myself, because it has to be co-author not from Poland
:) Join me!
Information in English:
http://lse.ptl.info.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cfp_%C5%81SE_2020_eng.pdf
Z poważaniem · Kind regards
Klara Sielicka-Baryłka
Specjalistka ds. projektów edukacyjnych · Education Specialist
Wikimedia Polska
tel: +48 790 290 924
e-mail: klara.sielicka(a)wikimedia.pl
<http://pl.wikimedia.org>
Wesprzyj wolną wiedzę! <https://opp.wikimedia.pl/>
Przekaż 1% podatku lub wpłać darowiznę na rzecz Wikipedii
<https://opp.wikimedia.pl/>
pl.wikimedia.org
ul. Tuwima 95, pok. 15 Łódź, Polska
KRS 0000244732
NIP 728-25-97-388
W toku korespondencji oraz współpracy możemy przetwarzać Państwa dane
osobowe. Administratorem tych danych jest Wikimedia Polska. Informacje na
temat przetwarzania, jego celów i przysługujących Państwu uprawnieniach
znajdują się w Polityce Prywatności Wikimedia Polska
<https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polityka_prywatno%C5%9Bci>. Kontakt:
rodo(a)wikimedia.pl
Juhar,
You can find the education newsletter for the month of February here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/February_2020
Thanks to all our community members who have shared their activities in
this edition of the education newsletter. This month we are highlighting
the work of Maxwell, He is a volunteer from Ghana and is using Kiwix to
spread awareness about Wikipedia and digital literacy in his region. Along
with that you can read about the amazing activities and collaborations
happened in Mexico, Indonesia, San Sebastian, Albania, the UK and more!
Do you have a great story to share from your Wikimedia education projects
or community members? Submit an article here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
If you want to highlight someone from the education community for their
work, please follow this:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/highlighting-individuals-involved-with-…
Subscribe here to receive the education newsletter at your talk page!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…
Dhanyabaad!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Coordinator, Education
Hey EduWiki community,
This year the education team will be attending UNESCO’s mobile learning
week (MLW) in Paris from 2nd March till 6th March. Like the previous
year[1], we again have a table during the conference to help anyone
interested in learning more about Wikimedia projects.
It is a great opportunity for us to showcase the work of our community with
our allies and other high level education actors, like government agencies
and international donors.
*What do we need from you? *
A 30-45 seconds video sharing the following details (can be in any
language[1])
-
Who are you? Where are you based in?
-
The language Wikimedia project you contribute to?
-
What difference is Wikimedia bringing in Education?
This video will be played in the television set provided with the table.
Please share your recorded video with us by 27th February, upload it to
your drive or on Wikimedia Commons and share the link with me at
spatnaik(a)wikimedia.org. Also, a declaration of video under CC-BY-SA 4.0
license, so that we can upload them on Commons.
[1]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/March_2019/Wikimedia_at_…
[2] The Education team can provide translation support in the following
languages (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Education_Team#More_abo…
), if you speak languages other than these. Please help us in providing
subtitles and translations.
Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Coordinator, Education
Dear all,
I am Cristian and I am new to this list. I am not new to the movement
and education initiatives. I have been part of Wikimedia Italy for the
last 12 years, 7 of which I have spent serving in the board.
I wanted to share this project that I have just proposed for a project
grant:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Community_Health_Metrics:_Un…
We are team of 3 researchers from Eurecat, a research center in
Barcelona. We have quite an extensive experience doing research on
Wikipedia both on content and user interactions.
Our aim is to study editor's lifecycle to identify factors associated
with editors leaving the project and make what we discover available
through dashboards that can be used by the communities to plan further
actions.
We would like to involve the community as much as possible when choosing
on which metrics we should focus on, and we would like to hear your
feedback.
Thank you.
Cristian
Juhar everyone,
We are here with the education office hours for the month of February. We
are organising this Office hours on 13th February 2020 at 12:00 PM UTC.
This month the focus of the meeting are on Comms related queries from the
community members. Also, we will give some updates from the education team.
The agenda for February Office Hours:
-
Where are we keeping the resources? What are our current documentation
practices of education activities?
-
Highlighting Wikimedia Education leaders. Please add other topics you
want to discuss during the event:
You can join the call by clicking on this link:
https://meet.google.com/iaz-xfot-yrf
Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday, Please let me know if you
have any questions.
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!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Coordinator, Education
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn
more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different
roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed
framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on
how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are
looking to speak with YOU, our community to learn about your journey as a
Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from
the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and
contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Learning_and_Leadership_Developmen…>.
If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this
simple Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegM07N1FK_s0VUECM61AlWOthwdn5zQOl…>.
Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we
encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in
participating!
--
Lauren Miranda (she/ her/ hers)
Project Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*I**magine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. *
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