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
Hola, everybody!
We hope this message finds you safe and healthy. The April edition of the
Education Newsletter has been published and you can find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/April_2020
Thank you to those who contributed to this month's newsletter! In this
edition get inspired with the stories shared from Wikimedia communities in
Poland, Mexico, Germany, Ghana, Serbia, and Armenia. You will also meet
this month's featured community member: Helena Dvořáková! We hope these
stories bring a smile to you in these trying times.
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 link and nominate them:
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_…
Cheers!
--
*Melissa Guadalupe Huertas*
Wikimedia Foundation | Program Officer, Education
mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org
user: MGuadalupe (WMF)
Check out our newsletter: This Month in Education
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
Juhar everyone,
We are here with the education office hours for the month of April.
Join us on 23rd April 2020 at 12:30 PM UTC. I will share the link to join
the meeting on the same day.
The agenda for March Office Hours are:
- Education response to COVID-19
- EduWiki Challenges
- Community collaboration on translation support for Education COVID-19
portal (https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/COVID-19_response)
Looking forward to seeing you all then, 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
Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
How are you all doing? I hope you are finding ways to feel connected in
this time of quarantine. The Wikimedia & Education community is, at its
core, a community of individuals that supports each other, and the mission
of the Wikimedia movement. Today I want to take some time to share a few
ways that you can connect with others in this community:
*Join the facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikimediaEducation/
*Attend monthly Office Hours with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Team
(we'll announce the next dates & times soon!)
*Attend the monthly Open User Group Meeting
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Get_invo…
*Start a conversation on Twitter with #EduWiki
Want some more ways to participate in this amazing community? We're looking
for help to translate, create and share #EduWiki challenges and lesson
plans. Everything you need to start is right here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/COVID-19_response/Comms_toolk…
We
update this page weekly with new messages and challenges!
See how one parent used the #EduWiki challenge and shared about it on
Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219330030336382&set=gm.3483537658…
As always, we are eager to hear your ideas and suggestions.
Stay well,
Nichole
--
*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Hey everyone,
Hope you are all doing well. Sending love and good thoughts.
It is time for the April edition of the Education newsletter. I know the
pandemic has affected our work, and many of us are working on alternatives
to continue supporting our community or teachers or students. We are
excited to hear what you and your community are doing to support education
activities. You can highlight them in this edition of the newsletter.
The last date for submitting your article for the education newsletter is
20th of April. Please submit your article at the Education newsroom:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
Let me know if you need more time to publish your article/s.
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 March edition of the newsletter, find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/March_2020. For
February, we have highlighted the work of Amber Berson, read an article
about them here
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/March_2020/Featured_educ…>.
Do
you know of a community member of the Wikimedia education community that we
should meet? Nominate them for a feature by following this
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/highlighting-individuals-involved-with-…>
Dhanyabaad!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Coordinator, Education
Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
I hope this finds you well, safe and healthy! This crisis has been
challenging us all personally and professionally in many different ways,
and you all have our solidarity and support.
Over the last couple weeks the Education Team has been staying busy
creating new #EduWiki challenges and lesson plans, and working on
supporting the UNESCO Global Education Coalition. Not only that, but we
joined the World Scouts for their emergency "Jamboree on the Internet"
April 3-5 https://www.jotajoti.info. We hosted 2 webinars and took part in
"Joti Live." You can see the "Joti Live" episode with our very own Sailesh
Patnaik here:
https://www.facebook.com/WOSM.OMMS/videos/joti-live-show-4/2606615196249791/
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFhI5ufCDi0. Through this event we
engaged over 21k youth around the world!
The original Joti event will be held in October this year, and we will
start engaging the community soon for their ideas on how we can play an
even bigger role at that time. We want to get our whole Wikimedia &
Education community involved!
Now, for the main reason I'm writing to you today. We are hoping those of
you with time and energy can help us support teachers, guardians, and
students with activities that help students learn with the Wikimedia
projects. You can help by translating and sharing this week's #EduWiki
challenges and lesson plans in your networks, or by creating your own and
sharing them with us. You can find everything you need you need at this
link:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/COVID-19_response/Comms_toolk…
You can create your own and share them with us here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeC574xkmZjWwizs-3qMf0VKPoz8SszV-R…
.
Finally, don't forget to let us know what your community is doing to
support education during this time https://forms.gle/z3Hj4n5NX3wphamk6.
If you have questions or other ideas on ways we can support learners let us
know at education(a)wikimedia.org or join us at the next office hours event
on April 23 from 12:30-13:30 UTC.
sincerely,
--
*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
I hope this email finds you safe and healthy. We wanted to update you on
where we are with the COVID-19 action plan that we shared with you before,
how you can share your own responses with us so that we can amplify your
work, and how you can help support our efforts.
This week, the Wikimedia Foundation joined UNESCO's Global Education
Coalition for COVID-19
https://en.unesco.org/covid19/globaleducationcoalition. If you have time,
view Katherine Maher's video introducing our membership and give it a like
or a share: https://youtu.be/4RL0bQw4n0s
We also initiated a soft launch of the #EduWiki challenge on Facebook and
Twitter, and starting next week, we're asking you to support this
initiative. What can you do? Every Friday we're going to update this
communications tool-kit:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/COVID-19_response/Comms_toolk…
In the tool-kit you will find:
1) All the #EduWiki challenges for the week and corresponding graphics
2) Our M-F post schedule
3) Other messages about Wikimedia, Education & COVID-19
You can:
1) *Translate, localize, and share any and all of the #EduWiki challenges
in your social media accounts and other relevant channels.* We want to
reach teachers, parents and students who are looking for fun and engaging
educational activities they can do at home. The communications tool-kit
will be updated every week. The graphics will be added to Commons, and you
can edit the svg files using any image editing software that you like.
2) *Share your ideas for new #EduWiki challenges, or lesson plans that use
the Wikimedia projects with us so that we can add them to our post
schedule. *For now you can send them to education(a)wikimedia.org with the
subject line "Lesson plan ideas." We're putting together a form that will
make it easier, and we'll share it with you next week.
3) *Share the other activities your community is doing to mitigate the
impact of COVID-19 school closures. *You can use this form to share your
activities: https://forms.gle/g2mqLwpPr9gjvwgA7 and we will include them on
ur dedicated page for COVID-19 on Outreach Wiki:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/COVID-19_response
Thank you for all that you do! We're so proud to be a part of this
community. Reach out if you have any questions.
wishing you all the best in this crazy time,
The Education Team
--
*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
(usual apologies for cross-posting!)
The board of the Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our
user group's next Open Meeting, one week from today, on Thursday, April 2,
at 15:00 UTC, as always via Zoom. We'll be discussing the Wikimedia &
Education community's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Guest speakers
include:
* Nichole Saad and Melissa Guadalupe Huertas from the WMF Education Team
will talk about their strategy and how you can help. (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2020-March/002511.html)
* User:TiagoLubiana, a graduate student in Computational Biology from the
University of São Paulo, and a leading editor at Wikidata:WikiProject
COVID-19, will discuss Wikidata's work around COVID-19 and how the
Wikimedia and education community can help. (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19)
Per usual, the board will provide an update on user group activities, and
we'll offer an opportunity for others to briefly share what they've been up
to in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us!
What: Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting
When: Apr 2, 2020 15:00 UTC
Where: https://zoom.us/j/759620545
Meeting ID: 759 620 545