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 Wikimedians,
It's that time of the month again! Join us for the February edition of the
education office hours Wednesday, February 24st at 15:00 PM UTC <
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1614178836>! The monthly 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.
You can find more details including the link to connect, and add items to
the meeting agenda here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/February_2…
.
I look forward to seeing you there!
PS: Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation?
Request a slot for a consultation for your education work (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space)
--
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (she/her)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
(I am Mathias Damour - Astirmays, I opened Vikidia in 2006)
There is not so much resources in English about Vikidia or the
encyclopedic wiki for children generally, yet you can read :
-
https://www.wikimedia.fr/vikidia-in-english-opens-today-lets-build-a-childr…
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids and its sub-pages and other
links.
There is several definitions and approach of education for sure.
On Vikidia, we have both goal (or maybe three or more...;-)) to build a
valuable documentary resource for children and to let them (not
exclusively) be involved in building it, be it on their own from home or
in a school project, to "train to collaborate" and for several other
benefits.
If education is not only about learning, we think that such a wiki can
meet with some articles of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the
Child. Among other:
"/Article 13 - 1. The child shall have the right to freedom of
expression; this right shall include *freedom to seek, receive and
impart information* and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers,
either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or
through any other media of the child's choice./"
See: Wikikids/Relation to the Rights of the Child
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Relation_to_the_Rights_of_the_Child>
I would say that to let children and teeagers be involved in such a wiki
is not only a matter of education/training, it's to fulfil their
aspiration to participate, and I dare to say it's also to be frugal on
the adult's time resource and thus make the project sustainable by their
contributions.
Actually, school projects on Vikidia make a part of the content, yet
they hardly participate enough time to know the community and be
involved in it. They are still welcomed and their content, which will be
reviewed and expanded, is useful, especially because they would often
work on subject that are part of the curriculum and therefore much
needed by their fellow student the following years.
In a school project on Vikidia, the teacher can have his own goals
(skills learning, information literacy...) and view on his role in the
exercise, as long as it integrates well in the wiki.
Le 22/02/2021 à 14:02, Ilario Valdelli a écrit :
> I think that you have to consider what are your goals and what is the
> role of the teacher.
>
> If you are looking for a Wikipedia written by children, this is a goal
> and some projects are more adapt than others.
>
> If you are looking for a tool that teachers can use to train student
> to collaborate, this is another goal.
>
> Wikimini.org has been just now migrated in new servers to give it the
> possibility to expand but definitely Wikimini is considered a tool for
> teachers and the same concepot is followed by Klexikon, I suppose.
>
> But behind everything there is the most important question: what is
> education? A young contributor writing content did receive education?
> Or behind education there are the skills learning?
>
> If the wikimedia world does not evaluate what is education, what is
> the role of the teacher in this process, and if young students need a
> support, it would be complicated to say what is the most correct
> approach.
>
> Kind regards
>
--
Mathias Damour
49 rue Carnot
74000 Annecy
04 57 09 10 56
06 27 13 65 51
mathias.damour(a)gmx.fr
Hello Wikimedia Education Group,
Rafaela Samagaia, from Brasil, is leading with the Federal University of
Santa Catarina (UFSC) a large project of building a children's encyclopedia
in Portuguese.
A Portuguese edition has the potential of being a big children encyclopedia
very quickly.
Could you help us reach all Portuguese-speaking wiki user groups interested
in starting the project with them?
We opened for testing https://pt.vikidia.org .
Thanks a lot!
Best,
Plyd, from Vikidia
Dear Wikimedians,
This is a gentle reminder, we have the regional education meeting for CEE
scheduled today at 13:00 UTC, in 4 hours. You can join the meeting through
this link:
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97472628026?pwd=eVlZMU1UM3hOc1o3NFpqSWhYYVlSdz0…
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Best!
Sailesh
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:22 AM Sailesh Patnaik <spatnaik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Hope your February is going well.
>
> I am writing this email to invite you all to the very first regional
> education meeting[1]. This month we are starting with our community members
> based in the CEE region[2]. You can use these regional meetings as an
> opportunity to learn and share your projects, tools, or ideas with the
> education community from the CEE region.
>
> These regional education meetings are planned by the community specialists
> of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC)[3] and the Education team. We
> are using this as an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore
> collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges
> that are faced by our community members in different regions of the world.
> We are launching these regional education meetings as a pilot initiative to
> complement our general monthly office hours[4], we encourage you to
> participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led
> initiative.
>
> Our first CEE education meeting will take place on 18th February 2021 at
> 13:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1613653217>, it will be led by
> Nebojša Ratkovic, Education Program Manager of Wikimedia Serbia[5] and
> EWOC community specialist for the region. At this CEE meeting, Nebojša
> will share some highlights from the 15 years of education work by Wikimedia
> Serbia and have a questions-and-answers round. If you have other ideas,
> topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add them to the agenda
> here[6]. We will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking
> forward to seeing you there!
>
> As a reminder, our general monthly office hours are still available for
> you to join, share your work, connect with other community members, and get
> help or advice from the Education team. The next general office hour is
> scheduled for 24th February 2021 at 14:00 UTC, you can find the topics of
> the meetings here[7]. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach
> out to me.
>
> Best!
>
> Nebojsa, EWOC community specialist team, Sailesh and Education team
>
> [1]
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
>
> [2]
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
>
> [3]
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators
>
> [4] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours
>
> [5] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Neboysha87
>
> [6]
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
>
> [7]
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/February_2…
>
> --
>
> Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
>
> Program Associate, Education
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Associate, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Hope your February is going well.
I am writing this email to invite you all to the very first regional
education meeting[1]. This month we are starting with our community members
based in the CEE region[2]. You can use these regional meetings as an
opportunity to learn and share your projects, tools, or ideas with the
education community from the CEE region.
These regional education meetings are planned by the community specialists
of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC)[3] and the Education team. We
are using this as an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore
collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges
that are faced by our community members in different regions of the world.
We are launching these regional education meetings as a pilot initiative to
complement our general monthly office hours[4], we encourage you to
participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led
initiative.
Our first CEE education meeting will take place on 18th February 2021 at
13:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1613653217>, it will be led by
Nebojša Ratkovic, Education Program Manager of Wikimedia Serbia[5] and EWOC
community specialist for the region. At this CEE meeting, Nebojša will
share some highlights from the 15 years of education work by Wikimedia
Serbia and have a questions-and-answers round. If you have other ideas,
topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add them to the agenda
here[6]. We will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking
forward to seeing you there!
As a reminder, our general monthly office hours are still available for you
to join, share your work, connect with other community members, and get
help or advice from the Education team. The next general office hour is
scheduled for 24th February 2021 at 14:00 UTC, you can find the topics of
the meetings here[7]. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach
out to me.
Best!
Nebojsa, EWOC community specialist team, Sailesh and Education team
[1]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
[2]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
[3]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators
[4] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours
[5] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Neboysha87
[6]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
[7]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/February_2…
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Associate, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone!
I hope this email finds you well!
We write to share share the video "Education and the Wikimedia Movement in
Latin America" [1]
Participants include: Alejandro Reyes by Wikimedia México, Estefanny
Sandoval Galindez by Wikimedia Colombia, Rocio Aravena by Wikimedia Chile,
Oscar Costero by Wikimedia Venezuela, Erlan Vega Ríos by Wikimedistas de
Bolivia, Florencia Guastavino and Luisina Ferrante by Wikimedia Argentina.
The video is a conversation about the challenges of working in education
within the Wikimedia Movement during 2020. We talked about the challenges
presented by isolation and confinement for the proposals that were being
developed, how the education chapter or program faced those challenges,
what reflections, experiences and learnings we have after going through
this year and what do we think we can contribute as an education program in
the region by working with Wikimedia projects.
The conversation also represents the closure of the "Training Program in
Education and Human Rights in the Wikimedia movement" that we carry out
during 2020 from Wikimedia Argentina. You can learn more about the program
here [2]
The video is in Spanish and has English subtitles available.
We hope you enjoy it and that it is useful to continue thinking about
education within the Wikimedia Movement.
Regards!
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Video_Educacion_Regional_(WMAR).web…
[2]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/March_2020/Wikimedia_Arg…
Florencia Guastavino
Asistente de Proyectos de Educación
Wikimedia Argentina