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 friends of free knowledge and education,
On Tuesday, March 30th 2021, we will have our next Open Meeting!
Please feel welcome to join us at 4:00pm UTC.
See for your own timezone: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1617120044
This is the link to the meeting room:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87586733540?pwd=SVp0YmZrTEtlWWxxT3Y2UjZxNnFkZz09
We will discuss the shutdown of the WMF's Outreach Wiki and other topics.
Our special guest will be Mossab Banat who will talk about content in
Arab language. He is a passionate Wikipedian, physician and Wikipedia
Education Program team leader at Hashemite University in Jordan. He is
an editor and admin at Arabic Wikipedia. He also a board member at
Wikimedia medicine and associate editor at wikijournal of Medicine. He
founded a wiki club under the name of Digital Arabic Content Club at
the same university. Currently mossab works as Teaching and Research
Assistant at the Hashemite and as representative of graduate students
at the University council.
I myself will present a plan for a discussion on ethical questions.
When we use wikis for educational goals, we have not only to follow
the rules of the wiki (or an institution we work with). We want to
make sure that no harm is done - to the wiki or to the learners or
others involved. We want to give educators and others guidelines or
recommendations on how to deal with ethical questions and how to avoid
problems.
So, we hope for a large crowd at our meeting which will last for one
hour and a half.
Kind regards,
Ziko van Dijk
secretary,
Wikipedia & Education User Group (EduWiki UG)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group
Estimados y estimadas Wikimedistas,
Les escribo para invitarles a la segunda reunión regional de Wikimedia y
educación[1]. Este mes será nuestra primera reunión para Latinoamérica y
tendrá lugar el 31 de marzo 2021 a las 14:00 UTC. Esta reunión es una
oportunidad para aprender y compartir proyectos, herramientas, o ideas con
la comunidad de Wikimedia y educación de la región. Será liderada en
español por Jose Reyes, Oficial de Educación de Wikimedia México, y parte
del equipo de EWOC como especialista de comunidades de la región.
En esta reunión regional de educación para Latinoamérica contaremos con las
presentaciones de:
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José Reyes, sobre el estado de programas de educación en México
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Novedades desde Wikimedia Argentina
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Y la experiencia del programa ¡Leamos Wikipedia! en Bolivia
Si tienes otros temas, ideas, o preguntas que quieras añadir a la agenda,
puedes dejarlas aquí[5] y trataremos de incluirlas durante la reunión.
¡Esperamos verles ahí!
Cordialmente,
José, equipo EWOC, Sailesh, y equipo de Educación de la Wikimedia Foundation
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Dear Wikimedians,
I am writing this email to invite you all to the second regional education
meeting[1]. This month we are starting with our community members based in
the Latin America region[2]. You can use these regional office hours as an
opportunity to learn and share your projects, tools, or ideas with the
education community from the 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 office hours 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 LatAm regional education meeting will take place on 31st March
2021 at 14:00 UTC, it will be led in Spanish by José Reyes, Education
Program Manager of Wikimedia Mexico and EWOC community specialist for the
region.
At this LatAm regional education meeting, we will hear from:
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Jose on the state of education in Mexico
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Some updates from Wikimedia Argentina
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And the experience of running Reading Wikipedia in the classroom program
by Wikimedistas de Bolivia.
If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add
them to the agenda here[5]. We will try to answer them during the meeting.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Best!
José, 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/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Associate, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Join us for this months' education office hours on 23rd March at 12:00 UTC
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1616500849>! The office hours is a
dedicated online space to have conversations and discussions related to
Wikimedia and education activities, listen and learn from each other's
projects and experiences.
This month we are looking forward to sharing updates from the education
team. and also to learn from your work. You can find more details and the
agenda of the meeting here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/March_23_2…
Looking forward to seeing you 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 consultation for your education work (
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 (He/Him)
Program Associate, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>