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
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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,
This is a gentle reminder, join us for the South Asia Education meeting
today at 9:30 UTC (in 6 hours). We are looking forward to having you there.
You can join the meeting through this link:
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/93653915483
Best!
Sailesh
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 9:33 PM Sailesh Patnaik <spatnaik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> I am writing this email to invite you all to the third regional education
> meeting[1]. This month we are meeting with our community members based in
> the South Asia 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 South Asia regional education meeting will take place on *30th
> April 2021 at **9:30 UTC*, (3:00 PM IST, Colombo Time, 3:30 PM Dhaka
> Time, 3:15 PM Kathmandu Time), it will be led by Md. Galib, a member of
> Wikimedia Bangladesh, and EWOC community specialist for the region. *If
> you want to volunteer to interpret this meeting for your community members
> in a local language, please reach out to me.*
>
> At this South Asia regional education meeting, we will hear from:
>
> -
>
> Challenges with education in Covid 19: Is there any way to overcome?,
> Prof. Mostafa Azad, Country representative of CC Bangladesh, Dean, School
> of Business, Bangladesh Open University
> -
>
> Education initiatives by Punjabi Wikimedians UG, Dr. Manavpreet Kaur
> -
>
> State of Education projects by Karavali Wikimedians UG, Dr. U. B.
> Pavanaja
>
>
>
> 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!
>
> Md. Galib, 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…
> --
>
> Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
>
> Program Associate, Education
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi Z!
I hope you're having a nice week. Thank you for reaching out and for your
interest in the project. Yes, the open meetings will be recorded and we
will share the corresponding links when they're available via this mailing
list as well. If you want to send in some questions in advance, please feel
free to email me.
Cheers!
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 2:45 AM Željko Blaće <zblace(a)mi2.hr> wrote:
> Hi Melissa!
>
> I am interested, but would likely not be able to join.
> Would you be recording these sessions?
>
> Best Z. Blace
>
--
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (she/her)
Senior Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
[Please, excuse the cross-posting!]
We know how crucial media and information literacy skills are in today's
world and we see the opportunities in the use of Wikipedia as a pedagogical
tool. So how can we continue to support educators to integrate Wikipedia
into their classrooms to foster these skills?
Last year, the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation launched the Reading
Wikipedia in the Classroom
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/education/reading-wikipedia-in-the…>
program in 3 pilot countries: Bolivia, Morocco, and the Philippines. We
worked with local coordinators from the Wikimedia affiliates in each
country to provide an online professional development opportunity to close
to 1000 secondary school teachers
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/nearly-1000-teachers-participate-in-r…>
with a localized curriculum
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/04/02/a-three-module-teachers-guide-about-r…>
that aligns Wikipedia with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy
framework.
We would like to invite you to an open meeting where the Education team and
the pilot’s local coordinators will share the experiences of the program:
the curriculum design, the methodology, the impact, and the next steps for
you to get involved!
You can join us on one of these two dates via Zoom:
-
Thursday, May 6, 13:00 UTC (link to join:
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/93678353815)
-
Friday, May 7, 17:00 UTC (link to join:
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/99326961118)
We are eager to share our learnings with you and to continue working
towards a critical inclusion of Wikipedia in education. In the meantime,
you can explore the teacher's guides and booklets developed for the program
available on Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_classr…>
.
Please, don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or doubts you might
have (or if you need an invite to the event for your personal calendar).
¡Gracias!
--
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (she/her)
Senior Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Join us for this months' education office hours on 27th April at 15:00 UTC
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1619535613>! 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/April_27_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 (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/1:1_Consultations_with_…
) by filling this google form ( http://bit.ly/EduOfficeSpace )
Dhanyabaad!
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Associate, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
I am writing this email to invite you all to the third regional education
meeting[1]. This month we are meeting with our community members based in
the South Asia 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 South Asia regional education meeting will take place on *30th
April 2021 at **9:30 UTC*, (3:00 PM IST, Colombo Time, 3:30 PM Dhaka Time,
3:15 PM Kathmandu Time), it will be led by Md. Galib, a member of Wikimedia
Bangladesh, and EWOC community specialist for the region. *If you want to
volunteer to interpret this meeting for your community members in a local
language, please reach out to me.*
At this South Asia regional education meeting, we will hear from:
-
Challenges with education in Covid 19: Is there any way to overcome?,
Prof. Mostafa Azad, Country representative of CC Bangladesh, Dean, School
of Business, Bangladesh Open University
-
Education initiatives by Punjabi Wikimedians UG, Dr. Manavpreet Kaur
-
State of Education projects by Karavali Wikimedians UG, Dr. U. B.
Pavanaja
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!
Md. Galib, 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…
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Associate, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>