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
The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, October 13, from 4 pm UTC to 5:30 pm UTC
(see your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634140801).
As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia
& Education User Group board, then leave most of the time for our guest
speakers.
Our guest speakers this month will be Amanda Rust and Amy Ruskin, who will
speak on their work with Wikidata in an educational library setting, and
Thomas Shafee, who will discuss the WikiJournals and their bridging of the
Wikipedia-academia divide.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Amanda Rust is the Associate Director for Services in the Digital
Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She’ll speak
about how Wikidata fits into an initiative to collaboratively document
neighborhood public art data in Boston. By focusing on public art outside
of more well-known downtown areas, this initiative hopes to highlight the
history of art and artists in historically marginalized neighborhoods.
* Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the
Northeastern University Library. She will discuss the process of setting up
the Boston neighborhood public art project in Wikidata, including
determining data models and creating a WikiProject page.
* Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist and data scientist based at
La Trobe Uni in Australia. He'll talk on the work he does on bridging the
Wikipedia-academia divide by forming compatible interfaces between the ways
the two communities operate. As part of this, he chairs the WikiJournal
User Group, and is Editor in Chief of the WikiJournal of Science and an
editor for PLOS Genetics. Through these, non-Wikimedian scholars can write
new high-accuracy Wikipedia pages, and existing Wikipedia pages are put
through external peer review.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81371223837?pwd=K3dQZnh3WU9TYTY3MzBOV1l4WnBiZz09
Meeting ID: 813 7122 3837
Passcode: 153195
If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me
an email offlist.
Hi everyone,
TL;DR
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Apply for EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC) by signing up in this
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA3l-xTQlIl4rhXqaONAUFFxPnhzS4yJM…>
. <https://bit.ly/eduwikiccc>(Please check the privacy statement below
before clicking on the google form link)
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Find the roles for EWOC here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators#Ro…>
.
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Stay tuned for some live interviews with our former EWOC members over
the Education team’s Facebook page.
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam>
I hope you are doing well, I am writing this email to announce the call for
applications for the second cohort of EduWiki Outreach Collaborators. EduWiki
Outreach Collaborators or EWOC are a dynamic group of Wikimedians who
collaborate with the education team at the Wikimedia Foundation to provide
support, effective collaboration, and learning opportunities for the
education community in the Wikimedia movement.
In 2020, we started this pilot initiative to work with community leaders of
our movement to support volunteers in the movement with better networking,
communication practices for growth, and to work together to spread the
awareness on the value of Wikimedia in education. As a result of which we
had the opportunity to work with 14 Wikimedia community members from
various parts of the world. These volunteers helped in publishing 12
Education newsletters issues, shared many community stories from their
regions, and helped in hosting 3 regional education meetings with 54
participants from 20 countries.
This year we are planning to expand the program and we are planning to work
with 20 volunteers in 8 different roles. To have more information regarding
this program, please visit our Meta page.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators#Ro…>
The strategic goals are designed by the 2020-2021 cohort of volunteers.
We encourage volunteers from all regions and genders to be a part of this
project! We expect the group of EWOC to represent the diversity of our
movement and the call for participation will be open until we achieve this
goal. Respecting the privacy of the members, personal information provided
will not be shared with an external audience. To apply for this
opportunity, please complete this form.
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA3l-xTQlIl4rhXqaONAUFFxPnhzS4yJM…>
To encourage participation and to recognise the works of the collaborators,
we have decided on certain rewards for completing different milestones.
Find more about EWOC, roles and recognitions here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators#Re…>
.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, I will be happy
to answer them. Looking forward to working closely with you on this
project. Feel free to share this in your network.
*This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject
it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling,
see the survey privacy statement:*
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sign-up_for_Community_Communications_…
Best!
Sailesh and the Education team
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
(excuse the cross-posting; please share widely!)
We are curating the Education & Science Community track of WikidataCon
2021, which will take place on Sunday, October 31 from 11:00 to 18:00 UTC
(check the time in your time zone here:
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635678034) and you are invited to submit a
proposal to the conference!
Submissions are open until October 20, 2021 (midnight anywhere in the
world), but we encourage you to submit a proposal as soon as you can, as we
are rolling admissions and expect the Education & Science Community track
to fill up fast.
We’re seeking submissions from anyone who’s incorporated Wikidata in
education, science and research, and working with academics, universities,
educational institutions (K-12 or informal education) and research
institutions.
Since this is an all-virtual conference, WikidataCon 2021 is a great
opportunity for people who have not previously attended to join! We
particularly encourage you to submit if you’ve never presented at
WikidataCon in past years.
Some links:
Overview of the Community Tracks:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
Information about proposing a session is further down on that same page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
Direct link to the proposal system:
https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/fJyHGM/info/
In case you’re not familiar with it, WikidataCon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021> is an event held
every 2 years coinciding with Wikidata’s birthday and is a time for the
Wikidata community to come together to learn from each other. This year it
will be held virtually and runs from October 29-October 31, 2021. It’s a
great way to share your work with the rest of the Wikidata community and
meet and learn from other Wikidatans.
Please let us know if you have any questions, or if there is any way we can
help you with the submission process.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov, LiAnna Davis, & Will Kent.
Dear friends and colleagues,
My apologies for yet another email. I hope you are all doing well. Last
year, during Wikidata's 8th birthday we planned a week-long celebration to
highlight the importance of using Wikidata in education
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_W…>
and the community members involved in it. We interviewed 8 volunteers and
affiliates staff and learned how their work creates an impact on the
movement.
This year we are planning to scale up the initiative to involve other
Wikimedia projects that are used in education and highlight the various
stakeholders involved in them. We came up with the idea of hosting an
“EduWiki Week”. EduWiki Week
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2021> will be a
virtual celebration of Free Knowledge in education, showcasing the value of
the Wikimedia projects and the amazing work of our EduWiki community and
allied organisations.
EduWiki Week will take place from 25th October 2021 to 29th October 2021.
It will be a 4-day long virtual celebration! We are planning to have
workshops, lectures, and various fun activities scheduled for that week.
This will be a great opportunity to strengthen our network, learn from each
other, and meet new people!
To make this event a success, we need your help. We are looking for
education community members, and affiliate partners to collaborate with us
and help us plan and design this event.
These events can be:
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Interviews with experts, partners, community members
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Workshops
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Featured education community member of the month showcase
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EduWiki Teacher of the Year award!
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Regional meetups!
If you are interested in joining the organizing committee, please write to
me at spatnaik[at]wikimedia[dot]org <spatnaik(a)wikimedia.org> answering the
following questions before 14th September 2021. We expect a time commitment
of no more than 5-6 hours for the next few months.
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Are you an education staff member of Wikimedia Affiliates? An EWOC team
member? Or an individual with a history of education organizing? Tell us
about yourself and your work and interest in Wikimedia in Education.
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Why do you want to be a part of this committee? Do you want to lead any
specific part of the event?
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Can you manage the time commitment? What time of day (UTC) works best
for synchronous calls for you?
Best!
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Seems relevant:
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The 2022 Unconference will feature participant-led sessions analyzing
the current state of open scholarship practice and interactive
hackathons seeking solutions to identified problems. Participants will
assess barriers to adoption of open scholarship practices unique to the
education community and brainstorm strategies for promoting greater
awareness.
The meeting will be hosted in Charlottesville, Virginia and features
unconference sessions (fully online as well as in person), hackathons,
and workshops (in-person only). Registration is open for virtual as well
as in-person attendance - join now to confirm your seat! Your
registration fees, along with a limited grant support, will provide
travel support for colleagues who need it.
Additional information about opening and closing plenary speakers will
be made available soon. Please also check back for the formal agenda
this fall.
Submitting a Session Proposal
We warmly invite proposals for sessions designed to support the
advancement of open scholarship within the field of education research.
The deadline for submitting a session proposal is October 27, 2022.
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https://www.cos.io/education-research-2022-unconference
Federico