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
tl;dr: Looking for a way to engage secondary school teachers with
Wikipedia? Become a certified trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the
Classroom program! Apply from Jan. 31 - Feb. 20. Information session coming
up on February 11, 2022 at 13:00 UTC
Hola everybody!
The Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce that
applications are open for the second cohort of the Training of Trainers
(ToT) program for “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom”! This call is open
for Wikimedians, educators, and members of mission-aligned organizations
who believe in the value of Wikipedia to advance key 21st century skills
[1] and who are interested in implementing the “Reading Wikipedia in the
Classroom” program in their countries.
Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom[2] is a professional development program
for secondary school teachers that aligns a critical approach to Wikipedia
with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy framework. You can read more
details about the impact of the pilot experience in our report [3]. The
educational resources created for the program are available on Wikimedia
Commons [4] in four languages.
The Training of Trainers program is a 9-week online learning experience
that prepares participants to implement the Reading Wikipedia in the
Classroom program locally - by the end of the ToT, successful participants
will be certified to lead the program in their countries. Participants who
complete the ToT will also have access to a pool of funding that can
support their local implementation of the program. Applications are open
from *January 31st to February 20th*, 2022. You can find the application
form, important dates, and general guidance on Meta-Wiki [5] and check out
this newsletter article [6] to learn about the experience and learnings of
the first ToT cohort in 2021.
You’re also invited to join our information session on February 11, 2022 at
13:00 UTC where we’ll share more details and answer any pending questions
(find the link to join on Meta-Wiki [5]). If you have any questions ahead
of this event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the team:
education(a)wikimedia.org
We look forward to seeing you at the information session!
- Melissa (on behalf of the Education team)
[1] http://www.battelleforkids.org/networks/p21
[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/education/reading-wikipedia-in-the…
[3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_Wikipedia_Final_Report.pdf
The program report shows us how teachers’ attitudes towards Wikipedia
changed as they moved through the program. For example, one teacher from
Bolivia said that at first he “thought that Wikipedia was a platform like
Google, but now I value all the volunteer work done by the community behind
it”. The program model also supported members of the local Wikimedia
affiliates to improve their capacity to organize and lead education
initiatives. Currently, the Wikimedia affiliates in Bolivia and Morocco are
working on second editions of the program.
[4]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_classr…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_Classroo…
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/January_2022/Welcoming_new_t…
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Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (she/her)
Senior Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Happy Monday! Recently, we have announced EduWiki Week
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022>! A virtual
festival for free knowledge in education, from 21st February 2022 to 25th
February 2022. This will be a hybrid event with asynchronous activities,
live interviews, and a final community showcase session. Stay tuned for
more updates!
The community showcase session will be on the 23rd of February from 13:00
UTC till 16:00 UTC. You can submit a proposal to highlight your work,
ideas, research or tools with the education community. The deadline to
submit a proposal is now extended till the 4th of February. Submit your
proposal here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…>
.
If you or your affiliate plan to organize regional events during the week,
like interviews, edit-a-thons, training or other events, please add them
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Asynchronous_Ce…>
to the asynchronous celebrations section.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks
Sailesh (Wikimedia Foundation), Florencia (WM Argentina), Klara (WM
Polska), Vjollca (WM of Albanian Languages UG), Will (WikiEducation),
Kashyap, Elfego (Wikimedia Foundation).
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
TL;DR:
- Find the education newsletter for January 2022:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2022
- Showcase your work, share your ideas, tools or programs with the
education team during EduWiki Week, deadline for submission is 30th
January:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…
Greetings from the education team. It is almost the end of January, I hope
the year is going well for you all. Let's end this month by reading some
great stories from our community members in the Philippines, Estonia,
Poland, Israel, and others in the This Month in Education
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2022>
newsletter.
Thanks to the EWOC Newsletter & Comms group for helping in publishing this
edition. I also want to give a shout-out to the team for enabling
translation tags for the education newsletter. Special thanks to Zi Jony.
The current editions’ headlines and summaries are translated into more than
25 languages, Telugu, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Swedish, Akan, and many more.
Thanks to all the amazing volunteers who have helped in translating the
headlines and also some of the articles. You can also help!
The next edition of the newsletter will be on 24th February, you can share
your stories/articles in the newsroom
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom> on or before the
20th of February.
Let me also take the opportunity to remind you all of EduWiki Week
submissions
We are celebrating the entire week of 21st February to 25th February as EduWiki
Week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022>, take
the opportunity to share your ideas, programs and tools with the education
community members. You can participate in the event at your convenience.
Please fill out the submission form to share your work in our community
showcase session
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…>
.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Best!
Sailesh
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone,
Have you submitted your article(s) for this year's first issue of the
Wikimedia Education newsletter?
Not yet, right?
Now is the time to share your amazing work with the Wikimedia community by
submitting reports of your project as articles for the Wikimedia Education
newsletter. Please use [1] to see examples of what you can do.
The last date for submitting your article(s) to the education newsletter is
the 20th of January. Let me know if you need more time to publish your
article(s).
Kindly use [2] for newsletter publication guidelines, and [3] to access the
Newsroom.
[1] Education News: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
[2] Newsletter Publication Guidelines: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Education/News/Publication_Guidelines
[3] Education Newsroom: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
/News/Newsroom
Best regards,
Ankan and the Newsletter team
Dear Wikimedians,
I hope you are having a good start of the year. I’m writing on behalf of
the organizing team to announce and invite you all to the first EduWiki
Week.
The idea of EduWiki Week comes from Wikidata Education Week
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_W…>,
a virtual celebration event the Education team at Wikimedia Foundation had
organized during the 8th birthday of Wikidata.
EduWiki Week is planned as a virtual festival and will be celebrated from
21st February 2022 to 25th February 2022. This will be a hybrid event with
asynchronous activities, live interviews, and a final synchronous session.
This is our first time organizing a virtual event of this format! The
celebration has three main objectives: to connect our volunteers across the
globe with each other and with leaders in the education sector; to foster
collaboration within our movement; and to promote the work done in
education in our movement.
Everyone is invited to participate! How can you do it?
-
Asynchronous Celebrations
Local events organized by affiliates and volunteers for their community
members, teachers, and other stakeholders in the education sector. You can
organize interviews, edit-a-thons, virtual carnivals focused on the theme
of education.
-> To participate, add your event/campaign to this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022/Asynchronous_Ce…>
here with a description of the event. Use the hashtag #EduWikiWeek2022 on
social media posts.
-
Live Interviews
5 live interviews focused on different topics related to global education
-> To participate, Watch the session on our Facebook page YouTube channel.
The schedule of the interviews will be available soon.
-
Community Showcase and Connection
A 4 hours long synchronous event to be held on 23rd February, 2022.
This includes 9 lightning talks for 20 minutes each and an hour-long
mingling session for connections, networking, and sending wikiloves.
(Mingling session will not be broadcasted)
-> To present a lightning talk, submit your proposals before the 30th
January on Meta-Wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…>.
It can be a live or pre-recorded presentation. To attend this event,
registration will be open from 5th February until 18th February.
You can watch it Live on Facebook and YouTube. We’ll make the recordings
available on Meta-Wiki a few weeks after the event as well. While waiting
for the EduWiki Week, enjoy the interviews from Wikidata Education Week
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_W…>.
More information coming soon, Stay tuned.
We hope everyone is as enthusiastic about this event as we are!
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with the
organizing team through education(a)wikimedia.org
Thanks,
Florencia (WM Argentina), Klara (WM Polska), Vjollca (WM of Albanian
Languages), Will (WikiEducation), Kashyap, Elfego, and Sailesh (Wikimedia
Foundation).
*Florencia Guastavino*
Asistente de Proyectos. Programa de Educación y Derechos Humanos
Project Assistant. Education and Human Rights Program
Dear Wikimedians,
Greetings from the education team. I hope everyone is off to an exciting
start in the new year. I'm hoping that 2022 will be kinder to all of us
than the previous two years. Despite many obstacles in the past few years,
all the stories I read through the newsletters always motivated me and made
me feel special to be a part of such an amazing movement that is always
looking for innovative ways to bring the value of Wikimedia projects to the
education sector.
Let's start the year by getting to know the group that helped in sharing
our stories and learning more about the newsletter. Please join us on the
13th of January at 12:30 UTC for a live chat with the EduWiki Outreach
Collboartors Newsletter and Comms team on Facebook. Meet the members behind
the "This Month in Education" newsletter, learn the process behind its
publication, and get other updates. This meeting will be recorded, and I
will share the link in this email thread.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/5086061558081377
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Best!
Sailesh
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>