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
Wikimedia & Education enthusiasts,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group cordially invites you to attend our
next meeting, scheduled for Thursday, November 3 at 16:00-17:30 UTC (see
your start time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1667491243).
This will be a joint General Assembly for our user group as well as our
event to celebrate Wikidata's 10th birthday! We hope you can make it.
Agenda:
* Introductions
* General Assembly
** User Group activities review
** Board election
** Update on forthcoming EduWiki Conference
* Wikidata 10th birthday celebration
** Guest speaker: Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence, University of
Edinburgh
Ewan will speak about his experiences with Wikdiata in his role as
Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. He's been in the
role since January 2016 supporting the university’s commitment to open
knowledge, and developing 21st century information literacy and digital
research and data skills. The University hosted the first 'Celtic Knot'
Wikipedia Language Conference in 2017, won a Herald Higher Education Award
in 2019 for its Wikipedia in the Curriculum work and produced a booklet of
Case Studies of Wikipedia in UK education in 2020 (newly updated in 2022).
Latterly, Ewan has joined the University's GenderEd steering group and
submitted a chapter for the open access book, Wikipedia and Academic
Libraries, on "Changing the Way Stories Are Told" based on the University's
gender equality work. Prior to this, Ewan has worked as an English and
Media teacher in the Far East (Japan, Singapore and South Korea) and in
Scotland. He completed an Information Management degree in 2018,
volunteered with the Glasgow School of Art archives on their WW1 Roll of
Honour project, and has continued to manage a series of student internships
which have created, and updated, am Open Ed Global award winning website to
pull all the best resources together for understanding Wikipedia and its
sister projects as well as an open data Map of Accused Witched in Scotland
website.
This meeting will be held via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89734385766
If you'd like to be added to the calendar invitation for the meeting,
please email me offlist!
LiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
Hi everyone
We are looking for one or two volunteers to have an interview with a group of developers participant to a Hackathon to have this week-end of start of next week.
The Hackathon has been organized together with the group of Women++ and 76% of participants are women.
The participants are from 16 countries and 29 nationalities and the interview will be in English.
What is the topic? The group has chosen the challenge to develop an ontology to describe and to categorize all educational material present in Wikimedia movement.
Basically they want to check the difficulties we have to find Wikimedia material for education or some cases studies because we have different repositories and not a specific standard.
Wikimedia CH has developed the project https://www.openedu.ch and the groups participating to the Hackathon are developing an ontology for that repository.
If you are interested, please contact me personally and I will send your contact to the organizers.
Kind regards
--
Ilario Valdelli
Innovation Programme Manager
Wikimedia CH
Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre
Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera
Switzerland - 8008 Zürich
Tel: +41764821371
http://www.wikimedia.ch<http://www.wikimedia.ch/>
Hello all,
Thank you for joining us at the recently concluded EduWiki Live event. We
were joined by librarians Alice Kibombo and Laurie Bridges, who shared
their experiences with Wikipedia and libraries with us. If you missed the
live event, you can watch it on YouTube by clicking on this link.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJlzFNwNYo>
Alice gave us a presentation on the relationship between various libraries,
their national associations, umbrella organizations, and Wikimedia
projects, as well as their initiatives to address the information needs of
their communities, and the challenges that these entail.
Laurie told us about her involvement in the Wikimedia movement and the
activities she has participated in since then. She gave examples of how
university librarians all over the world use Wikipedia.
Thank you for being a part of this event once more.
Best regards!
Abdallah
--
Sseruwagi Abdallah
Program Assistant | Education Team
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear friends,
We are delighted to invite you to this month's EduWiki Live event which
will take place on *28th/10/2022*, from *15:00 UTC* to 16:00 UTC.
The Wikimedia Foundation's education team hosts EduWiki Live events
quarterly to connect the education community with stakeholders from the
education sector to help them understand best practices from a global
education perspective. These spaces allow the international community of
Wikimedians who care about education to connect with academic experts,
policymakers, and educational researchers.
In the previous edition of EduWiki live
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04h7Hj7Ke9Q&t=176s> we were joined by Dr.
Guadalupe Vadillo and Dr. Jackeline Bucio from the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM), experts in open education and educational
research. They presented the importance of documenting EduWiki strategies
to preserve the educational experience (data, success factors, pitfalls),
so new teachers can learn from previous experiences.
We will be joined at this event by librarians Alice Kibombo and Laurie
Bridges, who have led various Wikimedia Education initiatives in their
respective communities. They will discuss how academia and libraries
collaborate using Wikipedia and its sister projects in educational
institutions.
Our social media channels will be live-streaming the event. The following
are the specifics:
YouTube live Link: EduWiki Live Libraries <https://youtu.be/EwJlzFNwNYo>
Facebook Live link: to be communicated
We are looking forward to your participation in the event!
Best Regards!
--
Sseruwagi Abdallah
Program Assistant | Education Team
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
It is time for submitting your article(s) to the October issue of the
Wikimedia Education Newsletter!
Have you already submitted one? Not yet, right?
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 *26th of October*. 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,
Ankan and the Newsletter team
--
Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him)
Newsletter Editor, Education Newsletter
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
Dear friends,
I hope this email finds you well.
Do not miss the EduWiki live event this month. Come let's listen, learn and
share with librarians Alice Kibombo and Laurie Bridges as they discuss how
academia and libraries can collaborate using Wikipedia and its sister
projects in education institutions.
The event will be live-streamed on our social media platforms and the
details are as follows:
Date and time: 28th/10/2022, from 15:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC.
YouTube live Link: EduWiki Live Libraries <https://youtu.be/EwJlzFNwNYo>
Facebook Live link: https://www.facebook.com/events/445829824358752/
Tell a friend to tell a friend. See you soon.
Sincerely,
--
Sseruwagi Abdallah
Program Assistant | Education Team
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*Summary*: The draft definition of leadership
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group/Conten…>,
prepared by the Leadership Development Task Force, is ready for community
review!Please share your thoughts on our Meta discussion page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Leadership_Developm…>
,
in the feedback form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchUS1h0ftawc3OPyW5B6ct1Xbo6Pso9nH…>
(link
to Google Docs), or in the Movement Strategy Forum
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/leadership-development-working-group/…>
.
You can also email us directly at *leadershipworkinggroup(a)wikimedia.org
<http://wikimedia.org/>*. Comments will be collected until *October 6,
2022.*
Hello everyone!
We hope you know that the Leadership Development Working Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Leadership_Development_W…>
(LDWG)
has been working for the past few months to formulate and find ways to
nurture leadership for our movement. The LDWG is a group of Wikimedia
volunteers representing different communities, languages, roles, and
experiences. We are pleased to report that our draft definition of
leadership
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Leadership_Development_W…>
is
now available for community comment. This first draft was written after
months of discussion, learning, and sharing of perspectives from our
community. The Wikimedia Movement, which is diverse by nature and has
particular characteristics due to its distinctive way of working, has been
expressly considered and included in this definition.
Please consider revising the definition and let us know what you think
by* October
6, 2022*. The draft includes a general definition of leadership and
subcategories detailing the actions, qualities, and results of good
leadership.
There are many places where you can express your ideas, suggestions, and
feedback, such as the Meta talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Leadership_Developm…>
,
the feedback form,
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchUS1h0ftawc3OPyW5B6ct1Xbo6Pso9nH…>
and
the Movement Strategy Forum
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/leadership-development-working-group/…>
post.
You can also email us directly at *leadershipworkinggroup(a)wikimedia.org
<leadershipworkinggroup(a)wikimedia.org>* .
You can check if the general definition and the subcategories fit your idea
of leadership in the movement. You can also try to find information gaps,
maybe some of the qualities of a leader or something else are missing in
this draft definition, or you can check if the definition applies to all
cultural, linguistic, community or other contexts belonging to the movement
and share your ideas with us.
Join us in celebrating the diverse and distinctive leadership of our
movement.
Cordially,
The Leadership Development Task Force
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org