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 Wikimedians,
Today is the last day of EduWiki Week. Thank you for your support and
participation.
During the week we had the opportunity to engage with you at various
events. It was exciting to learn about the work of our community members.
All interviews and recordings will be available on our M
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022>eta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022> starting next
week. We welcome your feedback and suggestions for improving this effort in
2023.
Here is the agenda for today's event:
Today's theme: How to improve our engagement in EduWiki Week? Share your
thoughts and feedback on EduWiki Week. How can it be improved and what can
it bring to the next iteration?
Use #EduWikiWeek2022 to reply to tweets or create Facebook posts from your
social media accounts to share your story. You can write to me too!
Live events for today:
Watch it live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam
- Vasanthi Hargyono, Jessica Stephenson, Wikimedia Foundation,
Evaluation and Learning in Educational projects, - watch live at 10:00 UTC
- Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga, Basque Wikimedians User Group, 5 years of
Education Program + Txikipedia - watch live at 14:30 UTC
Trivia of the day: Ready for the final #EduWikiWeek Trivia? In 2019, this
user group organized an international conference that brought together
Wikimedians as well as teachers and education specialists. The program
included optional participation in a relay race! What user group was this?
Let me also take this opportunity to thank Will, Florencia, Klara, Vjollca,
and Kasyap for organizing this event. Also to all our local organizers.
Best!
Sailesh
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians, Welcome to the 4th day of EduWiki Week. We want to take a
moment to acknowledge that some of our communities are facing hardships
this week and extend our support and solidarity to them. We know that there
are people in our community who are unable to engage. We have heard about
teacher strikes in some places, and of course, we know that our colleagues
in Ukraine are facing an increasingly scary situation. While we wanted this
week to have an atmosphere of celebration and carnival, perhaps for today
we can instead offer a more quiet atmosphere of solidarity.
So on that note, let’s look at the program for today:
Theme of the day: Sharing our resources
Share with the resources you’ve created to support your programs like
training materials, videos, posters, or anything else you’ve created to
support the use of Wikimedia in the classroom. Tweet us or make a Facebook
post using #EduWikiWeek2022. Reply here or write a newsletter article!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
Live events for today:
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, Ideas Beyond Borders, - watch live on Faebook
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam> at 17:00 UTC
Trivia of the day: This Wikimedia chapter maintains a repository of open
educational resources for teachers in their country and Latin America. This
includes lesson plans, videos, and booklets created by their Education and
Human Rights team, but also by local teachers. Which chapter is it?
Find the agenda
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Agenda> for
the rest of the week and other asynchronous events on Meta-Wiki!
Thank you for your continued support of EduWiki Week!
Sailesh
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Welcome to Day 3 of #EduWikiWeek2022!
*Join us today from 13:00 - 16:00 UTC to celebrate our community and their
work.* We will showcase 9 community stories from different parts of the
world. Our community members will be sharing their programs, experiences,
and learnings with us. Join for the whole event or drop by a few minutes.
Please find the agenda of the event here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…>
If you have registered for the event, we have sent you the Zoom meeting
link over email. Registered members can also join us for a social hour from
16:00 - 17:00 UTC. If you have missed registering for the event, no
worries, you can watch it Live on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovn1h9ZmEnY>.
*Theme of the day:* Festivals around the world, share with us a carnival or
festival from your region.
Find the agenda
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Agenda> for
the rest of the week and other asynchronous events on Meta-Wiki!
We are excited to celebrate this virtual festival with you!
Sincerely
*Florencia Guastavino*
Asistente de Proyectos. Programa de Educación y Derechos Humanos
Project Assistant. Education and Human Rights Program
Dear All
#EduWikiWeek2022 - Day 2 is on!
Check our website:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022
We are waiting for you on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/events/300517815451912?active_tab=about>`s event,
on YT
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovn1h9ZmEnY&ab_channel=WikimediaFoundation>
and
other social media like Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikimediaEdu>.
*Theme of the Day:* the effort you and your community members have put to
make such successful programs and your learnings.
🔔🔔🔔We want to highlight you and your community members for creating
impact in Wikimedia & Education work. The work you do in your local
communities is so important- and so are the people you work with. Let’s
celebrate them today! Reply here with links to blogs, newsletter articles,
your project page or write a newsletter article!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
Today at #EduWikiWeek2022, Join us for a coffee with the Education team at
13:30 UTC. Ask us anything!
🔔🔔🔔Join us next, for #EduWikiWeek2022, we are talking to Caroline Grant
and Chikodi Onyemerela from British Council. Join us live on Facebook at
15:00 UTC, and learn about their work and how their mission aligns with the
Wikimedia movement.
And there is no good day without a Trivia challenge:
🔔🔔🔔Ready for #EduWikiWeek Trivia? This team in Ghana leads an
organization focused on ”enhancing student participation in open resources
and open projects through education and training”. Contests, edit-a-thons,
open days, photo trips - they do it all! What’s the name of the
organization?
Have a good EduWiki Tuesday vibes today -
Klara on behalf of the organizing commitee.
Z poważaniem / Sincerely
Klara Sielicka-Baryłka
Specjalistka ds. edukacji / Education Specialist
tel: +48 790 290 924
e-mail: klara.sielicka(a)wikimedia.pl
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Dear Wikimedians,
Welcome to the first day of EduWiki Week. Today, we want to celebrate
the programs
and activities that you have built to provide learning opportunities
through Wikimedia projects.
*The theme of the day*: Celebrate our programs and activities!
- Twitter post <https://twitter.com/WikimediaEdu/status/1495648532136607746>
- Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam/photos/a.496756184190806/11…>
post
Share your stories by replying to our tweet or by making a Facebook post
from your social media accounts using #EduWikiWeek2022. You can also use
this as an opportunity to share your work
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom> in the “This
Month in Education” newsletter, share your stories with other Wikimedians
in the movement.
In case you have missed it, Our CEO, Maryana Iskander is sharing her
experience and the values Wikimedia projects bring to education in this post
<https://twitter.com/WikimediaEdu/status/1495625296271523843>.
*Live events for today*:
-
Interview with Stephane Coillet-Matillon from Kiwix at 10:30 UTC
-
Understand community support spaces by Sailesh at 14:30 UTC
*Trivia of the day*:
"It’s time for some #EduWikiWeek Trivia! In 2020, this European user group
organized the first online edition of their long-standing program “EduWiki
Camp”. Previous editions of the Camp included photo-tours, debates, and
capacity building for future WikiAmbassadors in the country. What affiliate
is it?" (Hint: Find it in the education newsletter)
Find the agenda
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Agenda> for
the rest of the week and other asynchronous events on Meta-Wiki! You can
also use these designs
<https://www.canva.com/design/DAE45iqOmto/wRKrWBbMxbHC3uOcSZaS-A/view?utm_co…>
to promote your session or activities.
We are excited to celebrate this virtual festival with you!
Sailesh on behalf of the organizing committee.
-
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone!
Friendly reminder: we’re near the end of the application period for the
Training of Trainers 2022 program. Apply before the end of tomorrow,
February 20, for a chance to become a certified trainer of the Reading
Wikipedia in the Classroom program!
- Find all the details and application form in Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_Classroo…
- Watch the recording of our information session to learn about the
program requirements (18:57), get a walkthrough of the application form
(32:14), and watch a panel interview with 3 graduate participants from the
ToT 2021 (41:38). Find it here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Information_Session_-_ToT_for_Readi…
We look forward to receiving your application!
Gracias,
--
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (she/her)
Senior Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello again everyone,
We recognize that the Community Development community call is scheduled
during the same time as some events of EduWiki Week next week. This may
have caused a conflict for volunteers who expressed interest in attending
either event.
We apologize for the oversight of the scheduling of the community call and
would like to encourage volunteers to attend the EduWiki live session as it
is a great opportunity to virtually celebrate the education work happening
in the movement.
Our team will be hosting more community calls in the near future and will
also be publishing digests of each call on our meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Calls>. The digest from our
first call will be published within 48 hours after the call.
If you have any questions or concerns about the community calls of the
Community Development team, please feel free to email Cassie Casares
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Thank you,
The Community Development Team
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org