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,
Greetings from the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators - Newsletter team. We are
happy to share our community stories in the “This Month in Education
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>” newsletter. For March
2022, we have articles from Latin America, Armenia, Serbia, Estonia, the
Philippines, and many others. Know more about the learnings and
celebrations of the recently ended Eduwiki Week 2022 and participate in the
Higher Education Survey. You can also help by translating these articles
into your local language and making them available to more community
members.
Share your stories for the month of April here:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
Happy Reading! Please feel free to reach out to me or my team members if
you need any help in publishing your stories.
Best!
Anthony <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kunokuno> and the Newsletter
team
Dear Wikimedians,
We are inviting you to the 2nd Regional Education Meeting. This month, we
are meeting with community members based in the South Asia region. These
regional office hours serve as an opportunity to learn and share projects,
tools, or ideas with the education community from the region.
Regional education meetings are planned by the community specialists
of the EduWiki
Outreach Collaborators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators>
(EWOC) and the Wikimedia Education Team. This is 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 encourage you to participate,
share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led initiative.
Our second South Asia regional education meeting will take place on 27th
March 2022 at 17:00 IST. The session will be led by Sandeep, South Asia
EWOC Community Specialist. If you want to volunteer to interpret this
meeting for your community members in a local language, please let us know.
During this regional education meeting, we will have the opportunity to
learn more about:
-
Education Initiatives in Bangladesh- Mrb Rafi
-
Project Details and WikiEdu Experience- Pavanja
-
Special Highlight- Jassu Gill
-
Education Activities in School of Maharashtra- Dr. Aaryaa Joshi
-
Education Initiatives and challenges- Jagseer S Sidhu
Theme: Our work in Education.
If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add
them to the agenda here.
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Regional_Education_Meet> We
will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to
seeing you there! This event will be livestreamed from Wikimedia
Foundation Education Team’s Facebook Page
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam>. You can also join the
event through the Zoom link, meeting link is available on our event page.
Best!
Sandeep, EWOC Community Specialist Team, and Education team
Hi everyone,
Have you submitted your article(s) for the March 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 March. 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
--
Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him)
Newsletter Editor, Education Newsletter
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
Great question! I've just uploaded the video to our YouTube channel here
for those who couldn't attend the meeting in real time:
https://youtu.be/xT76_cj-SGY
Thank you to our guest speakers for an engaging session! If you're
interested in being a guest speaker at a future event, please reach out to
anyone on the user group board (me, Susanna, Filip, João, or Ziko).
LiAnna
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 4:53 PM Oby Ezeilo <oby.ezeilo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. So sorry I did not quite see the date on this email, thought it's
> on upper Monday because we had our wiki learn Reading Wikipedia in the
> classroom office hour today too.
> Is there a way I can get the video recording of the office hour? Or reach
> out to the speakers for guidance.
>
> Regards
> Oby Ezeilo
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 5:44 PM LiAnna Davis <lianna(a)wikiedu.org> wrote:
>
>> Just a reminder! Hope to see you all in about 15 minutes!
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 9:19 AM LiAnna Davis <lianna(a)wikiedu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
>>> Meeting via Zoom on Tuesday, March 15, from 17:00 - 18:30 UTC (see your
>>> time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1647363633).
>>>
>>> We will provide updates from the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board,
>>> a short introduction about the possibility of a global education hub, and
>>> then leave most of the time for our guest speakers, Anthony and Nebojša.
>>> The two of them have been a mentor pair in our group's mentorship pilot, so
>>> they'll talk about their experiences with that, as well as sharing more
>>> about their programs, in the Philippines and Serbia.
>>>
>>> Our speakers' biographies:
>>> * Anthony B. Diaz is a Network Organizer of Art and Feminism User Group
>>> and co-founder of Wiki Advocates Philippines, and a climate-activist. He is
>>> also part of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators and member of the Regional
>>> Grants Committee for the ESEAP region, he will discuss about incorporating
>>> Wikiprojects in school programs in the Philippines, and his experience on
>>> mentorship program of the Wikipedia and Education UG.
>>> * Nebojša Ratković is Education Program Manager of Wikimedia Serbia,
>>> also part of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators and Dashboard
>>> administrator. He conducted more than 250 workshops on Wikipedia for
>>> students and more than 40 workshops for teachers in secondary and primary
>>> schools within the professional development program. Nebojša has been
>>> working in the non-governmental sector since 2010, mostly on projects
>>> related to youth education. He will speak about the Wikipedia Education
>>> Program in Serbia and his experience on mentorship program of the Wikipedia
>>> and Education UG.
>>>
>>> We hope you can join us!
>>>
>>> The meeting will be hosted via this link:
>>>
>>> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85779244418?pwd=OVVrbmNBNjA2QitxcXNOS2NMM2g0UT09
>>>
>>> Meeting ID: 857 7924 4418
>>> Passcode: 733371
>>>
>>> If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send
>>> me an email offlist.
>>>
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>
The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Tuesday, March 15, from 17:00 - 18:30 UTC (see your
time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1647363633).
We will provide updates from the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board, a
short introduction about the possibility of a global education hub, and
then leave most of the time for our guest speakers, Anthony and Nebojša.
The two of them have been a mentor pair in our group's mentorship pilot, so
they'll talk about their experiences with that, as well as sharing more
about their programs, in the Philippines and Serbia.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Anthony B. Diaz is a Network Organizer of Art and Feminism User Group and
co-founder of Wiki Advocates Philippines, and a climate-activist. He is
also part of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators and member of the Regional
Grants Committee for the ESEAP region, he will discuss about incorporating
Wikiprojects in school programs in the Philippines, and his experience on
mentorship program of the Wikipedia and Education UG.
* Nebojša Ratković is Education Program Manager of Wikimedia Serbia, also
part of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators and Dashboard administrator. He
conducted more than 250 workshops on Wikipedia for students and more than
40 workshops for teachers in secondary and primary schools within the
professional development program. Nebojša has been working in the
non-governmental sector since 2010, mostly on projects related to youth
education. He will speak about the Wikipedia Education Program in Serbia
and his experience on mentorship program of the Wikipedia and Education UG.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85779244418?pwd=OVVrbmNBNjA2QitxcXNOS2NMM2g0UT09
Meeting ID: 857 7924 4418
Passcode: 733371
If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me
an email offlist.
Dear Affiliates,
The Education team[1] at the Wikimedia Foundation is conducting research
through our Graduate Fellow to better understand academic faculty’s
perceptions of Wikipedia in Higher Education and the current efforts,
opportunities, and challenges for our communities supporting higher
education work. You are kindly invited to participate in this
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eP7KAkbDMYDocu2>survey
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eP7KAkbDMYDocu2>.
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eP7KAkbDMYDocu2> We appreciate
your participation in taking the survey for Affiliates, and we hope you can
also share the survey for
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8BN5Dwp8sl1bkIm>academic
faculty <https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8BN5Dwp8sl1bkIm> in
your networks.
Additionally, we need help translating these surveys. If you are able,
please help us translate them into any additional language. We especially
want to be able to share it in the major UN languages and as many smaller
languages as possible. We’ll announce when we get translations in
additional languages. It’s very easy to help with translations, all you
have to do is open the spreadsheets linked below and follow the simple
directions on the first tab.
Translation of survey for academic faculty
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ELOmNCyMK0HH9PMG7gT4uI2ey2F3-J9B_X…>and
translation of survey for Wikimedia Affiliates
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15X3P5eHYvbb-Zh1Nu9RRmjcMQIVf8u3s-F6…>
,
We will be sharing a synthesis of the results that may also be of interest
to your community.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Fu-Ying
===Academia Survey information ======
Dear faculty in higher education:
The Education team[1] at the Wikimedia Foundation is happy to share a
survey aiming to investigate academic faculty’s perceptions of Wikipedia in
Higher Education. You are kindly invited to participate in this survey. We
appreciate your participation. And you are also very welcome to share this
survey with your networks.
The goal of this survey is (1) to retrieve a demographic observation about
the academic faculty’s perception of Wikipedia in Higher Education, (2) to
understand the factors that contribute to the perception of the academic
faculty towards Wikipedia, and (3) with the findings analyzed, develop
supportive programming.
Please click the link below to participate in this survey.
Academia survey link
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8BN5Dwp8sl1bkIm>
If you have any questions about this survey, please contact
flin-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
Thank you so much & Best regards.
Fu-Ying[2] (on behalf of the Education team)
[1] Education - Meta (wikimedia.org)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education>
[2] User:FLin (WMF) - Meta (wikimedia.org)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FLin_(WMF)>
--
Fu-Ying Lin
Wikimedia Foundation | Graduate Education Fellow
flin-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
user: Flin (WMF)