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
Hi everyone,
Have you submitted your article(s) for the August 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 *28th of August*. 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://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
Hello folks!
I'll be holding a Zoom office hours session on September 7, at 16:30 UTC
(9:30 am Pacific time).
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82892571856
If you have questions or want help with using the Dashboard, or if you
have anything else Dashboard-related that you'd like to discuss, this
will be a good time to ask them. (You can also reach me by email with
your questions and help requests.)
Cheers,
Sage Ross
Wiki Education
Wikipedia & Education enthusiasts,
You may remember that the Wikipedia & Education User Group had been
planning an in-person EduWiki Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, in late
2020. The event was obviously postponed due to the pandemic. We're
pleased to say that we're re-starting our planning, with a target date
for the conference of sometime around March/April 2023.
As we undertake our planning, we'd like to get input from the EduWiki
community on whether you'd like to attend such a conference, what
topics you'd like to discuss, and what your priorities would be at a
conference. We'll use these survey results to gauge interest in the
conference, budget for scholarships, and design the program.
Please fill out the survey by Wednesday, August 10:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2MYKti1HPP9hWw_e0JUkMtq99k4Y2dTg…
We look forward to your responses!
--The Wikipedia & Education User Group Board