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
Wikipedia & Education enthusiasts,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group and our hosts Wikimedia Serbia are
thrilled to announce applications are open to attend EduWiki Conference
2023 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2023), the
conference for those working in the Education space of Wikimedia.
Applications will be accepted until January 29, *2023*. The conference will
be held in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 26-28, 2023.
This conference is a platform for shared experience from working in the
Education space of Wikimedia. The conference welcomes education leaders in
Wikimedia and mission aligned organizations. The program will be built
collaboratively under the coordination of the Program Committee.
Before you rush off to apply, please carefully read these important
details!
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In order to facilitate meaningful participation from a diverse set of
Wikimedia and education leaders worldwide, all interested prospective
attendees will be required to apply for a spot for attendance. There is
no later opportunity to register; if you want to attend EduWiki 2023, you
must apply by January 29.
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We are offering a limited number of full and partial scholarships,
thanks to funding from the Wikimedia Foundation. Scholarships are available
to ensure participant diversity and enable us to have those most connected
to Wikipedia and education work attend. Applications for attendance will
also be assessed by the Scholarship Committee.
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We expect significant interest in this conference. This means we
encourage you to spend time carefully reviewing your answers to the
application questions before submitting.
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This is a large application form and to avoid losing your answers we
recommend that you write down the responses in a word editor and copy them
to the application form once you’re ready to submit. For your
convenience you can find all the questions here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2023/Application_text
(but
remember, put your answers into the form, not on Meta).
To apply, fill out this form (https://forms.gle/q3xNxNpLt3HRbmgy6) prior to
end of day on Sunday, January 29, 2023, AoE (see in your time zone:
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675080032). As noted, we expect
significant interest, so we do not expect to extend this deadline. Late
applications will not be accepted.
Hello everyone!
I hope this email finds you well. It is time for submitting your article(s)
for the February 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 newsletter. Please use [1] to see
examples of what you can do. We are super excited to read about your
stories, highlights, and plans for the year!
The last date for submitting your article(s) to the education newsletter is *28
February*. 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
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Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him/his)
User:ANKAN <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ANKAN> || All
Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>'s
public Wiki
Newsletter Editor || Education Newsletter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>