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
The EduWiki Conference kicks off Friday in Belgrade, Serbia. We have a
great program full of experienced education program leaders learning and
sharing. We had significantly more interest in the conference than we had
slots available for attendance, so we're pleased to be able to offer live
streaming of two rooms on our YouTube channel.
The program is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2023/Program
* note: Times in the program are local to Belgrade, CEST or UTC+2. Remember
to convert to your own time zone!
The streaming links are available here:
https://www.youtube.com/@EduWikiUG/streams
Note, we are streaming from two rooms (Atrium & Forum); please consult the
schedule to identify which room you'd like to watch. A handful of sessions
will not be streamed due to presenters' requests; for those, you will not
see the camera icon on the session listing.
Enjoy!
The EduWiki Conference 2023 Organizing Committee
Hello everyone!
I hope this message finds you well.
As a follow-up, I would like to invite all the participants who attended my
presentation *"Merging Data Science Techniques to Enhance the Quality of
Wikipedia Education Programs" *during Wiki Edu Conference/Belgrade to share
your feedback by taking a brief post presentation survey. Your input is
crucial in helping me improve future sessions and ensure that I continue to
provide content that aligns with your interests and needs.
To access the survey, please click on the following link:
https://forms.gle/qseFH3FHPLsvqjgEA
Thank you for your time and help, looking forward to reading your valuable
feedback.
Mohammad Hijjawi
Hello again folks!
I'll be holding a Zoom office hours session on May 30, at 17:00 UTC
(10 am Pacific time).
Details and meeting link can be found here:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/event/programs-events-dashboard-office-hours-3/
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'll also have a chance to meet one or more of the summer interns
working on the Dashboard.
Cheers,
Sage Ross
Wiki Education
Hi all -
My colleague Brett and I (cc'd) are interested in exploring capacity-building among professional associations, for instance, engaging and encouraging both academic and professional organizations to share professional expertise / knowledge in Wikipedia.
Does anyone know of existing initiatives already attempting to do this kind of work (or something similar?? Either at the level of the individual professional organization or at a broader level of trying to bring together multiple associations/organizations together to encourage Wikimedia engagement.
Feel free to respond off-list or on. Thanks!
Matt
Matt Vetter, PhD (he/him)
Associate Professor
Department of English
506 P Jane Leonard Hall
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1011 S. Drive, Indiana, Pa 15705
Phone: (606) 584-5129 | http://mattvetter.net<http://mattvetter.net/>
Connect with me on Zoom,
https://iupvideo.zoom.us/my/dr.vetterzooms