Education June 2023

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Writing or Editing a Wikipedia Article for Law School Credit
by Kleefeld, John 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

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

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Wikipedia assignment at Ulster University
by Lixxx235＠Wikipedia 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

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

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Research booklet about information literacy, democracy, and Wikimedia
by Daria Cybulska 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Dear all, At the recent EduWiki conference in Serbia I presented a research piece on the power of information literacy (and how our wiki programmes support it) from the perspective of Wikimedia UK. I thought to share the resource here, perhaps it will be a useful tool in your advocacy for the impact of our education work, as a narrative to present the value of wiki workshop, or serve as inspiration to do a similar project. I'm also hosting a webinar next week if you'd like to hear me talk through the report on *Wednesday 14th June 12pm UTC * https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strengthening-civil-society-wikimedia-and-de… Booklet: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_and_Democracy_-_Wikimedia… (short version https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_and_Democracy_-_Wikimedia… ) As a summary of the work, *Our main inquiry was to understand how improving information literacy skills contributes to Wikimedia UK’s vision of a more tolerant, informed and democratic society. Does our work increase participants’ information literacy, and does this in turn lead to a more engaged civil society? We reviewed the current understanding and frameworks in the intersection of literacies, civic engagement and democratic participation, to see how information literacy has been found to support civic engagement. We then explored how Wikimedia UK’s work contributes to civic disposition skills.* Hope this sounds interesting to you all! Daria -- Daria Cybulska Director of Programmes and Evaluation +447803505170 *I work part time and my usual days are Mon, Thurs and Fri. * <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a registered charity in England and Wales No.1144513. and Scotland No. SC048644. Company Limited by Guarantee, Registration No. 6741827.

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Re: [Eduwiki] English translation for Wikeys
by Gilbert NDIHOKUBWAYO 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

Hello Mathilde. Glad to hear from you, and thank you for your email. It will be my pleasure to be part of this project, please consider me in it. Gilbert Nd. Burundi. On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:28 PM Mathilde Louis via Eduwiki < eduwiki(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Mathilde and I am an education project manager at Wikimédia > France. Some of you may have seen me in Belgrade during the Eduwiki > conference, as well as in a few Eduwiki meetings online. I am the > coordinator of the project Wikeys, the pedagogical game > <https://www.wikimedia.fr/wikeys/> that explains the functionning of > Wikipedia (here is the french version, in pdf > <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Wikeys.pdf>). > > You will find more information on the game in a blog post > <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/22/wikeys-a-pedagogical-game-to-discover…> > published in Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/> in March this year. > > As the subject of this email is probably letting you assume, I am writing > on these lists to talk to you about a translation project : we would like > to translate the game in English to spread it among the movement. To do so, > we would like to involve the movement itself. > > Why not simply engaging a professional translator? Two reasons : > > - so that the english version is as close as possible to the > wikimedian vocabulary, > - to engage you in this project so it becomes a collaborative product > of the wikimedia movement! > FYI, Vjola (in cc) from Albanian Language Wikimedians User Group, > translated the game in Albanian (many thanks to you, btw 😉) > > > The idea is hence to gather a bunch of people (3 to 5) interested in the > topic to help Wikimédia France with the translation. Ideally, the > translation should take place in July so that the English version is ready > for Wikimania! Then, here will be the steps : > > 1. The translation will be gathered in the file attached (built by the > game designer who created Wikeys) > > ideally from the 3rd to the 10th of july > > 2. After some proof reading, we will send the file to the game > designer ... > > ideally the 17th of july, to have at least a week > > 3. ... who will integrate the translation in the English version of > the game, in a new pdf file (since the game is in print & play) > > so we have the english version delivered a least a week before the > start of Wikimania. > > > If any of you is interested, just answer on this email loop. We could then > organise a launching meeting to organize the work, on monday 3rd of july, > afternoon (Paris timezone). How does that sound? > > Kind regards, > -- > *Mathilde LOUIS* > *Chargée de mission projets pédagogiques* > *+33 1 42 36 26 24* <+33142362624> > *+33 6 23 01 49 91* <+33784379103> > *-------------------------------------------------------------------------* > *WIKIMEDIA FRANCE* > Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance > *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>* > *28 rue de Londres, 75009 PARIS* > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1234174880> > _______________________________________________ > Eduwiki mailing list -- eduwiki(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to eduwiki-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org >

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Call for submission of Wikimedia Education newsletter
by Ankan Ghosh Dastider 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Hey everyone, It is time for submitting your article(s) for the June 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. If you have participated in the EduWiki Conference 2023, you can share your learning outcomes and future plans as well! The last date for submitting your article(s) to the education newsletter is *June 26*. 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/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>

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Successful Cases in Secondary Education Utilizing Wikimedia Projects
by barragajohn＠gmail.com 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Hi everyone! I would like to ask if any of you know secondary schools that have successfully forked or adapted Wikimedia projects through the use of these valuable resources worldwide. I would appreciate your answer. Cheers!

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Help design better ways to select what the Dashboard tracks
by Sage Ross 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Hi folks! I'm passing on this message on behalf of Shashwat, one of the fantastic interns working on the Dashboard right now. TLDR: he's looking for people who use or want to use the Dashboard to track edits to specific sets of pages, to demo his designs for making it easier and to learn what your use cases are. Sage Ross Wiki Education ---- Hi everyone! I'm Shashwat, currently an intern working with Wiki Education on the Dashboard. My project for this summer revolves around Article Scoped Programs on the Programs & Events Dashboard and how they can be improved. In a nutshell, Article Scoped Programs lets you track edits to only a set of pages rather than every edit made by a participant. These “sets of pages” are created using a variety of scoping methods available on the Dashboard, namely individually assigned articles, templates, categories, PetScan queries, or PagePiles. My goal is to create a new user interface for these scoping methods to make them more intuitive to use and simplify how users select which articles the Dashboard should track. I currently have a basic prototype built and would love to hear your feedback on it. This way, I can prioritize features which would be most appreciated by program organizers and can also make sure that the project is going in the right direction. If any of you would be interested in chatting over a zoom meeting about this, please let me know. I welcome any input or feedback that you might have. You can contact me over email(shashwatkhanna312(a)gmail.com) and we can go from there. Thanks Shashwat

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