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Important update about "This Month in Education"
by Nichole Saad 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Dear EduWiki Community, Did you know that Meta wiki is turning 20 years old this month? And it’s getting the best birthday present ever--the “This Month in Education Newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>!” The Movement Communications team recently completed research <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_communications_insights/Report> to better understand movement communication needs. One thing we learned is that people often have trouble finding the information they need and feel overloaded with options <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_communications_insights/Report/Bro…>. After consulting the EWOC volunteers, the EduWiki Affiliates network, and other key newsletter contributors, the Education Team has decided to support moving the newsletter from Outreach to Meta. This migration will help bring about better visibility and participation with the wider Wikimedia community and beyond. A place where contributors can be better seen, engaged and supported – and in more languages than before. Given that we want our community to be an open space for all people who are interested in Wikimedia & Education, moving the newsletter from Outreach to Meta is one way to improve inclusiveness and accessibility. If you are subscribed to the newsletter, nothing will change for you, you will still get it delivered to your talk page. We will still share the newsletter each month in the mailing list, and we will also begin sharing newsletter highlights on Diff. You can read the next edition of “This Month in Education” on Meta on November 19th, Meta Wiki’s 20th birthday! We hope you will continue to contribute and read this publication that highlights the amazing work our EduWiki community is doing around the world! Warm regards, Nichole -- *Nichole Saad* Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager for Education nsaad(a)wikimedia.org user: NSaad (WMF)

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Interested in education activities at crass root level
by Aminu Anas 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Dearest I am a certified Wikipedia in African Libraries cohort 2. Presently I am the Librarian at College of Nursing and Midwifery, Katsina State , Northern Nigeria. As part of my initiative for the promotion reading in School of nursing , I formed Library Club from among the Students. The aim is that they will become change agent by sensitizing other students on importance of patronizing the Library etc. I will like to collaborate with Wikimedia education to do more and expand to other school and Institutions within our community. Thank you. M. A. Anas

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This Month in Education, October 2021
by ZI Jony 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Hi everyone, The October edition of the Education Newsletter has been published, you can find it here[1]. In case you have missed the September edition, you can find it here[2]. Do you have an article to share with your Wikimedia education projects or community members? Submit it here[3] If you want to highlight someone from the education community for their work, please follow this[4]. Subscribe here[5] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…>to receive the education newsletter on your talk page! 1. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/October_2021 2. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/September_2021 3. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom 4. https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/highlighting-individuals-involved-with-… 5. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_… Regards, ZI Jony <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ZI_Jony> <https://www.facebook.com/100001982873464> <https://twitter.com/zi_jony> <https://www.instagram.com/zi_jony/> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBakcBINdesA4jJD9_ci5gg?sub_confirmation=1> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/zijony> <https://t.me/ZI_Jony> <https://www.pinterest.com/zi_jony/> <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About> https://zijonys.blogspot.com/

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Call for submission of Wikimedia Education newsletter
by Ankan Ghosh Dastider 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Hi everyone, Hope you all are doing well. It is time for the October edition of the Education newsletter. We are really excited to read about the amazing work you have done or planning to organize, and share them with everyone. The last date for submitting your article(s) to the education newsletter is the 22nd of October. Please submit your article(s) at the Education newsroom: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom. Let me know if you need more time to publish your article(s). We encourage you to go through the publication guidelines ( https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Publication_Guidelines) before submitting the article. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. If you have missed the September edition of the newsletter, find it here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/September_2021. Best, Ankan and the newsletter team -- Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him) 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://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News> Secretary || Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://wikimedia.org.bd/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/Iagdastider> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankan-ghosh-dastider/> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ankan_Ghosh_Dastider>

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Call for papers - conference online
by Klara Sielicka-Baryłka 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Hi everyone I represent Wikimedia Polska, I lead the Edukacja team. During the pandemic, we started organizing online conferences 'Educational one-day confrence' aimed at teachers and educators. The next one will be on November 27 (afternoon, Saturday, Warsaw time), also online. This time we want to focus even more on education about the climate. I would like to ask if any of you would like to give a short lecture on the wiki project that one carried out with school youth/ school teachers - a project on climate education, involving Wikipedia or its sister project.. Or maybe someone has developed a wiki tool to help with such education? We'd love to hear about it on our forum! Some links, where there are English description of the previous editions of conference: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/November_2020/Cooperatio… https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/March_2021/Filling_Gaps_… Please contact me if you think you want to share your ideas and projects. Z poważaniem / Sincerely Klara Sielicka-Baryłka Specjalistka ds. edukacji / Education Specialist tel: +48 790 290 924 e-mail: klara.sielicka(a)wikimedia.pl [image: Plik:Wikimedia Polska logo.svg] Wesprzyj wolną wiedzę! <https://wikimedia.pl/darowizny/> Przekaż 1% podatku lub wpłać darowiznę na rzecz Wikipedii <https://wikimedia.pl/opp/> wikimedia.pl ul. Narutowicza 40/1 Łódź, Polska KRS 0000244732 NIP 728-25-97-388 Informacje na temat przetwarzania znajdują się w Polityce Prywatności <https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polityka_prywatno%C5%9Bci>. Kontakt: rodo(a)wikimedia.pl <rodo(a)wikimedia.pl>

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Wikidata in Education, WikiJournals: Next Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting
by LiAnna Davis 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, October 13, from 4 pm UTC to 5:30 pm UTC (see your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634140801). As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia & Education User Group board, then leave most of the time for our guest speakers. Our guest speakers this month will be Amanda Rust and Amy Ruskin, who will speak on their work with Wikidata in an educational library setting, and Thomas Shafee, who will discuss the WikiJournals and their bridging of the Wikipedia-academia divide. Our speakers' biographies: * Amanda Rust is the Associate Director for Services in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She’ll speak about how Wikidata fits into an initiative to collaboratively document neighborhood public art data in Boston. By focusing on public art outside of more well-known downtown areas, this initiative hopes to highlight the history of art and artists in historically marginalized neighborhoods. * Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She will discuss the process of setting up the Boston neighborhood public art project in Wikidata, including determining data models and creating a WikiProject page. * Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist and data scientist based at La Trobe Uni in Australia. He'll talk on the work he does on bridging the Wikipedia-academia divide by forming compatible interfaces between the ways the two communities operate. As part of this, he chairs the WikiJournal User Group, and is Editor in Chief of the WikiJournal of Science and an editor for PLOS Genetics. Through these, non-Wikimedian scholars can write new high-accuracy Wikipedia pages, and existing Wikipedia pages are put through external peer review. We hope you can join us! The meeting will be hosted via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81371223837?pwd=K3dQZnh3WU9TYTY3MzBOV1l4WnBiZz09 Meeting ID: 813 7122 3837 Passcode: 153195 If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me an email offlist.

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New community support strategy for the Wikimedia education community
by Sailesh Patnaik 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Dear Wikimedians, I hope you are having a good start to the month. After a short break from our community organizing work, we have developed new strategies to establish processes and mechanisms for community collaboration and support. This strategic document <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Community_Support_Strategy,_Educati…> provides more information on our community engagement spaces, our strategic goals, and the values associated with our work. You can find a detailed summary of the strategy document on the diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/05/promoting-more-inclusive-and-equitabl…> blog <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/05/promoting-more-inclusive-and-equitabl…>. There you will find various spaces of participation and how you can participate. We will update you about any upcoming events and opportunities on the education mailing list and the diff calendar <https://diff.wikimedia.org/calendar/>. Starting in October 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation educational team will support the community by providing new and refreshed spaces for participation and collaboration, as well as specialized support. This will help the community to thrive by elevating their needs, strengthening the capacities of the community, and fostering the well-being of the community. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. We look forward to collaborating with you soon! Best! Sailesh -- Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him) Program Officer, Education Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Join us as EduWiki Outreach Collaborators
by Sailesh Patnaik 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hi everyone, TL;DR - Apply for EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC) by signing up in this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA3l-xTQlIl4rhXqaONAUFFxPnhzS4yJM…> . <https://bit.ly/eduwikiccc>(Please check the privacy statement below before clicking on the google form link) - Find the roles for EWOC here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators#Ro…> . - Stay tuned for some live interviews with our former EWOC members over the Education team’s Facebook page. <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam> I hope you are doing well, I am writing this email to announce the call for applications for the second cohort of EduWiki Outreach Collaborators. EduWiki Outreach Collaborators or EWOC are a dynamic group of Wikimedians who collaborate with the education team at the Wikimedia Foundation to provide support, effective collaboration, and learning opportunities for the education community in the Wikimedia movement. In 2020, we started this pilot initiative to work with community leaders of our movement to support volunteers in the movement with better networking, communication practices for growth, and to work together to spread the awareness on the value of Wikimedia in education. As a result of which we had the opportunity to work with 14 Wikimedia community members from various parts of the world. These volunteers helped in publishing 12 Education newsletters issues, shared many community stories from their regions, and helped in hosting 3 regional education meetings with 54 participants from 20 countries. This year we are planning to expand the program and we are planning to work with 20 volunteers in 8 different roles. To have more information regarding this program, please visit our Meta page. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators#Ro…> The strategic goals are designed by the 2020-2021 cohort of volunteers. We encourage volunteers from all regions and genders to be a part of this project! We expect the group of EWOC to represent the diversity of our movement and the call for participation will be open until we achieve this goal. Respecting the privacy of the members, personal information provided will not be shared with an external audience. To apply for this opportunity, please complete this form. <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA3l-xTQlIl4rhXqaONAUFFxPnhzS4yJM…> To encourage participation and to recognise the works of the collaborators, we have decided on certain rewards for completing different milestones. Find more about EWOC, roles and recognitions here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators#Re…> . Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, I will be happy to answer them. Looking forward to working closely with you on this project. Feel free to share this in your network. *This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement:* https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sign-up_for_Community_Communications_… Best! Sailesh and the Education team -- Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him) Program Officer, Education Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Submit to the Education & Science Community track of WikidataCon!
by LiAnna Davis 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

(excuse the cross-posting; please share widely!) We are curating the Education & Science Community track of WikidataCon 2021, which will take place on Sunday, October 31 from 11:00 to 18:00 UTC (check the time in your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635678034) and you are invited to submit a proposal to the conference! Submissions are open until October 20, 2021 (midnight anywhere in the world), but we encourage you to submit a proposal as soon as you can, as we are rolling admissions and expect the Education & Science Community track to fill up fast. We’re seeking submissions from anyone who’s incorporated Wikidata in education, science and research, and working with academics, universities, educational institutions (K-12 or informal education) and research institutions. Since this is an all-virtual conference, WikidataCon 2021 is a great opportunity for people who have not previously attended to join! We particularly encourage you to submit if you’ve never presented at WikidataCon in past years. Some links: Overview of the Community Tracks: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3… Information about proposing a session is further down on that same page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3… Direct link to the proposal system: https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/fJyHGM/info/ In case you’re not familiar with it, WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021> is an event held every 2 years coinciding with Wikidata’s birthday and is a time for the Wikidata community to come together to learn from each other. This year it will be held virtually and runs from October 29-October 31, 2021. It’s a great way to share your work with the rest of the Wikidata community and meet and learn from other Wikidatans. Please let us know if you have any questions, or if there is any way we can help you with the submission process. Shani Evenstein Sigalov, LiAnna Davis, & Will Kent.

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This Month in Education, September 2021
by ZI Jony 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Hi everyone, The September edition of the Education Newsletter has been published, you can find it here <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/September_2021>. In case you have missed the August edition, you can find it here <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/August_2021>. Do you have an article to share with your Wikimedia education projects or community members? Submit it here <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom> If you want to highlight someone from the education community for their work, please follow this <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/highlighting-individuals-involved-with-…> . Subscribe here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…>to receive the education newsletter on your talk page! Regards, ZI Jony <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ZI_Jony> <https://www.facebook.com/100001982873464> <https://twitter.com/zi_jony> <https://www.instagram.com/zi_jony/> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBakcBINdesA4jJD9_ci5gg?sub_confirmation=1> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/zijony> <https://t.me/ZI_Jony> <https://www.pinterest.com/zi_jony/> <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About> https://zijonys.blogspot.com/

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