Dear friends of free knowledge and education,
On Tuesday, March 30th 2021, we will have our next Open Meeting!
Please feel welcome to join us at 4:00pm UTC.
See for your own timezone: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1617120044
This is the link to the meeting room:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87586733540?pwd=SVp0YmZrTEtlWWxxT3Y2UjZxNnFkZz09
We will discuss the shutdown of the WMF's Outreach Wiki and other topics.
Our special guest will be Mossab Banat who will talk about content in
Arab language. He is a passionate Wikipedian, physician and Wikipedia
Education Program team leader at Hashemite University in Jordan. He is
an editor and admin at Arabic Wikipedia. He also a board member at
Wikimedia medicine and associate editor at wikijournal of Medicine. He
founded a wiki club under the name of Digital Arabic Content Club at
the same university. Currently mossab works as Teaching and Research
Assistant at the Hashemite and as representative of graduate students
at the University council.
I myself will present a plan for a discussion on ethical questions.
When we use wikis for educational goals, we have not only to follow
the rules of the wiki (or an institution we work with). We want to
make sure that no harm is done - to the wiki or to the learners or
others involved. We want to give educators and others guidelines or
recommendations on how to deal with ethical questions and how to avoid
problems.
So, we hope for a large crowd at our meeting which will last for one
hour and a half.
Kind regards,
Ziko van Dijk
secretary,
Wikipedia & Education User Group (EduWiki UG)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group
Estimados y estimadas Wikimedistas,
Les escribo para invitarles a la segunda reunión regional de Wikimedia y
educación[1]. Este mes será nuestra primera reunión para Latinoamérica y
tendrá lugar el 31 de marzo 2021 a las 14:00 UTC. Esta reunión es una
oportunidad para aprender y compartir proyectos, herramientas, o ideas con
la comunidad de Wikimedia y educación de la región. Será liderada en
español por Jose Reyes, Oficial de Educación de Wikimedia México, y parte
del equipo de EWOC como especialista de comunidades de la región.
En esta reunión regional de educación para Latinoamérica contaremos con las
presentaciones de:
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José Reyes, sobre el estado de programas de educación en México
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Novedades desde Wikimedia Argentina
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Y la experiencia del programa ¡Leamos Wikipedia! en Bolivia
Si tienes otros temas, ideas, o preguntas que quieras añadir a la agenda,
puedes dejarlas aquí[5] y trataremos de incluirlas durante la reunión.
¡Esperamos verles ahí!
Cordialmente,
José, equipo EWOC, Sailesh, y equipo de Educación de la Wikimedia Foundation
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Dear Wikimedians,
I am writing this email to invite you all to the second regional education
meeting[1]. This month we are starting with our community members based in
the Latin America region[2]. You can use these regional office hours as an
opportunity to learn and share your projects, tools, or ideas with the
education community from the region.
These regional education meetings are planned by the community specialists
of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC)[3] and the Education team. We
are using this as an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore
collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges
that are faced by our community members in different regions of the world.
We are launching these regional office hours as a pilot initiative to
complement our general monthly office hours[4], we encourage you to
participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led
initiative.
Our first LatAm regional education meeting will take place on 31st March
2021 at 14:00 UTC, it will be led in Spanish by José Reyes, Education
Program Manager of Wikimedia Mexico and EWOC community specialist for the
region.
At this LatAm regional education meeting, we will hear from:
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Jose on the state of education in Mexico
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Some updates from Wikimedia Argentina
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And the experience of running Reading Wikipedia in the classroom program
by Wikimedistas de Bolivia.
If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add
them to the agenda here[5]. We will try to answer them during the meeting.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Best!
José, EWOC community specialist team, Sailesh, and Education team
[1]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
[2]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
[3]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators
[4] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours
[5]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_M…
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Associate, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Join us for this months' education office hours on 23rd March at 12:00 UTC
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1616500849>! The office hours is a
dedicated online space to have conversations and discussions related to
Wikimedia and education activities, listen and learn from each other's
projects and experiences.
This month we are looking forward to sharing updates from the education
team. and also to learn from your work. You can find more details and the
agenda of the meeting here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/March_23_2…
Looking forward to seeing you then, Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation?
Request for a slot for consultation for your education work (
ttps://outreach.wikimedia.
org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space> ) by
filling this google form ( http://bit.ly/EduOfficeSpace )
Dhanyabaad!
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Associate, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
It's that time of the month again! Join us for the February edition of the
education office hours Wednesday, February 24st at 15:00 PM UTC <
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1614178836>! The monthly office hours are a
dedicated time and an online space to have conversations and discussions
related to Wikimedia and education activities, listen and learn from each
other's projects and experiences.
You can find more details including the link to connect, and add items to
the meeting agenda here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/February_2…
.
I look forward to seeing you there!
PS: Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation?
Request a slot for a consultation for your education work (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space)
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Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (she/her)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
(I am Mathias Damour - Astirmays, I opened Vikidia in 2006)
There is not so much resources in English about Vikidia or the
encyclopedic wiki for children generally, yet you can read :
-
https://www.wikimedia.fr/vikidia-in-english-opens-today-lets-build-a-childr…
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids and its sub-pages and other
links.
There is several definitions and approach of education for sure.
On Vikidia, we have both goal (or maybe three or more...;-)) to build a
valuable documentary resource for children and to let them (not
exclusively) be involved in building it, be it on their own from home or
in a school project, to "train to collaborate" and for several other
benefits.
If education is not only about learning, we think that such a wiki can
meet with some articles of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the
Child. Among other:
"/Article 13 - 1. The child shall have the right to freedom of
expression; this right shall include *freedom to seek, receive and
impart information* and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers,
either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or
through any other media of the child's choice./"
See: Wikikids/Relation to the Rights of the Child
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Relation_to_the_Rights_of_the_Child>
I would say that to let children and teeagers be involved in such a wiki
is not only a matter of education/training, it's to fulfil their
aspiration to participate, and I dare to say it's also to be frugal on
the adult's time resource and thus make the project sustainable by their
contributions.
Actually, school projects on Vikidia make a part of the content, yet
they hardly participate enough time to know the community and be
involved in it. They are still welcomed and their content, which will be
reviewed and expanded, is useful, especially because they would often
work on subject that are part of the curriculum and therefore much
needed by their fellow student the following years.
In a school project on Vikidia, the teacher can have his own goals
(skills learning, information literacy...) and view on his role in the
exercise, as long as it integrates well in the wiki.
Le 22/02/2021 à 14:02, Ilario Valdelli a écrit :
> I think that you have to consider what are your goals and what is the
> role of the teacher.
>
> If you are looking for a Wikipedia written by children, this is a goal
> and some projects are more adapt than others.
>
> If you are looking for a tool that teachers can use to train student
> to collaborate, this is another goal.
>
> Wikimini.org has been just now migrated in new servers to give it the
> possibility to expand but definitely Wikimini is considered a tool for
> teachers and the same concepot is followed by Klexikon, I suppose.
>
> But behind everything there is the most important question: what is
> education? A young contributor writing content did receive education?
> Or behind education there are the skills learning?
>
> If the wikimedia world does not evaluate what is education, what is
> the role of the teacher in this process, and if young students need a
> support, it would be complicated to say what is the most correct
> approach.
>
> Kind regards
>
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Mathias Damour
49 rue Carnot
74000 Annecy
04 57 09 10 56
06 27 13 65 51
mathias.damour(a)gmx.fr