Hello colleagues,
I have resumed work on my video tutorial project for Wikipedia and the
sister sites. I am hoping that eventually there will be video tutorials
and/or interactive tutorials in multiple languages, but for now I am
focusing on producing a small number of videos for English Wikipedia to
test the process and to get feedback from the community. These videos will
be designed for "organic" new users who become active on Wikipedia without
first being involved in a formal program that provides guidance for new
contributors, but I think that the videos may also be useful for formal
Wikimedia program organizers to share with their participants.
A project space is live on Outreach Wiki:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NavWiki. I invite you to look at the
organization of the space and let me know if you have any feedback.
Comments and questions may be left on the project talk page
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:NavWiki>.
I am hoping to publish two videos for English Wikipedia by the end of 2019,
and to collect feedback on them until at least January 2020 before deciding
on significant next steps. If the feedback is positive then then I hope to
produce more videos in the future and/or to adapt the videos for additional
languages.
If you would like to sign up for the project newsletter, you can do that at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tutorials_N….
Regards,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hey everyone,
The Education office hours for this month is scheduled on 13th November at
12:00 UTC.
We will give some updates from the education team, and also excited to hear
about some of the amazing work you are doing. The space will also be open
to discuss the challenges you are facing with your Wikimedia and Education
projects. Along with that, we also have these topics to discuss:
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Sharing and gather feedback on the draft guidelines for inclusion by the
education team.
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How and where to look for in-kind resources to support your work
You can find more details at the Wikimedia Space:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikimedia-education-office-hours-novemb…
Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation,
request for a slot for Education Office Space (
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 )
Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hi everyone,
We’ve received an interesting proposal that we want to run by you. The team
working on Wikimedia Space <https://space.wmflabs.org/> wants to start
experimenting with mirroring mailing lists as a way to unify and improve
movement communication. They have reached out to us about the possibility
of mirroring this mailing list in Space. While an experiment like this
seems to make sense to the admins of this list, we wanted to run the idea
by you first.
Concretely, this would mean that:
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We would create an Education list subcategory in Discuss Space, and any
emails sent to the mailing list would appear there as well.
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It would function like a web archive: users are able to read but no
reply or start new topics. For that, they would need to use the mailing
list exactly as it is done today. For the mailing list subscribers
everything would stay the same.
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The topics mirrored in Space would appear in the Latest list on the
Discuss main page and in the search results.
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Users can tag topics and "like" comments. If a subscriber of the mailing
list is registered in Space with the same email address, they will earn the
"likes" to their messages and this will help them build their trust in
Space, without doing anything extra.
If you want to read about how this experiment fits into the larger picture
of the development of movement communications, they’ve released a short
blog post about the future of mailing lists and Wikimedia Space
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/testing-the-path-from-mailing-lists-to-…>.
But again, for now this is just an experiment that we can start and stop at
any time.
What do you all think? Are you interested in taking part in this
experiment?
Best,
Nichole
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*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Juhar,
Hope you are all doing well. It is time for the October edition of
the Education newsletter, and we are excited to read about the amazing work
you have done or planning to do this month.
The last date for submitting your article for the education newsletter is
18th of October. Please submit your article at the Education newsroom:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
We encourage you to go through the publication guidelines (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Publication_Guidelines )
before submitting the article. In case you have any questions, feel free to
ask me.
If you have missed the September edition of the newsletter, find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/September_2019
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
If you have 3-5 minutes today, read Melissa's article about Unit 1 of the
Greenhouse Online Course! We're really proud of the student engagement in
the forums and assignments--we've learned so much from all of you! Keep up
the wonderful work, we can't wait to review Unit 2.
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/10/16/wikimedia-education-greenhouse-highlig…
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*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
(please excuse the cross-post)
The Wiki Education Foundation is committed to publishing evaluation reports
about our new programmatic work, and I'm happy to announce our newest
report, on our Wikidata courses.
Here's the blog post about it:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2019/10/16/widening-wikidatas-impact/
And the report itself if you're interested in a lot of information!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikidata_Program_…
Many thanks to our Wikidata Program Manager, Will Kent, who both ran the
program and authored the report with support from other colleagues. We're
happy to answer any questions on the talk page on Meta if you have them.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Chief Programs Officer; Deputy Director
Wiki Education
www.wikiedu.org
Dear all,
I'm thrilled to introduce a new instructional tool available for Arabic
readers and editors globally! After two years of brainstorming and planning
, the instructional website Wiki Warsha ويكي ورشة is out! This is yet
another step for Wikimedia Israel in developing instructional tools.
Wikiwarsha.org <http://wikiwarsha.org/> is a multimedia instructional
website designed to introduce Wikipedia to Arabic readers, to invite new
editors to write and edit content on Arabic Wikipedia, to assist teachers
in school activities, and instructors in editing workshops.
Warsha is the Arabic word for ‘workshop’, the website includes short
instructional films, texts and images and is divided into 13 informative
and instructional lessons:
-Wikipedia homepage structure
-About Wikipedia articles
-Create account
-Sign in to a registered account
-Create a userpage
-Create a new article
-Edit an article
-Formatting the article
-Request edits approval on Arabic Wikipedia
-Adding image
-Adding internal and external links
-Adding references
-Adding categories
In addition to those lessons, the website contains informative sections
about copyright issues, FAQs, good article criteria, and talk pages, all in
order to facilitate understanding how Wikipedia communities function.
Promo video:
https://youtu.be/WaouO28qNsY
For further details and info:
warsha(a)wikimedia.org.il
*Bekriah Mawasi*, Arabic Education Coordinator WMIL [[user: bks-WMIL]]
*Michal Lester*, Executive Director, WMIL