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Blog post: "The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite"
by Pine W 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Forwarding from the Wikidata Weekly Summary: https://ndsrbhl.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-role-of-librarians-in-wikidata… Quoting from the blog post: "As WikiCite continues to grow, it will be interesting to follow how (hopefully not whether!) the community integrates GLAM metadata. Generating Linked Open Data citations has the potential to connect objects and concepts with information resources to create context for more accurate and interesting digital representations of knowledge and cultural heritage. And more complete and complex graphs are better at supporting deeper investigations, queries, and visualizations of these data across repositories, collections, and knowledge bases." Pine

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Forming the "Wikipedia & Education" User Group
by Shani Evenstein 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Dear Wikimedia & Education community, The time has come to form an education-focused User Group to support the needs of the global education community. This weekend, a group of education leaders from 10 countries gathered in Yerevan, Armenia. We continued a discussion that began in Berlin at the Wikimedia Conference to strategize about the future of global educational initiatives within Wikimedia projects. We discussed our current model of supporting educational initiatives, including the limitations and challenges we have faced over the last several years. Though we do not pretend to cover the entire spectrum of education programs, we believe our collective experience has given us insight into common needs within the education community. We believe a User Group is a natural evolution from the current structure of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative (the “Collab”). As we organize to support educational initiatives around the world, we want to be inclusive, open, and transparent within our community. User Groups have formed to help Wikimedians collaborate across languages and countries, enabling better communication and visibility globally. With time, we expect this User Group may become a Thematic Organization. Moving forward, we believe it’s vital to elevate the narrative of education within our movement and the knowledge ecosystem. We see this group as a platform for sharing the experiences and voicing the needs of the entire global education community. *We invite all interested parties **to join the User Group* as members (this includes affiliates, individual program leaders, educators, students, etc), and commit to setting the stage for greater success of Wikipedia in Education. *To show your support, p**lease sign up under the "supporters" section in the proposal page on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.* Warm regards, Shani Evenstein, Jami Mathewson, Vassia Atanassova & Liang-chih Shang Kuan (On behalf of the founding members).

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikidata] Coursework involving Wikidata?
by Vojtěch Dostál 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Hello Shani, We also experimented with teaching Wikidata skills this year with a class of social media students at Charles University in Prague. First 1.5hour class introduced Wikipedia, 2nd was about Wikidata and the 3rd was a hands-on course in Wikidata Query service. The students completed the course with a basic understanding of how data are mined from WD and what types of questions can be answered by WD. If I had a 4th lesson I'd also explain Petscan and/or QuickStatements. Vojtech Dne 4. 6. 2017 5:23 napsal uživatel "Shani Evenstein" <shani.even(a)gmail.com >: I've been teaching WD as part of my 2 academic courses for the past two years. I had one 1.5 hour session dedicated to it, where I introduce ways of contributing and ways of using the data. Their task is usually to add info regarding the Wikipedia articles they wrote to WD. Students usually really like the WD Games. They also like things like Histropedia, the timeline tool. I know Andrew lee has also tried the latter that this year and created a session where his students creayed a timelines to explore something. Other than that, I'm unaware of other efforts to teach with WD, but since I'm also working on developing a separate elective about it, I'd love to see what you come up with. :-) Shani.. On 4 Jun 2017 03:00, "Daniel Mietchen" <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am preparing an elective course on Wikidata as part of a summer > school (some bare-bone background at > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017 ) > and am looking for examples of previous or ongoing coursework > involving Wikidata. > > Thanks for any pointers, > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikidata] Coursework involving Wikidata?
by Shani Evenstein 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

I've been teaching WD as part of my 2 academic courses for the past two years. I had one 1.5 hour session dedicated to it, where I introduce ways of contributing and ways of using the data. Their task is usually to add info regarding the Wikipedia articles they wrote to WD. Students usually really like the WD Games. They also like things like Histropedia, the timeline tool. I know Andrew lee has also tried the latter that this year and created a session where his students creayed a timelines to explore something. Other than that, I'm unaware of other efforts to teach with WD, but since I'm also working on developing a separate elective about it, I'd love to see what you come up with. :-) Shani.. On 4 Jun 2017 03:00, "Daniel Mietchen" <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am preparing an elective course on Wikidata as part of a summer > school (some bare-bone background at > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017 ) > and am looking for examples of previous or ongoing coursework > involving Wikidata. > > Thanks for any pointers, > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >

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Post-Wikimania Hackathon for offline educational resources
by Martin A Walker, Ph.D. 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

People here may be interested in a Hackathon we're holding on August 13-18. right after Wikimania, in Potsdam, New York (about 2.5 hours drive from Montreal). The focus is on writing code to help produce offline collections of Wikipedia content and other educational materials, mostly for use in schools. The main wiki page can be found at http://OFF.NETWORK. We can probably help you with transportation and accommodation. Some of the attendees will be there from groups such as Kiwix purely to write code. Others focus on end-use and are from the non-profit/educational community, such as Computers for Kids, Internet-in-a-box, KA Lite. These people will want to ensure that the technical needs of the groups can be met, and that resources are shared. You can see the sort of thing Internet-in-a-Box does in this recent article on opensource.com: https://opensource.com/article/17/5/internet-in-a-box-raspberry-pi If you're interested in attending, it's probably best to contact me directly. Thanks! Martin A. Walker (walkerma on Wikipedia) Professor of Chemistry, SUNY Potsdam walkerma(a)potsdam.edu<mailto:walkerma@potsdam.edu>

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Year of Science evaluation now available
by LiAnna Davis 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

In 2016, Wiki Ed kicked off the largest targeted content initiative ever undertaken in the Wikimedia world: the Wikipedia Year of Science. When the year wrapped up in December, our programs for the initiative had added nearly 5 million words of content to the English Wikipedia. More than 6,300 students edited more than 5,700 articles on STEM and social science subjects on Wikipedia, and improved biographies of 150 women scientists. The amount of content added during the Year of Science is impressive: nearly 5 million words fills 3.5 full volumes of the last print edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. But simply touting our numeric successes isn’t enough. As part of Wiki Ed’s commitment to the Wikimedia movement, we also wanted to evaluate our work — and document and share our learnings. We’ve published our Year of Science evaluation on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Year_of_Science_e… The report highlights what we did as part of the Year of Science in the Classroom Program, the Visiting Scholars Program, and other projects, as well as indications of what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned from the Year of Science. Our goal in publishing this report is to enable other groups considering creating a large-scale content initiative like the Year of Science to be able to learn from what we did. I encourage anyone who’s interested to read the detailed report, or for a TL;DR version, check out the green “Learnings” boxes. We welcome questions on the talk page of the report or at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, where I’ll be presenting on the Year of Science initiative and what we learned from it. LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Director of Programs; Deputy Director Wiki Education Foundation www.wikiedu.org

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Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference - Booking closes 27 June
by MCANDREW Ewan 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, We need to talk about how minority languages are supported right now. The Celtic Knot Conference 2017 is the first Wikipedia Language conference focusing on how technology supports Celtic & Indigenous Languages. It takes place at the University of Edinburgh Business School on Thursday 6th July 2017. Booking closes 27 June 2017 so don't delay. All welcome. Watch this 3 minute video<https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_nr4uufq9> if you’d like to know more. The main objective for Celtic Knot 2017 is the coming together of those working to support Celtic and Indigenous languages in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds into a 'knot' and leading into action. We welcome diverse attendees ranging from Wikimedians, linguists, educators, researchers, information professionals, media professionals, translators, learning technologists and more coming together to share good practice and find fruitful new collaborations to support language communities as a result of the event. Keynote speakers * Professor Antonella Sorace<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh<http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/%7Eantonell/> and founding director of Bilingualism Matters<http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/> will be speaking on ‘Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an opportunity’. * Jason Evans<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_th…> will discuss his strategy for working with Wikimedia UK and the Welsh Government to develop the Welsh Wicipedia using a combination of community engagement, data manipulation and the implementation of Open Access policies. Confirmed speakers also include: * Susan Ross – Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national-library-of-…> at the National Library of Scotland on making the Uicipeid a hub for online Gaelic knowledge<http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2017/01/gaelic-wikipedian-begins>. * Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot<http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sharon-arbuthnot%28519b4b40-d075-4b…> - Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting on the AHRC-funded eDIL project<http://www.dil.ie/> (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5th July. * Gareth Morlais – the Welsh Language Unit, Welsh Government. Gareth will speak about how mapping how much importance major companies (Google, Twitter, Apple) attach to creative activity on Wikipedia led to the Welsh Government helping to fund two Welsh-language Wikipedia initiatives. * Delyth Prys – Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, will speak on Welsh/Celtic speech technology and why text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important in our digital world. * Àlex Hinojo<http://www.alexhinojo.cat/en/bio/> – Executive Director, Amical Wikimedia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia> on the Catalan language project. * Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga – Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From corpus expansion to outreach. * Astrid Carlsen – Executive Director, Wikimedia Norge speaking on Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and building a project to revitalize the Northern Sami Wikipedia. * Robin Owain – Wales Manager, Wikimedia UK, speaking on recent developments supporting the Welsh language community. * Mina Theofilatou presenting on The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language projects<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme/CK125>. * Duncan Brown - Llên Natur<http://www.llennatur.com/Drupal7/llennatur/>, presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of life’. * Ilario Valdelli - Wikimedia Switzerland, speaking on the Digital Library in Romansch and the new initiatives to map the archeological sites connected with Celtic culture in the Alps. * Subhashish Panigrahi presenting on Kathabhidhana<https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana>, an open toolkit for anyone to record their language in a human and machine readable form. To find out more about the conference themes and how to book your place to join us then please visit the Celtic Knot<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> page. It promises to be a great event – including a panel on the Politics of Language Online, excellent papers, workshops and discussion spaces. Please feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network. Very best regards, Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk> Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk<mailto:wikimedia@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk> My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk<http://www.ed.ac.uk> Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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The May 2017 Issue of This Month in Education is out!
by Nichole Saad 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hello education community! I'm happy to announce that the new issue of This Month in Education <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News> is out. The featured article this month highlights some exciting activities in Ghana, and be sure to check out the other related articles about WEP activity in Africa. Like an article? Have a question?* Please contribute your thoughts* on the article's talk page! I'd like to take this time to also say that* we'd love to have more volunteers work with us to produce this newsletter.* Having monthly issues is a great way to make sure we are aware of what is going on with WEP around the world, but also requires a lot of bandwidth from our small team. Please reach out if you are willing to join us :D. Finally, we want your stories! *Don't forget to submit your stories for the next issue by 20 June! *You can submit by heading to the newsroom <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom>and using the input box. I hope you all are having a great start to the week. best, -- *Nichole Saad* WMF | Education Program Manager nsaad(a)wikimedia.org user: NSaad (WMF) *Want to talk about the Wikipedia Education Program?* Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/nsaad-1

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] June Newsletter?
by Mina Theofilatou 29 May '17

29 May '17

Nichole, however I may understand that you were busy, someone really could have given the go-ahead. I think I recall seeing several drafts in the Newsroom and then when I looked again they weren't there. As this was not the way I recall things working in the previous issues, I drew the conclusion that the Newsletter had reverted to the quarterly format. As I have obtained parental consent forms for uploading photos of my students, and they will be disappointed if they are not included in this newsletter (by June newsletter I meant the one with May news to be released in June and not the June news to be released in July), please wait until a little later when I will upload the draft I have prepared before releasing the Newsletter. There is a 10 hour time difference between Greece and San Francisco so I think this is the least I could expect of the person in charge of the Wikipedia in Education newsletter. Thanks, expecting a positive reply. BW Mina On May 29, 2017 8:57 PM, "Nichole Saad" <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Dear Mina and all, My apologies if myself and the Newsletter Team have dropped the ball on requesting articles for the May edition of "This Month in Education." This has been an especially busy and travel filled month. However,* please understand that you may submit your article to the newsroom at any time*. As long as your article is submitted before the deadline, it will make it into that month's issue. The issue for May will go out today. You have until June 20th to submit your article for the June newsletter, and I encourage you to do so. The submission deadline for each month's newsletter is the *20th of the month*. Kindly check the publication guidelines <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Publication_Guidelines> for all the relevant information on how the newsletter is published each month. Each month, if you submit in the Newsroom <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom> by the deadline, your article will be published. Finally, if you need an extension on the deadline, kindly reach out to me and I will see if we have the bandwidth to accommodate your request. Most likely we will. Thank you for your email, and for your contributions to our community newsletter. I hope I have clarified how you can participate. all the best, Nichole On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Mina Theofilatou <saintfevrier(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all:) > > I have been waiting for an email or Meta post inviting editors to submit > stories for the June Wikipedia in Education Newsletter. I have checked all > the relevant wiki spaces and there's nothing there. Had we not returned to > the monthly format? Am I missing out on something? > > I have important stories to share, and I'm sure other educators around the > world do also: this is the end of the school year for most countries. All > the work we have been doing all year has matured, our students have worked > hard with impressive results. Please confirm that there will be an > opportunity for us to share our achievements before summer vacation begins. > > Nichole Saad, looking forward to hearing from you. > > Best regards, > > Mina Theofilatou (User:Saintfevrier) > Kefalonia, Greece > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > -- *Nichole Saad* WMF | Education Program Manager nsaad(a)wikimedia.org user: NSaad (WMF) *Want to talk about the Wikipedia Education Program?* Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/nsaad-1 _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education

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June Newsletter?
by Mina Theofilatou 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hello all:) I have been waiting for an email or Meta post inviting editors to submit stories for the June Wikipedia in Education Newsletter. I have checked all the relevant wiki spaces and there's nothing there. Had we not returned to the monthly format? Am I missing out on something? I have important stories to share, and I'm sure other educators around the world do also: this is the end of the school year for most countries. All the work we have been doing all year has matured, our students have worked hard with impressive results. Please confirm that there will be an opportunity for us to share our achievements before summer vacation begins. Nichole Saad, looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Mina Theofilatou (User:Saintfevrier) Kefalonia, Greece

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