Agreed that what we're seeing are Internet-enabled implementations of old
practices. I think that there has been a recent renewal of awareness of how
effective these dark arts can be at generating revenue and perhaps
affecting political systems.
Over the years, a number of people and organizations have tried to
manipulate the neutrality of Wikipedia content for political, financial, or
PR advantage. I have the impression that the community's human resources
capacity and technical tools are currently insufficient in comparison to
the scale of the problems. I'm hoping that some of the tools that are being
developed as a part of the anti-harassment initiative will help a little.
I'm also thinking that a good exercise for students in Wikipedia in
Education classes would be to identify content that is noncompliant with
neutrality and verifiability standards, and either change that content
themselves or flag it for review by more experienced editors.
Pine
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 5:53 AM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Pine wrote:
> >
> > I'm finding it encouraging to see that a number of researchers and
> > journalists are taking these problems seriously, trying to understand
> them,
> > and trying to improve the situation.
> > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/misinformation-on-
> social-media-could-outfox-technical-solutions-for-now
>
> I'm encouraged by the studies, but confused about why the fake news
> phenomenon is considered novel, rather than continuations of age-old
> disinformation, yellow journalism, aggressive public relations,
> manufactured consent, astroturfing, propaganda, and deceptive
> marketing. There's nothing new about it other than the term.
>
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Hi everyone,
Gabriel Thullen has put together a helpful list of proposed sessions
related to education. Thanks, Gabriel!
I wanted to share here in case it helps people plan for August:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:GastelEtzwane
Also, remember that proposals for Lightning talks, posters and birds of a
feather will be accepted until May 15, 2017:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Finally, it appears we're having issues with mail being rejected by this
list. I am not sure what is causing the problem, but please keep me posted
if your mail is rejected so we can troubleshoot.
Best,
Tighe
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Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
Hi all,
Longtime lurker on this list :)
I wanted to share a campaign I am running as COMMUNIA to fix copyright for education. As some of you may know there is a law being discussed right now in Europe that will change the way we can use materials in and outside the classroom for education. We are trying to improve that law by showing public support for a copyright that enables education, instead of imposing very strict rules.
You can read more here: www.rightcopyright.eu <http://www.rightcopyright.eu/>
I really hope that you will (1) sign the petition if you have not yet done so, and (2) spread the word to your friends in education and beyond that this is something education needs: a more flexible copyright. You can use sample tweets, images, infographics and other fun things that you can find here: https://rightcopyright.eu/spread-the-word/ <https://rightcopyright.eu/spread-the-word/> or simply retweet this <https://twitter.com/communia_eu/status/862246004518735872>.
I appreciate any support.
Please feel free to ask me anything about the campaign, or about why we need a better copyright for education.
Thank you,
Lisette Kalshoven
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Kennisland | www.kl.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31613943237 | @lnkalshoven | skype: lisette.kalshoven
There is not much narrative, but a list of articles written, for the
Guggenheim project here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Guggenheim_Museum/Education
The "Internal" ones are with museum interns, who are often students or
recent students, and we used education-related tools and the model of
Wikipedia education programs.
The "External" ones were actual educational assignments with outside
university classes.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am the process of drafting a navigational tool for learning about case
> studies for different kinds of GLAM-Wiki tactics to pair with the digital
> collections portal I created last fall (https://outreach.wikimedia.
> org/wiki/Digitization ). The new sub-portal is at: https://outreach.
> wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Sharing_Knowledge .
>
> For one of the sections, I would like to profile GLAM + Education
> projects; I hear about them, but can't find very much documentation: where
> are these documented for your community?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
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> GLAM-Wiki Strategist
> Wikimedia Foundation
> Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
>
> Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
> Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
> http://glamwiki.org
>
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>
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. Our featured
topic series on overcoming challenges continues with a thought provoking
article about responsibility for student submissions. Please contribute
your thoughts on the talk page! We also have some reflections on WMCon17 in
this issue, and of course updates about programs around the world!
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. Please reach out if you
would be interested!
Don't forget to submit your stories for the next issue by 20 May!
I hope you all are having a great start to the week.
best,
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*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
Forwarding.
Pine
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Date: Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 11:08 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad
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Hello, as you may or may not already know there will be a datacentre
switch back to Eqiad, WMF's main data centre, on May 3rd at approximately
14:00 UTC. For approximately 20-30 minutes you will NOT be able to save
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to this email, or ask on IRC on freenode channel #wikimedia-tech. If there
any major issues that occur during this time please report them to
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Hello to all,
I am quite sure that many of you will attend Wikimania this summer in
Montreal:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org
I am proposing two presentations to the organizers which you might find of
interest:
The first one is about sharing and spreading the Kiwix program by the
teachers themselves in schools in Senegal:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Grass-
root_distribution_of_Kiwix_in_West_African_schools
The second one is about having my students contribute to Vikidia, working
with Wikipedia for ten years. In a nutshell, I would say that Vikidia is
still very tolerant and helpful to newcomers...
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Working_with_kids_
:_Wikipedia_vs_Vikidia
If you plan to attend as well, and are interested in these presentations,
please append your user name to the "interested attendees" list.
With my best regards
Gabriel