Hello everyone,
I hope you all are having an excellent week :)
As many of you might know, the newsletter is going back to monthly issues!
We will publish the next issue at the end of February. I collected and
incorporated your feedback in the new version. It will focus on sharing:
your ideas, stories, success and challenges. We encourage you to submit an
article for the Feb issue!
The new version will also include a featured topic, that we hope the
community will engage with us in discussing.
This month's featured topic is: Overcoming challenges. What is one
significant challenge you’ve faced in planning, implementing or evaluating
an education program? Participate in the discussion here
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/featured_topic>.
There is also one more thing we’d like your feedback on. It has been
suggested that we switch to an input box to collect stories for the
newsletter. This is similar to how drafts are collected for the Wikimedia
Blog. You can see the input box in action here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog>. An example of how it
could work for us is here
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)/testing>. Thoughts?
This would make it easier for the newsletter volunteers to move articles
into the main newsletter.
Thank you all for your contributions to this great Wikimedia education
community.
All the best,
Nichole
Dear colleagues:
My third post in the blog series, “What Does It Mean to Say That “Anyone Can Edit” Wikipedia?” is up. It includes a helpful screencast by Pete Forsyth<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peteforsyth> on how to use an article’s History Page. Thanks, Pete!
Several of you have asked whether you can subscribe to these posts by email. I appreciate the interest. Unfortunately, I’m told that our university blogging software doesn’t accommodate this right now. Two other options have been suggested to me: an RSS service such as Feedly<https://feedly.com/>; or a generic blog subscription service such as Blogtrottr<https://blogtrottr.com/>. I’m not entirely satisfied with either option, so I’ll do it my own way until I figure out something better. I’m providing short links to all the posts to date, in reverse chronological order, with the most recent on top:
What Does It Mean to Say That “Anyone Can Edit” Wikipedia? http://bit.ly/2jqMV5y
How Students Are Learning Medicine and Collaborative Skills, And Transforming Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/2jt5fH7
The Wikipedia Manifesto: http://bit.ly/2jGlAc1
This will serve as a sort of table of contents for those who come in to the series at a later point.
Yours truly,
John Kleefeld
Associate Professor, College of Law
2017 Teaching Fellow, Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness
University of Saskatchewan
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Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6
tel: (+1) 306.966.1039
email: john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca
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web: http://law.usask.ca/find-people/faculty/kleefeld-john.php
mission: http://www.usask.ca/leadershipteam/documents/president/MissionVisionValues.…
Read my article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray, on editing Wikipedia for law school credit: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241.
And my tribute to Lord Atkin, “The Donoghue Diaries”: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2470647.
Also, “Concurrent Fault at 90,” my book chapter in Quill & Friel’s Damages and Compensation Culture: http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/damages-and-compensation-culture-9781849467971.
Hello!
Are you currently implementing a Wikipedia Education Program? Have you
updated your country’s outreach page to reflect your great work? If not, we
would love to see what you’ve been doing!
If you need some ideas about what to include, let us know. Some great
information to add or update includes: institutions, numbers (courses,
students, educators), key contacts and any links to other documentation on
wiki (in any language -- English summaries are helpful but not required).
If you have any ongoing programs we would love to hear more about them! You
can always get in touch with your regional focal point on wiki or by email.
Here is our contact information:
Tighe Flanagan <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TFlanagan-WMF> (US
& Canada, Africa and the Middle East) tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
Vahid Masrour <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VMasrour_(WMF)> (South
America and Europe) vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
Nichole Saad <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)> (Asia
and the Pacific) nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
Remember to update your outreach page, so we can send you some Wikilove :)
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries
It seems that a blogging trend is starting. I will send out a separate email about my own recent efforts, including a piece that just went live on the medical content.
John Kleefeld
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A new blog post for the Wikipedia Education Program. It is a series of 3
articles, with the first one published. The link to the blog post:
Click here
<https://mywikieducation.blogspot.in/2017/01/change-in-modern-schooling-educ…>
Please do view, share, and comment.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:03 AM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks very much for all your answers guys, please keep them coming :)
>
> On 11 January 2017 at 22:22, Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I think the medical accomplishments would be great to share in terms of
>> Wikimedia's relevance in humanitarian response. For the UNESCO Mobile
>> learning week they are looking for presentations on technology that impacts
>> learners, teachers or education systems. You can check out ineesite.org
>> to get an understanding of Education in Emergencies and hopefully that will
>> help you with some ideas :).
>>
>> all the best,
>>
>> Nichole
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds like a great opportunity, and the WikiMed example is super
>>> relevant, indeed
>>>
>>> Nichole and I (on the WMF education program team) were actually
>>> discussing this very event yesterday. I'm copying her as well as the
>>> education list, in case there are additional ideas we can surface.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tighe
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 6:21 AM Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I understand you correctly, seems like a good opportunity to mention
>>>> medical content on Wikipedia, and the efforts to translate the 100 most
>>>> important medical articles (now already 700) to as many languages as
>>>> possible, as well as create an offline app with all medical content, which
>>>> we now have in 10 languages. This can literally be the difference between
>>>> life and death in the developing world and could come in handy in times of
>>>> various types of crises.
>>>> CCing Doc James, who can direct you to the best and most updated
>>>> resource about that.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Shani.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:06 PM, john cummings <
>>>> mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> I have the possibility of presenting at the UNESCO Learning Week in
>>>> March on the role of open licensing and Wikimedia in education in
>>>> emergencies and crises. I haven't been able to find out much information
>>>> about the subject, does anyone have any resources they could recommend?
>>>>
>>>> www.unesco.org/new/en/mlw
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
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Sounds like a great opportunity, and the WikiMed example is super relevant,
indeed
Nichole and I (on the WMF education program team) were actually discussing
this very event yesterday. I'm copying her as well as the education list,
in case there are additional ideas we can surface.
Cheers,
Tighe
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 6:21 AM Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, seems like a good opportunity to mention
> medical content on Wikipedia, and the efforts to translate the 100 most
> important medical articles (now already 700) to as many languages as
> possible, as well as create an offline app with all medical content, which
> we now have in 10 languages. This can literally be the difference between
> life and death in the developing world and could come in handy in times of
> various types of crises.
> CCing Doc James, who can direct you to the best and most updated resource
> about that.
>
> Best,
> Shani.
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:06 PM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have the possibility of presenting at the UNESCO Learning Week in March
> on the role of open licensing and Wikimedia in education in emergencies and
> crises. I haven't been able to find out much information about the subject,
> does anyone have any resources they could recommend?
>
> www.unesco.org/new/en/mlw
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
>
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Dear WEP community,
I know we've been introduced before, but let me reintroduce myself and some
exciting new things I'll be working with you on. I'm Nichole, the new
addition to the education team, and I'll be working on communications and
as the regional focal point for Asia.
I've been working on a plan to improve communication about the education
program, including thematic elements, and along with Tighe and Vahid have
concluded that the best place to start is with the newsletter. I know some
of you were volunteering to produce the newsletter before, and I would love
to hear from you if you have worked on this or are interested in starting.
We've already got some great submissions in the Newsroom. Thanks to
everyone who submitted their stories--The December Newsletter will go out
by the end of the month :)
Now for news about news!
While we've currently been producing quarterly newsletters, I'm proposing
to go back to monthly newsletters but smaller in scale with only 4 features
per newsletter (the learning quarterly
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Newsletter/2016/3/10>offers
a good example). Each issue would be thematic, with a preceding community
conversation around the theme taking place on Twitter, Facebook, the
mailing list, and on the Wiki and synthesized as one of the features for
the newsletter. The other features will be submissions from the community
on project highlights or op-eds relevant to the theme.
I would really like to get this off the ground for January, and that will
require your cooperation! How can you get involved?
1. Submit your ideas for newsletter themes. Submissions needed by 12/24 on
the Newsroom page, under the heading "Theme Ideas"
To get the ball rolling here are a few general ideas:
- Teacher Training/Professional Development
- K-12
- Higher Education
- Politics in Wikipedia Education Projects
- Regional themes
- Themes on specific Wiki projects
2. Once the theme is announced participate in the conversation!
3. Volunteer to help produce the newsletter. We're going to need a team to
help with:
- content curating
- revising the newsletter pages on the wiki
- formatting and publishing the monthly newsletters
- distribution/promotion on various channels
Any questions can be directed to me nsaad(a)wikimedia.org.
I'm looking forward to working closely with you all!
best regards,
Nichole
This is wonderful, Shani! You put an incredible amount of work into this,
so much to be proud of.
Thank you for sharing :)
Tighe
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Anna Torres <de(a)wikimedia.org.ar> wrote:
> Congrats! :)
>
> 2016-12-14 8:54 GMT-03:00 Michal Lester <mlester(a)wikimedia.org.il>:
>
>> Congratulations!! Such interesting and important article.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thank you Shani
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Regards,*
>>
>>
>> *Michal Lester,*
>>
>> *Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
>> *http://www.wikimedia.org.il <http://www.wikimedia.org.il/> *
>> *972-50-8996046 ; 972-77-751-6032 *
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-12-12 16:01 GMT+02:00 Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hello Education & Research enthusiasts,
>>>
>>> Happy to share some good news with you -- an academic article I wrote
>>> about implementing Wikipedia in higher education has been accepted to the
>>> journal "Education and Information Technologies" (of Springer Nature
>>> publishing house) and finally published online today!
>>>
>>> The article is called "Wikipedia as a platform for impactful learning:
>>> A new course model in higher education" and is attached below in a PDF
>>> form. Unfortunately, I did not have 3000$ to publish it via their "Open
>>> Access" option, but if your academic institution is subscribed to
>>> Springer, it is also available via this link - http://rdcu.be/nLxs
>>> <http://em.rdcu.be/wf/click?upn=KP7O1RED-2BlD0F9LDqGVeSNV04Bi9eNZdn8IE1uoBDt…>
>>> .
>>>
>>> Really hope this will inspire other institutions, educators and
>>> researchers to further explore such endeavors.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Shani.
>>>
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Hello Education & Research enthusiasts,
Happy to share some good news with you -- an academic article I wrote about
implementing Wikipedia in higher education has been accepted to the journal
"Education and Information Technologies" (of Springer Nature publishing
house) and finally published online today!
The article is called "Wikipedia as a platform for impactful learning: A
new course model in higher education" and is attached below in a PDF
form. Unfortunately,
I did not have 3000$ to publish it via their "Open Access" option, but if your
academic institution is subscribed to Springer, it is also available via
this link - http://rdcu.be/nLxs
<http://em.rdcu.be/wf/click?upn=KP7O1RED-2BlD0F9LDqGVeSNV04Bi9eNZdn8IE1uoBDt…>
.
Really hope this will inspire other institutions, educators and researchers
to further explore such endeavors.
Cheers,
Shani.
WikiProject Medicine, Translators Without Borders, and the Wiki Education
Foundation are all mentioned in this post from NPR. I'm forwarding the post
for others involved with medical content, Wikimedia education, or Wikimedia
translation who might like to read it:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/08/501087493/should-i-trus…
Regards,
Pine