Hi all,
I am looking for a brochure or folder that informs teachers and staff of a
university about the advantages/benefits of using Wikipedia in the
classrooms, as well as why that is important, good to do, etc etc etc. In
other words, a brochure or folder that we can send out to universities to
convince. To avoid we invent the wheel, I would be happy to learn from what
others use (or know to be used elsewhere) for convincing the use of
Wikipedia. Does anyone have an example available?
(I do not see any brochure/folder of this kind linked on
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures )
We are planning (Netherlands) to create such one and I hope you can share
good examples with us.
Thanks!
Romaine
Dear education colleagues,
I'm delighted to introduce the newest member of the WMF education team, Vahid
Masrour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VMasrour_(WMF)>. Vahid joins
as our Community Capacity Manager, and will be working with groups
like the Wikipedia
Education Collaborative
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collabora…>
and
other global education program leaders and affiliates to make sure they
have the support they need to be successful.
Vahid will be working remotely from Quito, Ecuador for his first few months
before moving with his family to San Diego. A little more about Vahid in
his own words:
World citizen, with a strong experience in South America, I have resided in
> 6 countries so far, and plan to keep on moving. I am keenly interested in
> transformation of educational processes using technology as a lever. I have
> been part of the Ecuador User Group since its inception (2013), as the
> education program specialist, and am a firm believer that “Knowledge is as
> wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is
> incumbent upon everyone.”
>
Originally trained as a psychologist, I’ve been learning about community
> development through development projects and volunteer service. The overlap
> of my interests in education, technology and community development now
> finds a peculiarly interesting expression through my work at the WMF, where
> I can now serve by enabling a global community’s efforts towards the
> “growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational
> content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to
> the public free of charge”.
Please join me in welcoming Vahid to the education team (on-list or on-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VMasrour_(WMF)>)!
Tighe
--
Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
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Paper and Poster Submission Deadline: April 13, 2016
====================================================
The Third International Conference on Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, and Social Media (CSCESM2016)
Metropolitan College, Thessaloniki, Greece
May 13-15, 2016
http://www.sdiwc.net/conferences/cscesm2016/
cscesm16(a)sdiwc.net
The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to)
research topics:
*Computer Science
Access Controls
Biometrics Technologies
Computer Forensics
Computer Security
Data Mining
Cryptography and Data Protection
E-Learning
Network Security
Wireless Communications
*Computer Engineering
Computer Architecture
Computer-aided Design
Computer Networks
Multimedia Applications
Network Security and Cryptography
Computer Animation
Expert Systems
*Social Media
Image / multimedia processing
Human-computer interaction
Social networking sites
Social innovation and effecting change
Collaborative filtering
Social networks and online education
Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically.
IMPORTANT DATES
Final Notification April 23, 2016
Camera Ready Deadline May 3, 2016
Registration Deadline May 3, 2016
Forwarding announcement.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:09 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] 6-April-2016 CREDIT call for demos
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
As I noted recently, we're merging the WMF technical showcase with the
lightning
talks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks> into what we're
calling *CREDIT <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>.*
The next CREDIT showcase will be 6-April-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100 SF).
Please add your demos to https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Thanks!
-Adam
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2016 Universal Technology Management Conference (UTMC)
Bemidji State University, Minnesota, USA
May 26-28, 2016
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/itmc2016/
The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by
researchers from the international community, including presentations
from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. The conference
welcome papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics:
*Information Technology
-Information and Data Management
-Information Content Security
-The Management of IT Investments
-Computational Intelligence
-Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
-Information Management
-Enterprise Architecture Management
-The Management of “Green” IT
-Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications
-Web Services Security
-Information Ethics
-Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
-Information Security and Cryptography
-Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks
*Computer Science
-Biometrics Technologies
-Computer Forensics
-Computer Security
-Data Mining
-Distributed and Parallel Applications
-Wireless Communications
-Cloud Computing
-Access Control
-Network Security
-Digital Signal and Image Processing
-Multimedia Computing
-Computer Animation
-Computer Architecture
-Artificial Intelligence
-Information Retrieval
-Natural Language Processing
*Business, and Technology In Education
-Educational Technology
-Computer-aided Systems
-Mobile Computing
-Education In Computational Science
-Mobile Learning
-Business Intelligence and Web Services
-E-commerce Business Models
-Future Development of E-Business
-E- Learning
-E-Government
-Debugging Tools and Learning
-E-Business Applications and Software
*Manufacturing Systems
-Design and Manufacturing
-Intelligent Processing of Materials
-Human-Machine Interface
-Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing, and Engineering
-Modeling and Design
-Design and Green Manufacturing
-Automation
-Networks Design, Protocols and Management
*Engineering Technology
-Bioinformatics & Biomedical Imaging
-Robotics and Atomization Engineering
-Globalization of Engineering
-Applications of AI Techniques in Design and Manufacturing
-Industrial Engineering
-Biomedical Signal Processing
-Robotics and Mobile Machines
-Computer Architecture for Intelligent Machines
Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All
papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees.
Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered.
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Submission Deadline: April 10, 2016 (EXTENDED)
Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2016 or 2-3 weeks after date of
submission
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Conference Dates: May 26-28, 2016
Forwarding the campaign announcement, and ideas from Aaron Halfaker.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Aaron Halfaker" <ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Feb 29, 2016 16:00
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation &
review launches today!
To: "Chris Jethro Schilling" <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: "Staff All" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I just finished submitting two ideas that I'd like to advise.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Automated_good-faith_newcome…
Build and deploy a machine learning model for flagging newcomers who are
editing in good-faith. This has the potential to mitigate some of the
secondary, demotivational effects when good-faith newcomers' work passes
through curation/review processes.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Fast_and_slow_new_article_re…
Concerns about the introduction of spam into Wikipedia has lead Wikipedians
towards implementing high speed new article review/curation processes. The
speed at which editors tag articles for deletion via these processes is
great for dealing with spam, but it might also be faster that good-faith
new article creators can build their articles. We could build a machine
learning classifier that is tuned to detect spammy article drafts. This
would allow the new pages queue to be split into a high-speed spammy
article review, and a low-speed article review that allows creators time to
make a better first draft.
I'll submit some more when I can. :)
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce the launch of the second Inspire Campaign for
> IdeaLab.[1] The theme of this campaign is focused on improving tasks
> related to content curation & review in our projects:
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
>
> Reviewing and organizing tasks are fundamental to all WIkimedia projects,
> and these efforts maintain and directly improve the quality of our
projects
> in addition to increasing the visibility of their content. We invite
> everyone to participate by sharing your ideas and proposals on how to
> enhance these efforts. Constructive feedback and collaboration on ideas is
> encouraged - your skills and advice can elevate a project into action. The
> campaign runs until 29 March.
>
> All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions,
> community organizing and outreach, or something completely new! Grants are
> available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects developed during this
> campaign that need financial support.[2] Google Hangout sessions are
> available in March if you'd like to have a conversation about your
ideas.[3]
>
> Join the Inspire Campaign and let’s work together to improve review and
> curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and
> accessible.
>
> With thanks,
>
> Jethro
>
> [1] You can learn more about the results of the first Inspire Campaign
> here: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign>
> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start>
> [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events> (Note: If
> another time would work better for you, feel free to e-mail me or ping me
> on-wiki).
>
> ---
> Chris "Jethro" Schilling
> I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
> Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
>
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