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Open Educational Resources Meetup, Friday, 18:30, South Frobisher 6
by Sebastian Horndasch 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi all, I would like to call your attention to the Open Educational Resources Meetup that Tomasz Ganicz of Wikimedia Poland and I will hold during Wikimania: *Open Educational Resources Meetup* Friday, 18:30 South Frobisher 6 As some of you might be aware of, OER is an important topic in Poland and has been high on the agenda of Wikimedia Deutschland for some time. In the meetup, we would like to explain the concept and talk about what our chapters do on OER. And most importantly, we would like to hear views from other chapters on this issue. All the best, Sebastian -- Sebastian Horndasch Projektmanager Bildung und Wissen Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23/24 10963 Berlin Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0 www.wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ **** Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition! http://wikipedia.de **** Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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the WMF Education team @ Wikimania
by Anna Koval 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Hello Everyone! Although we know not all of you are attending our annual conference, we wanted to share some information with those of you who are. The following are some programme events and social gatherings which you may wish to attend *Friday through Sunday* Location: the Community Village Look for the Education team at the Grantmaking, Evaluation, and Education booth. Please stop by to say hi, visit as often as you can, and feel free to make the booth a meeting place or a home base for you and your colleagues. *Wednesday, August 6, 17:30-19:00* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/IdeaLab_mixer IdeaLab Mixer Location: The Barbican Learn about interesting initiatives across the movement at the poster session and connect with other participants over drinks and snacks. *Friday, August 8, 11:00-11:30* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/This_Month_in_Education_newsletter… Newsletter Roundtable Location: Registration Desk Get involved with the rapidly-growing newsletter highlighting all education initiatives. *Friday, August 8, 10:00-11:00* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_in_Education… Session: Wikipedia Education Cooperative Panel A panel presentation about measuring the impact of Wikipedia Education Programs around the world with tools like WikiMetrics <https://metrics.wmflabs.org/>. *Friday, August 8, 14:30-15:00* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_Education_Co… Session: Wikipedia Education Cooperative Panel Learn about the Wikipedia Education Collaborative <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Staff> at this panel presentation and Q&A session with WMF staff, Wiki Ed staff, and Collaborative members *Friday, August 8, 19:00* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_meetup Education Meetup Location: The Trader, 142-146 Whitecross Street, London (5 - 7 minutes walk from the Discussing Wikipedia in education over cocktails or mocktails. The Foundation's Education Team wishes you a safe and happy journey to the United Kingdom. We look forward to meeting you and talking with you at Wikimania and after. We're here to help! Warmly, Anna <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:AKoval_(WMF)> (Eastern Europe and Asia) Tighe <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tflanagan_(WMF)> (Middle East and Africa) Floor <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:FKoudijs_(WMF)> (North America, Latin America and Western Europe) -- The Wikipedia Education Program at the Wikimedia Foundation education.wikimedia.org

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Signpost reports: addition of Egypt; schedule modification for WMF
by Pine W 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Hi all, * In celebration of the July 2014 approval of the Egypt Wikimedians user group by the affiliations committee, this week's report will include a focused report on Egypt with an interview from Samir El-Sharbaty. The originally scheduled report on the broader Arab World Education Program with Tighe Flanagan will also be published this week. * Next week is Wikimania. I originally scheduled the Mexico report to publish that week and the WMF global report in the following week. To accommodate those who are attending education events at Wikimania and are interested in WMF's current thinking, I will make the report available for pre-publication viewing next week. I will send a link to the report to this email list. Feel free to share the link. The WMF report will be published in the Signpost as originally scheduled the week following Wikimania. Pine

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Invitation: Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7
by Pine W 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

The Wikimedia Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7 takes place parallel to the general Wikimania Hackathon in London. Wikimania Hackathon information is available at https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon Research Hackathon information is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014 >From the Research Hackathon info page: this "is an opportunity for anyone interested in research on wikis, Wikipedia, and other open collaborations to meet, share ideas, and work together. It's being organized by researchers in academia and the Wikimedia Foundation, but we want anyone interested in research to participate. Whether or not you consider yourself a researcher, or would ever want to be one, come with questions, answers, data, code, crazy ideas... or just your insatiable curiosity." Local participation will occur at Wikimania London and in Philadelphia, PA, US. Remote participation is possible and will include researchers and community members globally. Please see the Research Hackathon information page for scheduling and sign-up details. Further questions may be directed to Aaron Halfaker (ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org) or Leila Zia (leila(a)wikimedia.org).* Pine *A $1 fine will be imposed by Oliver Keyes on anyone who misspells Leila's name or misdirects emails to the WMF Executive Director.

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Wikimania meeting for education newsletter
by Leigh Thelmadatter 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

The This Month in Education newsletter is growing and getting more sophisticated fast! And we need more hands! Consider this a call for anyone who is interested in helping to put the newsletter together each month. If you will be at Wikimania, we will have a very brief meeting for anyone interested in working with us (Anna Koval and yours truly) at the first coffee break at 11am on Aug 8. We can meet at the registration desk. I will also be in London early, from the 3rd on, taking advantage of the week from work. ;) If you would like to meet before then, let me know! (osamadre(a)hotmail.com or leigh.thelmadatter in Facebook) Leigh

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course stats tool
by Sage Ross 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Hi folks! I've been working on ways to generate useful statistics for the US/Canada Education Program that aren't covered by Wikimetrics, namely: * finding all the articles edited by a group of students * finding how many page views a set of student-edited articles gets over time I recently set up a project on Tool Labs to make it easier for my team to look up specific data whenever they want. I thought it might be useful for others -- especially anyone else using the Education Program extension to list students and their articles. So today I got it working across languages. The page views tool is very slow, but the articles edited tool is quick. http://tools.wmflabs.org/coursestats/ -Sage (ragesoss)

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Wibe | Surf Wikipedia with the Power of YouTube
by Ankit Agrawal 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Hi, I am Akshit (Co-Founder of Wibe), we have made a Chrome Extension by which anyone will be able to watch relevant YouTube videos corresponding to the Wiki Article they are reading. It is the deadly combination of Wikipedia and YouTube, it can really become a great new feature of Wikipedia. We developed it to solve our problem of switching to YouTube from Wiki to understand a particular thing. I would be very thankful if you guys please try and review it. Then if you like Wibe, consider it to integrate as a functionality in Wikipedia for some days so that user can use and review this new feature. *Website*: http://www.letswibe.com *Extension*: http://goo.gl/EiFG9t *Demo Video*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98uDPo7ZjVI Install the Extension and then try out " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About" page to see how it changes the original wiki page by integrating relevant videos from YouTube. Cheers, Akshit Agarwal (Co-Founder, Wibe) akshit.jiit(a)gmail.com +91 8447136882 +91 8447735016

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Announcing "Organisations and Practice" session at Wikimania Pre-Conference
by Kilian Kluge 20 Jul '14

20 Jul '14

Dear attendees of the Wikimania Education Pre-Conference, dear subscribers of this mailing list, on behalf of the organizing comittee, it is my pleasure to announce the session "Education Programmes: Organisations and Practice" which will take place on August 7th, 10 am as part of the Education Pre-Conference. During the session we want to showcase and discuss the various different models of Wikipedia education programs worldwide. Our focus will solely be on the organizational structure, i.e. how the programs are run and supported. On the one hand to aid new education activists who are looking into starting their own project, on the other hand to provide new ideas for veteran Wikipedia education organizers. To spark the discussion, we will have speakers from very differently structured Wikipedia education initiatives. Namely. the panel will feature: * Jami Mathewson of the Wiki Education Foundation * User:Hubertl from Austria's community run school and university program * a representative of the succesful Serbian chapter's education policy initiative * a member of Ação Educativa Brazil. After they have introduced their project, there will be plenty of time to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the various models and to share experiences. For more information and updates see: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Pre-Conference/Education… For the organizing comittee, Kilian

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This Month In Education: July 2014: Volume 3, Issue 7
by The 'This Month In Education' Team 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

------------------------------ This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2014 <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Education/Newsletter…> ------------------------------ Headlines <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Education/Newsletter…> • Highlights <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Highligh…> • Single page edition <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Single> ------------------------------ - MACEDONIA: Internet marketing students learn about Wikipedia and suggest ways to improve its fundraising <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Macedoni…> - ISRAEL: Haifa University students write Wikipedia articles for academic credit <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Haifa_Un…> - MEXICO: Editing about Literary Theory in UNAM <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Editing_…> - MEXICO: Professor training continues as part of the Wiki Learning program <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Professo…> - CZECH REPUBLIC: Education program presented at BarCamp <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Czech_ed…> - GERMANY: Wikimedia Deutschland June Activities <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Wikimedi…> - UK: 6th International Integrity and Plagiarism Conference <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/6th_Inte…> - UK: VLE content reuse at Wikimania <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/VLE_cont…> - TWL: The Wikipedia Library <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/The_Wiki…> - WMF: Learning & Evaluation to publish quarterly newsletter <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Wikimedi…> - WMF: Updates from the Wikipedia Education Program and the Wikipedia Education Collaborative <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Updates_…> - Articles of interest in other publications: Brazil, South Africa, The Signpost, and more <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/July_2014/Articles…> To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom>. Past editions may be viewed in the archives <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Archives>. ------------------------------ This Month in Education <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter> is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the Wikimedia education community. Learn more about Wikipedia in Education at education.wikimedia.org. Apologies for cross postings. -- *The This Month In Education Team * https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter <http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter>

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Educator training at Wikimania Pre-Conference
by LiAnna Davis 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Hi all! I wanted to draw your attention to the Educator Training we'll be having as part of the Wikimania Pre-conference on August 7: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Pre-Conference/Educator_… The Educator Training is designed to give educators of all levels the knowledge they need to use Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects as a teaching tool in their classrooms. The training is open to educators from any country, and Wikipedia editing experience is not required. If you're interested in attending or you know someone who is, please see the page for more information. I especially encourage anyone who's thought about getting a Wikipedia Education Program going in your country to attend, as you'll learn a lot about the different kinds of assignments students could do. LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Head of Communications and External Relations Wiki Education Foundation +1-415-770-1061 www.wikiedu.org *Please note my new email address and update your contacts accordingly: lianna(a)wikiedu.org <lianna(a)wikiedu.org>*

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