To confirm: I do not need real names, university names, course names, or
any other piece of information that might tie a username to a real-world
identity. I'm just looking for usernames of anyone who an education program
leader says started editing a Wikimedia project thanks to their education
program.
If you are uncomfortable sharing usernames for any reason, obviously please
feel free to disregard.
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:19 PM James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For Priyanka Mandikal's 2016 Accuracy Review
project, I looked at the
documented policies governing this question and determined that (1) the
English Wikipedia admins and arbcom have asked that institutionally
organized student editing should but is not required to be disclosed. As
you might expect, there are a wide variety of individual reasons. One of
the reasons is that student projects have gone bad, causing disruption,
extra work, accuracy failures, style flaws, and other problems. While that
happens relatively less often after years of experience with education
programs, there are more of them now so the problem is still worthy of
consideration. My opinion is that students should be able to opt in and out
of that status publically, and if they start in a student program then they
should start editing with student status, which should not be visible
except in the user logs. The flaw with that approach is that a lot of
students who go on to edit long term might never opt out of student status,
but it might be fun to go through and thank them and highlight the best of
their stories for fundraising and such.
Our privacy efforts might be better placed working to protect the HTTPS
system of end-to-end encryption, because the legislation outlawing that
sort of thing would make everyone's complete internet activity including
browsing history available in full to state, federal, and local officials.
Best regards,
Jim
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:18 AM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
There might be some legal issues with this. Has anyone looked into
whether GDPR permits this information to be shared if a user's
information is protected by GDPR?
More generally, I'm not comfortable with this idea for privacy
reasons. Unless a user has consented to this type of information being
shared with an external entity, I think that it shouldn't be shared.
However, education entities can go to their participants and request
consent for this type of information sharing.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:33 PM LiAnna Davis <lianna(a)wikiedu.org> wrote:
>
> (Apologies if you already received this; I tried to send it earlier
this
> week but I think it didn't go through.)
>
> Fellow education program leaders,
>
> The Wikipedia & Education User Group has a request for you: Please
share
the
usernames of your participants with us!
Here’s why: We would like to quantify the impact the global education
program is having on the Wikimedia projects’ new active editor numbers.
We
think the percentage of new active editors to all
language Wikimedia
projects coming from all the educational efforts happening around the
world
> is likely impressive, but we have no way of knowing without having
access
> to usernames!
>
> That’s where you come in. Whether your program is new with only a
handful
of
editors or a long-established program with hundreds of participants,
we
> want you to be counted. We are measuring our collective program’s
impact,
> and getting data from as many programs as
possible, no matter their
size,
is
important!
Here’s what we need:
* You are best positioned to determine your own definition of which
editors
> come through your education program. Education programs look different
> around the world; we trust if you say this person started editing
through
your
education program that they are part of our global education
community.
> * The timeframe we are looking for is January 1, 2019, through June 30,
> 2020 (or today, if you’re sending us names before then). Please share
all
usernames
of new editors who joined through your education program
between
> the start of 2019 through the first half of 2020.
> * We only need usernames; we do not need the leading User: or which
> Wikimedia project(s) they edited.
> * Please send these by June 30, 2020.
>
> To share your usernames:
> * If you are using the Program & Events Dashboard (
>
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/), simply send an email to
> lianna(a)wikiedu.org (offlist) with a link to your campaign. If not
every
> program within that campaign is an education
program, include in the
body
> of the email which program(s) should be
considered part of your
education
program.
* If you do not use the Program & Events Dashboard, please collect
usernames into a spreadsheet and upload that spreadsheet here:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/PMJHRjgXuxJsM7yEmdGf (note: you do not
need
to have a Dropbox account to submit a file here)
If you have any questions, please email LiAnna (lianna(a)wikiedu.org).
On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group,
LiAnna
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