Wikimedia & Education enthusiasts,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group cordially invites you to attend our
next meeting, scheduled for Thursday, November 3 at 16:00-17:30 UTC (see
your start time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1667491243).
This will be a joint General Assembly for our user group as well as our
event to celebrate Wikidata's 10th birthday! We hope you can make it.
Agenda:
* Introductions
* General Assembly
** User Group activities review
** Board election
** Update on forthcoming EduWiki Conference
* Wikidata 10th birthday celebration
** Guest speaker: Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence, University of
Edinburgh
Ewan will speak about his experiences with Wikdiata in his role as
Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. He's been in the
role since January 2016 supporting the university’s commitment to open
knowledge, and developing 21st century information literacy and digital
research and data skills. The University hosted the first 'Celtic Knot'
Wikipedia Language Conference in 2017, won a Herald Higher Education Award
in 2019 for its Wikipedia in the Curriculum work and produced a booklet of
Case Studies of Wikipedia in UK education in 2020 (newly updated in 2022).
Latterly, Ewan has joined the University's GenderEd steering group and
submitted a chapter for the open access book, Wikipedia and Academic
Libraries, on "Changing the Way Stories Are Told" based on the University's
gender equality work. Prior to this, Ewan has worked as an English and
Media teacher in the Far East (Japan, Singapore and South Korea) and in
Scotland. He completed an Information Management degree in 2018,
volunteered with the Glasgow School of Art archives on their WW1 Roll of
Honour project, and has continued to manage a series of student internships
which have created, and updated, am Open Ed Global award winning website to
pull all the best resources together for understanding Wikipedia and its
sister projects as well as an open data Map of Accused Witched in Scotland
website.
This meeting will be held via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89734385766
If you'd like to be added to the calendar invitation for the meeting,
please email me offlist!
LiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
Wikipedia & Education User Group Members,
Thanks for your ongoing engagement with our user group! Our mentorship
program is in full swing, we're eagerly planning our EduWiki Conference
2023 (see more:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Wikimedia_Serbia/EduWiki_…),
and we're happy to showcase our community's great work in our regular Open
Meetings.
Our next Open Meeting will be Thursday, October 27, at 16:00 UTC (see in
your time zone: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1666886434). We're having a
joint Open Meeting and General Assembly, where we'll also ask our
membership to vote for Board members. Please save the date and plan to
attend!
If you're interested in running as a candidate for the Board of the
Wikipedia & Education User Group, please let me know off list by Sunday,
October 2.
LiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
Hello everyone,
The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Revisions committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
is
requesting comments regarding the *Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for
the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>.
This review period will be open from *8 September 2022 until 8 October
2022.*
The Committee collaborated to revise these draft guidelines based on input
gathered from the community discussion period from May through July and the
community vote that concluded in March 2022. The revisions are focused on
the following four areas:
1. To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the UCoC training;
2. To simplify the language for more accessible translation and
comprehension by non-experts;
3. To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
4. To review the balancing of the privacy of the accuser and the accused
The Committee requests comments and suggestions about these revisions by *8
October 2022*. From there, the Revisions Committee anticipates further
revising the guidelines based on community input.
*Find the Revised Guidelines on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
and
a comparison page in some languages.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>*
Everyone may share comments in several places. Facilitators welcome
comments in any language on the Revisions Guideline Talk Page. Comments can
also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or
during conversation hours. There are planned live discussions about the
UCoC enforcement draft guidelines.
*Conversation Hours*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large
number of communities. If you do not see a conversation happening in your
community, please organize a discussion. Facilitators can assist you in
setting up the conversations. Discussions will be summarized and presented
to the drafting committee every two weeks. The summaries will be published
here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
.
Regards,
~ On behalf of the UCoC project team,
Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>)
Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)
Wikipedia & Education enthusiasts,
You may remember that the Wikipedia & Education User Group had been
planning an in-person EduWiki Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, in late
2020. The event was obviously postponed due to the pandemic. We're
pleased to say that we're re-starting our planning, with a target date
for the conference of sometime around March/April 2023.
As we undertake our planning, we'd like to get input from the EduWiki
community on whether you'd like to attend such a conference, what
topics you'd like to discuss, and what your priorities would be at a
conference. We'll use these survey results to gauge interest in the
conference, budget for scholarships, and design the program.
Please fill out the survey by Wednesday, August 10:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2MYKti1HPP9hWw_e0JUkMtq99k4Y2dTg…
We look forward to your responses!
--The Wikipedia & Education User Group Board
Hi all,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group is pleased to announce the second
round of our Education Program Mentorship Program. If you're an experienced
or aspiring program leader, we encourage you to sign up to be a mentor, a
mentee, or both, by June 19:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_ihp9DM35T9P557QQykOKpXoKmJksR4R…
A bit more details: A year ago, we launched the first edition of the
program as a pilot. Based on interest, we created eight mentorship groups
and introduced the people to each other. We evaluated the program with a
survey at the end of the year. Results showed people were very enthusiastic
about the project, but they were looking for us to provide a bit more
structure. In response to that, we've put together a mentorship guide which
we'll be distributing to mentors, and we'll be checking in more regularly
with the mentorship groups throughout the year.
One mentorship pair from last year, Nebojša Ratković from Wikimedia Serbia
and Anthony B. Diaz from Wiki Advocates Philippines, shared their
experiences at our last Open Meeting. If you missed it, you can watch the
recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT76_cj-SGY
If you're interested in participating in the mentorship program this year,
please fill out this interest form. The deadline is June 19:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_ihp9DM35T9P557QQykOKpXoKmJksR4R…
Thank you for your interest!
-The Wikipedia & Education User Group Board: LiAnna, Susanna, João, Filip,
and Ziko
The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, June 15, from 16:00 - 17:30 UTC (see your
time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1655308815).
The focus of the meeting will be, as always, our two guest speakers,
Jackeline Bucio from Wikimedia México and Klara Sielicka-Baryłka from
Wikimedia Poland. We'll also share some updates from the Wikipedia &
Education User Group Board, including updates about our re-launched
mentorship program and our planned EduWiki Conference in 2023.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Jackeline Bucio holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and has been involved in
online learning activities since 2007. Currently, she is the Deputy
Director in the Online high school & MOOC area at the Open University,
Educational Innovation and Distance Education Office (CUAIEED), Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She designs online professional
development courses for teachers at UNAM and, since 2014, has been working
in MOOC environments. She works actively in using Wikipedia in educational
contexts and is part of the board of Wikimedia Mexico (WMMX).
* Klara Sielicka-Baryłka is Wikipedian & Education Specialist at Wikimedia
Poland. She graduated in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the
University of Warsaw. She worked at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw
(on educational projects). For over 8 years she worked as a museum worker &
GLAM-wiki coordinator developing #EtnoWiki idea. She is currently
implementing a new edu-wiki strategy in our organization, which will
include an original pilot project for schools throughout Poland. She also
coordinates the Wikipedia part of the educational project with the National
Heritage Institute of Poland.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81389679207?pwd=cBYSv53q5eE7kko-tqEEnW7raD2fVg.1
Meeting ID: 813 8967 9207
Passcode: 357408
If you'd like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please email me
offlist (lianna(a)wikiedu.org).