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).
Dear Wiki friends:
We would like to share two videos with you: they come with the new cycle of
the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program in Bolivia, and are a part
of the new multimedia resources our local community suggested before. The
style and language are directed mainly to teachers and high school
students, and both videos are close-captioned in English. We hope you will
enjoy them! Please share your thoughts about them with us.
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Video 1 <http://bit.ly/WikiBo1> : What is Wikipedia?
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Video 2 <https://bit.ly/WikiBo2> : How does Wikipedia work?
Kind regards from Bolivia!
*Guillermo M. JAUREGUI MAGNE*
*Translations and Interpretation Coordinator*
*WIKIMEDISTAS DE BOLIVIA*
Hi friends,
The Education team is conducting a Higher Education Academia survey to
investigate academia’s perception of Wikipedia in higher education. If you
are working in the higher education sector or can share this with someone
you know working in higher education related or research institutes, your
participation or sharing is highly appreciated.
Please click the link below to participate in this survey (Deadline: 9th
April 2022).
Academia survey link
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8BN5Dwp8sl1bkIm>
You can find the link to the privacy statement below.
Legal:Faculty and Affiliates Perception of Wikipedia in Higher Education
Privacy Statement - Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Faculty_and_Affiliates_Percepti…>
If you have any questions about this survey, please contact
flin-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
Thank you so much.
Best regards.
Fu-Ying (on behalf of the Education team)
--
Fu-Ying Lin
Wikimedia Foundation | Graduate Education Fellow
flin-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
User:FLin (WMF) - Meta (wikimedia.org)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FLin_(WMF)>
The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Tuesday, March 15, from 17:00 - 18:30 UTC (see your
time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1647363633).
We will provide updates from the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board, a
short introduction about the possibility of a global education hub, and
then leave most of the time for our guest speakers, Anthony and Nebojša.
The two of them have been a mentor pair in our group's mentorship pilot, so
they'll talk about their experiences with that, as well as sharing more
about their programs, in the Philippines and Serbia.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Anthony B. Diaz is a Network Organizer of Art and Feminism User Group and
co-founder of Wiki Advocates Philippines, and a climate-activist. He is
also part of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators and member of the Regional
Grants Committee for the ESEAP region, he will discuss about incorporating
Wikiprojects in school programs in the Philippines, and his experience on
mentorship program of the Wikipedia and Education UG.
* Nebojša Ratković is Education Program Manager of Wikimedia Serbia, also
part of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators and Dashboard administrator. He
conducted more than 250 workshops on Wikipedia for students and more than
40 workshops for teachers in secondary and primary schools within the
professional development program. Nebojša has been working in the
non-governmental sector since 2010, mostly on projects related to youth
education. He will speak about the Wikipedia Education Program in Serbia
and his experience on mentorship program of the Wikipedia and Education UG.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85779244418?pwd=OVVrbmNBNjA2QitxcXNOS2NMM2g0UT09
Meeting ID: 857 7924 4418
Passcode: 733371
If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me
an email offlist.
The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, October 13, from 4 pm UTC to 5:30 pm UTC
(see your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634140801).
As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia
& Education User Group board, then leave most of the time for our guest
speakers.
Our guest speakers this month will be Amanda Rust and Amy Ruskin, who will
speak on their work with Wikidata in an educational library setting, and
Thomas Shafee, who will discuss the WikiJournals and their bridging of the
Wikipedia-academia divide.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Amanda Rust is the Associate Director for Services in the Digital
Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She’ll speak
about how Wikidata fits into an initiative to collaboratively document
neighborhood public art data in Boston. By focusing on public art outside
of more well-known downtown areas, this initiative hopes to highlight the
history of art and artists in historically marginalized neighborhoods.
* Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the
Northeastern University Library. She will discuss the process of setting up
the Boston neighborhood public art project in Wikidata, including
determining data models and creating a WikiProject page.
* Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist and data scientist based at
La Trobe Uni in Australia. He'll talk on the work he does on bridging the
Wikipedia-academia divide by forming compatible interfaces between the ways
the two communities operate. As part of this, he chairs the WikiJournal
User Group, and is Editor in Chief of the WikiJournal of Science and an
editor for PLOS Genetics. Through these, non-Wikimedian scholars can write
new high-accuracy Wikipedia pages, and existing Wikipedia pages are put
through external peer review.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81371223837?pwd=K3dQZnh3WU9TYTY3MzBOV1l4WnBiZz09
Meeting ID: 813 7122 3837
Passcode: 153195
If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me
an email offlist.