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.
(excuse the cross-posting; please share widely!)
We are curating the Education & Science Community track of WikidataCon
2021, which will take place on Sunday, October 31 from 11:00 to 18:00 UTC
(check the time in your time zone here:
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1635678034) and you are invited to submit a
proposal to the conference!
Submissions are open until October 20, 2021 (midnight anywhere in the
world), but we encourage you to submit a proposal as soon as you can, as we
are rolling admissions and expect the Education & Science Community track
to fill up fast.
We’re seeking submissions from anyone who’s incorporated Wikidata in
education, science and research, and working with academics, universities,
educational institutions (K-12 or informal education) and research
institutions.
Since this is an all-virtual conference, WikidataCon 2021 is a great
opportunity for people who have not previously attended to join! We
particularly encourage you to submit if you’ve never presented at
WikidataCon in past years.
Some links:
Overview of the Community Tracks:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
Information about proposing a session is further down on that same page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
Direct link to the proposal system:
https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/fJyHGM/info/
In case you’re not familiar with it, WikidataCon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021> is an event held
every 2 years coinciding with Wikidata’s birthday and is a time for the
Wikidata community to come together to learn from each other. This year it
will be held virtually and runs from October 29-October 31, 2021. It’s a
great way to share your work with the rest of the Wikidata community and
meet and learn from other Wikidatans.
Please let us know if you have any questions, or if there is any way we can
help you with the submission process.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov, LiAnna Davis, & Will Kent.
Dear all,
We’re sending you this message on behalf of the Education and Human Rights
program of Wikimedia Argentina to invite you to participate in the
#WikiPorLaEducación 2021 initiative. It’s an editing contest that seeks to
create and improve the content on Wikipedia, the free and collaborative
online encyclopedia, about education and pedagogies in Latinamerica and the
Caribbean.
The contest is organized by Wikimedia México, Wikimedia Chile, Wikimedia
Colombia, Wikimedistas de Bolivia, Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Venezuela
and Wikimedia Foundation.
#WikiPorLaEducación started on Tuesday, August 24 and it’s open until
Sunday, October 24, and we plan to provide support and guidance to the
educators, students and institutions of the region in their process of
editing and including the Wikimedia projects from a pedagogical perspective.
Important information:
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On Wednesday, August 25 we hosted a live event about the contest and
explained in detail the participation terms. It was streamed via the
YouTube Channel of Wikimedia Argentina You can see the video here: (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t92dY70YwPw&t=3s)
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Visit https://bit.ly/WikiXlaedu2021 for more information on the terms,
conditions and prizes of #WikiPorLaEducación.
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Send your doubts or questions to: educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar
Join us!
Luisina Ferrante
Encargada de Educación y Derechos Humanos
Education and Rights Manager
*A. C. Wikimedia Argentina*
Hello
Hope all is well with you.
I'm contacting you to ask if you could kindly spread this message among the
members of the Wikipedia & Education User Group in the ways you think are
more appropriate.
The announcement is about the draft of the enforcement guidelines of the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). The draft will be discussed and commented
on for about two months so that the drafting committee can revise it
according to the suggestions coming from the movement.
Should there be any questions about the draft, the UCoC or any other
subject linked to them please do not hesitate to contact me.
Many thanks and have a nice day and weekend :-)
Mervat
== Announcement ==
Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review
The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Drafting_committe…>
would
like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Enforcement_draft…>
for
the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>. This review
period started the 17 August 2021.
Community and staff members collaborated to develop these draft guidelines
based on consultations, discussions, and research
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Discussions>.
These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward.
Provide comments about these guidelines by 17 October 2021. The committee
will be revising the guidelines based upon community input.
Everyone may share comments in a number of places. Facilitators welcome
comments in any language on the draft review talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Enforcement_…>
or
by email. Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at
local discussions, or during round-table discussions and conversation hours.
There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft
guidelines:
Wikimania 2021 session
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/Universal_Code_of_Con…>
(recorded
16 August)
Conversation hours
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
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24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
Roundtable calls
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
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18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC
The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large
number of communities. Having a shared understanding is important. 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…>
.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best;
*Mervat Salman (She/Her)*
Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator
wikimediafoundation.org
Current and future education program leaders,
One of the key aims we had when founding the Wikipedia & Education User
Group was to create a more formal mentorship structure between established
and emerging program leaders. As education programs start, scale, and
adapt, there are always new things to learn about running programs. And the
best people to learn from are peers in our movement.
We had been planning to launch a mentorship program more formally at the
EduWiki Conference in 2020; the pandemic has delayed the conference, but
we're launching a smaller pilot of the mentorship program today.
Here's how it works:
* You can volunteer to be a mentor for someone, or ask to be mentored by
someone, or both! There may be things you know well that you can help
someone else learn, while also wanting to learn new things yourself.
* Fill out the form below. Note we are collecting personal information to
match you with a mentor or mentee; please don't put any information on the
form you're not comfortable with us sharing with the person we pair you
with.
* For this pilot, we're looking to pair people by June 30, and have the
mentorship happen between July and December 2021 to see how it works. So
please fill the form out by the end of June.
* The more people we have who sign up, the greater likelihood we have
someone we can match!
* We will evaluate the pilot in early 2022 and decide how to adapt it in
the future.
Fill out the form by June 30:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqLpGgBCe4ccdUqKhRBs2JGJl76sUhwrO…
Leave any questions on the talk page of our Mentorship page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Working_…
LiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Thursday, June 24, from 4 pm UTC to 5:30 pm UTC (see
your time zone here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1624550450).
As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia
& Education board, then leave most of the time for our guest speakers.
Our guest speakers this month will be Maxwell Beganim from Ghana, who will
talk about Kiwix in local secondary schools, and Rocío Aravena, from Chile,
who will talk about a course for school teachers she ran.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Maxwell Beganim is an Educator, Tech enthusiast, and Open Advocate. He
studied Biological Science and Masters in Education with focus on
Educational Technology and Higher Education. He is a Training Associate at
Open Foundation West Africa, Lead Trainer for SNV GrEEn Project in Ghana,
Virtual Tutor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He
is also the Partnership Director for Green Stewardship International.
Maxwell also with passion in the Open Movement was crowned the ultimate
Winner of Founders Day Writing Contest as the most diverse writer and
contributor to the Open Movement.
* Rocío Aravena, in charge of Education and Digital Literacy of Wikimedia
Chile, History teacher (University of Chile) and Master in Research in
Education and Educational Change from the University of Barcelona, will
speak about the virtual course for school teachers “Wikipedia in the
classroom: tools for critical citizenship” that had place on April 2021.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89174959828?pwd=WWR4VFdoM2p0TUV4MHA1b3Niazh4dz09
Meeting ID: 891 7495 9828
Passcode: 644180
If you would like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please send me
an email offlist.