Dear Wikimedians,
Last year, the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation launched a pilot
teacher training program that helped teachers use Wikipedia in their
classrooms. Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/education/reading-wikipedia-in-the…>
provided a professional development opportunity to over 500 teachers in
Bolivia, Morocco, and the Philippines with a localized curriculum and
resources aligned with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy framework.
Throughout this 9-week program, teachers developed vital media and
information literacy skills for the 21st century, including understanding
how information is produced, accessing and evaluating content online, and
identifying biases and knowledge gaps. All through the power of Wikipedia
<https://www.k12digest.com/changing-the-narrative-the-power-of-wikipedia-to-…>!
You can read more details about the pilot program and its impact in our
final report
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_Wikipedia_Final_Report.pdf>
[1].
Now, we are opening up the opportunity to more Wikimedians, mission-aligned
organizations, and individuals to participate in a Training of Trainers
(ToT). By the end of the ToT, participants will be certified to lead
training for Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom. They will be able to adapt
& implement the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program in their local
contexts to help teachers use Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool. Participants
who successfully complete the ToT will also have access to a pool of
funding that can support their local activities. You can learn more about
the ToT timeline and curriculum on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_Classroo…>
.
We think you or members of your community would be a great fit! We invite
you to attend an information session on Thursday, July 29 at 13:00 UTC via
Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95280050770>. The team will share more
detailed information, answer questions, and announce the open call for
applications. If you have any questions ahead of this event, please don’t
hesitate to reach out to the team at education(a)wikimedia.org
We look forward to seeing you at the information session!
--the Education Team
[1]The program report
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_Wikipedia_Final_Report.pdf>
shows us how teachers’ attitudes towards Wikipedia changed as they moved
through the curriculum, responded to practical assignments and reflection
questions, and participated in synchronous sessions led by local
coordinators of the program. For example, one of the participating teachers
from Bolivia said that at first he “thought that Wikipedia was a platform
like Google, but now I value all the volunteer work done by the community
behind it”. The program model also supported members of the local Wikimedia
affiliates to improve their capacity to organize and lead education
initiatives. Currently, the Wikimedians of Bolivia
<https://twitter.com/wikimedia_bo/status/1415057167804162049> user group is
launching the second edition of the program! The resources
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_classr…>
created for the program are available on Wikimedia Commons in English,
Spanish, Arabic, and Tagalog, and they are free for anybody to use, adapt
and share.
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Wiki Indaba is the official regional conference of the Wikimedia Foundation
for Africans both within and in the diaspora with interest in African
continent in addition to other open knowledge activators who are aligned
with the open information sharing mission.Topics of presentation and
dialogue include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis,
open-source software, free knowledge, free content and how these projects
affect the African continent.
The 2020 edition of the conference was supposed to be held in Kampala,
Uganda but was postponed and will instead be held as a virtual event hosted
by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda from 5th - 7th November 2021
Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects (such
as Wikipedia, Wikidata or others), or a fellow open content creator or
consumer, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) in Uganda welcomes your
participation in this survey to identify themes and topics that would not
only be inclusive but also be of interest to you and your community.
Please give us your feedback by filling this survey http://shorturl.at/ltPR7
not later than 12th August 2021
Kind regards,
Geoffrey Kateregga
Communications Lead,
Virtual Wiki Indaba 2021
Hello all,
We invite you all to sign up for Toolhub's Quality Signal sessions!
Toolhub <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub> [1] is a
community-authored catalog of Wikimedia tools. On Toolhub, you will be able
to discover new tools in the Wikimedia ecosystem, promote their use in your
wiki community, and help improve them by contributing data. Toolhub's first
release is planned around Wikimania 2021.
The Toolhub team is currently working on identifying quality indicators
through conversations with tool users and developers. As a tool user, how
do you know which tool is reliable, useful, and safe to use? As a tool
maintainer, what makes it attractive to you to contribute to an existing
tool? What information are you looking for to decide whether to join a tool
project? We hope that these sessions will help gather quality indicators
for tools and provide valuable insight toward developing new features to
convey the quality.
Want to organize a quality signal session in your community in August/early
September? Please get in touch on the talk page or sign-up for an already
planned session by adding your name below it: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions> [2].
Your feedback, thoughts, ideas would be valuable!
If you are attending Wikimania, we are running a few introductions and a
feedback session as part of the unconference. Learn more here: <
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub> [3].
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Toolhub team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions
[3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello all,
This email is a reminder to start proposing projects and sessions for this
year’s Wikimania hackathon, taking place on August 13th (the first day of
Wikimania). You may have already seen the announcement email last week with
all the details.
This year’s hackathon will take place in a 24 hrs format covering all time
zones. You can start proposing a session or a project by following the
guidelines here: <
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Propose_a_project_or_a_…>
[1].
We also encourage folks to reuse the video of a previously recorded session
(in lecture format) to organize a watch party-style session. And, you can
pause during or after for questions and discussions. That way, you have to
do less prep, and one can watch your session at any time during the event.
There isn't a specific focus area proposed this time, so your session or
project needn't fit under a theme. Anything that involves MediaWiki
development or covers a technical area in the Wikimedia ecosystem. Plus, we
welcome sessions that would be helpful to newcomers–new to the event, our
technical spaces, or projects.
If you have any questions, feel free to use the related talk page to
contact the organizing team or join the community conversation on Telegram:
<https://t.me/wikimaniachat> [2].
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Wikimania Hackathon organizing team
[1]
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Propose_a_project_or_a_…
[2] https://t.me/wikimaniachat
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2021-08-03, at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/6pm
CEST).
To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are
welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
-
You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Martin on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
--
Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Chers Wikimédiens,
Wiki Indaba est la conférence régionale officielle de la Wikimedia
Foundation pour les Africains de l'intérieur et de la diaspora qui
s'intéressent au continent africain, ainsi que pour d'autres activateurs de
la connaissance ouverte qui sont alignés sur la mission de partage de
l'information ouverte. Les sujets de présentation et de dialogue
comprennent les projets Wikimedia tels que Wikipedia, d'autres wikis, les
logiciels libres, la connaissance libre, le contenu libre et la façon dont
ces projets affectent le continent africain.
L'édition 2020 de la conférence devait se tenir à Kampala, en Ouganda, mais
elle a été reportée et se déroulera sous la forme d'un événement virtuel
organisé par le Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda du 5 au 7 novembre
2021.
Que vous soyez un membre de la communauté de l'un des projets Wikimedia
(tels que Wikipedia, Wikidata ou autres), ou un autre créateur ou
consommateur de contenu ouvert, le comité d'organisation local (LOC) en
Ouganda vous invite à participer à cette enquête afin d'identifier les
thèmes et les sujets qui seraient non seulement inclusifs, mais aussi
d'intérêt pour vous et votre communauté.
Veuillez nous faire part de vos commentaires au plus tard le 12 août 2021
en remplissant cette enquête http://shorturl.at/ltPR7
Sincères amitiés,
Geoffrey Kateregga
Responsable communication,
Wiki virtuel Indaba 2021
Hi folks,
I am forwarding this note from MIT to share the sad news of Professor Jing
Wang's death, because in addition to being a distinguished scholar, she was
also at one time a member of the Wikimedia advisory board (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board). She was also generally a
supporter of open culture. Condolences to those who knew her.
-- Phoebe
*From:* L. Rafael Reif <office-of-the-president(a)mit.edu>
*Sent:* Thursday, July 29, 2021 11:09 AM
*To:* Phoebe Ayers <psayers(a)mit.edu>
*Subject:* Professor Jing Wang (1950–2021)
Sharing the news of Professor Jing Wang’s passing
View online version
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/nl2/inj9/minqh.html?m=AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGq…>
[image: Letterhead for MIT President L. Rafael Reif]
To the members of the MIT community,
With great sadness, I share the news that Jing Wang, S.C. Fang Professor of
Chinese Languages & Culture and professor of Chinese media and cultural
studies, died on Sunday following a sudden health emergency.
Professor Wang’s interests ranged from the classical literature of
premodern China – the subject of her first book, the award-winning *The
Story of Stone* – to groundbreaking work on contemporary Chinese culture,
including the role of advertising and the nuanced ways that activists use
social media to inspire societal change.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages and literatures from
National Taiwan University, Jing completed her education in the US, earning
her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
She spent 16 years on the faculty at Duke, rising to chair the Department
of Asian and African Languages and Literature and to direct the Center for
East Asian Cultural and Institutional Studies. In 1996, she published her
second solo volume, *High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology
in Deng's China*.
In 2001, Jing arrived at MIT, beginning with an appointment in Foreign
Languages and Literatures (now Global Languages), a group she would head
from 2005 to 2008. Intense and inspiring, Jing earned the Levitan Award for
Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor in MIT’s School of
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS), and was a relentless advocate
for women in academia.
As she developed her ideas for two more provocative books – *Brand New
China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture* (2008) and * The Other
Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web* (2019) – she
found an additional intellectual home in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
(CMS/W). Since 2019, CMS/W was her primary appointment. She also went out
of her way to serve the Institute, including providing guidance to MIT on
working in China and, this summer, joining the advisory committee to
identify a new dean for SHASS.
You can read more about her life and work
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>
on MIT News.
Passionate about using knowledge to improve people’s lives, Jing founded
the MIT New Media Action Lab
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>,
to help non-profits and communities in developing countries explore the
potential of new media, and launched NGO 2.0
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>,
an ambitious effort based in Beijing and Shenzhen to promote the use of
information communication technology to help activists achieve their social
goals. On the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2010, she
also chaired the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>
for China.
Having lost her daughter, Candy
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>,
tragically two decades ago, Jing was keenly attuned to the struggles of
others. Warm, caring and generous, she was a gifted cook who made sure that
students from far away had a welcoming place to go for Thanksgiving.
May we honor her memory by making room at our own tables – and by reaching
out now to the many friends, colleagues and students grappling with her
loss.
With sympathy,
L. Rafael Reif
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave | Cambridge, MA 02139
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If you've used — or are interesting in using — Programs & Events
Dashboard to organize and track metrics for editathons, education
programs, editing contests, wikidata projects, and other events,
please consider taking our user survey:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/surveys/3
Wiki Education's annual plan
(https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/06/30/announcing-our-2021-22-annual-plan/)
calls for significantly increasing our support for and development of
Programs & Events Dashboard over the next year, and this survey will
help prioritize that work and develop a roadmap. The survey has up to
14 questions, most of which are optional. (You can preview the survey
on-wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard/2021_survey)
We'll also be sharing the survey data with WMF's new Campaigns team,
and coordinating with them to improve the tool ecosystem for
supporting program organizers across the movement.
Thanks!
----
Sage Ross
User:Sage (Wiki Ed) / User:Ragesoss
Wiki Education
https://wikiedu.org
Hi
I'd like to invite All Affiliates to sign up to
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village#Table_Sign_Up>
host their own table in Building 1, there are 140 tables available please
consider sharing with a neighbor or region.
As an example in Nigeria there are 5 Affiliates, they could have a table
called Nigerian Affiliates with every community collaborating to share the
space. It also could reflect a common association like Australia and New
Zealand, who have always supported each other.
Every table is fitted with a Miro whiteboard where links, videos, notes and
a host of awesome gadgets will enable you to reach your community. The
Whiteboard is your digital staff member, you dont require anyone to be
stationed there during the event. We'll put out more information about
using the whiteboards soon but for now you can view its capabilities at Miro
<https://miro.com/>
The Community Village will be in Building 1, which is also where all the
plenary sessions will be hosted. Each table will be named to reflect the
community. For meetups put a notice on the white board with details of
when and where in the unconference space.
See you all at Wikimania
- Community village:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village#Table_Sign_Up
- unconference table bookings:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference
- miro: https://miro.com/ <https://miro.com/>
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Gnangarra
M: +61 0434 986 852
*Wikimania 2021*
*Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia*
*acknowledging our Past, Present, and Future*
our virtual global conference
13–17 August, 2021
hosted by Every community
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http://wikimedia.org.au
Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which
supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. Your
donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive.
*http://wikimedia.org.au/Donate <https://wikimedia.org.au/Donate>*
--
Gnangarra
M: +61 0434 986 852
*Wikimania 2021*
*Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia*
*acknowledging our Past, Present, and Future*
our virtual global conference
13–17 August, 2021
hosted by Every community
gnangarra(a)wikimedia.org.au
http://wikimedia.org.au
Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which
supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. Your
donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive.
*http://wikimedia.org.au/Donate <https://wikimedia.org.au/Donate>*