Re: [Wikimedia-l] Vad glädjer dig den här veckan? / What’s making you happy this week? (Week of 29 September 2019)

At the 30th of September Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece received the Silver Award in the category of Education for its volunteer work, in the VoluntaryAction Festival held by Skywalker.gr and the Municipality of Athens. Congratulations are in order for our educators Xristos Nasios, Tasos Paliouras, Roula Petrou, Aggelos Sioros and Manos Kefalas for their work with Wikipedia in the University of West Attica, the Special Needs Gymnasium and Lyceum of Athens, the 4th Gymnasium of Ag. Dimitrious, the Club of Senior Citizens in Grava and the Library of the Interorthodox Centre of the Church of Greece. So, this is something that made me really happy this week. Regards Ανώνυμος Βικιπαιδιστής Στις Δευ, 30 Σεπ 2019 - 4:39 π.μ. ο χρήστης Pine W &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.comέγραψε: Στις 30 Σεπ 2019 4:39 π.μ., ο χρήστης "Pine W" &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com&gt; έγραψε: *"A Wikilibrarian's story"* (The text in this section was copied from *Books & Bytes*, Issue 35, July–August 2019 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/July-Augus… see the page history on Meta for attribution.) One's advent into the world of Wikimedia projects is almost always a noteworthy account. Here we share one such account of a librarian who was introduced to Wikipedia in an unusual way and began their adventure trying to better understand Wikipedia and now helps others understand it too! *Laurie Bridges is an Instruction and Outreach Librarian at Oregon State University in the US. She was introduced to Wikipedia by her son: at age 9, he was assigned a class project to research and present about a species of frog, and was told to only use Wikipedia for his research. When he related this to her, she thought, "If 9-year-olds are being introduced to research using Wikipedia, I better learn more about Wikipedia". So she got involved because she wanted to better understand the resource her son, and the students at her university, use. She explains:* Students and faculty are familiar with [Wikipedia] because many use it daily, although they do not cite it in their papers. As a librarian I teach about information literacy and help students and faculty with their research. Wikipedia is a familiar website that I can use to teach information literacy and afterwards students and faculty leave equipped with a better understanding of how the information source works. Students are used to teachers and professors saying, "Don't use Wikipedia." However, this dismissive statement doesn't teach the students how, why, or when they can use Wikipedia or other online resources. We are living in a time of misinformation and I want students to understand the information they are using and become critical consumers of that information. Using Wikipedia to teach students about information literacy is fun! In addition, it's fulfilling because I can see students' excitement as they learn more about Wikipedia, a website they use on a daily basis. I've found teaching with Wikipedia to be so rewarding that I want to spread the word. Finally, if librarians don't teach students about Wikipedia and what it is (or isn't), who is going to teach them? I'd like to see more activity and interest from librarians related to Wikipedia. This is why whenever I get a chance, I will introduce other librarians to … the Wikimedia Movement. Last year I received a scholarship to attend Wikimedia + Education in San Sebastián, Spain. I was only one of two librarians in attendance (in addition to Basque librarians who were volunteering at the event). It was a great learning opportunity and I connected with so many enthusiastic educators. I'd love to see enough interest from librarians to host a Wikimedia + Libraries conference! That would be a great conference! *The change of seasons* There are a variety of ways to define seasons <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season>, including meteorologically and culturally. For those in the northern hemisphere, the autumnal equinox was on 23 September this year; the autumnal equinox marks the transition from astronomical summer to astronomical autumn. For those in the southern hemisphere, 23 September was the spring equinox, which marked the transition from astronomical winter to astronomical spring. Awhile back I learned of a Scandinavian practice called kulning <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulning>, which involves using songs to call herds of cattle over long distances. Here is a video (YouTube link) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc7F_qv3eI8> that shows cattle being summoned out of the field with a kulning call for the last time of the year in September 2017. Here are a few music selections for the transition from summer to fall: * "Summer End | Chill & Jazzhop", by Fantastic Music (YouTube link) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icS__xweWnU * "Summer's Gone", by Bob Bradley & Thomas Balmforth (YouTube link) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uyuLrJZ4IM And for the transition from winter to spring: (The performances linked below feature John Harrison on the violin, and the Wichita State University <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_State_UniversityChamber Players. The conductor was Robert Turizziani. The performance rights release was received by Wikimedia Commons via OTRS <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS>.) * Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "*La primavera*" (Spring) — Movement 1: Allegro from *The Four Seasons*, composed by Antonio Vivaldi < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_-_Vivaldi_Spring_mvt_1_Allegro_-… * Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "*La primavera*" (Spring) — Movement 2: Largo from *The Four Seasons, *composed by Antonio Vivaldi < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:02_-_Vivaldi_Spring_mvt_2_Largo_-_J… * Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "*La primavera*" (Spring) — Movement 3: Allegro from *The Four Seasons*, composed by Antonio Vivaldi < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:02_-_Vivaldi_Spring_mvt_2_Largo_-_J… Closing comments Translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations>. Thanks to User:Julle <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Julle> for the Swedish translation. What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe