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From: Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2007 12:28 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] ComProj needs your help - call for volunteers
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia <
wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
The Communication Projects Group or ComProj was set up some months ago
to provide a venue for collaboration between Wikimedians who want to
help with communication work. We do all sorts of things: preparation
of PR material, reaching out to specific groups to get them involved
in our projects, and encouraging inter-project communication.
While the group was started up by Sandra Ordonez, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Communications Manager, it could in its present form have
been started up by any Wikimedian - Sandy is always there to offer
guidance but she has made it clear she is not in charge and wants the
group to run itself. We do that.
How we work is that communication projects are put forward on our
mailing list, and people can volunteer to take them on in groups or
individually. These can come from all members and, unsurprisingly,
Sandy and Cary Bass, Wikimedia's volunteer co-ordinator at the office.
We also have weekly IRC meetings to discuss our projects.
At the moment we are struggling for members due to August dragging
many people away. Projects are not getting done as fast as they should
be and we could really do with more members. So, if you have an
interest in communications, please drop by
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Membership>.
All that we require is that you are willing to put a decent amount of
time into our projects, prioritising it amongst your other valuable
work.
Please distribute this to individual project mailing lists that I may
not be subscribed to, as ComProj is not just for Wikipedia.
Yours,
Sean Whitton
ComProj chair
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I think we'd better spell "college" correctly to have an credibility. And
we'd better say "an education" instead of "a education".
Elizabeth Chislett
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From: Brian / Talisman <mindandme(a)gmail.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2007 10:57 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] I can get a Press Release in the Collage Newspaper
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
If someone can write up something about Wikiversity. And that it needs
content and Money(possible for things like tutoring existing classes of the
University of California CA and the Community Collage of Santa Barbara. I
can probably do a good job in getting it in at least 2 newspapers.
The Independent It covers most of Santa Barbara County
The Daily Nexus Most readership is UCSB And SBCC.
I might also be able to get on the public radio and possibly the local News
Channels. I would want to get on bigger TV shows like Letterman or Leno.
I May have some connections, These people are looking for speakers and
people to talk with a lot.
I know I am new here But I really want to help start a Education
Revolution. And I think Wikimedia is a vehicle to do it with.
I can also Hold Local Fundraisers hear in Santa Barbara. Montecito CA is
just next door and it is one of the Richest places in the US. Many many
Actors live here. Oprah's 32 million Dollar home is here.
We can get some serious money here. I used to do Fund raisers for smaller
organizations.
I want to hold a Dinner, where participants pay money for the dinner and
they get good food and a show. This is a really good way of raising
funds. And it is the preferred method of really really Rich people.
Thanks
Brian Carpenter
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The English language Wikiversity had a great first year with only relatively minor problems from vandals. This Spring we experienced some rather nasty vandalism from persistent vandals and started discussion of CheckUser policy for Wikiversity (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:CheckUser_policy).
An editor with "CheckUser status" on a wiki can determine from which IP addresses a registered user has edited and find all the edits on the wiki from a specific IP (even when logged in). Data collected via the CheckUser feature can be used as an aid in fighting persistent vandalism of articles by people who create multiple accounts.
Recently there was difficulty in getting prompt CheckUser help from the meta-wiki, so this may be the time to try to get some CheckUsers for the Wikiversity project. Please participate in the community discussion at the centralized "user rights" discussion page (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Candidates_for_Custodianship#Nom…)
-John Schmidt
(user JWSchmidt)
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FYI - maybe someone in the Wikiversity communiy is interested in
developing something?
MACARTHUR ANNOUNCES $2 MILLION NEW DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION
CHICAGO, IL, August, 14, 2007 – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation announced today a public competition that will award $2
million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators
shaping the field of digital media and learning. The competition is
part of MacArthur's $50 million Digital Media and Learning initiative
that aims to help determine how digital technologies are changing the
way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic
life.
"An open competition is an excellent way to identify and hopefully
inspire new ideas about learning in an increasingly digital world,"
MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton said. "We do not yet
know how much people are changing because of digital media, but we
hope that this competition will help support the most innovative
thinking about learning, the formation of ethical judgments, peer
mentoring, creativity, and civic participation, all of which are
increasingly conducted online."
Awards will be given in two categories:
* Innovation Awards will support learning pioneers, entrepreneurs,
and builders of new digital learning environments for formal and
informal learning. These innovations might range from a teacher
add-on for MySpace that allows for safe assigning of a class group
discussion, to a platform co-developed by teachers and students to
facilitate digital literacy and peer-mentoring between college
students and high-school drop-outs earning their GED degrees, to a
digital learning festival for the leaders of a worldwide youth
environmental campaign.
* Knowledge Networking Awards will support communicators in
connecting, mobilizing, circulating or translating new ideas around
digital media and learning. For example, a team of teacher bloggers
who already reach hundreds of thousands of readers may now seek to
provide multimedia coverage and translation of MIT Professor Henry
Jenkins' recent white paper on media literacy.
The open competition will be administered by a network of educators
and digital innovators called "HASTAC" (the Humanities, Arts, Science
and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). HASTAC was founded and is
primarily operated at two university centers, the University of
California Humanities Research Institute and the John Hope Franklin
Center at Duke University. HASTAC has a network reaching more than 80
institutions globally. The choice of HASTAC, one of a new breed of
"virtual institutions," reflects MacArthur's goals in promoting
next-generation learning.
"We are already teaching a generation of students who do not remember
a time before they were online," said Cathy N. Davidson, John Hope
Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
at Duke University and co-founder of HASTAC. "Their social life and
informal learning are interconnected. They don't just consume media,
they customize it. These students bring fascinating new skills to our
classrooms, but they also bring an urgent need for critical thinking
about the digital world they have inherited and are shaping."
As part of their prize, awardees will receive special consultation
support on everything from technology development to management
training. Winners will be invited to showcase their work at a
conference that will include venture capitalists, entrepreneurs,
educators and policy makers seeking the best ideas about digital
learning. Applications are due Oct. 15, 2007, and prizewinners will
be announced in January. Detailed information on the competition is
available online at www.dmlcompetition.net.
"With the digital media and learning initiative, the MacArthur
Foundation is playing a leading role in reshaping both institutional
and informal learning practices," said David Theo Goldberg, HASTAC
co-founder and director of the University of California's Humanities
Research Institute. "Traditional learning practices are being
supplemented and supplanted by new digital media, which both enable
and extend their reach through virtual institutions like HASTAC. This
is a natural partnership."
This HASTAC competition is supported by a grant from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to the University of California, in
collaboration with Duke University. The University of California
Humanities Research Institute and Duke University's John Hope Franklin
Center are the principle administering bodies for this grant on behalf
of HASTAC.
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About the MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private,
independent grant making institution dedicated to helping groups and
individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. More
information is available at www.macfound.org or
www.digitallearning.macfound.org.
About HASTAC
A consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists and
engineers from universities and other civic institutions across the
U.S. and internationally, HASTAC is committed to new forms of
collaboration for thinking, teaching, and research across communities
and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology. More
information is available at www.hastac.org.
Press contacts:
MacArthur Foundation: Jen Humke, (312) 726-8000
University of California and HASTAC: Christine Byrd, (949) 824-9055
Duke University and HASTAC: Sally Hicks, (919) 681-8055
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