Education November 2021

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Writing or Editing a Wikipedia Article for Law School Credit
by Kleefeld, John 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Dear fellow Wikipedians: This is to let you know about my most recent article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray. We’re especially proud of this piece, in which we make a pedagogical and public-service case for writing and editing Wikipedia articles for law school credit. The article has just been published in the Journal of Legal Education, which, appropriately, is an open-access journal. The current volume can be found here: http://jle.aals.org/home/. You can also read an abstract and download the article from my SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network) website, here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241. Yours truly, John Kleefeld Associate Professor, College of Law University of Saskatchewan 15 Campus Drive Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6 tel: (+1) 306.966.1039 email: john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca skype: johnkleefeld twitter: @johnkleefeld web: http://law.usask.ca/find-people/faculty/kleefeld-john.php

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Wikipedia assignment at Ulster University
by Lixxx235＠Wikipedia 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

Good evening, Professor Christie. My name is Lixxx235, and I'm a Wikipedia editor and an Online Ambassador with the Wikipedia Education Program. ( userpage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lixxx235>) It's come to my attention (through a student's request for help via Wikipedia's live chat) that you have given your students assignments relating to editing Wikipedia. While the Wikipedia Education Program fully supports such assignments, and endorses a number of courses at various universities around the world, according to one of your students, an assignment you've given seems to have students confused and is causing submissions in violation of some Wikipedia policies and wasting volunteer and student time. For example, this <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fuel_controlled_fires_…> is an entry one of your students tried to get help on from our live help chat. This submission does not meet Wikipedia guidelines such as notability policies, policies requiring verifiability of material, and policies requiring a neutral point of view (NPOV) to be kept. In addition, it was not in Wikipedia's standard format. We'd love to get in touch with you. Please reply back to lixxx235wikipedia(a)gmail.com and education(a)lists.wikimedia.org to see how we can help you develop good assignments for editing Wikipedia and how we can resolve some issues with your current assignment. All the best, Lixxx235 English Wikipedia

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Join us for EduWiki Live, take a deep dive into Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization
by Sailesh Patnaik 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Dear Wikimedians and Friends, TL;DR: The first EduWiki Live will be on Tuesday, November 30, at 15:00 UTC Theme: *Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization* Livestream: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam Youtube (link will be shared soon) I hope this email finds you well. Last month, we introduced you to our new EduWiki community support strategy <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/05/promoting-more-inclusive-and-equitabl…>. As a part of our new strategy, we are here with the first “EduWiki Live <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Live>” event, scheduled for 30th November at 15:00 UTC. EduWiki Live is a virtual event that aims to serve as a bridge between the EduWiki community and the Education sector. This will help the community to engage in deep dives into interesting topics about global education from a Wikimedia movement perspective. This month, the Education Team is hosting the first EduWiki Live on the theme of *Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization*. We are aiming to highlight the work that has been done in this area and how you can be a part of it. For this event, we will be joined by guest speakers Ivan Savov, a researcher working in the field of curriculum digitization and data models, along with Ernest Gavor and Andrews Lartey representing the Ghana Society for Education Technology (GSET). Here is the brief agenda for the event: - A general update and news on things happening in the EduWiki community. An overview of the potential impact of aligning curriculum data on Wikidata, and where we are now with the Wikidata for Education <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_for_Education> project by Nichole Saad. - Take a deep dive into the data models for curriculum standards <https://learningequality.org/r/digitizing-curriculum> with Ivan Savov: learn about the use cases for digital curriculum standards, the work done so far, and how this could be useful for the Wikimedia movement. - Meet our implementing partners from Ghana, learn what we want to accomplish with the Wikidata for Education project, and why it is important in the Ghanian context. Open Q&A You can watch the event live on Facebook and Youtube. For you to be able to ask questions in your native language we encourage you to use the comment option on Facebook, as it supports automatic translation, If you are interested in helping translate questions and answers in the comments please reach out to education(a)wikimedia.org Best! Sailesh and the Education team -- Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him) Program Officer, Education Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Join me to welcome the members of EduWiki Outreach Collaborators 2.0
by Sailesh Patnaik 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

Dear Wikimedians, Join me to welcome the members of the second cohort of EduWiki Outreach Collaborators <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators#Cu…>, we are joined by a group of 14 Wikimedia volunteers from various parts of the world. This group brings expertise in working with different projects, and communities. We aim to support education leaders and other stakeholders in our movement with better networking and communication practices. We look forward to collaborating with you all in the future. *Upcoming events:* - This weekend, 27th November at 7:00 UTC, join us for the first ESEAP regional education meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Regional_Meeting/ESEAP> organized by Imelda Brazal, EWOC community specialist for the ESEAP region. You can join the meeting or watch it live from Facebook. - Take a deep dive into the topic of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization during EduWiki Live, learn more about the work done in this field, and meet the experts. You can watch the meeting live on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/1635752083428570/?ref=newsfeed> and YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbK_-C6Rlc>. Join us on 30th November at 15:00 UTC Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. Best! Sailesh -- Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him) Program Officer, Education Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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This Month in Education, November 2021
by ZI Jony 21 Nov '21

21 Nov '21

Hi everyone, The November edition of the Education Newsletter has been published, you can find it here[1]. In case you have missed the October edition, you can find it here[2]. Do you have an article to share with your Wikimedia education projects or community members? Submit it here[3] If you want to highlight someone from the education community for their work, please follow this[4]. Subscribe here[5] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…>to receive the education newsletter on your talk page! 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2021 2. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/October_2021 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom> 4. https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/highlighting-individuals-involved-with-… 5. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_… Regards, ZI Jony <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ZI_Jony> <https://www.facebook.com/100001982873464> <https://twitter.com/zi_jony> <https://www.instagram.com/zi_jony/> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBakcBINdesA4jJD9_ci5gg?sub_confirmation=1> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/zijony> <https://t.me/ZI_Jony> <https://www.pinterest.com/zi_jony/>

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ESEAP Regional Education Meeting
by Imelda Brazal 18 Nov '21

18 Nov '21

Hello ESEAP Wikimedians! Wikimedia Education through the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators> ( EWOC) is conducting office hours and regional meetings to provide spaces for learning, sharing of projects, tools, or ideas with the education community from the region. Regional education meetings are planned by the Community Specialists in collaboration with Wikimedia Education Team. This is an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges that are faced by our community members in different regions of the world. For this month, we are excited to meet with the communities based in the ESEAP Region <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/Regional_Meeti…> . Our first ESEAP Regional Education Meeting will take place on 27th November 2021 at 7:00 UTC, (14:00 GMT+7, Indonesia Time, 15:00 GMT+8 Malaysia Time, 17:00 GMT+10 Australian Eastern Standard Time), with the theme: Wikimedia Education work pre-pandemic, during the pandemic, and what are the plans for the future. During this regional education meeting, we will have the opportunity to learn more about: - Education activities in Indonesia - Dimas Hardijanto, Deputy Coordinator of Education Program of Wikimedia Indonesia - Education activities in Australia - Alex Lum, President of Wikimedia Australia - Education activities in Malaysia - Dody Ismoyo, Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia - Education activities in the Philippines - Imelda Brazal, Wiki Advocates Philippines If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add them to the agenda here <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ESEAP_Regional_Meeting_November_2021?fbcli…>. We will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to seeing you there! This event will be livestreamed from Wikimedia Foundation Education Team’s Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam>. You can also join the event through the Zoom link, meeting link is available on our event page. The session will be led by Imelda Brazal, ESEAP EWOC Community Specialist. If you want to volunteer to interpret this meeting for your community members in a local language, please reply to this email. We encourage you to participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led initiative. Best, Imelda, EWOC Community Specialist Team, and Education Team

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Call for submission of Wikimedia Education newsletter
by Ankan Ghosh Dastider 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

Hi everyone, Have you submitted your article(s) for the November issue of the Wikimedia Education newsletter? Not yet, right? Now is the time to share your amazing work with the Wikimedia community by submitting reports of your project as articles for the Wikimedia Education newsletter. Please use [1] to see examples of what you can do. The last date for submitting your article(s) to the education newsletter is the 20th of November. Let me know if you need more time to publish your article(s). Kindly use [2] for newsletter publication guidelines, and [3] to access the Newsroom. As you already know from Nichole's email [4], we are moving the newsletter from Outreach to Meta, starting with this issue. But don't worry, the process is exactly the same, just follow the new links. If you face any problems while submitting the articles, please let me know. [1] Education News: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News [2] Newsletter Publication Guidelines: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Publication_Guidelines [3] Education Newsroom: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom [4] Important update about "This Month in Education": https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/education@lists.wikimedia.org/t… Best regards, Ankan and the Newsletter team -- Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him) User:ANKAN <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ANKAN> || All Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>'s public Wiki Newsletter Editor || Education Newsletter <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News> Twitter <https://twitter.com/Iagdastider> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankan-ghosh-dastider/> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ankan_Ghosh_Dastider>

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Important update about "This Month in Education"
by Nichole Saad 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Dear EduWiki Community, Did you know that Meta wiki is turning 20 years old this month? And it’s getting the best birthday present ever--the “This Month in Education Newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>!” The Movement Communications team recently completed research <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_communications_insights/Report> to better understand movement communication needs. One thing we learned is that people often have trouble finding the information they need and feel overloaded with options <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_communications_insights/Report/Bro…>. After consulting the EWOC volunteers, the EduWiki Affiliates network, and other key newsletter contributors, the Education Team has decided to support moving the newsletter from Outreach to Meta. This migration will help bring about better visibility and participation with the wider Wikimedia community and beyond. A place where contributors can be better seen, engaged and supported – and in more languages than before. Given that we want our community to be an open space for all people who are interested in Wikimedia & Education, moving the newsletter from Outreach to Meta is one way to improve inclusiveness and accessibility. If you are subscribed to the newsletter, nothing will change for you, you will still get it delivered to your talk page. We will still share the newsletter each month in the mailing list, and we will also begin sharing newsletter highlights on Diff. You can read the next edition of “This Month in Education” on Meta on November 19th, Meta Wiki’s 20th birthday! We hope you will continue to contribute and read this publication that highlights the amazing work our EduWiki community is doing around the world! Warm regards, Nichole -- *Nichole Saad* Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager for Education nsaad(a)wikimedia.org user: NSaad (WMF)

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Interested in education activities at crass root level
by Aminu Anas 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Dearest I am a certified Wikipedia in African Libraries cohort 2. Presently I am the Librarian at College of Nursing and Midwifery, Katsina State , Northern Nigeria. As part of my initiative for the promotion reading in School of nursing , I formed Library Club from among the Students. The aim is that they will become change agent by sensitizing other students on importance of patronizing the Library etc. I will like to collaborate with Wikimedia education to do more and expand to other school and Institutions within our community. Thank you. M. A. Anas

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