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
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
Wikipedia & Education enthusiasts,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group and our hosts Wikimedia Serbia are
thrilled to announce applications are open to attend EduWiki Conference
2023 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2023), the
conference for those working in the Education space of Wikimedia.
Applications will be accepted until January 29, *2023*. The conference will
be held in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 26-28, 2023.
This conference is a platform for shared experience from working in the
Education space of Wikimedia. The conference welcomes education leaders in
Wikimedia and mission aligned organizations. The program will be built
collaboratively under the coordination of the Program Committee.
Before you rush off to apply, please carefully read these important
details!
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In order to facilitate meaningful participation from a diverse set of
Wikimedia and education leaders worldwide, all interested prospective
attendees will be required to apply for a spot for attendance. There is
no later opportunity to register; if you want to attend EduWiki 2023, you
must apply by January 29.
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We are offering a limited number of full and partial scholarships,
thanks to funding from the Wikimedia Foundation. Scholarships are available
to ensure participant diversity and enable us to have those most connected
to Wikipedia and education work attend. Applications for attendance will
also be assessed by the Scholarship Committee.
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We expect significant interest in this conference. This means we
encourage you to spend time carefully reviewing your answers to the
application questions before submitting.
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This is a large application form and to avoid losing your answers we
recommend that you write down the responses in a word editor and copy them
to the application form once you’re ready to submit. For your
convenience you can find all the questions here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2023/Application_text
(but
remember, put your answers into the form, not on Meta).
To apply, fill out this form (https://forms.gle/q3xNxNpLt3HRbmgy6) prior to
end of day on Sunday, January 29, 2023, AoE (see in your time zone:
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675080032). As noted, we expect
significant interest, so we do not expect to extend this deadline. Late
applications will not be accepted.
Hello Friends,
Thank you for joining us at the recently concluded EduWiki Live event.
It was a pleasure to learn and share with our guest speaker, Veronica
Thamaini, and moderator, Anamaria Espinoza, as they discussed the topic of
Gender inclusiveness in the Wikimedia and Education space.
If you missed the live event, you could watch it on YouTube by clicking on
this link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sujAOOIclO8>.
Thank you for being a part of this event once more.
Best regards!
Abdallah
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Sseruwagi Abdallah
Program Assistant | Education Team
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear friends,
Make plans to attend the EduWiki live event this month. Listen in as our
guest speaker Veronica Thamaini discusses gender inclusion in education and
the Wikimedia space.
The event will be live-streamed on our social media platforms. The details
are as follows:
Topic: Gender Inclusiveness in Education and Wikimedia space
Date: 15 December 2022
Time: 14:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC
YouTube live Link: https://youtu.be/sujAOOIclO8
Veronica Thamaini has close to a decade of broad geographical experience in
program management in development issues, including education, gender
equality, and technology for
Development. She currently serves as a Senior Program Officer, Community
Resources - Middle East and Africa for Wikimedia Foundation. As part of the
Community Resources team, she supports communities with funding
opportunities and other resources, ensuring that the free knowledge on
Wikipedia and its sister projects is available and accessible to anyone
worldwide.
Before joining Wikimedia Foundation, she worked with organizations such as
Creative Action Institute across Africa on projects focused on gender
equality and building a sustainable planet. The projects entailed
developing and implementing training and customized consulting services {
custom-designed training and curriculum development, professional
development for educators, and design and facilitate conferences} for
varied stakeholders and done in partnership with development agencies
(UNESCO-IICBA, UNICEF, FAWE, MADRE) and Donor Foundations. The projects
include the Gender-Responsive Pedagogy
<https://www.unicef.org/esa/media/6726/file/GRP-A-Toolkit-for-Teachers-and-S…>
for teachers and educators, the East African Girls Leadership Program
<https://www.creativeactioninstitute.org/eagls>, and Sauti Ya Dada
<https://www.creativeactioninstitute.org/sauti-ya-dada>, which works with
adolescent girls throughout East Africa.
We are excited to see you there.
Please spread the message!
Best wishes,
Abdallah
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Sseruwagi Abdallah
Program Assistant | Education Team
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Friends,
Today is our end-of-year party! I hope we are all set up for celebrations.
Please find the details of the event below:
Date:13 December 2022
Time: from 14:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/zqc-wmyc-puu
We shall share our celebrations and learnings for the year.
We will also discuss our plans and programs for the coming year.
We will share a toast as we celebrate our successes, so remember to prepare
a cup of tea, coffee, or drink.
The party theme will be blue, so remember to wear your favorite blue
attire, a hat of your choice!
We will have the following activities for the party:
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Celebrating our success,
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Sharing our learnings,
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Sharing our plans
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Virtual rainbow scavenger hunt.
What you will need for preparation:
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Your favorite blue attire
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A hat
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Items in your house that makeup rainbow colors
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Any drink.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Best regards!
Abdallah
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Sseruwagi Abdallah
Program Assistant | Education Team
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear friends,
Make plans to attend the EduWiki live event month. Listen in as Veronica
Thamaini, and May Hashem discuss gender inclusion in education and the
Wikimedia space.
The event will be live-streamed on our social media platforms, and the
details are as follows:
Topic: Gender Inclusiveness in Education and Wikimedia space
Date: 15 December 2022
Time: 14:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC
YouTube live Link: https://youtu.be/sujAOOIclO8
Could you inform a friend to notify a friend?
Best wishes!
Abdallah.
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Sseruwagi Abdallah
Program Assistant | Education Team
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Friends,
Please be sure to attend the forthcoming EduWiki Live event. The event's
focus will be gender inclusiveness in the Education and Wikimedia space.
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube live. Please take a look below
for more information.
Topic: Gender Inclusiveness in Education and Wikimedia space
Date: 15 December 2022
Time: 14:00 UTC
YouTube live Link: https://youtu.be/sujAOOIclO8
The Wikimedia Foundation's education team hosts EduWiki Live events
quarterly to connect the education community with stakeholders from the
education sector. To help them understand best practices from a global
education perspective. These spaces allow the international community of
Wikimedians who care about education to connect with academic experts,
policymakers, and educational researchers.
In the previous edition of EduWiki live
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJlzFNwNYo&t=745s>, we were joined by
librarians Alice Kibombo and Laurie Bridges, who have led different
Wikimedia Education initiatives in their communities. They l shared
perspectives on how academia and libraries work together using Wikipedia
and its sister projects in educational institutions.
In this event, we will be joined by Veronica Thamanini and May Hashem to
share their perspectives on Gender inclusion in Education and Wikimedia
space. We will share more details about the speakers as we approach the
event.
Your participation will add a building block to this conversation, so take
advantage of it!
Yours sincerely,
Sseruwagi Abdallah
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Sseruwagi Abdallah
Program Assistant | Education Team
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>