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,
You may remember that the Wikipedia & Education User Group had been
planning an in-person EduWiki Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, in late
2020. The event was obviously postponed due to the pandemic. We're
pleased to say that we're re-starting our planning, with a target date
for the conference of sometime around March/April 2023.
As we undertake our planning, we'd like to get input from the EduWiki
community on whether you'd like to attend such a conference, what
topics you'd like to discuss, and what your priorities would be at a
conference. We'll use these survey results to gauge interest in the
conference, budget for scholarships, and design the program.
Please fill out the survey by Wednesday, August 10:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2MYKti1HPP9hWw_e0JUkMtq99k4Y2dTg…
We look forward to your responses!
--The Wikipedia & Education User Group Board
Subject: Can I have a Wikipedia article written about me?
Good day from Singapore,
Can I have a Wikipedia article written about me?
I am looking forward to your reply.
Thank you.
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
27 July 2022 Wed
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Hi everyone,
Have you submitted your article(s) for the July 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 *26th of July*. 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.
[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
Best regards,
Ankan and the Newsletter team
--
Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him)
Newsletter Editor, Education Newsletter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
Dear EduWiki Community,
I'm excited to invite you to the next EduWiki live event on* June 30th from
14:00-15:00 UTC*. Add it to your calendar!
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M3Q2cTh2Z2FqM3Y2Nm9…>Join
the Education Team and EWOC volunteers, Sandeep and Brahim, as we have a
conversation with Dr. Javiera Atenas about open pedagogies and open data in
Higher Education.
*YouTube and Facebook Live links will follow soon! *
Javiera Atenas is an Information Scientist with a PhD in Education and
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in UK (Advance HE). She is a
senior lecturer in learning and teaching enhancement at the University of
Suffolk, and education lead of the Latin American initiative for open data.
Her research is focused in two main areas: the development of critical data
literacy in HE grounded on the concept of ethics as a method and also, in
promoting the adoption of elements of data agency, ethics and privacy in
open education and digital education policies for the HE sector.
She is a co-founder of the Open Education Policy Lab, a member of the
UNESCO OER dynamic coalition and of the implementation working group at
Open Data Charter, a member of the European Open Education Policy Forum and
board of the Open Education Working Group, Open Knowledge International.
Also, she is a member of the committee for recognition and enhancement of
teaching skills for the Italian National Evaluation Agency for Universities
(ANVUR).
We look forward to seeing you there!
--
*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager for Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Dear Wikimedians,
Greetings from the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators - Newsletter team. We are
excited to share our featured community stories in the “This Month in
Education <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>” newsletter. We
received 12 amazing articles from Lviv, Istanbul, Albania, Aotearoa New
Zealand, Bolivia, and Nigeria, among other places, for June 2022. Know more
about the WikiforHumanRights campaign in New Mexico, the establishment of
new Wikiclubs in Albania, and an inspiring story of a young Wikimedian in
Tarnów. You can also help by translating these articles into your language
and making them available to more members of your community.
Share your stories for the month of July here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
Happy Reading! Please feel free to contact me or any of my team members if
you require assistance in publishing your stories.
Best!
Anthony <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kunokuno> and the Newsletter
team