To confirm: I do not need real names, university names, course names, or any other piece of information that might tie a username to a real-world identity. I'm just looking for usernames of anyone who an education program leader says started editing a Wikimedia project thanks to their education program.
If you are uncomfortable sharing usernames for any reason, obviously please feel free to disregard. On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:19 PM James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > For Priyanka Mandikal's 2016 Accuracy Review project, I looked at the > documented policies governing this question and determined that (1) the > English Wikipedia admins and arbcom have asked that institutionally > organized student editing should but is not required to be disclosed. As > you might expect, there are a wide variety of individual reasons. One of > the reasons is that student projects have gone bad, causing disruption, > extra work, accuracy failures, style flaws, and other problems. While that > happens relatively less often after years of experience with education > programs, there are more of them now so the problem is still worthy of > consideration. My opinion is that students should be able to opt in and out > of that status publically, and if they start in a student program then they > should start editing with student status, which should not be visible > except in the user logs. The flaw with that approach is that a lot of > students who go on to edit long term might never opt out of student status, > but it might be fun to go through and thank them and highlight the best of > their stories for fundraising and such. > > Our privacy efforts might be better placed working to protect the HTTPS > system of end-to-end encryption, because the legislation outlawing that > sort of thing would make everyone's complete internet activity including > browsing history available in full to state, federal, and local officials. > > Best regards, > Jim > > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:18 AM Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > There might be some legal issues with this. Has anyone looked into > > whether GDPR permits this information to be shared if a user's > > information is protected by GDPR? > > > > More generally, I'm not comfortable with this idea for privacy > > reasons. Unless a user has consented to this type of information being > > shared with an external entity, I think that it shouldn't be shared. > > However, education entities can go to their participants and request > > consent for this type of information sharing. > > > > Pine > > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:33 PM LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > (Apologies if you already received this; I tried to send it earlier > this > > > week but I think it didn't go through.) > > > > > > Fellow education program leaders, > > > > > > The Wikipedia & Education User Group has a request for you: Please > share > > > the usernames of your participants with us! > > > > > > Here’s why: We would like to quantify the impact the global education > > > program is having on the Wikimedia projects’ new active editor numbers. > > We > > > think the percentage of new active editors to all language Wikimedia > > > projects coming from all the educational efforts happening around the > > world > > > is likely impressive, but we have no way of knowing without having > access > > > to usernames! > > > > > > That’s where you come in. Whether your program is new with only a > handful > > > of editors or a long-established program with hundreds of participants, > > we > > > want you to be counted. We are measuring our collective program’s > impact, > > > and getting data from as many programs as possible, no matter their > size, > > > is important! > > > > > > Here’s what we need: > > > * You are best positioned to determine your own definition of which > > editors > > > come through your education program. Education programs look different > > > around the world; we trust if you say this person started editing > through > > > your education program that they are part of our global education > > community. > > > * The timeframe we are looking for is January 1, 2019, through June 30, > > > 2020 (or today, if you’re sending us names before then). Please share > all > > > usernames of new editors who joined through your education program > > between > > > the start of 2019 through the first half of 2020. > > > * We only need usernames; we do not need the leading User: or which > > > Wikimedia project(s) they edited. > > > * Please send these by June 30, 2020. > > > > > > To share your usernames: > > > * If you are using the Program & Events Dashboard ( > > > https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/), simply send an email to > > > [email protected] (offlist) with a link to your campaign. If not > every > > > program within that campaign is an education program, include in the > body > > > of the email which program(s) should be considered part of your > education > > > program. > > > * If you do not use the Program & Events Dashboard, please collect > > > usernames into a spreadsheet and upload that spreadsheet here: > > > https://www.dropbox.com/request/PMJHRjgXuxJsM7yEmdGf (note: you do not > > need > > > to have a Dropbox account to submit a file here) > > > > > > If you have any questions, please email LiAnna ([email protected]). > > > > > > On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group, > > > LiAnna > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Education mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Education mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > -- LiAnna Davis Chief Programs Officer; Deputy Director Wiki Education www.wikiedu.org _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
