[Wikimedia-l] This Month in Education: June 2015
Hello everyone, Sorry for cross-posting. Many excited updates are waiting for you in the new issue of This Month in Education. A teaching award goes to our great educators in Uruguay, Wikipedia Education Program kicks off in Hong Kong, the Swedish education program makes great contributions last term and many other updates! Enjoy reading! This Month in Education: June 2015 *Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.* - Uruguay: A Wikipedia project in foreign languages receives a teaching award https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/A_Wikipedia_project_in_foreign_languages_receives_a_teaching_award_in_Uruguay - Hong Kong: The First Wikipedia Education Program in Hong Kong https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/The_First_Wikipedia_Education_Program_in_Hong_Kong - Greece: Adult school graduates learn to edit Wikipedia and inspire their peers https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/Greek_adult_school_graduates_learn_to_edit_Wikipedia_and_inspire_their_peers - Sweden: Mid-year Summary from the Wikipedia Education Program https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/Mid-year_Summary_from_the_Wikipedia_Education_Program_in_Sweden - Mexico: New video tutorial for Commons created by students https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/New_video_tutorial_for_Commons_created_by_students - Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia New Office, Annual Conference, and WikiCamp 2015 https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/Wikimedia_Armenia_New_Office,_Annual_Conference,_and_WikiCamp_2015 - Argentina: Argentina contributes to a massive cross-border course of free knowledge in Spanish-speaking countries https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/Argentina_contributes_to_a_massive_cross-border_course_of_free_knowledge_in_Spanish-speaking_countries - Israel: Education Program Extension enabled on Hebrew Wiktionary https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/Education_Program_Extension_enabled_on_Hebrew_Wiktionary - Global: New recognition certificates for program students, teachers and leaders https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/New_recognition_certificates_for_program_students,_teachers_and_leaders - Media Articles of interest in other publications: Uk, India, Palestine and more https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/Articles_of_interest_in_other_publications *Headlines https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Education/Newsletter/June_2015 · Highlights https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/Highlights · Single page https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2015/Single · Newsroom https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom · Archives https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Archives · Unsubscribe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_in_Education* *--* *Samir Elsharbaty,Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education ProgramWIkimedia Foundation* *The This Month In Education Team* https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012
The same way you do File - Save As in your web browser. There are web services devoted to public web archival like those mentioned by Yongmin Hong. Adding links to archives in references is a very good advice; Wikipedia already supports appending links to archives in the ref template parameters. It would be nice to see this happening automatically and makes me wonder whether the community has discussed it before. Le mar. 30 juin 2015 à 11:32, Peter Southwood peter.southw...@telkomsa.net a écrit : How do you archive a website? I didn’t even know it was possible. Peter -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Hong, Yongmin Sent: 30 June 2015 05:01 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012 Try to find links from https://archive.org/web/ , http://webcitation.org , or https://archive.is (note: this last one is blacklisted on enwp, iirc). I revived few deadlinks (not this host though) from these archives. And try to make habit of archiving websites when you cite something. I think I once saw a project to automatically archive citation source links but not sure about current status. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Annual Plan FY15-16
All, I want to provide an update on the Annual Plan. I’m happy to let you know that the Board of Trustees has approved the proposed 2015-16 Wikimedia Foundation annual plan. Thank you for your patience as we have worked to incorporate your feedback and review with the Board. The approved plan includes $68.2 million in revenue, with $65 million of spending and $3.2 million for the reserve. In addition, we will raise $5 million for our endowment, which will help secure long-term support for our mission. In total, this accounts for a 17% growth in total budget. The plan also includes a stretch goal of exceeding the fundraising target by 20% to contribute additional funds to the reserve. The approved and updated plan is now available here https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Annual_Plan. In our last Metrics Meeting, I presented an emerging strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation that focused on building a strong core in the near-term, allowing for innovation in the long-term toward our mission of ubiquitous shared knowledge. Strengthening our core has been our focus over this past year. We published the Call to Action https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation#2015_Call_to_Action, which refocused us on community and technology, introducing new thinking and skills to the WMF, and improved products for the world. We have made significant changes this past year that are showing early results. But this is just a start. The world is changing rapidly in areas like mobile, user behavior, media formats, and access to knowledge. In order to make free knowledge available for generations to come, we need to continually improve our work and challenge our thinking. The Annual Plan for this year is focused on building our capabilities as a springboard for future innovation. In this year’s plan, budget adjustments are designed to fill in the gaps in current user needs, in particular in the areas of community (including affiliates and partners), technology, and communication. The plan builds on the foundational work from this past year, when we set up team structures and introduced new focus to align our organization with communities and demands for knowledge. For the first time, this year’s plan also introduces a Quarterly Metrics Scorecard to track our progress on delivering on our commitments. We will use both top-level and departmental metrics to measure our progress and report back. I also want to acknowledge some of the issues with this year’s Annual Plan process. We shared the first draft with you late, giving you limited time to provide feedback. We introduced a new, lighter weight format in the first iteration that left some of you with questions about proposed changes. This final, approved version has been updated to clarify our rationale, incorporate the feedback we did receive, link our plans to success metrics, and orient the next year within a broader strategy. As always, we continue to iterate toward a better process. Going forward we plan to have an extended window for your review and comments so we can refine our plan with your valuable feedback in mind. Thank you. I look forward to working together as we continue to strengthen our core capabilities to support our mission and prepare for our emerging strategy. ~~~Lila ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
