[Wikimedia Education] Re: Academic studies of Wikipedia in education

Il 19/12/23 16:34, adamhrn...@gmail.com ha scritto: I created a new page listing the academic studies available about the use of Wikipedia in education Thanks for sharing. Referata is currently down but more references are available from AcaWiki and WikiPapers: https://acawiki.org/?search=ed

[Wikimedia Education] Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices for Education Research

Seems relevant: The 2022 Unconference will feature participant-led sessions analyzing the current state of open scholarship practice and interactive hackathons seeking solutions to identified problems. Participants will assess barriers to adoption of open scholarship practices unique to

Re: [Wikimedia Education] How to use PetScan & P&E Dashboard for Education Programs

Elly Koepf, 30/06/20 11:34: > I find it very interesting to think about an intro in PetScan. > Would be great to be able to check it afterwards. Speaking of which, I see there are some videos by Magnus Sälgö on Petscan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRFpFbbqJUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt

Re: [Wikimedia Education] [libraries] COVID-19 & EduWiki response: Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting

LiAnna Davis, 26/03/20 19:45: The board of the Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our user group's next Open Meeting, one week from today, on Thursday, April 2, at 15:00 UTC, as always via Zoom Thank you. What are you doing to mitigate the privacy risks of such proprietary

Re: [Wikimedia Education] [libraries] [Wikidata] Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library

Pine W, 24/03/20 21:41: Forwarding. Thanks. On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Mark Graham wrote: On top of our efforts to add links to citations, in Wikipedia articles, to digital versions of referenced book available from archive.org (150K books from 10 Wikipedia language editions and coun

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Responding to school closures related to Covid-19

Nichole Saad, 17/03/20 16:52: -*Providing your ideas of how our community can be helpful in this time* The Italian language's community's response is being summarised at this page for now: https://it.wikibooks.org/wiki/Software_libero_a_scuola/Solidariet%C3%A0_digitale Federico

[Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia and historians on CSPAN

Not sure if it already passed here, but I just noticed this recording of a CSPAN segment on Wikipedia: «Ryan McGrady, from Wiki Education, talked about how Wikipedia has changed since it was founded in 2001. As the Scholars and Scientists Program Manager, he works with academics to improve site

[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Survey Request: Open Education Resource (OER) Initiatives at U.S. Post-Secondary Institutions

Seems worth forwarding to any contact you may have in USA schools, especially if they've worked on freely licensed OER. Federico Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Survey Request: Open Education Resource (OER) Initiatives at U.S. Post-Secondary Institutions Data: Tue,

[Wikimedia Education] Open Education Southern Symposium - July 16-17, 2020

Looks like Creative Commons and freely licensed content are frequent topics here! Federico Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Save The Date: Open Education Southern Symposium - July 16 - 17, 2020 Data: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 16:25:18 + M

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Mirroring this mailing list in Wikimedia Space

Nichole Saad, 01/11/19 11:23: It would function like a web archive: users are able to read but no reply or start new topics. Extra archives are always useful, but would there be a link back to pipermail or other clickable link to reply? Federico _

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Multimedia projects & Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard at upcoming Wikipedia & Education Open Meeting September 30!

LiAnna Davis, 14/09/19 20:31: Goran S. Milovanović, PhD, Data Scientist, Software Department, Wikimedia Deutschland, will speak about the Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard [1], and how it can be used for identifying places for improvement on your language Wiktionary. This is super relevant for anyone

Re: [Wikimedia Education] We have an "Education" category on Wikimedia Space, Let's explore more!

Sailesh Patnaik, 26/07/19 12:56: It seems this email by Nichole didn't reach the list. As Nichole said, we are not removing information from anywhere. Thank you, good to know. Federico ___ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https:/

Re: [Wikimedia Education] We have an "Education" category on Wikimedia Space, Let's explore more!

Sailesh Patnaik, 25/07/19 17:38: You’ll still be able to find static information and resources on Outreach Wiki, with more dynamic information living on Wikimedia Space. Can you clarify what kind of information or updates are being removed from other venues? Federico ___

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Moodle at Wikimedia

s your question. Are you looking for a Moodle instance to use for a teaching project of yours? Federico Cheers, Peter (Pbsouthwood) -Original Message- From: Federico Leva (Nemo) [mailto:nemow...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 July 2019 12:10 To: Wikimedia Education; Peter Southwood Subject: Re:

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Important updates from the Education Team!

Nichole Saad, 03/12/18 22:06: The Wikimedia Education team wants to introduce a new Wikimedia and Education Slack This is very sad. It's countereducational and self-defeating to use proprietary software for a program which is supposed to teach free knowledge. Federico _

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia & Education User Group: First meeting!

Daniel Mietchen, 09/08/2018 08:46: I'm very interested in matters at the interface between Wikimedia and education but don't understand whether this user group - as the name and existing documentation would suggest - is limited specifically to Wikipedia(s) or what the role would be for other Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Updates about the Education team at WMF

Ben Vershbow, 16/07/2018 15:12: At this time, we will not be revising country pages, brochures, or the newsletter. [...] will be undertaking an exercise to comprehensively map programs, projects, and activities involving Wikimedia & Education globally. I have trouble reconciling these two stat

Re: [Wikimedia Education] IJERE Open Access Journal is Calling for articles

Septian Dwi Cahyo, 11/07/2018 05:45: International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Educatio Is it the same as https://doaj.org/toc/2458-9322 , which has a different name? I see the latest issue uses an unfree license (CC BY-NC). I've not checked relevant policies. Federico

[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Communia education newsletter June

Relevant for some recent discussions here (UNESCO OER) but also EU and USA copyright, events in Canada, WIPO. Federico Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:Newsletter JUNE Data: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:09:50 + Mittente: Communia Newsletter JUNE Copyright for Educa

[Wikimedia Education] WMF grant request by Wiki Education Foundation

Probably of interest for people around here: Federico ___ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikim

Re: [Wikimedia Education] IP block for edit-a-thons?

Juliana Bastos Marques, 18/10/2017 22:41: While I was already expecting something of that sort, I was also curious to know if there's any systematic survey/comparison chart of variations like these in different languages. I'd consider the article creation restrictions just a bug, but there's

Re: [Wikimedia Education] IP block for edit-a-thons?

Juliana Bastos Marques, 18/10/2017 18:14: Thank you, Federico. And how do I ask for the noratelimit right? I'm not sure exactly what the "relevant user group" means. "You only need to login on each machine with an account with noratelimit right;[3] if you don't have one, ask yours to be added

Re: [Wikimedia Education] IP block for edit-a-thons?

Juliana Bastos Marques, 18/10/2017 18:07: Hi all! I'd like to know if there is any IP block for many registrations at a time in English Wikipedia. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation Nemo ___ Education mailing list Education@li

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Help the Education Team translate a survey about the Wikipedia Education Program

Nichole Saad, 24/08/2017 01:11: We will be using a Google spreadsheet to perform the translations. Cf. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145069#3527334 Nemo ___ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailma

[Wikimedia Education] OER Morocco Declaration

https://www.change.org/p/universit%C3%A9s-d%C3%A9claration-du-maroc-sur-les-ressources-educatives-libres-oer-morocco-declaration Building on UNESCO’s 2012 Paris OER Declaration and on the European Commissions Opening Up Education Initiative, the present Declaration calls on the Moroccan Governm

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Education Program Finland & Programs & Events Dashboard

Vira Motorko, 22/09/2016 12:45: Btw, please remind me, how much time it takes for translations made on translatewiki.net to appear on Dashboard As mentioned in https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Localisation_for_developers#Export , translations are exported

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia participation from middle schoolers and boy scouts

Pine W, 08/02/2016 08:19: I am wondering if anyone has had experience with introducing Wikimedia in the middle school age group https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/school_prefix:Education/Countries Nemo ___ Education mailing list Educ

[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today

FYI (sorry for crossposting) Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today Data: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:55:30 -0600 Mittente: Ellie Young Reminder: Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esin

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Senior citizens write Wikipedia in Czech Republic

Vojtěch Dostál, 23/05/2015 11:43: there are several keys to the success that my colleague Vojtech Vesely is having with senior citizens. First, he carefully looks for motivated and talented senior citizens - we only accept those who have good knowledge of PC and Internet. How do you ensure this

Re: [Wikimedia Education] denied access to course extension

Leigh Thelmadatter, 13/12/2014 03:34: Basically the answer is no. They have to have editing experience and show that they at least have the ability to speak Spanish and show they can be good course coordinators. Did you try asking some more admins (on their talk page) to chime in? Often such

Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment

John Andersson, 10/11/2014 20:48: we have recently started providing them with research assignment for students' thesis work (to work on for either during 10 weeks (Bachelor) or 20 weeks (Master)). As a small pilot I gave a presentation about this a couple of weeks ago and we have seen a great in

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wiki projects in Czech Republic education strategy

Juan de Vojníkov, 14/07/2014 19:42: Unfortunately for Wikipedia, this strategy and the previous ones are based on decentralization of digital education resources. Doesn't sound such a horrible thing. :-) So WMF projects, could not be the only one digital resources for Czech students. This pus

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Education Program update: Rod Dunican is leaving the Foundation

LiAnna Davis, 28/06/2014 00:09: As someone who worked with Rod for the last four years on the Wikipedia Education Program, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank him for all the strategic work, problem solving, training development, and budget wrangling he’s done behind the scenes that have m

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools in Serbia

Gabriel Thullen, 19/06/2014 14:05: I wonder what WMF has to say about that kind of filtering. When foreign governments try to do it, there is a large outcry. But when it supposedly is done for "our children's good", nobody protests... Considering that the WMF board for years pushed for such kin

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools in Serbia

This sounds even more concrete than the WMIL/Israel initiative! Mile Kiš, 10/06/2014 23:30: cooperation with schools from September 2006. So far there was about 2500 students in all lever of education (elementary schools, high school and college ..) And how many students are affected, in theor

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Teaching Critical Reading through Wikipedia

Asaf Bartov, 31/05/2014 20:16: Does anyone know of specific materials developed for teaching critical reading skills (either in K-12 or higher education) *through* reading Wikipedia? I vaguely remember coming across some, but don't remember the details. I'm thinking about things like "how to id

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Student software dev projects for Wikimedia

Robert Schnautz, 21/05/2014 01:12: I am sure there are many areas of Wikipedia where people say, “It sure would be nice if this template did that for us, but none of us has time or know-how to make it happen.” There is a page section awaiting new subsections with such ideas. https://www.mediawi

Re: [Wikimedia Education] MediaWiki projects in Schools

Toni Sant, 01/04/2014 08:58: The Education Co-op (in formation) may be an appropriate catalyst for this, but there may be scope beyond this grouping. I say this mainly because the co-op is still in the process of seeking clarity in terms of its goals and scope. At present, the co-op seems to be f

Re: [Wikimedia Education] An idea

Jeff Levy, 05/04/2014 00:36: our Online Collaboration Platform You mentioned this thing several times but you never said what it *is*. Please save us some time next time and be clear from the beginning. http://www.officehours.co/faq.html says "OfficeHours is only available as a Chrome Extens

Re: [Wikimedia Education] 15 ECTS course at the University of Copenhagen

Ole Palnatoke Andersen, 10/03/2014 08:58: I was wrong about the students - too few signed up, so it wasn't started. :-( Ah, that's a pity. Did anyone say why? Maybe you needed more advertisiing among the students (can students of other universities attend too?), are you going to try again? As

Re: [Wikimedia Education] 15 ECTS course at the University of Copenhagen

Ole Palnatoke Andersen, 18/05/2013 08:10: This autumn we hope to see this course: http://kurser.ku.dk/course/hmea03174u/2013-2014 It requires ten students, which shouldn't be a problem :-) If you don't read Scandinavian: Workshops will be held and the students will have to pitch article proposal

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Google Trends for existing Wikikids

Mathias Damour, 21/09/2013 09:37: these /Google Trends/ that compare their popularity trends in their main language area to 4 Wikimedia projects (excluding Wikipedia): What makes you think that the count of people not knowing the address of your website (i.e. looking its name up in Google) is

[Wikimedia Education] Central technical wishlist for education matters

Hello everyone, do we have a bugzilla tracking bug, wiki page or other central technical wishlist for things which would help education partnerships/activities? For instance, I have no idea how to tag this bug for future discoverability by someone interested in the topic. https://bugzilla.wikim

Re: [Wikimedia Education] A suggestion

Vojtěch Dostál, 27/04/2013 11:44: As far as I know, the MediaWiki Extension is still under construction (although it is possible to use it); someone (probably LiAnna) said in Milano that the final version should be available in August 2013. It's currently not internationalisable but they're wor

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia Adventure - an alternative to online "Wikipedia Training"?

Vojtěch Dostál, 26/04/2013 13:09: Hello, I would like all of you to try an interactive online Wikipedia course which was developed by user:Dcoetzee (I think he is not in this maillist, and if he is, I hope he does not mind). It is called Wikipedia Adventure and it could (and IMHO should) be an a

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Proposal to close Wikinews

Laura Hale, 29/03/2013 14:55: Comment would be appreciated. Why? It's not even an official proposal, just a passing thought on a talk page. IMHO it's better to broaden discussion only if/when it becomes an official proposal. Nemo ___ Education ma

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Welcoming Rod Dunican as education program director

LiAnna Davis, 05/02/2013 21:44: It occurred to me that this announcement never made its way to the education list -- so better late than never! Rod Dunican is back with the Wikimedia Foundation as the global education program director, and he will be working with Annie and me, taking over the str

Re: [Wikimedia Education] On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license

This is why some are suggesting this: http://freeculture.org/blog/2012/08/27/stop-the-inclusion-of-proprietary-licenses-in-creative-commons-4-0/ (already passed on our lists). Nemo ___ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://list

Re: [Wikimedia Education] PeerWise integration with WikiVersity?

James Salsman, 23/06/2012 05:19: Someone has created Meadowlark Bradsher's would-be Google Summer of Code project from a few years ago: http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tN006KEWo They claim it is free, so is there anyone from the Foundation willing to reach o

[Wikimedia Education] UNESCO and COL release open education policy document for higher education

https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30073 It would be interesting to see whether there's something we can learn about Wikiversity and Wikibooks functioning and promotion, and about OER promotion by Wikimedia chapters in general. Nemo ___ Educatio

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Problem with registration on workshops

Because this is a recurring question, I've created a help page about it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation I hope it helps. It's already quite verbose, so I've kept it generic enough and avoided all edge cases and solutions. This is really not a problem, you just have to k

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Problem with registration on workshops

Alhen, 29/10/2011 00:52: > I'm an admin on the wiki, so I usually ask people who don't have an > account to provide an email address or to come early to the classroom > to get a username easily. > > You just have to go to [[Special:Login]] while logged in. Then, you go > to register a new account a

education@lists.wikimedia.org

Chris Keating, 27/10/2011 19:51: > 3) It's also relatively unusual for a Wikimedia organisation to provide > support to someone else to apply for third-party funding in a > competitive tendering process, but in this case the Wikimedia UK board > thought it was quite justified in pursuit of our obje