Re: [Wikimedia Education] Help quantify the education program’s impact on new active editor numbers!

[Pine W]

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
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On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:33 PM LiAnna Davis  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
> lia...@wikiedu.org (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 (lia...@wikiedu.org).
>
> On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group,
> LiAnna
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, May 2020

[Pine W]

This might be of interest to some Research and Education folks too.

Pine
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From: Amir E. Aharoni 
Date: Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:22 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, May 2020
To: wikimedia-l 


Hello,

This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a
series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its
connection to Wikimedia Projects.

This new installment will deal with the latest design research about the
upcoming section translation feature for Content Translation.

This session is going to be broadcast over Zoom, and a recording will be
published for later viewing. You can also participate in the conversation
on IRC or with us on the Zoom meeting.

Please read below for the event details, including local time, joining
links and do let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you!

Amir

== Details ==

# Event: Language Showcase #5

# When: May 27, 2020 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200527T1300 )

# Where:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/9708103

Meeting ID: 970 8103 

IRC - #wikimedia-office (on Freenode)

# Agenda:

The latest design research about the upcoming section translation feature
for Content Translation.

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [libraries] CFP. Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

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From: Bridges, Laurie 
Date: Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM
Subject: [libraries] CFP. Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project
To: librar...@lists.wikimedia.org 




Call for Chapter Proposals – Due date June 1.



Project title: Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project

Editors: Laurie M. Bridges, Raymond Pun, Roberto Arteaga

OA Publisher: Maize Books, an imprint of Michigan Publishing

License: CC BY 4.0

Email: wikiglobalproj...@gmail.com

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/globalwikipedia/



Proposals due: June 1, 2020
Notifications sent by: June 30, 2020
Send proposals as MS Word Document to: wikiglobalproj...@gmail.com
Questions: wikiglobalproj...@gmail.com





Project Information

This open access edited volume will be a collection of approximately
20 chapters authored by academic library workers and faculty, Library
and Information Science (LIS) faculty, and disciplinary faculty from
around the globe that highlights engagement with Wikimedia-related
projects and activities. This volume will be divided into two
sections, and possibly a third: The first section will include
real-world examples of activities and approaches to working with
Wikipedia. The second section will focus on the theories and
underlying concepts required for the development of pedagogical
approaches to teaching with and within Wikipedia. A third thematic
section may be added, depending on the breadth and number of
submissions, for example, a section related specifically to Wikidata.



Possible Topics

We are seeking chapters that include both practical and theoretical
work. Possible topics for chapters include (but are not limited to)
the following list:
Case studies of Wikipedia in information literacy instruction
Student researchers in Wikipedia
Collaboration between Wikimedia user groups and academic library staff
Wikipedia student clubs and their connection to libraries
Benefits of academic libraries partnering with Wikimedia projects
The role of Wikimedians/Wikipedians in Residence
Collaborating with university faculty in the classroom
Edit-a-thon pedagogy and practice
Critical Librarianship and Wikipedia
Wikipedia's fight against misinformation and "fake news"
Medical students and training
Use of Wikibooks in classes
Wikidata visualizations for education
Increasing and diversifying the audience for archival collections
through Wikipedia
Addressing gaps in Wikipedia, such as gender, LGBTQ+, racial,
linguistic, regional, etc.



Submission Information

Please send the following information to the editors by June 1, 2020:

A tentative title and abstract proposal: Up to 500 words in MS Word
describing what you would intend to submit for this book. In your
abstract, indicate which section of the book your proposal is aligned
to.

Please include links to any other publications you may have (i.e. an
article, a blog post, or anything else that best reflects your writing
style)

Author CVs or resumes (no more than 2 pages)





Information for Accepted Proposals

Final chapters will be approximately 3,000 words in length. All
citations must be APA 7th edition. This OA publication will be
licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license. After final chapters have been
edited and approved in English, authors will have the option of
providing a second-language translation of their chapter. (example:
English and Basque or English and Yoruba).This will be determined on a
case by case basis.



April 1 – June 1, 2020: Call for chapter proposals is distributed

June 30, 2020: Chapter proposals selected and authors notified

October 1, 2020: First draft of chapters due to editors

December 1, 2020: Second draft of chapters due to editors

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

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

Pine
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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 counting…)
>
> The Internet Archive just launched a National Emergency Library.
>
> We would like to collaborate with, and otherwise support, every related 
> WikiCite project.
>
> The team at the Internet Archive that is now working on this project include:
>
> Maximilian Doerr (cyberpower678)
> Stephen Balbach (GreenC)
> James Hare (harej)
> Jake Orlowitz (ocaasi)
>
> Please reach out to me directly if you would like to explore what we can do 
> together!
>
> - Mark Graham
> Director, the Wayback Machine @ the Internet Archive
> (917) 697-0110
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Responding to school closures related to Covid-19

[Pine W]

Anna, it's great to see you.

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On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:29 PM Anna Koval  wrote:
>
> Thanks, Nichole, for reaching out about how Wikimedia might engage our
> community and support learners, educators, and movement volunteers impacted
> by school closures because of COVID19.
>
> Replying on-list with my responses to your questions, so that there's an
> on-wiki record at Wikimedia Space. I also submitted my answers via the
> Google Form.
>
> Where are you located?
> Sonoma, California, USA
>
> Are you a member of a Wikimedia affiliate? Please list them below.
> Former Staff, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia Education Program Manager
>
> How are your community's education activities impacted by the Covid-19
> pandemic?
> Schools are closed county-wide from preschool through university.
>
> What ideas do you have for how our Wikimedia community can support those
> impacted by school closures?
> Sharing best practices and how-to tutorials for hosting web-based video
> instruction, live streaming like Google Hangouts, chat platforms like IRC,
> collaboration platforms like Wikimedia Space, threaded mailing lists,
> newsletters, blogs, and virtual office hours. Providing a repository of and
> links to resources, case studies, and online training. Explaining the data
> dashboard and its value in demonstrating the impact of distance learning.
> Being a welcoming and inclusive and positive source of ideas and
> inspiration during dark and uncertain times. Basically, just continue doing
> what the Wikimedia Education Program has always done. Thanks, Nichole.
>
> Are you already doing something to support those impacted by school
> closures? Tell us about it! Share links if possible!
> I expect to be furloughed because of the recent school closures and the
> likely indefinite suspension of site-based instruction in California. I
> want to be of service and I’m ready to wash my hands and get right to work!
> Please tell me how I may volunteer.
>
> My best to you and your team and to our entire community worldwide.
>
> Take care and be well.
>
> Sincerely,
> Anna Koval
> User:Msannakoval
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:53 AM Nichole Saad  wrote:
>
> > Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
> >
> > First I want to say that I hope you all are doing ok in this time of
> > crisis. We all have been affected in many different ways, and you all are
> > in our thoughts. If you haven't heard, the Wikimedia Foundation is
> > operating at a reduced capacity
> > <
> > https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikimedia-coronavirus-response-people-first-8bd99ea6214b
> > >
> > to allow staff to take care of themselves and their loved ones. In light of
> > this, the Education Team has shifted our focus to supporting those affected
> > by school closures to make use of the Wikimedia projects to continue their
> > learning.  I'm writing to ask if any of you have the time and energy to
> > work alongside us in this effort.
> >
> > According to UNESCO, as of 16 March, 73 countries have announced or
> > implemented school and university closures. 56 countries have shut schools
> > nationwide, impacting almost 516.6 million children and youth. A further 17
> > countries have implemented localized school closures to prevent or contain
> > the spread of COVID-19. The Education Team is working to produce messaging
> > and resources that can help people make use of the Wikimedia projects to
> > supplement learning for out of school children.
> >
> > *You can help by *
> >
> >
> >- *Telling us how the pandemic has impacted your Wikimedia & Education
> >activities*
> >- *Providing your ideas of how our community can be helpful in this
> > time*
> >- *Letting us know anything you are already doing. *
> >
> > *I've created a google form where you can share this information.
> > *
> >
> >
> > In the following day or two, we'll synthesize the ideas and share them with
> > all of you. We'll also provide a few concrete ways you can support the
> > effort.
> >
> > Thank you for all that you do,
> >
> > Nichole
> >
> > --
> > *Nichole Saad*
> > Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
> > ns...@wikimedia.org
> > user: NSaad (WMF)
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[Wikimedia Education] Catalog of Wikimedia video or interactive tutorials

[Pine W]

Hello,

Some time ago, I started to gather information regarding existing and
planned tutorials for Wikimedia which are in a video or interactive format.
Initially this information was on Meta in a place which was difficult to
find. I moved the content to
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NavWiki/External_Resources. I hope that
this will be a helpful starting place for anyone who is looking for
existing or planned tutorial resources. Also, if someone creates or updates
a tutorial, I hope that they will update the information on that page.

The tutorials may cover topics for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia
projects.

Currently, resources are listed which are in German, Spanish, Serbian,
Hebrew, and English. Also, I believe that the Arabic language tutorials
which are currently listed in the section for unfinished resources have
been completed, and I am planning to reach out to request an update
regarding the status of those resources.

Ever onward,

Pine
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[Wikimedia Education] Update regarding Wikipedia video tutorial project ("NavWiki")

[Pine W]

Hello colleagues,

I have resumed work on my video tutorial project for Wikipedia and the
sister sites. I am hoping that eventually there will be video tutorials
and/or interactive tutorials in multiple languages, but for now I am
focusing on producing a small number of videos for English Wikipedia to
test the process and to get feedback from the community. These videos will
be designed for "organic" new users who become active on Wikipedia without
first being involved in a formal program that provides guidance for new
contributors, but I think that the videos may also be useful for formal
Wikimedia program organizers to share with their participants.

A project space is live on Outreach Wiki:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NavWiki. I invite you to look at the
organization of the space and let me know if you have any feedback.
Comments and questions may be left on the project talk page
.

I am hoping to publish two videos for English Wikipedia by the end of 2019,
and to collect feedback on them until at least January 2020 before deciding
on significant next steps. If the feedback is positive then then I hope to
produce more videos in the future and/or to adapt the videos for additional
languages.

If you would like to sign up for the project newsletter, you can do that at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tutorials_Newsletter.


Regards,
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the extension of funding by the Basque Government

[Pine W]

Forwarding to the Education mailing list.

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From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 
Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 07:17
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the extension of funding by the Basque
Government
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Dear wikimedians,
Three years have gone since we started with the Basque Wikimedians User
Group Education Program, funded by the Basque Government. After two years
and a half of great enhancing of Basque Wikipedia (more than 2.500 students
adding more than 1.5 million words on fundamental topics) the Basque
Government has announce us today the extension of the funding for four more
years.

In this four years we will try to strengthen our Educaton Program but also
open to new areas in order to make our knowledge equity vision possible. By
2024 we will have taken sure steps towards creating a free knowledge
ecosystem centered at Wikimedia.

Sincerely,

Galder
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikimedia-l] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

Hi Avery,

You might be interested in my final report from the previous grant, which
is at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia/Final#Learning
.

I was not planning to publish the referencing videos to YouTube, but I
think that's a good idea. Do you have any suggestions about how to make the
videos be easy for people to find if they search for Wikipedia help with
referencing on Youtube? If so, I would be appreciative if you'd add those
comments to the project talk page at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_educational_video_and_website_series
.

Accessibility and translation are very much in my mind as I'm working on
the current script. An issue to keep in mind is that the various language
editions of Wikipedia have variations in policies and workflows, so
translation alone may be insufficient to adapt a video or tutorial from one
language edition of Wikipedia to another language edition of Wikipedia.

I like the interactive nature of the Wiki Ed tutorial. WMF's Growth Team is
developing in-context help, which I think is also a good method for
teaching. My guess is that the optimal ways to teach how to edit Wikipedia
will be a combination of methods including video, interactive tutorials
possibly with quizzes and certifications, in-context help, and
individualized help. As an example of how the methods could be blended, I
think that in-context help could offer video tutorials of varying lengths
to cover certain subjects.

Thanks for the comments.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:24 PM Avery Jensen 
wrote:

> @Bekriah, that is very exciting.  From time to time we have native Arabic
> speakers attend our events and have wondered how we could offer them
> instruction in Arabic. We would appreciate any further information you have
> on pending projects (or by email if it's not public or of general interest
> to this list).
>
> @Pine, it has been suggested to me that your original project might have
> been slowed because of the complexity of not only the instruction itself,
> but also knowledge about how to make an instructional video.  There is
> supposed to be an online course on making instructional videos, but it has
> not been released yet.  In the context of Wikipedia, the process is even
> more of a challenge because the YouTube format cannot be easily imported to
> Commons. It would also be an advantage to have transcripts available for
> those with hearing disabilities or who do not speak the language. There
> have been captioning and translation projects but they depend on
> transcripts.
>
> If anyone has not seen the self paced tutorials in the WikiEd training
> library, here is the first one, a basic overview.
> https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/wikipedia-essentials This
> type of tutorial has the advantage of being self paced and geared to visual
> learners (which is maybe 80% of an average class).  Anyone who doesn't
> speak the language can easily use a translation tool to get a basic idea of
> the content.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikimedia-l] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

Hi Bekriah,

Thanks for sharing the Arabic and Hebrew resources. Would you please add
the those resources to this catalog of tutorials
?
My impression from my brief look is that the Hebrew tutorials use
JavaScript instead of video, but the goal is similar to instructional
videos, so I think that adding those tutorials to the catalog would be
good. There is a section in the catalog for tutorials which are in
development and not finished. I added a column to the tables to indicate
whether a tutorial is a video, interactive, or both.

Below are some additional comments that I have regarding the possibility of
adapting the video that I am producing for diverse language editions of
Wikipedia.

For the video that I am currently developing regarding referencing with
VisualEditor, I am keeping translatability and accessibility in mind. I am
hoping that the subtitles can be translated into non-English languages, or
at least languages which Google Translate understands well, with relative
ease.

The images and animations in each language edition of the video would
ideally be in the same language as the subtitles. Changing images and
animations will likely require more time than translating the subtitles. My
current pilot project in English will almost certainly finish this month.
After the end of this pilot project, I might request funding for a full
adaptation of the video into a non-English language, and if that goes well
then I could request additional funding for additional adaptations.

I know enough Spanish that I could probably adapt English Wikipedia videos
for Spanish Wikipedia with a relatively modest level of help from native
Spanish speakers, but I would need more support for languages which I don't
know well such as Romanian or French, and even more help for languages
which are written in diverse alphabets and which Google Translate
translates poorly or not at all. I would like to help with adaptations for
diverse Wikipedia language communities.

I am mindful that an issue when adapting instructional videos for diverse
Wikipedia language editions is that there may be variations in policies and
workflows. I would want to account for those variations when creating
adaptations of videos.

At this time I can't promise that this English language video will be
adapted for additional language editions of Wikipedia to use, but I think
that there is a good possibility that if the English version of this video
is well accepted and used by the English Wikipedia community, then the
video may be adapted for more language editions of Wikipedia. :)

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikimedia-l] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

Hi Abu,

Yes, there are many opportunities to contribute to video tutorials. How you
can contribute depends on your available time, interests, and abilities. If
you would like to discuss ideas with me, then I request that you write on
the talk page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_educational_video_and_website_series
.

Thanks for your interest!

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:37 AM MD Abu Siyam 
wrote:

> Hello,
> Can I also contribute by creating video tutorials?
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikimedia-l] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

Thanks very much for the information regarding these videos in Swedish,
Basque, and Spanish. I'm impressed by the quality of the recent videos in
Basque and Spanish that I watched, to the extent that I understand them. In
the past two to three years have I also learned about recently produced
instructional videos through publications such as affiliates' reports and *This
Month in Education* .

To the extent that I understand the video in Spanish that Dennis linked
,
I think that it is very good, so I'm now thinking that I will suggest to
WMF that I not create a Spanish version of the video that I am producing,
but in the future if there is interest in having instructional videos in
Spanish regarding different subjects that are not already covered by
existing videos then I may propose creating Spanish versions of videos that
I plan for English Wikipedia, Commons, or other projects.

As far as I know, there is no easily accessible catalog of what Wikimedia
instructional videos exist. Finding some instructional videos is possible
using the Commons category tree and by searching for file names on Commons,
but not all videos are easy to find using those methods, and several
instructional videos that I found on Commons are outdated. I boldly created
a page here

for cataloging Wikimedia instructional videos, and I would like to invite
people to expand that list, especially for videos which contain current
information and have good production quality. Hopefully having a common
catalog will help those of us who produce videos to get ideas from watching
others' videos, and to consider whether to translate or reuse portions of
existing videos. If someone thinks that they have a better idea for
cataloging existing Wikimedia instructional videos, or if there is a
catalog that already exists, please reply to this thread or contact me off
list.

Regarding documenting my process, I am placing notes

on Meta that are in addition to the grant proposal, the talk page for the
grant proposal, and the scripts.

Thanks again for sharing information.

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[Wikimedia Education] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

 Hello colleagues,

*Overview*

A video tutorial for creating references on Wikipedia with VisualEditor is
in development for English Wikipedia and possibly also for Spanish
Wikipedia. Publication is likely to happen in March 2019. If this tutorial
is well received then additional tutorials may follow.

If you would like to receive notifications regarding the availability of
draft or finished tutorial products, or to learn additional information,
then please continue reading below.

*How can I request notifications for when drafts or finished products are
ready for review?*

If you would like to receive a notice when a draft or finished product is
ready for public review then I invite you to go to the the project talk
page and follow the link to the newsletter subscription page [1]. During
the development of this single tutorial the newsletters are likely to be
short. I am likely to send approximately 3 to 6 notifications to
subscribers between now and the end of this mini-project.

(The reason that I am not including a link to the newsletter's subscription
page directly in this email is that I may change the name of the newsletter
in the future, and I prefer to minimize any potential confusion and the
number of redirect pages, so I think that including a link from this email
to the talk page is preferable because the location of the talk page is
likely to remain stable.)

*Background information*

Some of you may remember the project that was originally named LearnWiki
[2]. For various painful reasons that project was not completed within the
original schedule and budget. However, I continue to believe that video
tutorials Wikimedia projects could be very useful for new contributors, and
also for helpers who could use the videos to demonstrate concepts to new
contributors. I think of this project as being a pilot iteration for
"LearnWiki version 2.0", or maybe "LearnWiki 2.0 beta 1",  with a major
change between this effort and the original LearnWiki project being how the
project is executed. The goal for this tutorial remains aligned with the
original vision for LearnWiki. I believe that I know more about project
management than I did when I attempted LearnWiki version 1.0.

WMF approved a rapid grant for me to develop a single tutorial module [3]
regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor. This tutorial is
in development, I and I plan to publish the finalized script and video in
March 2019. Depending on the amount of remaining funds after development of
the English version of this tutorial and on whether WMF agrees, in addition
to an English version of the tutorial I may also produce a Spanish version
within the budget of the current rapid grant. Additional translations or
derivative versions would be welcome from anyone who would like to create
them.

If this first tutorial is well received then I may request funding for
additional tutorials.

Within the next few days I plan to publish the first complete draft of the
script for the referencing tutorial. I will place a link to that draft on
the project talk page [1], and I am likely to create links from the same
talk page to further drafts and additional tutorial products. If you would
like to receive project updates then please watch the talk page and/or
subscribe to the newsletter.

I welcome any comments or questions that you have, either on a mailing list
or on the project talk page [1].

Yours in service,

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[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_educational_video_and_website_series

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_educational_video_and_website_series
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] This Month in Education, February 2019 edition

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Thank you to the people who contribute to the Education Newsletter. I scan
the headlines most months and read a few stories. This month I was
especially interested in the video tutorials for Serbian Wikipedia and the
use of Wikidata in education in Israel. It's nice to read of good
developments in the Wikiverse.

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] No, Wikipedia didn’t get actress Olivia Colman’s birthdate wrong

[Pine W]

Hi Alexandre,

Thanks for sharing your op-ed and for requesting comments.

When I read your article I am concerned about this statement: "Some advice
for Olivia Colman: rather than “sending an e-mail to Wikipedia”, she can
edit Wikipedia herself, like everyone else". That comes across to me as
encouraging violation of English Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guideline
. Can you
explain why you encouraged directly editing Wikipedia instead of placing an
edit request on the talk page or sending an email to OTRS?

Thanks,

Pine
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 6:11 PM Shani Evenstein 
wrote:

> That's really great! Thanks for sharing and good luck with your course!
>
> Shani.
>
> ---
> *Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
> EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
> of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
> PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
> Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
> Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
> .
> Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
> .
> Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
> .
> Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda .
> *+972-525640648*
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:08 PM Alexandre Hocquet <
> alexandre.hocq...@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
>
> > Dear Education listers,
> >
> > As a historian of science in higher education, I have been developping a
> > course focusing on Wikipedia in recent years, and some may have heard of
> > the WikiMOOC I presented at Wikimania MOntreal (though I only played a
> > modest role in the WikiMOOC saga)
> >
> > My course is pedagocally relying on anecdotes that say much about
> > Wikipedia principles, Wikipedia comunity and how Wikipedia is regarded.
> >
> > I am today very happy that my first anecdote in English has been
> > published. It's about OLivia Colman's birthdate and how the press likes
> > to ridicule Wikipedia, yet fact checking is actually done by Wikipedians
> > instead of journalists, so I can't resist to self promote it here:
> >
> >
> >
> https://theconversation.com/no-wikipedia-didnt-get-actress-olivia-colmans-birthdate-wrong-111848
> >
> > Comments welcome
> > --
> > ***
> > Alexandre Hocquet
> >
> > Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré
> > alexandre.hocq...@univ-lorraine.fr
> > http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
> > ***
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Developing instructional material for Wikidata Query Service

[Pine W]

Forwarding an announcement to other lists that may be interested in this
development.

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From: Michal Lester 
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 9:40 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Developing instructional material for Wikidata Query
Service
To: , 


Dear all,
One recurring phenomenon we encounter when we present Wikidata to various
audiences, is the enthusiasm with they react to the Wikidata Query Service,
and the possibilities it offers for extracting specific information from
the vast network of linked and structured data contained in Wikidata. This
enthusiasm is not surprising, as the query feature of Wikidata is quite
unique within the landscape of information services available today.
The Wikidata Query Service is powered by SPARQL – a semantic query language
for databases. Unfortunately, for users who are new to Wikimedia platforms,
there is currently little instructional material on how to learn SPARQL for
use in Wikidata. At Wikimedia Israel we believe that a user-friendly
tutorial to Queries/SPARQL will attract new users to engage with Wikidata
and help build a community around the project.
In recent years, Wikimedia Israel has developed online instructional
materials, such as the Wikipedia courseware and the guide for creating
encyclopedic content. We plan to use our experience in this field, and in
collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, we intend to develop a website
with a step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use the Wikidata Query
Service. The instructional material will be available in three languages
(Hebrew, Arabic and English) but it will be possible to add the same
instructions in other languages. We are quite confident that having a
tutorial that explains and teaches the Query Service will help expand
Wikidata to new audiences worldwide.

*Best regards,*


*Michal Lester,*
*Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

[Pine W]

Hi Shani,

Thanks for your email. I have been waiting to reply in detail until I have
fewer interruptions and short term issues to address. I am now in a better
position to think about this discussion. The delay has also helped to
alleviate my earlier feeling of surprise, and I hope that I can now respond
calmly.

I drafted this email offline, but I hope that I retained the content of
your message to me. I bolded the text that I took from your previous email.

* Filip already addressed some points, so **I’ll** add some food for
thought (I'll try to keep it concise, since as you well noted, **I’m*

* very busy these days): * Yes, a lot of effort is going into setting up
the Education User Group, but these are not only my efforts; rather **it’s*
* a group effort. As the chosen chair, I can only hope I'm doing a good job
facilitating, bringing people together, and most importantly, setting a
good example, but in no scenario am I the focus -- the work we do globally
is the focus, and many people deserve credit for making this a reality. The
efforts invested in the group are yet another testament to the actual need
and to the fact that many people in the movement, especially volunteers,
see the value of its existence. *
Great.

** While our User Group has been officially recognized only in October
2018, we have been around for quite some time now. The application process
to AffCom took over a year (which is outrageous in itself, but besides the
point here), and was a result of a work done by a group called the Wiki
Education Collaborative (which has been around since 2014, and that has
since dissolved in order to set up the UG). So you see, we have actually
been very consistent in our work and lived through the many (many!) changes
in the WMF Education team. I, personally, have been doing EDUWiki work
since 2011, before the Collab, as did many of our members. This is why I
believe that your concerns of **“sustainability”** should be directed
elsewhere.*

Thanks for the information regarding the history. I had forgotten about the
Collab. I’m glad to hear that the UG has a longer history than I originally
guessed, because this implies to me that the organization has already
demonstrated durability and may be more sustainable than I was first
thinking.

** The WMF EDU team consists of 3-4 people. No matter how good they are,
they cannot, simply cannot, attend to the needs of the whole EDUWiki
community. In fact, they never did. The Education activity in our movement
is simply too vast for such a small team to handle, especially considering
their very limited resources (which is not their entire fault, but **that’s**
the way it is for now). This is why they have always joined forced with
local affiliates, later with the Collab, and now with our User Group. We
keep our fingers crossed for Nichole and hope she will be able to build a
more sustainable team. We also hope that the work she & Ben are doing
inside the WMF universe, will yield some fruits and will help Education get
the place it deserves in our movement, in terms of acknowledgement of
contribution and resource allocation.*

I was aware of the work that the affiliates were doing, including affiliate
staff, and my impression is that a large part of the work of the WMF
education staff is to support the affiliates. However, I lack a clear
understanding of which education program tasks in the Wikiverse are being
done by the WMF Education Program staff, which are being done by affiliates
including affiliate staff, and which are being done by the user group. Is
there a page somewhere that describes the relationships among these groups?

** The UG is instrumental in giving a voice to the people on the ground,
especially the volunteers around the world. Having a voice is key to
achieving our global goals and attending to our international needs. It is
also needed as sometimes that WMF has its own agenda and goals, and they
could be different from what the community wants and needs. This is one of
the main reasons we created the UG in the first place. But again -- we do
not work in an isolated way; rather, this is an ecosystem, of WMF, UG,
Chapters and stakeholders outside of our movement. We are aiming to be a
force that strengthens these ties and helps this network evolve, within and
outside our movement. So it really **isn’t** about me or the work that I
personally do; **it’s** about the community and about joining forces, which
is why it is a sustainable model of operation and also why I said there are
many people that are making this happen. If it was just me, I would be
failing my role as a leader, as I perceive it.*

OK, this makes sense to me. One of my concerns about groups in general,
such as highly organized Wikiproject groups and affiliate user groups, is
that they can pile a disproportionate share of work onto one person or a
small number of people, in which case there is reason to consider questions
regarding sustainability.

** Yes, **I’m** currently 

Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

[Pine W]

:) OK, it sounds like the group is happy with how things are going.

I think that, for long term endeavors like setting up a new organization
which may be active over a time range of months to decades. thinking about
sustainability is a good idea. I intended the questions to be benevolent
and not hostile. I hope that this makes sense.

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

[Pine W]

Hi Filip,

Previously WMF seemed to have a larger scope of work in supporting
educators in institutions. I think that some of that stopped when a few WMF
staff members left. I think that at least some of that staffing has been
restored. However, I don't want WMF to use a staffing shortage as a reason
to permanently offload more administrative and support responsibilities
onto volunteers. If volunteers are contributing in ways that they like,
that's fine and good, but I don't want volunteers to feel that it's their
obligation to fill WMF's capacity gaps with their personal unpaid time,
especially not on a long term basis. WMF's job is support the community,
not the other way around. However, if the people in the user group like how
things are going and feel that their time is being used well in a
sustainable and respectful way, then I'm glad to hear that, and I wish you
the best in your activities.

I'm sorry if anything in my second paragraph seemed offensive. I'm confused
regarding how what I wrote was offensive. I thought that I was expressing
concern about the sustainability of a person's activity level and the
sustainability of the groups in which they are involved, which I thought
would have been well received. Can you specify what you found to be
offensive? I'm happy to discuss that off list or on one of my user talk
pages if you prefer. I am not perfect and I hope that I am always willing
to learn how to do better.

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

[Pine W]

Hi Shani,

Thanks for sharing these updates.

It sounds like there is a lot of effort being spent on organizing the
EduWiki group. Thanks for the amount of tiime that you are putting into
this.

I have two questions.

Facilitating meetings of Wikimedia educators, working on tools, asking for
feedback, etc. are all tasks that have been previously done by WMF staff.
How is the EduWiki user group adding value? I am concerned about how much
time and effort has been spent by non-WMF people, many of whom I am
guessing are participating unpaid, when I don't understand the benefits and
when I think that WMF staff were previously doing much of the organization
and support work so that voluneers and affiliates didn't need to spend
their valuable and limited time on these activities.

Another question that I have is about sustainability. You seem to be
filling many roles in multiple organizations, and I am concerned about what
would happen if you burned out, got into a conflict and decided to leave,
or had some other need to withdraw. Is your workload sustainable, and do
you each of the groups that you lead including the Education groups have
sufficient human resources capacity to replace you if you left or became
unavailable? I admire your level of effort, but having one person lead so
many groups, especially on volunteer time, seems to be risky both for your
sustainability as a leader and for the sustainability of the groups. I
personally had a bad experience trying simultaneously to sustain a user
group and to do paid work and to keep up with the regular outbreaks of
problems around the Wikiverse. After that bad experience I am trying to do
fewer simultaneous activities so that I am under less stress and am
participating in a more sustainable way, and I encourage you to consider
whether your level of activity is sustainable and whether your many groups
are sustainable if you are no longer involved. I will understand if you
don't want to respond to this concern in public, but I encourage you and
the groups that you lead to consider how sustainable your leadership is and
to do succession planning.

Best wishes,

Pine
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 6:16 PM Shani Evenstein  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> (and sorry in advance for x-posting -- we are sharing this a bit wider to
> draw attention to not only the education group, but also the Libraries and
> GLAM groups, which we believe have a lot in common with ours and hope will
> be active partners in our work throughout the year)
>
> Below is a report of what we've been up to during 2018, including a few
> updates looking forward to 2019. We've tried keeping it short and to the
> point.
>
> Best,
> Shani.
>
>
> 
>
> ** 2018 Report - *
> Our group has been recognized during 10/2018, so we don't have much to
> report about, but here is a short summary of what we've been up to since
> being elected -
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2018_Annual_Report
>
> ** Revamping our User Group Page - *
> Check out our (a bit more) updated page on Meta. The work is far from over
> and the key areas identified are especially a work in progress and will
> keep evolving as we do more work. That said, you can now easily find who we
> are, how you can get involved, how governance works, various resources and
> a way to contact us, which is a good start.
>
> ** Logo - winner - *
> As some of you remember, we've ran a logo challenge, in order to determine
> what our logo would be. We finally have a winner - a logo that most people
> voted for, which was designed by krishna chaitanya velaga (who also happens
> to be one of our board members :)). The new logo will be implemented soon!
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_and_Education_User_Group_Logo_(with_text).svg
>
> ** Bylaws -*
> We have started working on a draft for our bylaws here (which, once done,
> will be moved to Meta) -
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hsEXVCnLrqC7qcGYXinEZENIDsZIvPnBcInh_bfEP88/edit
> We are looking for people with experience in governance to join the board
> as we finalize our bylaws. If you're interested in working on it with us,
> please contact us privately.
>
> ** Annual plan *-
> We've also started working on an annual plan. Again, this is a draft, and
> once done, it'll be moved to Meta. In the meantime, we are inviting anyone
> who's interested in affecting what we'll be focusing on this coming year,
> to comment on the (really not final!) doc -
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wBR-tAHwpwsCo24tu7mL0QNgUJEebSA18_rbZF8MYJc/edit?usp=sharing
>
> ** Working groups -*
> As part of working on our annual plan, the board has recognized key focus
> areas for our work: *Community, Resources & Outreach. *
> It was decided to open *working groups* that will be working separately on
> advancing each of these focus areas. So 

[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikidata] The WikiCite 2018 program is live

[Pine W]

Forwarding to other email lists which may have subscribers who are
interested.

Pine
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From: Dario Taraborelli 
Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:05 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] The WikiCite 2018 program is live
To: , Discussion list for the Wikidata
project. 


The program of WikiCite 2018 
(Berkeley, 27-29 November 2018) is now available
.

The plenary sessions and the tutorials will be recorded and we're looking
into the possibility of making a livestream available.

Dario -- on behalf of the organizing committee

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] November 30 deadline for new Project Grant proposals

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Cross-posting.

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From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling 
Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] November 30 deadline for new Project Grant
proposals
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Hi folks,

The open call for Project Grants is officially underway! As you prepare
your proposals this month, please keep in mind that the final deadline is
November 30th, and that this will be only the only open call for Project
Grants during this fiscal year, which ends on June 30th, 2019. To learn
more about this grant program and how to prepare an application, please
visit our landing page on Meta. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>

In addition to the resources mentioned in the prior announcement, we have
scheduled some proposal clinics where applicants will be able to discuss
their proposals or ask questions with Wikimedia Foundation staff using
Google Meet or using IRC. Some of these will be themed toward specific
topics (such as proposals involving a GLAM-related project), and others
will be more general. For a list of scheduled proposal clinics, please
review the Project Grants landing page on Meta. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project#Upcoming_events>. Additional
clinics may be added throughout the month.

Thanks,

Chris

Chris "Jethro" Schilling
I JethroBT (WMF) 
He/His/Their
Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation



On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 8:08 PM Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschill...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The open call for the Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program will
> begin on November 1, when we begin public review of new proposals.  The
> final deadline is November 30th for all submissions. <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>. Importantly, this will
> be the only open call for Project Grants in the current fiscal year, which
> ends on June 30th 2019.
>
> We are also seeking additional volunteer candidates to expand the Project
> Grants Committee.  More information is provided at the end of this email.
>
> Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups and
> organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether
> focused on building a new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on
> your wiki, researching an important issue, coordinating an editathon
series
> or providing other support for community building.
>
> We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and
> complete a grant proposal:
> * Tutorials for writing a strong application: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Tutorial>
> * General planning page for Project Grants:  <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Plan>
> * Program guidelines and criteria: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Learn>
>
> Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal
> support upon request.  Contact us at projectgra...@wikimedia.org if you
> would like feedback or more information.
>
> We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
> make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects.  Put your idea into
> motion, and submit your proposal by November 30th! <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
>
> Volunteering for the Project Grants Committee
> We are also seeking candidates to participate in the Project Grants
> Committee, the volunteer decision-making body that reviews all Project
> Grant proposals and decides which projects to fund.  Committee members
have
> diverse backgrounds with skill sets like:
> * On-wiki editing and experience
> * Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an intended
> on-wiki or online impact.
> * Background in handling externally provided money and working within
> budgets, preferably in a non-profit context.
> * Any grants you've applied for or worked in grant programs (in the
> Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world).
> * Expertise in areas like knowledge equity or knowledge as a service, that
> will help us move toward our movement strategic direction
> * Software or research expertise
> If you are interested in serving as a committee member, you cand find more
> information and submit your candidacy here by November 15th: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Committee/Candidates>
>
> Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with
> your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee.
> Contact us at projectgra...@wikimedia.org.
>
> Take care,
>
> Chris
>
> Chris "Jethro" Schilling
> I JethroBT (WMF) 
> He/His/Their
> Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
> 
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Programs & Events Dashboard Admins selection process

[Pine W]

Hi Vahid,

Thanks for this email. However, I have two concerns

1. Can a term other than "dashboard admin" be used to describe this role?
The term "admin" has other uses already, and I am concerned about the
potential for confusion, including among people who are communicating in
English as a second language. Also, with the NDA requirement this position
sounds more like a functionary role than an admin role, which I think is
another reason for using a term other than "dashboard admin". Perhaps
"dashboard functionary" or "dashboard technical support specialist" would
be clearer. What do you think?

2. I am also concerned about adding yet more work to the already
significant load that is being carried by volunteers. Given that WMF has
ample financial resources to address an incremental increase in support
needs, I think that WMF should be capable of handling support requests and
generating reports for the Dashboard without asking volunteers to increase
the already considerable scope of our work.

Thank you,

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource Handbook

[Pine W]

Hello colleagues,

I'm not familiar enough with Wikisource to evaluate this guide, but I'm
forwarding it in case others are interested. Please direct  questions and
comments to Ananth.

Regards,

Pine
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From: Ananth Subray 
Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 6:25 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource Handbook
To: , 


Dear All,

We all know that Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. We
are getting many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's.
At the same time, we even noticed that there are many problems faced by the
new editors and a few of the existing editors.  To help all of the editors
we have created a Handbook titled as *Wikisource Handbook for Indic
communities
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_Handbook_for_Indian_Communities.pdf
>.
*Which is now available[1] to everyone to make the best use of it. I
request everyone to share this with all those who are in need of support in
editing Wikisource.


Authors of the book: Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P V.


[1].
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_Handbook_for_Indian_Communities.pdf

Thanks and Regards,


*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*

Programme Associate

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Recommendations/Suggestions Needed

[Pine W]

Hi Felix,

I think that Wikimedia Armenia has a middle school program, and that
Wikimedia Israel was considering developing a middle school program, so you
might consider reaching out to them individually if you don't hear back
from them on this list.

Good luck,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:06 PM Felix Nartey  wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> A  middle school has approached us to run a Wikipedia program for them. We
> are considering training the students on how to effectively use Wikipedia
> as well as hinting them on the ability to correct basic things such as
> typos and grammar.  We also intend to teach them how to play the Wikidata
> game.
>
> Is our approach good? or what alternative activities we can have with the
> school.
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments or suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> --
> *Felix Nartey*
> *Open Foundation West Africa *
> *+233242844987 | **+447452508504*
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

[Pine W]

Hi LiAnna,
That's interesting and nice to hear. It's refreshing to hear good news.
I wish you the best for future iterations of this program.
Thanks,Pine
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[Pine W]

Thanks for the comments, LiAnna.

An issue that someone mentioned to me is that many academics choose not to
edit Wikipedia articles because editing Wikipedia is far less beneficial to
their careers than publishing academic articles and books. There may be
some benefit to academics from having their articles and books cited in
Wikipedia, but that is different from editing Wikipedia unless they add
their own articles and books as citations or have someone else do that on
their behalf (which I would discourage them from doing directly, although
recommending relevant articles and books on talk pages and disclosing any
potential COI could still be a net benefit so that other editors can
evaluate their recommendations). I am curious about how you were so
successful in recruiting academics to volunteer for this program. Can you
comment on that? It would be nice if academics and universities are
starting to feel that contributing to Wikipedia is valuable for academic
careers and/or as public service that they wish to encourage.

On a related subject, I will mention that to my surprise, some universities
now award scholarships to undergraduate applicants for e-sports. One would
think that extensively contributing constructively to Wikipedia, whether by
applicants for admission or by academics, would be viewed much more
positively by universities than participating in e-sports, but to my
knowledge no universities have made such a decision. If you know of any
change in academia about the value of editing Wikipedia articles by
applicants for undergraduate or graduate admission, I would also be
interested in hearing about that. Perhaps admissions policies are a
potential area in which the Wiki Education Foundation could lobby
universities to make changes. I realize that this is a tangent from the
subject of encouraging academics to contribute content themselves, but I
thought that I would mention this as a related topic of interest.

Thanks,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:49 AM, LiAnna Davis <lia...@wikiedu.org> wrote:

> Hi Pine,
>
> You're exactly right that we spent a lot of staff time and thus expense on
> this first round because it's a pilot -- to be able to put an extensive
> report together like this, we needed to devote a LOT of staff time to
> tracking everything that happened. Those learnings are invaluable in a
> pilot program, and are now helping us actively work to scale up the impact
> without significantly adding to the expense. As we note in the "Adapting
> the pilot" section of the report (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_
> Foundation/Wikipedia_Fellows_pilot_evaluation#Adapting_the_pilot),
> we're experimenting with a wide variety of ways to run Fellows cohorts over
> the next year in order to see how we can get more impact without
> significantly adding staff time (and thus costs) to the mix. This model is
> exactly the same one we followed with our Classroom Program -- a lot of
> individual attention to instructors and students at the beginning so we can
> garner learnings from what exactly happened in the program, then
> experimenting with ways to successfully scale the impact without scaling
> the costs at the same rate (back in 2010, we had about the same number of
> staff supporting a program with 200 students a term as we currently do
> supporting 8,000 students a term).
>
> In terms of funding, we didn't have restricted grant funding for the
> Fellows pilot, meaning funding for it came from a variety of the
> institutional and individual donors who provide us unrestricted general
> operating support for our work, including Wikipedia Fellows. Our
> development director sees lots of potential for funding future rounds, and
> we're actively working on securing funding so we can scale the program,
> increasing its impact while making it more cost effective. I share your
> hopes for this program, and think it has the potential to, as you put it,
> "be
> successful, financially sustainable, and cost-effective in the medium to
> long term." :)
>
> LiAnna
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As I wrote in my previous email, I get the impression that this program
> > was relatively expensive compared to the number of content contributors
> > (who in this case are academics). I am keeping in mind that this was a
> > pilot, and that initial planning and the first iteration for many
> programs
> > like this require some one-time expenses and some debugging. My guess is
> > that for future rounds WikiEd can make the program be more efficient, and
> > that this will be a work in progress.
> > This program is not without financial costs, both for the pilot and for
> > future rounds. I ret

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

[Pine W]

As I wrote in my previous email, I get the impression that this program was 
relatively expensive compared to the number of content contributors (who in 
this case are academics). I am keeping in mind that this was a pilot, and that 
initial planning and the first iteration for many programs like this require 
some one-time expenses and some debugging. My guess is that for future rounds 
WikiEd can make the program be more efficient, and that this will be a work in 
progress. 
This program is not without financial costs, both for the pilot and for future 
rounds. I return to the questions that I asked LiAnna in my previous email: who 
funded WikiEd's expenses for this project, and what thoughts does WikiEd have 
regarding how the project can be scaled up in a way that is more efficient in 
terms of cost per participant? 
I am hoping that WikiEd has a reliable funding source for the next round, and 
that WikiEd is currently planning how to increase the cost-effectiveness. 
Stepping back to consider the larger problem of too few knowledgable volunteers 
supporting too many novices throughout the wikiverse, I get the impression that 
WMF is spending increasing amounts of money on training and one-on-one help for 
technical and content contributors, both by directly funding WMF employees and 
by providing funds to grantees. I anticipate that the trend will continue, and 
I am anxious to see it be effective in increasing content contributor 
longevity, content quality, content quantity, diversity of contributors, and 
measues of community health. I am glad to see WikiEd working in this domain 
with academics, and I would like for this program to be successful, financially 
sustainable, and cost-effective in the medium to long term.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


 Original message From: James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> 
Date: 5/23/18  7:07 PM  (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia Education 
<education@lists.wikimedia.org>, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 
[Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot 
Pine, why would you be concerned about the cost-effectiveness or
sustainability. This program looks great to me, except for the
mismatch between needs and recruiting.

On that point, there is an alternative to
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/2015/09/figure-1-wikipedia-open-access1.jpg

(Beyond expanding it from the sciences to the humanities and ranking
it by the damage quality issues do to society for each topic.)

Which is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7cHxlGgEt4=46m

Math is the most valuable topic for donations. I'm interested in
suggesting improvements to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius_manifold

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi LiAnna,
>
> Thank you for this report. Increasing the number of good-faith contributors 
> to Wikipedia is always nice to see. I believe that at least a few people in 
> WMF, the affiliates, and the long-term volunteer population have been 
> interested for many years in increasing the number of academics who 
> contribute to Wikipedia.
>
> The program sounds like it was relatively labor intensive on the part of 
> WikiEd, and the number of academic participants was small. Who funded 
> WikiEd's expenses for this project, and what thoughts does WikiEd have 
> regarding how the project can be scaled up in a way that is more efficient in 
> terms of cost per participant?
>
> I would like to see this project scale up, but I am concerned about its 
> cost-effectiveness and financial sustainability.
>
> As you probably know, I am continuing my development of training materials, 
> primarily videos, for new Wikimedians, although the audience that I have in 
> mind is more typical of ENWP's volunteer population instead of being focused 
> on the specific interests and mindsets of academic contributors.
>
> Regards,
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>  Original message From: LiAnna Davis <lia...@wikiedu.org> 
> Date: 5/22/18  9:51 AM  (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia Education 
> <education@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation 
> report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot
> Greetings, all!
>
> At the beginning of 2018, the Wiki Education Foundation ran a 3-month pilot
> to engage academic experts (mostly professors at universities in the U.S.)
> to improve English Wikipedia articles related to their areas of expertise.
> We're pretty happy with how the pilot turned out -- we had some great
> improvements to articles, and, more importantly for a pilot, we learned a
> *lot* about how to run a program like this successfully.
>
> The team that worked on it put together this extensive evaluation report on
> what we did, what we learned, and what the outcomes were fr

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

[Pine W]

Hi LiAnna,

Thank you for this report. Increasing the number of good-faith contributors to 
Wikipedia is always nice to see. I believe that at least a few people in WMF, 
the affiliates, and the long-term volunteer population have been interested for 
many years in increasing the number of academics who contribute to Wikipedia.

The program sounds like it was relatively labor intensive on the part of 
WikiEd, and the number of academic participants was small. Who funded WikiEd's 
expenses for this project, and what thoughts does WikiEd have regarding how the 
project can be scaled up in a way that is more efficient in terms of cost per 
participant? 

I would like to see this project scale up, but I am concerned about its 
cost-effectiveness and financial sustainability.

As you probably know, I am continuing my development of training materials, 
primarily videos, for new Wikimedians, although the audience that I have in 
mind is more typical of ENWP's volunteer population instead of being focused on 
the specific interests and mindsets of academic contributors.

Regards,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
 Original message From: LiAnna Davis  Date: 
5/22/18  9:51 AM  (GMT-08:00) To: Wikimedia Education 
 Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation 
report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot 
Greetings, all!

At the beginning of 2018, the Wiki Education Foundation ran a 3-month pilot
to engage academic experts (mostly professors at universities in the U.S.)
to improve English Wikipedia articles related to their areas of expertise.
We're pretty happy with how the pilot turned out -- we had some great
improvements to articles, and, more importantly for a pilot, we learned a
*lot* about how to run a program like this successfully.

The team that worked on it put together this extensive evaluation report on
what we did, what we learned, and what the outcomes were from the pilot:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikipedia_Fellows_pilot_evaluation

I also put together a short blog post about it:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/05/22/wiki-education-publishes-evaluation-of-fellows-pilot/

We already have calls for applications out for additional cohorts to begin
in June, and we're eager to learn even more from future iterations of the
Wikipedia Fellows program. I hope sharing our learnings like this can be
helpful for other education programs in the Wikimedia movement who might
also be interested in engaging subject matter experts to edit.

We're happy to answer questions on this list or on the talk page of the
evaluation report on Meta.

LiAnna


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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Upcoming survey about training for Wikimedians

[Pine W]

The Education mailing list filters rejected my original email. Those
filters have caused similar problems in the past. I hope that this attempt
to send my email to the Education mailing list is successful. Apologies to
those who receive the same information twice.

Pine 


-- Forwarded message --


Hello Wikimedia colleagues,

Some of you may remember the LearnWiki project [0]. Regrettably, the
project goals were not completed within the planned timeline and budget. If
you would like to read that grant's final report, you may find it here [1].

I continue to believe that there would be value in offering more online
training to Wikimedians through videos, and possibly interactive tutorials
and other resources, that could help Wikimedians with novice to
intermediate skill levels to improve their proficiency with navigating
Wikimedia online cultures, principles, referencing, VisualEditor, the 2017
New WikiText Editor (which I like to call "NEWT") [2], and other topics.

Currently, there is a variety of training throughout the Wikimedia
ecosystem. Training varies across projects (e.g. Wikipedia, Wikidata,
Commons), languages (e.g. English, Arabic, Japanese), settings (e.g. GLAM
workshops, university classes, online individual study), formats (e.g. in
person, remote, video, interactive tutorial, lecture), and themes (e.g.
Wiki Loves Monuments, Women in Red, WikiProject Military History).

I plan to create and distribute a survey during the next few months to ask
individual Wikimedians and Wikimedia affiliate organizations about the
training practices that you have used to train yourself or others, how
effective you think that those training practices are, and what types of
training you would like to have available in the future. This survey would
inform the development of training materials and methods.

Improving the quality and diversity of training is a long term goal of
mine. This campaign is currently not funded by the Wikimedia Foundation or
any Wikimedia affiliate, although I believe that the survey data will
provide valuable input for possible projects, and people may request
funding for some of those projects (whether or not they are collaborating
with me). I do not plan to request WMF funds for myself in the foreseeable
future, but I may request funding for other contractors or grantees for
some projects that are related to this campaign and who collaborate with
me. While I work on this initiative, I anticipate that numerous Wikimedia
affiliates and program leaders will continue to develop and refine a
variety of training materials, some of which will be funded by WMF,
affiliates, and/or other organizations. I hope to collaborate with others,
incrementally and over the course of years, to improve the quality and
diversity of training throughout the Wikimedia ecosystem.

I believe that WMF is planning to launch the 2018 Community Engagement
Insights survey in March, and to publish results in May. [3] The CEI survey
results from 2017 and 2018 are likely to influence plans for development of
training materials, although the survey that is focused on training will be
separate from the 2018 CEI survey. I plan to collaborate with WMF Community
Resources and WMF Learning and Evaluation *if* they have availability and
willingness to participate in the design and analysis of the training
survey. :)

Further updates about the training survey will be provided during the next
few months. In the meantime, you are welcome to contact me with questions
or comments through email, IRC, or on my Meta talk page, especially if you
would like to help with the design of the survey.

Regards,

Pine 

[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learnwiki
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_
and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia/Final
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2017_wikitext_editor
]3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights
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[Pine W]

Forwarding to the Education mailing list with the hope that librarians in
schools and universities who are on that mailing list, or are known to list
participants, will want to participate in this campaign. :)

Pine 


-- Forwarded message --
From: Jake Orlowitz 
Date: Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 1:50 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] What's happening with #1Lib1Ref? (A lot...)


Each year the Wikipedia Library team, in collaboration with GLAM folks
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) all around the world, asks a
simple favor: Give Wikipedia the gift of a citation for its birthday.

Website:
http://1lib1ref.org

This year Wikipedia turns 17 and it's our third annual #1Lib1Ref campaign.
The 20-day campaign is now in its second week... What's happened so far?

Across the languages we are tracking, editors have added 2097 citations in
21+ languages.

5 languages have made over 100 edits: English, French, Hebrew, Serbian and
Catalan.

View contributions by language:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955590632545726464

On social media #1Lib1Ref is a hype-machine. 37 countries have made 2260
Twitter posts reaching 4.4 million potential readers 8.1 million times.

We invited librarians (and library-lovers) around the world to participate.
Our
Wikimedia Blog post, written by #1Lib1Ref originator and GLAM Strategist
Alex Stinson, set the tone and made the case:

Read blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/16/1lib1ref-2018/

The blog included a visual 'explainer' video created by Wikipedia Library
team member Felix Nartey, narrated by famous U.S. Librarian Jessamyn West.

Watch Video:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1Lib1Ref_
MySimpleShow_Explainer_Video.webm

We promoted the Story of #1lib1ref on social media using an 8-part
TweetStorm:

Read Tweetstorm:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955507752410869760

Also we redesigned a simple new graphic and logo for the campaign:

View Graphic:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955507757880295424/photo/1

Each year #1Lib1Ref grows and brings in more people from libraries, and
more people who believe that Wikipedia and librarians share a mission which
benefits from collaboration. It's an exciting part of our work and we're
very thankful to everyone who adds to its impact and success!

Join in. Make an edit. Teach someone how to add a citation. Share something
nice about the campaign this week in your social media circles. Help share
free knowledge. #1Lib1Ref. Pass it on...

Best,
Jake Orlowitz
Head of The Wikipedia Library
jorlow...@wikimedia.org
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] [fellowship] Opportunity for people working on "open projects that support a healthy Internet."

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

Pine


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projects that support a healthy Internet."
To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi all,

I wanted to pass along an opportunity that I saw earlier today via Twitter:
https://medium.com/read-write-participate/work-in-the-open-
with-mozilla-1410be0a83b2

It sets up people working on "open projects that support a healthy
Internet" with a mentor, a cohort of like-minded people from all over the
world, and a trip to Mozfest, which is a London-based open Internet
conference I've attended/presented at in past years and found really
mind-expanding due to the cross-disciplinary conversations that take place.

You can see previous projects here: https://mozilla.github.
io/leadership-training/round-3/projects/ — it looks like there's quite a
broad cross-section and many of the projects across the movement might be
applicable. The post notes participants will learn about "best practices
for project setup and communication, tools for collaboration, community
building, and running events."

Thank you to Leila for suggesting I pass this along to this listserv. Feel
free to share it broadly.


- Mel


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[Pine W]

Forwarding.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
From: Cornelius Kibelka 
Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:17 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Conference 2017: Report and
more learning material published
To: WikimediaAnnounce-l 


Dear Wikimedians,



Three months ago, we welcomed many of you in Berlin to work, discuss and
get inspired at the Wikimedia Conference 2017. We have now published our
extensive and colorful grant report for this event, and you can read it on
Meta:



https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Report



In the meantime, the documentation of all sessions is complete. Check it
out on Meta as well:



https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Documentation



While preparing the report, we have also written three learning patterns to
capture and share our experiences with other movement event organizers.



1) “Timing, Communication, Preparation: How to support your event
participants in the best way to get a Schengen Visa”

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Timing,
_Communication,_Preparation:_How_to_support_your_event_
participants_in_the_best_way_to_get_a_Schengen_Visa



2) “Briefing calls with speakers: A simple way to improve conference
sessions”

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/
Briefing_calls_with_speakers:_A_simple_way_to_improve_conference_sessions



3) “The Buddy Project: Let’s make your conference more newbie friendly!”

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/The_
Buddy_Project:_Let%E2%80%99s_make_your_conference_more_newbie_friendly!



And if you think, “wow, that’s a lot!”: David Saroyan, Visiting Wikimedian
at Wikimedia Deutschland from January until April, wrote a blog post about
his experience in the Wikimedia blog:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/30/why-i-visiting-wikimedian/



We would like to thank all participants, partners, affiliates and experts
who have contributed to making this such a great event, and the Wikimedia
Foundation for their generous support.



Thank you,

Happy reading,



Cornelius, Nicole, Daniela and Wenke
(the WMCON team)


PS: Stay tuned for our upcoming announcement of the Wikimedia Conference
2018 dates.


-- 
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for the Wikimedia Conference

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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[Wikimedia Education] Done testing for now

[Pine W]

Sorry about the multiple test emails that passed through. I thought they
were still being rejected but a batch went through as a group.

In the interest of not continuing to spam the list as well as getting on
with other business, I'm going to stop testing for now. I think that I've
narrowed down the problematic email filters on the list to 2 possibilities.
In the future if an email gets held for moderation or rejected, at least we
now have a good idea of where to start looking.

Thanks again for your patience,

Pine
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[Wikimedia Education] Test message 4

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**I am testing the filters for the Education mailing list. Please ignore
this message if it passes through to the list. Thanks for your patience.** 4

Dear Colleagues:



My most recent blog posts comprise a two-part article entitled “Wikipedia’s
Ways of Knowing.” I outline two contrasting ways of organizing and
accessing knowledge—“rhizomatic” and “arborescent”—and explain how they
relate to Wikipedia. In the process, I also deal with Portals and
Categories, two powerful Wikipedia concepts.



Part 1: http://bit.ly/2p20MkJ



Part 2: http://bit.ly/2qxO9eG
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[Wikimedia Education] Test message 3-1

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Dear Colleagues:



My most recent blog posts comprise a two-part article entitled “Wikipedia’s
Ways of Knowing.” I outline two contrasting ways of organizing and
accessing knowledge—“rhizomatic” and “arborescent”—and explain how they
relate to Wikipedia. In the process, I also deal with Portals and
Categories, two powerful Wikipedia concepts.



Part 1: http://bit.ly/2p20MkJ



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[Wikimedia Education] Test message 2

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Dear Colleagues:



My most recent blog posts comprise a two-part article entitled “Wikipedia’s
Ways of Knowing.” I outline two contrasting ways of organizing and
accessing knowledge—“rhizomatic” and “arborescent”—and explain how they
relate to Wikipedia. In the process, I also deal with Portals and
Categories, two powerful Wikipedia concepts.



Part 1: http://bit.ly/2p20MkJ



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[Wikimedia Education] Blog post: "The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite"

[Pine W]

Forwarding from the Wikidata Weekly Summary:

https://ndsrbhl.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-role-of-librarians-in-wikidata-and-wikicite/

Quoting from the blog post: "As WikiCite continues to grow, it will be
interesting to follow how (hopefully not whether!) the community integrates
GLAM metadata. Generating Linked Open Data citations has the potential to
connect objects and concepts with information resources to create context
for more accurate and interesting digital representations of knowledge and
cultural heritage. And more complete and complex graphs are better at
supporting deeper investigations, queries, and visualizations of these data
across repositories, collections, and knowledge bases."

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[Wikimedia Education] Essay about fake news, algorithms, social bots, and more

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I'm finding it encouraging to see that a number of researchers and
journalists are taking these problems seriously, trying to understand them,
and trying to improve the situation.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/misinformation-on-social-media-could-outfox-technical-solutions-for-now

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
From: zppix e 
Date: Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 11:08 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad
To: Wikipedia mailing list , Wikimedia
developers , Coordination of technology
deployments across languages/projects 


Hello,  as you may or may not already know there will be a datacentre
switch back to Eqiad, WMF's main data centre, on May 3rd at approximately
14:00 UTC. For approximately 20-30 minutes you will NOT be able to save
edits to any WMF project. If you have any questions feel free to reply back
to this email, or ask on IRC on freenode channel #wikimedia-tech. If there
any major issues that occur during this time please report them to
#wikimedia-tech on freenode!

Thanks,
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[Wikimedia Education] Reliability in the era of alternative facts and information warfare

[Pine W]

I imagine that this subject will be of interest and concern to educators,
including those who teach in the Wikipedia in Education Program. Here is a
thought-provoking newspaper column about a University of Washington
professor's troubling findings: http://www.seattletimes.com/
seattle-news/politics/uw-professor-the-information-war-
is-real-and-were-losing-it/

Quoting briefly from the article:

"Starbird is publishing her paper as a sort of warning. The information
networks we’ve built are almost perfectly designed to exploit psychological
vulnerabilities to rumor."

"Your brain tells you ‘Hey, I got this from three different sources,’ ” she
says. “But you don’t realize it all traces back to the same place, and
might have even reached you via bots posing as real people. If we think of
this as a virus, I wouldn’t know how to vaccinate for it.”

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[Wikimedia Education] NPR: "Should I trust Wikipedia with my health?"

[Pine W]

WikiProject Medicine, Translators Without Borders, and the Wiki Education
Foundation are all mentioned in this post from NPR. I'm forwarding the post
for others involved with medical content, Wikimedia education, or Wikimedia
translation who might like to read it:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/08/501087493/should-i-trust-wikipedia-with-my-health

Regards,

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[Wikimedia Education] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia and political neutrality

[Pine W]

Hello colleagues,

Some of you might be interested in this news article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/can-wikipedia-save-the-internet-a7380786.html

When we know that we have countless shortcomings in Wikimedia, I found it
refreshing to hear that some aspects of our content and community are
performing well and, on the whole, are serving the public interest.

Regards,

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[Wikimedia Education] Outreach to Native Americans

[Pine W]

Hi US Wikimedians, GLAM specislists, and educators,

One of our interests in Cascadia is increasing the amount of Native
American content on Wikimedia. Do any other groups have experience
collaborating with Native American tribes, cultural organizations such as
GLAMs that focus on Native American content, or educators that teach Native
American languages, history, or culture?

Thanks,

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] New video series on the Wikimedia Education Program... and its leaders!

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Hi Tighe,

My post, if I write one, will probably be available in early September. If
you want to publish a blog entry of your own before then, I won't hold the
train. (:

Pine

On Aug 16, 2016 08:22, "Tighe Flanagan" <tflana...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi Pine and James,
>
> We're hoping to get a blog post together soon with the help of some of the
> members of the Education Collab.
>
> @Pine, that said, we'd be happy to have these videos shared whenever
> relevant or useful. If you think it could complement your blog (with the
> right framing, for the reasons you mention in your mail like audiences,
> styles, etc), go for it. Or we may have a blog by then that you could
> reference or refer to (depending on when you expect to publish your next
> update… and depending on when we get said blog post up).
>
> Cheers,
> Tighe
>
> --
> Tighe Flanagan
> Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
> Wikimedia Foundation
> tflana...@wikimedia.org
> education.wikimedia.org
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:42 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If it would help, I could incorporate these into a blog post for my next
>> monthly update regarding the LearnWiki video series. However, would linking
>> the two cause confusion because the styles, audiences and scopes are
>> different? Or could those differences be explained in the blog entry?
>>
>> Pinging Ed and Marti to ask how they would feel about a combined blog
>> post.
>>
>> Pine
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2016 14:05, "James Salsman" <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Maria, these are really great! Is there a blog post with the text of
>>> your email below we can link to, please?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Maria Cruz <mc...@wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> > after months of hard work, we are happy to share with all a new video
>>> series
>>> > on the Wikimedia Education Program. You can now watch all 12 episodes
>>> on
>>> > Commons, Youtube and Vimeo.
>>> >
>>> > With this series, we hope to engage new educators in using Wikimedia
>>> > projects in the classroom, as well as promote existing resources to
>>> support
>>> > education programs all over the world, like the Education Program
>>> Toolkit
>>> > and the many brochures for educators.
>>> >
>>> > What is this video series about?
>>> >
>>> > Chapter 1: Introduction and Why do you teach Wikipedia?
>>> > Meet Educators and Wikipedia education leaders from around the world
>>> who
>>> > share why they use Wikipedia in classrooms not just as a way to access
>>> > knowledge, but also a way to develop their students’ capacities,
>>> digital
>>> > know-how and to share knowledge with the world. Learn how the process
>>> turns
>>> > their students from consumers into knowledge producers, leaving behind
>>> > papers that only the teacher reads for articles that the whole world
>>> can
>>> > access.
>>> >
>>> > Chapter 2: What was your first Wikipedia article?
>>> > How did these educators and Wikipedia education leaders get started?
>>> > Starting from light copyediting, to translating, realizing information
>>> of
>>> > interest was missing… and creating new articles!
>>> >
>>> > Chapter 3: The five pillars of Wikipedia
>>> > 5 things you must know before you get started on writing on the
>>> Wikipedia.
>>> > From these 5 rules, the educators reflect on the geopolitical
>>> implications
>>> > of knowledge production, good online behaviour, and even learning to
>>> express
>>> > knowledge the best we can.
>>> >
>>> > Chapter 4: Assignments
>>> > How does using Wikipedia in the classroom work in practice? Educators
>>> and
>>> > Wikipedia education program leaders share different experiences and
>>> ways to
>>> > turn the open online encyclopedia into an educational, active learning
>>> tool.
>>> > … and the importance of explaining what plagiarism is, as well as the
>>> value
>>> > of using good references.
>>> >
>>> > Chapter 5: Brochures and tutorials
>>> > Need a little help? Downloading a few brochures can go a long way into
>>> > learning in more detail how to use Wikipedia as an edtech tool. Follow
>>> t

Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel received a grant to work with Arabic speaking gifted students

[Pine W]

Thanks for the news, Ido. I have heard many good comments about the
Wikipedia Education Program in Israel, and it's nice to see that the
program is expanding. It's also good to see the program build bridges
across languages.

Pine

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 11:34 PM, ido ivri  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are pleased to announce that Wikimedia Israel received a grant from an
> Israeli Charitable Foundation to replicate its successful program of
> working with gifted students on the Hebrew Wikipedia, and expand it to
> gifted Arabic speaking students in Israel to edit Arabic Wikipedia.
>
> We're excited by the opportunity to support work in more languages spoken
> in Israel, as well as expand our reach to new audiences.
>
> In preparation for this grant, Wikimedia Israel team has performed some
> exploratory work in an Arabic speaking school in Israel for the past year,
> and translated the instructional materials to Arabic. This great work has
> been carried on by Shay Katz and Dror Kamir (respectively), and we want to
> take this opportunity to thank them. Last but not least, we want to thank
> Michal who made it through some pretty stressful deadlines for writing and
> submitting the request.
>
> On behalf of the WMIL Board,
>
> Ido Ivri,
> Board Secretary
> Wikimedia Israel
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [GLAM] WikiVoyage, WikiSource, WikiSpecies and WikiNews in education and GLAM

[Pine W]

Thanks everyone, this is good to know. The attention to WikiSource is
interesting and more than I anticipated. My guess is that we all have room
to grow our activities on WikiVoyage and other projects as well.

Those of us who meet at WikiConference North America in October might have
a chance to discuss these issues in person. The conference website is
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Main_Page. The conference organizers
are working on many tasks at the moment. Hopefully session submissions will
be open within the next few weeks. The current plan is to have conference
sessions in both Spanish and English. If you're interested in coming to the
conference, please mark October 7–10 on your calendars.

Pine

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Wikimedia Argentina <
comunicac...@wikimedia.org.ar> wrote:

> Hi Pine,
>
> We made a contest in Wikisource [1]. The results were very good, we made
> 1238 new pages but they´re very few participants. If you need something
> else I would love to chat with you.
>
> Regards.
>
> [1]
> https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Concurso_Wikisource_2016_%28WMAR%29
>
>
> Giselle Bordoy
> Encargada de Comunicación
> *A. C. Wikimedia Argentina*
>
> 2016-07-21 7:19 GMT-03:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Pine.
>> There are some reports here on the Wikisource Community User Group page:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group#Updates
>>
>> Also, if you want some updates make sure to subscribe to the wikisource-l
>> mailing list,
>> when the conversation usually happens.
>> https://*lists*.*wikimedia*.org/*mail*man/*list*info/*wikisource-l*
>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l>
>>
>> Aubrey
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks everyone. I might suggest that we keep a centralized list of
>>> GLAM+STEM and Education projects, probably on the Outreach wiki, to
>>> facilitate awareness and communication. As far as I know, we currently have
>>> no easy way to figure out what projects are planned, are happening, or have
>>> happened. These don't need to be elaborate reports; a simple list of
>>> locations and dates with links to the project pages would be great.
>>>
>>> Alex, is this something that you and Tighe could look into coordinating?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Pine
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Alex Stinson <astin...@wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Pine, et. al.
>>>>
>>>> I am seeing a lot of WikiSource in GLAM projects, including:
>>>>
>>>>- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_NARA
>>>>- https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:BAnQ
>>>>-
>>>>https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Aider_pour_la_livraison_BnF
>>>>- https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Collaborazioni
>>>>
>>>> And I am also hearing about similar projects in Indic languages, though
>>>> not quite as well documented -- I would love to hear about more GLAM
>>>> projects in Wikisource :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone running education or GLAM programs use WikiVoyage,
>>>>> WikiSource, WikiSpecies, or WikiNews in their programs? If so, how do you
>>>>> use them? I can imagine some possibilities for them, but I can't recall
>>>>> ever them being used in education or GLAM programs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Pine
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>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
>>>>
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>>>> other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Which kinds of students are successful in education programs?

[Pine W]

Hi Shai, thanks very much for this information.

Would everyone who has contributed to this thread (Leigh, Lilit, Shai, and
Gabriel) be OK with me copying the content of these emails onto the
Outreach Wiki, and linking to your Wikimedia user accounts on the wiki
page? I will try to find a place for this discussion that makes sense on
Outreach wiki. Once the information is there, I can put links to it from
other locations and/or copy from it to other locations with appropriate
attribution.

Thanks,

Pine

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:13 AM, שי כץ <s...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Sorry I'm joining the correspondence late (this is the period of training
> teachers in Israel, busy days). It is interesting to learn from the
> experience that was gained around the world and different models that were
> developed. I'd be happy to share a few points based on the education
> activity in Israel.
>
> Our main expertise concerns educational tasks of creating new articles,
> and significantly expanding existing ones, in Wikipedia. Here, too,
> experience has shown that for such tasks, level of writing is more
> important than age (as long as the students are not too young, that is,
> their age is over 13 or 14).
>
> Regarding the skills required for such tasks – we defined the following
> skill Check:
>
> 1. Curiosity, the ability to ask questions
>
> 2. Good information literacy - high ability to detect and evaluate
> information sources
>
> 3. A good reading comprehension, including the ability to perform
> critical reading and distinct between important and unimportant data
>
> 4. Good writing skills, including the ability to write clearly and
> correctly, form independent phrases, design the structure of the text,
> synthesize different sources of information, and adjust the writing style
> to the desired genre
>
> Another point that should be noted, is that the ability of young students
> (and generally, of newcomers) to cope with the task of articles writing
> depends not just on their personal abilities, but also the nature of the
> writing subject, the assignment and the training. These are the conclusions
> we reached in this regard:
>
> 1. Writing subjects: young students performs better when they write about
> concrete writing topics, such as persons or heritage sites.
>
> 2. Assignments: young students tend to deal with creating a new content
> unit (a new article or chapter) better than with modifying an existing text.
>
> 3. Training:
>
> a. Young students will need assistance in choosing the writing subject,
> planning the process of work, locating and evaluating sources of
> information and drafting. Therefore, it is important to have a close and
> professional figure that will supervise them (we work with teachers
> especially trained to do it.)
>
> b. If all the students write about a similar topic, it is easier to give
> them detailed guidance, because everyone can get the same recommendations
> regarding the structure and type of information sources. (For example, in
> one of our projects, 50 young students wrote articles on the same topic -
> leading scientists, and thus we were able to produce a uniform training
> brochure
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMIL_-_A_Guide_to_Writing_Articles_about_Awards_Winning_Scientists.pdf>
>  that
> can guide them better in the process of content creation.)
>
> One last point: teachers may be interested in using Wikipedia as a
> pedagogical tool in the context of content creating, but also in the
> context of information consumption. I am attaching a link for a teacher
> guide
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_in_Class_-_Teachers_Guide.pdf>
>  that
> offers teachers the pedagogical use Wikipedia in both these contexts.
>
> Thanks to everyone for sharing information, happy to be a part of this
> correspondence!
>
> Shai Katz
>
> Education Coordinator, Wikimedia Israel
>
> 2016-07-13 22:25 GMT+03:00 Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com>:
>
>> I like how you think. (:
>>
>> Pine
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Lilit Tarkhanyan <
>> lilit.tarkhan...@wikimedia.am> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, Pine, you are right. They are editing mainly Armenian Wiktionary
>>> and we have just begun editing Wikisource but it is an experimental trial
>>> though I think with time we'll succeed again :) There are secondary school
>>> students who simultaneously edit Wikipedia under their
>>> teachers/coordinators' guide but they are hyperactive in Wiktionary. One of
>>> our goals of involving students in editing different wikiprojects is that
>>> we want each student to find a wikipr

[Wikimedia Education] WikiVoyage, WikiSource, WikiSpecies and WikiNews in education and GLAM

[Pine W]

Hello,

Does anyone running education or GLAM programs use WikiVoyage, WikiSource,
WikiSpecies, or WikiNews in their programs? If so, how do you use them? I
can imagine some possibilities for them, but I can't recall ever them being
used in education or GLAM programs.

Thanks,

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Which kinds of students are successful in education programs?

[Pine W]

That is very useful information for me to hear. Thanks Leigh.

I think that Wikimedia Armenia is similarly finding that they can be
successful on projects other than Wikipedia; in their case I believe that
their younger students are having success with Wiktionary.

Pine

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Leigh Thelmadatter 
wrote:

> If we only think about WEP as writing a Wikipedia article as a class
> assignment, then yes, the overriding qualification is writing ability...
> same as for any other volunteer doing that work.
>
> Fortunately, there are other ways to participate... just like any other
> Wikimedian.
>
> I think what it really comes down to is designing a program/activities
> that meet the needs and strengths of students. We saw a long time ago that
> what works for the US and Canada does not necessarily work for other parts
> of the world. Even at the national level, a single model may not work.
>
> At Tec de Monterrey, little of our activity is writing new articles as
> part of coursework and there are various reasons for this based on our
> system and culture. Instead, we focus on students doing their community
> service requirement (WP is a popular option for this) and Semana i (i Week)
> ... when students work on projects instead of going to class.  We do
> translations, photography, video, audio and animation. (still working on
> convincing someone to look into hacking opportunities). These activities
> have worked very well for us so far, and we have excellent contribution
> stats.
>
>
>
>
> --
> From: wiki.p...@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:49:11 -0700
> To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Which kinds of students are successful in
> education programs?
>
>
> Hi Education Program participants,
>
> I am wondering, for purposes of the "LearnWiki" video series, which kinds
> of students tend to be successful in Wikipedia Education Program courses.
> The impression I am getting is that age is less important than writing
> ability. I have heard that some middle school students with strong writing
> abilities can do well on Wikipedia, while 1st and 2nd year college students
> can struggle if their writing skills are weak. Would you agree with that
> assessment?
>
> Are there any "skill checks" that you would recommend educators do with
> their students to make sure that they have the skills necessary for a WEP
> course?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pine
>
>
>
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[Wikimedia Education] Wiki Ed blog post: "Five reasons Wikipedia belongs in History of Science courses"

[Pine W]

Nice blog post:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/06/07/wikipedia-history-science/

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[Wikimedia Education] Wiki Ed blog post: "The Roundup: Drugs and drug policies"

[Pine W]

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/05/09/the-roundup-22-ways-to-think-about-drugs/

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[Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia blog post: '“The potential is huge and waiting to be explored”: Wikipedia for Peace'

[Pine W]

Forwarding an interesting blog post about a wikicamp in Austria:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/12/wikipedia-peace/

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] 6-April-2016 CREDIT call for demos

[Pine W]

Forwarding announcement.
Pine

-- Forwarded message --
From: Adam Baso 
Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:09 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] 6-April-2016 CREDIT call for demos
To: Wikimedia developers 


Hi all,

As I noted recently, we're merging the WMF technical showcase with the
lightning
talks  into what we're
calling *CREDIT .*

The next CREDIT showcase will be 6-April-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100 SF).

Please add your demos to https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT


Thanks!
-Adam
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation & review launches today!

[Pine W]

Forwarding the campaign announcement, and ideas from Aaron Halfaker.

Pine
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From: "Aaron Halfaker" 
Date: Feb 29, 2016 16:00
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation &
review launches today!
To: "Chris Jethro Schilling" 
Cc: "Staff All" , ,
"Wikimedia Mailing List" 

I just finished submitting two ideas that I'd like to advise.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Automated_good-faith_newcomer_detection
Build and deploy a machine learning model for flagging newcomers who are
editing in good-faith. This has the potential to mitigate some of the
secondary, demotivational effects when good-faith newcomers' work passes
through curation/review processes.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Fast_and_slow_new_article_review
Concerns about the introduction of spam into Wikipedia has lead Wikipedians
towards implementing high speed new article review/curation processes. The
speed at which editors tag articles for deletion via these processes is
great for dealing with spam, but it might also be faster that good-faith
new article creators can build their articles. We could build a machine
learning classifier that is tuned to detect spammy article drafts. This
would allow the new pages queue to be split into a high-speed spammy
article review, and a low-speed article review that allows creators time to
make a better first draft.

I'll submit some more when I can.  :)

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschill...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce the launch of the second Inspire Campaign for
> IdeaLab.[1]  The theme of this campaign is focused on improving tasks
> related to content curation & review in our projects:
>
> 
>
> Reviewing and organizing tasks are fundamental to all WIkimedia projects,
> and these efforts maintain and directly improve the quality of our
projects
> in addition to increasing the visibility of their content.  We invite
> everyone to participate by sharing your ideas and proposals on how to
> enhance these efforts. Constructive feedback and collaboration on ideas is
> encouraged - your skills and advice can elevate a project into action. The
> campaign runs until 29 March.
>
> All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions,
> community organizing and outreach, or something completely new! Grants are
> available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects developed during this
> campaign that need financial support.[2]  Google Hangout sessions are
> available in March if you'd like to have a conversation about your
ideas.[3]
>
> Join the Inspire Campaign and let’s work together to improve review and
> curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and
> accessible.
>
> With thanks,
>
> Jethro
>
> [1] You can learn more about the results of the first Inspire Campaign
> here: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign>
> [2] 
> [3]   (Note: If
> another time would work better for you, feel free to e-mail me or ping me
> on-wiki).
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikimedia-l] A Massive Online Open Course about Wikipedia

[Pine W]

Forwarding some info from our colleagues in Wikimedia France to the
Education mailing list. (:

Pine

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Berard Myriam 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> For a few months now, 15 French-speaking Wikipedia editors, supported by
> Wikimédia France, have been working to design a Massive Online Open Course,
> to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and discover more about the way it
> works.
>
> The WikiMOOC lasts for 5 weeks (with 2,5h of work/ week, including the
> duration of the courses). You can check out the project page on Wikipedia
> [1].
>
> The registration for this WikiMOOC opens today, on the FUN [2] platform
> (powered by the Ministry of Education and Research, in France) !
>
> The courses will start on February 22nd, 2016.
>
> Do not hesitate to share this information to all French-speaking
> communities you might know of. Please, note that it is possible to stay
> tuned via WikiMOOC's Twitter[3] and Facebook[4] accounts.
>
> Here is a short trailer about the WikiMOOC in French :) Enjoy ! [5]
>
> Please, feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions,
>
>
> Jules Xénard jules.xen...@wikimedia.fr
>
> Wikimédia France
>
> [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:WikiMOOC
>
> [2]
>
> https://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/WMFr/86001/session01/about
>
> [3] https://twitter.com/wikimooc
> [4] https://www.facebook.com/Wikimooc/
> [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=assiAnG3lv4
>
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] February 2016 Lightning Talks

[Pine W]

Lightning talks start in about 5 minutes. Public link at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc

Optional IRC participation in #wikimedia-tech. (Note, not #wikimedia-office)

Cheers,

Pine

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Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that the February Lightning Talks
 start in
*25 minutes.*

Come join us in the 5th Floor Collab Space or follow along here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc

IRC: #wikimedia-tech

Hope to see you there!
Megan


On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Kevin Leduc  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
> The next Lightning Talks are scheduled for February 16th (two weeks from
> today).  We hope at least 4 people will sign up for the talks by Friday
> February 12th otherwise we will postpone them another month.  Lightning
> Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF & in the Community to showcase
> something they have achieved:  a quarterly goal, milestone, release, or
> anything of significance to the rest of the foundation and the movement as
> a whole.
>
>
> Each presentation will be 10 minutes or less including time for questions.
>
> Sign up here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016
>
>
> Next round of Lightning Talks:
>
> When: Tuesday February 16, 1900 UTC
> <
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lightning+Talks=20160216T19=1440=1
>,
> 11am PST (We have added this Lightning Talk to the WMF Engineering, Fun &
> Learning, and Staff calendars)
>
> Where: 5th Floor
>
> Remotees: On-Air google hangout will be provided just before the meeting
>
> IRC: #wikimedia-tech
>
> YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: February 2016 Lightning Talks

[Pine W]

Reminder that these lightning talks are happening tomorrow, Tuesday
February 16, at 1900 UTC / 11:00 AM Pacific. Because there are 3 presenters
and a 1-hour block of time, each presenter has about 15 minutes including
time for questions. We might finish early.

On the agenda:

* Pine: "LearnWIki" Instructional video series on Wikipedia mechanics
(Including VE and citoid) and community practices
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia/January_message_to_village_pumps>

* Madhu Viswanathan: "Counting unique devices accessing Wikipedia projects
using Last access method"

* Rosemary Rein: "Program Capacity and Learning-Building a Roadmap Together"
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Program_Capacity_and_Learning_Roadmap_-_Office_Hours_Feb_16.pdf>

Hope to see you there!

Pine



On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Kevin Leduc <ke...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Thanks for forwarding Pine!  I welcome any 10 minute talks from GLAM and
> Education as well.  If you add your name to the list [1], email me as well
> so I can contact you and forward notes for Lightning Talk speakers.
>
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Boldly forwarding* in case others would like to view or present a
>> lightning talk. I plan to give a lightning talk about the video series
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia/January_message_to_village_pumps>
>> which I'm in the process of producing with the support of an individual
>> engagement grant.
>>
>> Although these talks can be about technical topics like video formats, I
>> think that there are education and GLAM activities that could fit under the
>> umbrella as well, especially if they have technical or research aspects.
>> For example, I'll probably focus much of my presentation on my background
>> research and project design process.
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>> Pine
>>
>> * To boldly forward where no one has forwarded before
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Kevin Leduc <ke...@wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:23 PM
>> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: February 2016 Lightning Talks
>> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Kevin Leduc <ke...@wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM
>> Subject: February 2016 Lightning Talks
>> To: "Staff (All)" <wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> The next Lightning Talks are scheduled for February 16th (two weeks from
>> today).  We hope at least 4 people will sign up for the talks by Friday
>> February 12th otherwise we will postpone them another month.  Lightning
>> Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF & in the Community to showcase
>> something they have achieved:  a quarterly goal, milestone, release, or
>> anything of significance to the rest of the foundation and the movement as
>> a whole.
>>
>>
>> Each presentation will be 10 minutes or less including time for questions.
>>
>> Sign up here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016
>>
>>
>> Next round of Lightning Talks:
>>
>> When: Tuesday February 16, 1900 UTC
>> <
>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lightning+Talks=20160216T19=1440=1
>> >,
>> 11am PST (We have added this Lightning Talk to the WMF Engineering, Fun &
>> Learning, and Staff calendars)
>>
>> Where: 5th Floor
>>
>> Remotees: On-Air google hangout will be provided just before the meeting
>>
>> IRC: #wikimedia-tech
>>
>> YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kevin Leduc, Megan Neisler, Brendan Campbell
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[Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia participation from middle schoolers and boy scouts

[Pine W]

Hi Education folks,

I recently met a U.S. Boy Scout leader here in the U.S. I believe that I
heard that a boy scout one earned a merit badge by way of Wikipedia
contributions, so I mentioned this to the scout leader and encouraged him
to follow up with me about the possibility of scouts creating or editing
content on Wikipedia (and possibly Commons). Boy scouts are typically in
grades 6 through 12, and are normally to ages 12 to 17. I am wondering if
anyone has had experience with introducing Wikimedia in the middle school
age group, because it sounds like this scout leader has scouts in his unit
that are of that age. I am thinking that there might be an opportunity here
to get at least one group of scouts involved with creating or editing
Wikimedia content that is related to their scouting interests. For example,
it might be nice if they would take photos of their outdoor activities and
upload them to Commons, or write about wilderness skills and environmental
conservation activities.

Thanks,

Pine
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: February 2016 Lightning Talks

[Pine W]

Boldly forwarding* in case others would like to view or present a lightning
talk. I plan to give a lightning talk about the video series

which I'm in the process of producing with the support of an individual
engagement grant.

Although these talks can be about technical topics like video formats, I
think that there are education and GLAM activities that could fit under the
umbrella as well, especially if they have technical or research aspects.
For example, I'll probably focus much of my presentation on my background
research and project design process.

Hope to see you there!
Pine

* To boldly forward where no one has forwarded before

-- Forwarded message --
From: Kevin Leduc 
Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:23 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: February 2016 Lightning Talks
To: Wikimedia developers 


-- Forwarded message --
From: Kevin Leduc 
Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM
Subject: February 2016 Lightning Talks
To: "Staff (All)" 


Hi All,


The next Lightning Talks are scheduled for February 16th (two weeks from
today).  We hope at least 4 people will sign up for the talks by Friday
February 12th otherwise we will postpone them another month.  Lightning
Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF & in the Community to showcase
something they have achieved:  a quarterly goal, milestone, release, or
anything of significance to the rest of the foundation and the movement as
a whole.


Each presentation will be 10 minutes or less including time for questions.

Sign up here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016


Next round of Lightning Talks:

When: Tuesday February 16, 1900 UTC
<
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lightning+Talks=20160216T19=1440=1
>,
11am PST (We have added this Lightning Talk to the WMF Engineering, Fun &
Learning, and Staff calendars)

Where: 5th Floor

Remotees: On-Air google hangout will be provided just before the meeting

IRC: #wikimedia-tech

YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc


Thanks!

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Office hour regarding "Motivational and educational video to introduce Wikimedia"

[Pine W]

Update: the office hour will be at 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern / 7 PM UTC
on Monday, January 25. We'll meet in #wikimedia-office.

Hope to see you then,
Pine

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I will have an office hour regarding the development of the Motivational
> and educational video to introduce Wikimedia
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia>
> project. I would appreciate your comments and questions about:
>
> * The outline of the subjects that will be included in the videos
> * Good practices for onboarding newcomers that may be leveraged in the
> video series
> * What to name the video series when it is released to the general public
> * Translation of the public communications related to the videos, and
> translation of the script
> * Anything else related to the series
>
> Please participate in a Doodle poll to help with scheduling the office
> hour: http://doodle.com/poll/eu4m62ccdq4senuv
>
> I also welcome questions and comments on the project talk page
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia>
> .
>
> Thank you!
>
> Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News

[Pine W]

Thank you for reminding me of that!

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <
ssny...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I'm unaware of any in English, but there may have been efforts in other
> languages.  I know that User:Ocaasi was asked to do this with The Wikipedia
> Adventure a while ago.
>
> The most recent documentation effort in English can be found at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_editing_with_VisualEditor/1
>  It is not an interactive program.
>
>
> --
> Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder
> Community Liaison
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe that was being planned but fell by the wayside. Pinging Sherry
>> to see if she knows.
>>
>> Pine
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Vojtěch Dostál <
>> vojtech.dos...@wikimedia.cz> wrote:
>>
>>> For anyone interested, we also incorporated Citoid into the
>>> Wikipedia:Tutorial page:
>>> https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Pr%C5%AFvodce
>>> (and yes, the Czech tutorial now almost completely deals with
>>> VisualEditor, except for discussion page guidelines where VE is not
>>> enabled).
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if there are GuidedTours using VisualEditor? That would
>>> be lovely.
>>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Guided_tours)
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Vojtěch Dostál
>>>
>>> předseda rady / chairman of the board
>>> Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
>>> http://www.wikimedia.cz
>>> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter
>>> <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter
>>> <http://eepurl.com/FsHJr>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-09-02 2:01 GMT+02:00 Anna Koval <ako...@wikimedia.org>:
>>>
>>>> Yep, Leigh, woohoo indeed. :)
>>>>
>>>> Whatamidoing (WMF) confirms that citoid is configured on es.wiki. [1]
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Pine and Vojtěch.
>>>>
>>>> Happy referencing, everyone. :)
>>>>
>>>> Anna
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid#cite_note-2
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Anna Koval, M.Ed.
>>>> Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> +1.415.839.6885 x 6729
>>>> Skype: annakoval.wiki
>>>> ako...@wikimedia.org
>>>> education.wikimedia.org
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter <
>>>> osama...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> whoohoo!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 13:10:01 -0700
>>>>> From: wiki.p...@gmail.com
>>>>> To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in
>>>>> VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  I just tried this on ESWP. With VisualEditor enabled, it does work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pine
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Vojtěch Dostál <
>>>>> vojtech.dos...@wikimedia.cz> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You need to (get someone to) install the citoid:
>>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
>>>>>
>>>>> Vojtěch Dostál
>>>>>
>>>>> předseda rady / chairman of the board
>>>>> Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
>>>>> http://www.wikimedia.cz
>>>>> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter
>>>>> <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter
>>>>> <http://eepurl.com/FsHJr>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2015-09-01 22:04 GMT+02:00 Leigh Thelmadatter <osama...@hotmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this true in all languages?  es.wiki until now at least has not
>>>>> been able to process doi or pmid script references.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:27:39 -0700
>>>>> From: wiki.p...@gmail.com
>>>>> To: glam...@lists.wikimedia.org; g...

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News

[Pine W]

I believe that was being planned but fell by the wayside. Pinging Sherry to
see if she knows.

Pine

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Vojtěch Dostál <
vojtech.dos...@wikimedia.cz> wrote:

> For anyone interested, we also incorporated Citoid into the
> Wikipedia:Tutorial page:
> https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Pr%C5%AFvodce
> (and yes, the Czech tutorial now almost completely deals with
> VisualEditor, except for discussion page guidelines where VE is not
> enabled).
>
> Does anyone know if there are GuidedTours using VisualEditor? That would
> be lovely.
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Guided_tours)
> thanks
>
> Vojtěch Dostál
>
> předseda rady / chairman of the board
> Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
> http://www.wikimedia.cz
> Facebook  | Twitter
>  | Newsletter 
>
>
> 2015-09-02 2:01 GMT+02:00 Anna Koval :
>
>> Yep, Leigh, woohoo indeed. :)
>>
>> Whatamidoing (WMF) confirms that citoid is configured on es.wiki. [1]
>>
>> Thanks, Pine and Vojtěch.
>>
>> Happy referencing, everyone. :)
>>
>> Anna
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid#cite_note-2
>>
>> --
>>
>> Anna Koval, M.Ed.
>> Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> +1.415.839.6885 x 6729
>> Skype: annakoval.wiki
>> ako...@wikimedia.org
>> education.wikimedia.org
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> whoohoo!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 13:10:01 -0700
>>> From: wiki.p...@gmail.com
>>> To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in
>>> VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News
>>>
>>>
>>>  I just tried this on ESWP. With VisualEditor enabled, it does work.
>>>
>>> Pine
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Vojtěch Dostál <
>>> vojtech.dos...@wikimedia.cz> wrote:
>>>
>>> You need to (get someone to) install the citoid:
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
>>>
>>> Vojtěch Dostál
>>>
>>> předseda rady / chairman of the board
>>> Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
>>> http://www.wikimedia.cz
>>> Facebook  | Twitter
>>>  | Newsletter
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-09-01 22:04 GMT+02:00 Leigh Thelmadatter :
>>>
>>> Is this true in all languages?  es.wiki until now at least has not been
>>> able to process doi or pmid script references.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:27:39 -0700
>>> From: wiki.p...@gmail.com
>>> To: glam...@lists.wikimedia.org; g...@lists.wikimedia.org;
>>> education@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> CC: werespielchequ...@gmail.com
>>> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in
>>> VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News
>>>
>>> A little good news for GLAM and education folks:
>>>
>>> "VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or
>>> paste an ISBN
>>> , PMID
>>> , or RFC
>>> .
>>> [1] [2]"
>>> 
>>>
>>> Pine
>>>
>>>
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[Wikimedia Education] Unreliable sources? Pay-to-publish science journals and too-trusting popular news outlets

[Pine W]

Food for thought for those interested in the quality and reliability of
references:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/28/410313446/why-a-journalist-scammed-the-media-into-spreading-bad-chocolate-science

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Analytics] What Wikimedia Research is up to in the next quarter

[Pine W]

Forwarding because of the University of Washington and Stanford connections.

Pine

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From: Dario Taraborelli 
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:16 PM
Subject: [Analytics] What Wikimedia Research is up to in the next quarter
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <
wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>, wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org, "A
mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an
interest in Wikipedia and analytics." 


Hey all,

I’m glad to announce that the Wikimedia Research team’s goals

for
the next quarter (January - March 2016) are up on wiki.

The Research and Data
 team
will continue to work with our volunteers and collaborators on revision
scoring as a service  adding
support for 5 new languages and prototyping new models (including an edit
type classifier
).
We will also continue to iterate on the design of article creation
recommendations
,
running a dedicated campaign in coordination with existing editathons to
improve the quality of these recommendations. Finally, we will extend a
research project we started in November aimed at understanding the behavior
of Wikipedia readers

, by combining qualitative survey data with behavioral analysis from our
HTTP request logs.

The Design Research
 team
will conduct an in-depth study of user needs (particularly readers) on the
ground in February. We will continue to work with other Wikimedia
Engineering teams throughout the quarter to ensure the adoption of
human-centered design principles and pragmatic personas
 in our
product development cycle. We’re also excited to start a collaboration

with
students at the University of Washington to understand what free online
information resources (including, but not limited to, Wikimedia projects)
students use.

I am also glad to report that two papers on link and article
recommendations (the result of a formal collaboration with a team at
Stanford) were accepted for presentation at WSDM '16 and WWW ’16 (preprints
will be made available shortly). An overview on revision scoring as a
service
 was
published a few weeks ago on the Wikimedia blog, and got some good media
coverage

.

We're constantly looking for contributors and as usual we welcome feedback
on these projects via the corresponding talk pages on Meta. You can contact
us for any question on IRC via the #wikimedia-research channel and follow
@WikiResearch  on Twitter for the latest
Wikipedia and Wikimedia research updates hot off the press.

Wishing you all happy holidays,

Dario and Abbey on behalf of the team


*Dario Taraborelli  *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter


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[Wikimedia Education] Video of participants of Wikipedia Education Program in Ayb High School, Armenia

[Pine W]

Another wonderful video from a Wikipedia education program, this time via
Wikimedia Armenia:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_in_Ayb_High_School.ogv

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[Wikimedia Education] Two reports on Internet-centric education from PBS

[Pine W]

Here are two reports that seem to describe a pedagogy that has similarities
to the "flipped classroom" approach, and perhaps would be of interest to
instructors in the Wikipedia Education Program:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/given-internet-access-can-kids-really-learn-anything-by-themselves/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/meet-an-education-innovator-who-says-knowledge-is-becoming-obsolete/

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[Wikimedia Education] Collaborative learning in Wikipedia education

[Pine W]

Wikipedia education program courses that are intended to foster
collaborative learning and subject mastery would seem to fit well with the
views expressed in this NYTimes piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/upshot/how-the-modern-workplace-has-become-more-like-preschool.html

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Issues finding tools to measure UNESCO project

[Pine W]

Hi John,

You might also try contacting the GLAM, Commons, Multimedia, and/or Labs
mailing lists to ask for suggestions, and/or put out a request in the GLAM
newsletter.

Pine
On Oct 4, 2015 2:54 AM, "john cummings" <mrjohncummi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anna
>
> Thanks, if you have any suggestions for additional tools to provide for
> contributors or any metrics you think I should use for reporting please do
> add them to the list.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
> On 2 October 2015 at 21:04, Anna Koval <ako...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> @Pine, thanks for your reply to John and the tip to ask Leila (not
>> Lila!). ;) It's much appreciated.
>>
>> @John, your metrics tools list [1] is helpful. I saw some tools there
>> that were new(s) to me. BaGLAMa 2 [2], for example. Could that or something
>> similar be used to collect pageviews stats en masse for categories of
>> Commons files uploaded by students in WEPs? Here's one such category from
>> the WEP Tec de Monterrey. [3] Manually mathing out the file totals to get a
>> category total would be painful, imo. There must be an easier way. We have
>> so many tools as a movement, though not all are well used or even well
>> known. Thanks for asking this question on-list so that we all will benefit
>> from the answer. Metrics and measurement matter. It's good that we're
>> talking about how to do so -- smarter not harder.
>>
>> Anna
>>
>> [1]
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Cummings/Planning_UNESCO_metrics
>> [2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/index.html
>> [3]
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Student_photos_taken_for_Experiencias_Retadoras_Spring_2015
>>
>> Anna Koval, M.Ed.
>> Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> +1.415.839.6885 x 6729
>> Skype: annakoval.wiki
>> ako...@wikimedia.org
>> education.wikimedia.org
>>
>> --
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:23 AM, john cummings <mrjohncummi...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Pine
>>>
>>> Hi Leila
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated, I seem to have got very stuck,
>>> there are some fairly basic things I would like to measure and the tools to
>>> do so either don't exist or I don't know about them.
>>>
>>> All the best
>>>
>>> John
>>> On 2 Oct 2015 17:36, "Pine W" <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> Those are some good suggestions for tools. I would like to suggest that
>>>> you contact Leila (not Lila!) who I think has been doing some work with
>>>> suggested articles for translation. She may have some ideas for you.
>>>> Regarding your questions for multimedia, I would like to suggest that you
>>>> email those questions to the Multimedia mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck,
>>>> Pine
>>>> On Oct 2, 2015 3:42 AM, "john cummings" <mrjohncummi...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All
>>>>>
>>>>> This is my first time posing on this list, I'm sorry if it is perhaps
>>>>> a little off topic. I'm currently Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO and
>>>>> plan to run an online collaboration, a little bit like a short term
>>>>> Wikiproject with two main goals:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>- Help organise reuse of UNESCO content on Wikimedia projects
>>>>>(UNESCO has released content under an open license and will do more
>>>>>shortly).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>- Help improve content on Wikimedia of the subjects of UNESCO
>>>>>programmes e.g the World Heritage Sites.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been planning ways that I can use tools to:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>- Organise work for contributors across all languages
>>>>>- Provide contributors feedback on their contributions (e.g page
>>>>>views for all contributions combined)
>>>>>- Measure success of the project.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been doing this on wiki here
>>>>>
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Cummings/Planning_UNESCO_metrics
>>>>>
>>>>> In short I'm finding it very hard to find the tools needed, I h

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Education extension blocked?

[Pine W]

That is a good point, Revi. And this is the kind of mess that makes me
discouraged sometimes. But I think that James' involvement will be helpful
here, as will a possible migration plan to a maintained tool.

(I've noticed a pattern recently of a few people separately deciding that
they're not going to maintain certain tools or projects any longer. This
maintainability problem really needs to be addressed, and is something that
I'm hoping a CTO or VPE would address head-on.)

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Yongmin Hong  wrote:

>
> 2015. 9. 30. 오전 3:52에 "Floor Koudijs" 님이 작성:
> >
> >
> > The option that we are currently considering (and I cannot yet guarantee
> a timeline or anything like that because we're in the middle of the
> planning phase) is adapting the Wiki Ed Foundation's Dashboard to make it
> fit for international use. See the Phabricator task here, and the related
> Phabricator project. We would like to make this a feature project for the
> next round of Outreachy, which means that we'll have a dedicated intern to
> work on this project full time for three months, with the support of two
> mentors. If this works out as I hope it will, we may have something ready
> before the next academic year - but again, no hard guarantees here. I am
> currently working on getting the project shaped up, looking into mentors
> and confirming with possible interns.
> >
> > Two important points that were addressed in this thread:
> > * Have community involvement early on. I really love this idea, and I'm
> very grateful you're bringing this up and keep reminding us not to forget
> about that. What I'd personally love to see is a group that can be involved
> in advice, user testing and anything else on the user end that we may need.
> I'm copying Quim Gil on this email to see if this fits within the scope of
> Outreachy, as he may have some ideas around how to organize this best. We
> would have to be careful not too derail the project with too ambitious
> ideas and suggestions, and focusing on attainable and concrete tasks for
> the intern to work on. That said, having several minds involved in this
> with different backgrounds could be hugely valuable, in my opinion.
> > * Think about maintenance. This is what I'm currently looking into,
> since it's clear that the issue is not so much developing new tools, but
> also looking ahead and making sure there will be ongoing support for these
> tools. That's a longer discussion that wwill take place in parallel to the
> development of the tool itself. This may not sound reassuring, but please
> trust that it's foremost in all of our minds at WMF - we already have
> enough tools out there that don't get the proper support, and we really
> don't want to build more.
> >
>
> I seriously doubt that the software will be maintained after the
> internship period if this is Outreachy project.
> The likely workflow:
> 1.The Outreachy term ends
> 2.User disappear/become inactive
> 3.We are going to get this same message again at some stage after new
> security vulnerability is found.
>
> Well, yeah, Flow, LQT, (ironic both tools are going to be not be
> developed)[1] etc etc.
>
> [1]: context: Flow was developed with the purpose of 'replacing LQT/make
> discussion easier' but I feel if they succeded to replace LQT fully.
> (disclaimer: Flow is "not active development mode" according to the WMF
> team.)
>
> --
> revi
> https://revi.me
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Seeking comments and translations for proposed video project

[Pine W]

Thanks Shani! Would you please add yourself to the list of translation
volunteers here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia#Participants>
?

Pine

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Shani <shani.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Pine.
>
> A wonderful and important initiative.
> I'll try to get it translated to Hebrew as well, when ready.
> Do keep us posted, and maybe direct us regarding specific points you'd
> like feedback on.
>
> Thanks much,
> Shani.
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (Forwarding a request from August that missed Education-l due to
>> technical difficulties)
>>
>> Dear Wikimedia colleagues:
>>
>> I am developing a proposal for a video series that's designed to
>> introduce Wikimedia to new contributors (particularly in GLAM and education
>> programs), and to motivate them to participate in the community in a
>> constructive way. I would appreciate your input. The video is intended for
>> translation into multiple languages; there are already volunteers for
>> Spanish and German translation.
>>
>> The proposal's main draft page is here:
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia
>>
>> The proposal talk page is here; it includes a draft outline of specific
>> subjects to cover:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants
>> talk:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia
>>
>> Please note that the scope and budget of the project are still under
>> consideration. At this point it would be especially helpful to have input
>> on the subjects that the video should cover, and how best to cover them.
>> This information will help as the project scope and budget are refined.
>>
>> Please add your questions and comments to the talk page.
>>
>> If you would like to support the project with your endorsement, please do
>> so here:
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia#Endorsements
>>
>> If you would like to volunteer to translate the video, please email me or
>> comment on the talk page.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Pine
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Seeking comments and translations for proposed video project

[Pine W]

Volunteering to help coordinate translation still counts as volunteering.
:) You can note that you might or might not personally do the translation,
but will try to recruit when the time comes (likely in the first quarter of
2016).

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Shani <shani.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, can't promise that i'll have the time to translate myself,
> but can certainly try engaging others to do so. Have already notifies WM-IL
> board about this important initiative and when it comes to it, I'll try to
> find a voluteer to help out. So, not sure that still qualifies.. if it
> does, then gladly.. :-)
> On 27 Sep 2015 01:35, "Pine W" <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Shani! Would you please add yourself to the list of translation
>> volunteers here
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia#Participants>
>> ?
>>
>> Pine
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Shani <shani.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Pine.
>>>
>>> A wonderful and important initiative.
>>> I'll try to get it translated to Hebrew as well, when ready.
>>> Do keep us posted, and maybe direct us regarding specific points you'd
>>> like feedback on.
>>>
>>> Thanks much,
>>> Shani.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> (Forwarding a request from August that missed Education-l due to
>>>> technical difficulties)
>>>>
>>>> Dear Wikimedia colleagues:
>>>>
>>>> I am developing a proposal for a video series that's designed to
>>>> introduce Wikimedia to new contributors (particularly in GLAM and education
>>>> programs), and to motivate them to participate in the community in a
>>>> constructive way. I would appreciate your input. The video is intended for
>>>> translation into multiple languages; there are already volunteers for
>>>> Spanish and German translation.
>>>>
>>>> The proposal's main draft page is here:
>>>>
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia
>>>>
>>>> The proposal talk page is here; it includes a draft outline of specific
>>>> subjects to cover:
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants
>>>> talk:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia
>>>>
>>>> Please note that the scope and budget of the project are still under
>>>> consideration. At this point it would be especially helpful to have input
>>>> on the subjects that the video should cover, and how best to cover them.
>>>> This information will help as the project scope and budget are refined.
>>>>
>>>> Please add your questions and comments to the talk page.
>>>>
>>>> If you would like to support the project with your endorsement, please
>>>> do so here:
>>>>
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia#Endorsements
>>>>
>>>> If you would like to volunteer to translate the video, please email me
>>>> or comment on the talk page.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>>
>>>> Pine
>>>>
>>>>
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Upcoming press release to celebrate 5 million articles on English Wikipedia

[Pine W]

Please see below.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
From: Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:41 PM
Subject: Upcoming press release to celebrate 5 million articles on English
Wikipedia

Dear colleagues,

Aligned with discussions at the Wikimedia Conference about coordinating
press releases around the world, I would like to invite you to participate
in the drafting and upcoming publication of a community-written press
release that celebrates English Wikipedia's milestone of 5 million
articles. I particularly extend this invitation to affiliates which are
located in areas where English (in any dialect) is a primary, official, or
common language.

Drafting and discussion are happening here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#5_millionth_article_celebration:_community_press_release.2C_video.2C_open_letter.2C_and_site_banner

Please ask your affiliates to participate in a near-simultaneous press
release from interested affiliates and WMF on the day that English
Wikipedia reaches 5 million articles.

Please make sure that your affiliate's contact information is current on
Meta so that it can be included in the press release. Journalists may wish
to speak with representatives of your organization about the press release
and about Wikipedia in general.

This event offers and opportunity to raise public awareness of Wikipedia in
general and our many accomplishments, as well as the many challenges and
opportunities ahead of us to make English Wikipedia in particular be more
accurate, friendly, inclusive, accessible, reputable, and comprehensive.

Regards,

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[Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News

[Pine W]

A little good news for GLAM and education folks:

"VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or
paste an ISBN
, PMID
, or RFC
.
[1] [2]"


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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News

[Pine W]

 I just tried this on ESWP. With VisualEditor enabled, it does work.

Pine


On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Vojtěch Dostál 
wrote:

> You need to (get someone to) install the citoid:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
>
> Vojtěch Dostál
>
> předseda rady / chairman of the board
> Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
> http://www.wikimedia.cz
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>
> 2015-09-01 22:04 GMT+02:00 Leigh Thelmadatter :
>
>> Is this true in all languages?  es.wiki until now at least has not been
>> able to process doi or pmid script references.
>>
>> --
>> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:27:39 -0700
>> From: wiki.p...@gmail.com
>> To: glam...@lists.wikimedia.org; g...@lists.wikimedia.org;
>> education@lists.wikimedia.org
>> CC: werespielchequ...@gmail.com
>> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Improved reference handling in
>> VisualEditor, highlighted in this week's Tech News
>>
>> A little good news for GLAM and education folks:
>>
>> "VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or
>> paste an ISBN
>> , PMID
>> , or RFC
>> .
>> [1] [2]"
>> 
>>
>> Pine
>>
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: WikiConference USA coming in October 2015

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(Cross-posting)

-- Forwarded message --
From: Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:17 PM
Subject: WikiConference USA coming in October 2015
To: Wikimedia-announce wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org,
Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) 
wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wiki Research-l 
wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi Wikimedians,

WikiConference USA 2015 will be held *October 9–11* at the U.S. National
Archives in Washington, D.C.

Registration and scholarship applications are open. Session proposals may
be submitted.

Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org


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[Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia in Education video from Mexico

[Pine W]

I appreciated this video from our colleagues at Wiki Learning Tec de
Monterrey. I tried to send this awhile back but was having technical
difficulties with Mailman, so I hope that this post reaches the Education
mailing list. I hope that others also enjoy this video.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tec-de-monterrey-student-activities-in-wikimedia.webm


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Re: [Wikimedia Education] comments on Annual Plan

[Pine W]

Hi James,

I think that I understand your proposal better now. Thanks.

Rather than involving Lila at this stage, I would like to suggest that you
talk directly to the Wiki Ed Foundation if you haven't already. Please do
let me know how they respond. Good-faith paid editing is a subject that
seems to be bubbling up in a number of places recently.

Thanks,
Pine
On Jun 5, 2015 2:35 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Pine, sure, the WikiEd Foundation is able to pay for fact checking
 without risking the Wikimedia Foundation's safe harbor. The funding
 model was originally going to be to crowdsourced, but now that I have
 relatively more money than time, I am probably going to pay for the
 bot development work out of pocket myself, but still plan to set up
 something along the lines of http://imgur.com/a/Pp2zr to pay for the
 fact checkers. The WikiEd Foundation has an interest in making sure
 that their students' work is not degrading the accuracy of the
 encyclopedia, and this provides them an easy way to do so.

 As for your final question, why should Lila not be involved in this
 discussion? Weren't you just a few days ago saying that the annual
 plan comment period should be longer and more inclusive? But I guess
 the best answer is that, if the WikiEd Foundation isn't interested in
 general accuracy review for work other than by their students, then a
 second spin-off foundation is probably going to be necessary.


 On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi James,
 
  I understand that WMF can't do much content work without risking its DCMA
  safe harbor, and I understand that fact checking even if paid might be a
 net
  benefit to the project. But I'm not sure how that relates to the
 Education
  mailing list, what funding model you are proposing for this work, why the
  Wiki Ed Foundation would want to include this kind of fact checking
 within
  its scope of work even if the funding was readily available, and why Lila
  would be involved in this discussion. Can you clarify those points?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Pine
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:42 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  P.S. Report is at
 http://people.aifb.kit.edu/ffl//wikiwho/fp715-floeck.pdf
  and further docs at http://f-squared.org/wikiwho/
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:25 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
 wrote:
   Hi Aaron and Pine,
  
   Please see
  
 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2015-May/031684.html
  
   I was thrilled to see Maribel Acosta's WikiWho check-in for
   Mediawiki-Utilities today, and I hope you are, too:
   https://github.com/maribelacosta/wikiwho/pull/3
  
   I intend to raise money independently so that someone such as Maribel
   or perhaps one of her colleagues recommended by Fabian Flöck can work
   on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
  
   Once that is complete, the project calls for human fact checkers to
   work on the suggested passages for proofreading and fact checking
   review. I intend to raise money for them, too, but I understand that
   the WMF can't have any part of hiring them to preserve the safe harbor
   DMCA provisions. Earlier in the year, I administered qualifying
   examinations to hundreds of fact checker candidates, and have
   transferred the results of those examinations to Lila and Dario, in
   case I get run over by a bus, and also so that they can independently
   confirm the quality of the examination process, questions, and
   responses which they should have.
  
   Aaron, can you please confirm that Lila and Dario have those and don't
   need anything more from me to read them? I would love to do this
   myself, but I will be very busy through the end of the year.
  
   Best regards,
   James
  
  
   On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Aaron Halfaker
   aaron.halfa...@gmail.com wrote:
   Hi James,
  
   I've been away traveling for the last couple of weeks.  Regretfully,
 I
   don't
   know what you are talking about.  I see that a link was censored
 from a
   previous email in the thread.
  
   What exactly are you hoping for?  That we'll dedicate some researcher
   time
   to a specific project?  Maybe you're just looking for feedback.  I
 see
   you
   mention hiring people -- but for what purpose?
  
   -Aaron
  
   On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:11 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
   wrote:
  
   P.S. I mean, the WMF can't hire them but the WEF can, and I hope
 they
   do
   soon to complement the accuracy metric without expenditure.
  
  
   On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  
   Hi Aaron,
  
   Could you please confirm that Lila and Dario are in receipt of the
   fact-checker candidate list and associated materials? Please
 remember
   that
   the WEF can't hire them but the WikiEd Foundation has not yet
   achieved
   IdeaLab technology, so your assistance may still be required. Thank
   you for
   your patience.
  
   Best regards,
   James Salsman

[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia-Europe PMC hackathon

[Pine W]

Forwarding to the Education list in case anyone who teaches science with
Wikipedia is interested.

Pine
-- Forwarded message --
From: Dan Bolser dan.bol...@gmail.com
Date: Jun 9, 2015 2:03 AM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia-Europe PMC hackathon
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities 
wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc:

Sorry if this is the wrong list, please feel free to distribute as
appropriate.

Details (developing) here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/EBI_hackathon_on_September_4,_2015

Message from Jo McEntyre:

We are organising a Wikipedia-Europe PMC hackathon on 4th Sept on the
genome campus, around the Wikipedia Science conference
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference.

With Daniel Mietchen, the three themes we have identified are:
- contributing datasets e.g. data citations, text-mined entities from
Europe PMC to Wikidata  possibly seeing this pushed through to some
Wikipedia pages
-  import of full text articles into Wikisource and potential
highlighting named entities
- pushing PMID-PMCID-DOI mapping to Wikidata/Wikipedia

We would very much like you to attend!

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] comments on Annual Plan

[Pine W]

Hi James,

I understand that WMF can't do much content work without risking its DCMA
safe harbor, and I understand that fact checking even if paid might be a
net benefit to the project. But I'm not sure how that relates to the
Education mailing list, what funding model you are proposing for this work,
why the Wiki Ed Foundation would want to include this kind of fact checking
within its scope of work even if the funding was readily available, and why
Lila would be involved in this discussion. Can you clarify those points?

Thanks,

Pine


On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:42 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:

 P.S. Report is at http://people.aifb.kit.edu/ffl//wikiwho/fp715-floeck.pdf
 and further docs at http://f-squared.org/wikiwho/


 On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:25 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi Aaron and Pine,
 
  Please see
 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2015-May/031684.html
 
  I was thrilled to see Maribel Acosta's WikiWho check-in for
  Mediawiki-Utilities today, and I hope you are, too:
  https://github.com/maribelacosta/wikiwho/pull/3
 
  I intend to raise money independently so that someone such as Maribel
  or perhaps one of her colleagues recommended by Fabian Flöck can work
  on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
 
  Once that is complete, the project calls for human fact checkers to
  work on the suggested passages for proofreading and fact checking
  review. I intend to raise money for them, too, but I understand that
  the WMF can't have any part of hiring them to preserve the safe harbor
  DMCA provisions. Earlier in the year, I administered qualifying
  examinations to hundreds of fact checker candidates, and have
  transferred the results of those examinations to Lila and Dario, in
  case I get run over by a bus, and also so that they can independently
  confirm the quality of the examination process, questions, and
  responses which they should have.
 
  Aaron, can you please confirm that Lila and Dario have those and don't
  need anything more from me to read them? I would love to do this
  myself, but I will be very busy through the end of the year.
 
  Best regards,
  James
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfa...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi James,
 
  I've been away traveling for the last couple of weeks.  Regretfully, I
 don't
  know what you are talking about.  I see that a link was censored from a
  previous email in the thread.
 
  What exactly are you hoping for?  That we'll dedicate some researcher
 time
  to a specific project?  Maybe you're just looking for feedback.  I see
 you
  mention hiring people -- but for what purpose?
 
  -Aaron
 
  On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:11 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  P.S. I mean, the WMF can't hire them but the WEF can, and I hope they
 do
  soon to complement the accuracy metric without expenditure.
 
 
  On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi Aaron,
 
  Could you please confirm that Lila and Dario are in receipt of the
  fact-checker candidate list and associated materials? Please remember
 that
  the WEF can't hire them but the WikiEd Foundation has not yet achieved
  IdeaLab technology, so your assistance may still be required. Thank
 you for
  your patience.
 
  Best regards,
  James Salsman
 
 
  -- Forwarded message --
  From: James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
  Date: Sunday, May 31, 2015
  Subject: comments on Annual Plan
  To: Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org
  Cc: Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org
 
 
  Dear Dario and Lila,
 
  Are you both able to see the human fact checker and proofreader
  candidates in
   [censored] ?
 
  Please keep the contents of that file confidential, as I promised I
 would
  not share it with commercial interests.
 
  Please let me know your thoughts on the next best steps.
 
  Best regards,
  James
 
 
  On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:05 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Lila,
 
  Thank you so much. I will help Dario as much as I can. You are both
 so
  great.
 
  Best regards,
  Jim
 
 
  On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
  Hi James,
 
  Not sure we can take this away better than another volunteer, but
 we
  do plan to focus on quality measurements. I am CCing Dario who is
 in charge
  of Analytics Research to look into the specifics of what's involved
 here and
  how it may link to the general quality metrics.
 
  Lila
 
  On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:54 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi Lila,
 
  Please take this away from me. I do not want to be in a position
 where
  my influence over it can unduly enrich my new client by degrading
 the
  quality of the encyclopedia.  Please let me know your decision.
 
  Best regards,
  James
 
  -- Forwarded message --
  From: James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
  Date: Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM
  Subject: comments on Annual Plan
  To: 

Re: [Wikimedia Education] comments on Annual Plan

[Pine W]

Hi James,

I'm a little unsure what you are proposing and how it relates to education
programs. This is the public mailing list for matters relating to Wikipedia
in education. How does this proposed project relate to Wikipedia in
education? I'm aware of some automated quality assessment efforts  which
may be relevant for assessing the quality of student work. Is that your
intention for the project that you are proposing?

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Cascadia Wikimedians VisualEditor training update; upcoming meetings

[Pine W]

I just realized that I spammed the Education list with a full Cascadia
agenda update instead of just Visual Editor info. Sorry about that!

Pine


On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 * We piloted VisualEditor training at the most recent edit-a-thon that we
 held at UW. The feedback from the librarians was positive. I'll work on
 turning the training into a video format soon, possibly during my travel to
 the Wikimedia Conference. I am considering producing a PDF version first
 because that is easier to do, and a video version second.

 * The UW librarians are interested in continuing to partner with us. More
 info about that during the next few weeks.

 * We received feedback from WMF about the current version of our proposed
 annual plan on Meta. At this point, WMF is willing to fund portions but not
 all of our plan. Our Board is in the process of scheduling a meeting to
 discuss our next steps.

 * You may remember that Monika mentioned on this list (
 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-cascadia/2015-March/000492.html)
 her grant proposal for an Inspire campaign project Full Circle Gap
 Protocol: Addressing the ‘Unknown Unknowns. WMF has awarded funding for
 this project. Congratulations, Monika. (:

 * We will have our regular social meetup at Cafe Allegro on May 26th this
 month, later than usual. At this meetup, I plan to share what I learned at
 the Wikimedia Conference and any potential new partnerships or initiatives.
 We can also discuss our plans for the remainder of this year, including
 potential future events at the UW libraries. I hope to see many of you on
 the 26th. (:

 Pine


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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Social-media] Editing Wikipedia as community service in Mexico

[Pine W]

Very nice, thanks. Forwarding to the Education mailing list.

Pine
On May 5, 2015 1:07 PM, Andrew Sherman asher...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hello Everyone,

 We just published Editing Wikipedia as community service in Mexico to
 the blog. URL:

 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/05/community-service-in-mexico/

 Thanks to Maria for writing the draft and providing a Spanish translation.
 Thanks to Walter for helping translate the English title.

 Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.

 *Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):*

 • Editing Wikipedia as community service in Mexico: a student shares her
 experience. (link)

 (see if there are any hashtags for either #WikiLearning or #TecdeMonterrey)

 *Facebook/Google+*

 • A Mexican student shares her experience editing Wikipedia as community
 service at Tec de Monterrey University. It was an opportunity for personal
 and professional growth, as well as a way to positively impact her
 community. (link)

 Thanks,

 --
 Andrew Sherman
 Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation

 *E:* asher...@wikimedia.org
 *WMF:* ASherman (WMF)
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Communications is looking for interns!

[Pine W]

Forwarding internship recruiting announcement from WMF Communications.
Please forward to current students and others who would be interested in
internships.

Pine

*This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/






*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*

*—Catherine Munro*

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From: Juliet Barbara jbarb...@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:24 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Communications is looking for interns!
To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi everyone,


The WMF Communications team is recruiting interns for summer 2015! We’re
currently evaluating candidates and welcome any qualified individuals to
apply. Strong candidates have a deep appreciation for the Wikimedia
mission, excellent communications skills, and an interest in the field of
Communications. We encourage any community members to also share their
usernames and their favorite projects.


Open positions with links to job descriptions can be found below. To apply,
click the “Apply Now” button at the top right of the job description. We
strongly encourage a cover letter in addition to a resume. Internships last
at least three months and we are open to remote interns.


Communications Intern
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/56547?t=wast7k#.VTVcipPF_yB
(general)

Multimedia Storytelling Intern
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/56546?t=3qvtgc#.VTVdQJPF_yA

Design Intern
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/56551?t=mt3d56#.VTVcbJPF_yA

Social Media Intern
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/56549?t=cs6ria#.VTVdVZPF_yA

Research and Insights Intern
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/56557?t=2pe53k#.VTVdZpPF_yA


Feel free to pass this along to anyone who might be interested.


Best,

Juliet


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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [Social-media] Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City

[Pine W]

Fantastic blog post. Forwarding to the Education mailing list.
Congratulations, Leigh.

Pine
On Apr 13, 2015 2:44 PM, Andrew Sherman asher...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hello Everyone,

 We just published Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon at Tec de
 Monterrey in Mexico City to the blog. URL:

 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/13/wiki-learning-edit-a-thon-mexico/

 Thanks to Anna koval for helping write and edit this story.

 Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.

 *Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):*

 * Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon in Mexico City, with 300
 students editing 90+ articles. (link)

 * Tec de Monterrey holds massive Wikipedia editing event as part of its
 Innovation Spaces program held each semester.

 *Facebook/Google+*

 ... A massive three-day edit-a-thon was held by Tec de Monterrey's
 Wikipedia Education Program (Wiki Learning) in March 2015, on three
 campuses in Mexico City. Nearly 300 students participated, creating or
 translating 90+ articles to Spanish Wikipedia. They also uploaded hundreds
 of photos, as well as 27 informative radio programs produced by campus
 radio.

 (too long) ... Tec de Monterrey's Wikipedia Education Program (Wiki
 Learning) held a massive three-day editathon with the participation of
 almost 300 students who created/translated 90+ articles to Spanish
 Wikipedia as well as review these and other articles. They also uploaded
 hundreds of photograhs as well as 27 informative radio programs produced by
 campus radio.

 Best,

 --
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] [EE] Editor training with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

H Floor,

I respectfully disagree with your assessment.

I/we will proceed without the WMF. If others are interested in being
involved, then please email me off list.

Pine
On Mar 12, 2015 4:37 PM, Floor Koudijs fkoud...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi Pine,

 Thanks for reviving this topic, it's an important one to people all around
 the world as Visual Editor is rolled out. VE is still being developed
 actively every day, and that means that any written instruction would very
 soon become outdated. That doesn't sound like the best time spent for
 anyone to me, even while I completely understand the need. We would be more
 than happy to work on something like that once VE is in a more ready state
 when we will know little more will change. Once we get to that point, we
 would love to have community involvement in it, so that we can make sure it
 answers the main questions people have who are using it.

 So, to be continued! If anyone has already elaborated something that can
 be shared, even if it is in a different language, I encourage you to share
 it!

 Thanks to all of you for moving us forward!

 Best,
 Floor


 Floor Koudijs

 Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program

 Wikimedia Foundation

 +1.415.839.6885  x6806 (landline)

 +1.415.692.5289 (cell phone)

 fkoud...@wikimedia.org

 education.wikimedia.org

 On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

 Following up on this: Cascadia Wikimedians may need some kind of
 presentation outline or screencast along these lines by mid-April. If the
 WMF education team and others can't create one by that time, we/I might
 hack together a rudimentary version and put it on Commons for others to
 reuse and/or build on.

 Does anyone have recommendations for screencast creation software,
 preferably ones that are open source?

 Thanks,
 Pine
 On Feb 23, 2015 2:19 PM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I think Charles' suggestion is right on: a couple of screencasts
 demonstrating the use of VE would be a great thing to have.

 While VE itself needs less and less explanation in terms of the
 mechanics, there's still a lot that newcomers won't know in terms of
 how they *ought* to use it. It would be great to demonstrate the
 basics of what is expected of a Wikipedia article, using VE. This is
 somewhat analogous to the approach we took with VE in the Editing
 Wikipedia brochure: the center spread is about edting with
 VisualEditor and wikitext, but the VisualEditor side of it is all
 about the structure of a Wikipedia article. Showing a tightly edited
 demonstration of someone starting a well-structured sandbox article
 from scratch in VE, and explaining why they are using all the
 formmatting tools they use along the way — from bolding the title to
 section headers to wikilinks to citations to adding images to external
 links in a 'see also' section — that would be ideal.

 It's probably not something Wiki Education Foundation would tackle any
 time soon, though.

 Similarly, it would nice to have some guided tours that walk through
 the basics of VE usage, similar to the wikitext ones in the current
 training. I *might* find time to squeeze that in at some point in the
 next few months.

 We're tenatively planning to redo the WP:STUDENT training as part of
 the Dashboard/Course Page system we're building, so that it would have
 knowledge checks along the way and probably send users over to
 Wikipedia to go through sandbox guided tours to practice the basics.
 But that won't happen until (probably) late 2015.

 -Sage

 On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Jami Mathewson j...@wikiedu.org
 wrote:
  I don't know what our future training plans are, as I think the current
  training is pretty great for English Wikipedia. Definitely one of our
 best
  resources for students, so it's probably not a priority to improve
 that just
  yet. Sage may have better information about that, though.
 
  You'll have to be more specific about ideas that inspire students, and
 may I
  suggest we take this off-list so as not to overwhelm everybody's inbox?
  Jami
 
  On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Thanks Jami (and sorry for misspelling your name. I am far too used to
  writing to Jaime Anstee!)
 
  Will Wiki Ed be developing training for VE?
 
  LiAnna had some great ideas about how to inspire students. Are those
  incorporated into the standard training anywhere?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Pine
 
  On Feb 23, 2015 12:26 PM, Jami Mathewson j...@wikiedu.org wrote:
 
  They're still using the student training[1], as we do not have a
 specific
  training for VE.
 
  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students
 
  On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Hi Jaime, thanks for the info. What training materials are these
 courses
  using?
 
  Pine
 
  On Feb 23, 2015 9:50 AM, Jami Mathewson j...@wikiedu.org wrote:
 
  We have some classes that are editing primarily with the VE

Re: [Wikimedia Education] [EE] Editor training with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

Following up on this: Cascadia Wikimedians may need some kind of
presentation outline or screencast along these lines by mid-April. If the
WMF education team and others can't create one by that time, we/I might
hack together a rudimentary version and put it on Commons for others to
reuse and/or build on.

Does anyone have recommendations for screencast creation software,
preferably ones that are open source?

Thanks,
Pine
On Feb 23, 2015 2:19 PM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:

 I think Charles' suggestion is right on: a couple of screencasts
 demonstrating the use of VE would be a great thing to have.

 While VE itself needs less and less explanation in terms of the
 mechanics, there's still a lot that newcomers won't know in terms of
 how they *ought* to use it. It would be great to demonstrate the
 basics of what is expected of a Wikipedia article, using VE. This is
 somewhat analogous to the approach we took with VE in the Editing
 Wikipedia brochure: the center spread is about edting with
 VisualEditor and wikitext, but the VisualEditor side of it is all
 about the structure of a Wikipedia article. Showing a tightly edited
 demonstration of someone starting a well-structured sandbox article
 from scratch in VE, and explaining why they are using all the
 formmatting tools they use along the way — from bolding the title to
 section headers to wikilinks to citations to adding images to external
 links in a 'see also' section — that would be ideal.

 It's probably not something Wiki Education Foundation would tackle any
 time soon, though.

 Similarly, it would nice to have some guided tours that walk through
 the basics of VE usage, similar to the wikitext ones in the current
 training. I *might* find time to squeeze that in at some point in the
 next few months.

 We're tenatively planning to redo the WP:STUDENT training as part of
 the Dashboard/Course Page system we're building, so that it would have
 knowledge checks along the way and probably send users over to
 Wikipedia to go through sandbox guided tours to practice the basics.
 But that won't happen until (probably) late 2015.

 -Sage

 On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Jami Mathewson j...@wikiedu.org wrote:
  I don't know what our future training plans are, as I think the current
  training is pretty great for English Wikipedia. Definitely one of our
 best
  resources for students, so it's probably not a priority to improve that
 just
  yet. Sage may have better information about that, though.
 
  You'll have to be more specific about ideas that inspire students, and
 may I
  suggest we take this off-list so as not to overwhelm everybody's inbox?
  Jami
 
  On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Thanks Jami (and sorry for misspelling your name. I am far too used to
  writing to Jaime Anstee!)
 
  Will Wiki Ed be developing training for VE?
 
  LiAnna had some great ideas about how to inspire students. Are those
  incorporated into the standard training anywhere?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Pine
 
  On Feb 23, 2015 12:26 PM, Jami Mathewson j...@wikiedu.org wrote:
 
  They're still using the student training[1], as we do not have a
 specific
  training for VE.
 
  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students
 
  On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi Jaime, thanks for the info. What training materials are these
 courses
  using?
 
  Pine
 
  On Feb 23, 2015 9:50 AM, Jami Mathewson j...@wikiedu.org wrote:
 
  We have some classes that are editing primarily with the VE this
 term.
  Those classes still assigned the regular training for students, as
 the
  concepts about the community, policies, sourcing, and copyvios are
 important
  no matter which editor you use. We also thought the intro to wiki
 markup in
  the training would still be useful—for talk pages and other pages
 where you
  cannot enable the VE.
  Jami
 
  On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Charles Matthews
  charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
 
  On 23 February 2015 at 12:56, Vojtěch Dostál
  vojtech.dos...@wikimedia.cz wrote:
 
  I suppose WMUK's learning environment is not something other
 language
  editions can profit from, right?
 
  I still strongly prefer the Wikipedia:Training toolkit.
 
  It depends what you want. The VLE is 81 lessons, now plus one new
  digital literacy course, and so is more than a quick
 introduction. It has
  quizzes, and I added some videos just before Wikimania.
 
  A simple solution to teaching the VE would be perhaps two screen
  capture videos, demonstrating how to use it for some simple
 operations.
 
  Charles
 
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Editor training with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

I am very happy to see such strong interest in VE from the education
communitty.

FYI, if we don't hear back about a lesson plan for VE training in the next
few days, either in Hebrew or English, I will contact our colleague Michal
who is the executive director of WMIL to see if she can provide us with at
least a Hebrew version that we can use for inspration.

Pine
On Feb 22, 2015 2:14 PM, Vojtěch Dostál vojtech.dos...@wikimedia.cz
wrote:

 I also wondered if there is a VE-oriented training somewhere. It seems
 there isn't - because VE is in a state of flux.

 Because Czech Republic uses VE to train students we are in a great need of
 such a training, and are currently asking for a small contract to write a
 simple wiki-based tutorial, mostly based on Wikipedia:Training module
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students for
 students.

 If there is a Hebrew VE training could someone please link it? It would be
 lovely to see it, at least to get some inspiration.

 thanks


 Vojtěch Dostál

 místopředseda / vice-chairman
 Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
 http://www.wikimedia.cz
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 2015-02-22 14:02 GMT+01:00 Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com:

 I still do not use VE in my training (despite having 200+ students
 working on three campuses) because there are too many things it cannot do.
 I dont have time to constantly play with it to see if it is now good enough
 to use.  I will likely not use it until it is accepted by the wider
 community. However, the lack of a viable VE does make scalability very very
 difficult, especially with older teachers who adjust less to idea of coding
 in any form.

 +1 on the frustrations for those with new accounts. I understand the need
 for protections with new accounts, but why in the heck does the captcha
 error message appear at the top and the captcha itself at the bottom?
 Students only see the red error and I have to tell them to go to the
 bottom and its only a captcha.  In addition, because we use wireless with
 the same IP address, we get errors when I am having a class move text into
 sandboxes or copy/paste finished articles into the mainspace. Most students
 cant use the move function as they dont have enough errors. Even if they
 did, using it would render the sandbox worthless because of the redirect.
 Add to this trigger-happy bibliotecarios in es.wiki who erase student work
 with little or no explanation, the last two times being wrongly done.

 --
 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:55:31 +
 From: charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
 To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Editor training with VisualEditor

 On 22 February 2015 at 10:33, Filip Maljković dungod...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 It is my impression that the VE should be ideally made in such a way that
 a tutorial isn't really necessary. But I guess we don't live in an ideal
 world :)

 That is the ideal world according to Silicon Valley, not the world we
 inhabit as Wikimedians.

 The projects want useful content, and how people write for Wikipedia
 matters much more than how they do on Facebook. The world of no manuals, no
 help pages, no support is not one in which we can easily grow our community
 of productive Wikimedians.

 And the way the WMF releases software makes life very hard for trainers.

 It is literally true that you need to check the night before giving a
 workshop, with a new account, what the current experience for a newcomer to
 Wikipedia is (capchas, strange messages, moving buttons and all).

 I believe the latest WMUK training leaflet takes the VE as a given. I
 know their older leaflet on images mentions it, in a way found confusing to
 a newcomer (as I found - she was a Computer Officer).

 Charles


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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: cite pmid y cite doi templates

[Pine W]

I'm pinging Maria with the hope that she might know a Spanish language bot
builder who might be able to help. (:

Pine
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From: Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com
Date: Feb 15, 2015 1:35 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] cite pmid y cite doi templates
To: Other Education List education@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc:

Hi

A number of my students are  currently translating technical articles from
English to Spanish and we have run into a problem

Es.wiki does not recognize the database reference templates such as cite
pmid and cite doi. A student who knows something about computers looked
into it a bit and told me that the reason is that those templates function
with a bot that scrapes the reference information from the database.
However, it only functions in en.wiki. We either need a bot for es.wiki or
the en.wiki bot needs to be modified to be able to send the scraped info to
other languages. This student tells me he does not know how to do either.

In two weeks we have a major editathon, with a large chunk of the
student/participants working on translations, preferably articles relating
to their majors. We are talking 250+ students on three campuses.

Right now, we get around this problem by using the cita publicación
template in es.wiki but of course it would make life a lot easier if we
dont have to teach dozens of students or more how to do this.

Can anyone help?

Leigh

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Indic Language Wikipedia Outreach in United States

[Pine W]

Hi Abhishek,

I would encourage you to consider outreach to the Seattle area as well. We
have thousands of people of Indian heritage here, many of them being highly
educated professionals and their families. Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
would be happy to discuss co-sponsoring a workshop with you. Please email
me off-list if you are interested.

Pine
On Jan 14, 2015 6:59 AM, Abhishek Suryawanshi 
i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Anna,


 Thank you for encouraging words.


 *Because your proposal suggests creating and improving health and medical
 content, it would be good if you would coordinate with WikiProject Medicine
 (on English Wikipedia):
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine  *


 Thanks for suggestion, will definitely look into the same.


 *And because your proposal involves outreach to university students, it
 would be good if you and I could discuss your plans, too. *


 Looking forward for your guidance and support. :-)


 --


 ​Warm Regards,

 Abhishek Suryawanshi
 User:AbhiSuryawanshi



 On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Anna Koval ako...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Dear Abhishek,

 Thank you for sharing your IdeaLab proposal. And thank you for wanting to
 improve the Indic language content on the Wikimedia projects.

 Because your proposal suggests creating and improving health and medical
 content, it would be good if you would coordinate with WikiProject Medicine
 (on English Wikipedia):
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine

 And because your proposal involves outreach to university students, it
 would be good if you and I could discuss your plans, too.

 I look forward to talking with you soon.

 Sincerely yours,

 Anna Koval, M.Ed.
 Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
 Wikimedia Foundation
 +1.415.839.6885 x 6729
 annakoval.wiki on Skype
 ako...@wikimedia.org
 education.wikimedia.org

 On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Abhishek Suryawanshi 
 i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:

 ​Hello,

 Happy New Year everyone! :)

 We are planning Indic Language Wikipedia workshops in U.S.
 Please go through Project Link :

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Indic_Language_Wikipedia_Outreach_in_United_States

 Project idea What is the problem you're trying to solve?

 Indic languages represent a large portion of languages used worldwide.
 The number of contributors for Indic languages has been lagging other
 language families for a variety of reasons. Internet connectivity in India
 being limited/expensive is a major reason among them. Indic wikiprojects
 have beens working to encourage more contributors for Indic Languages.

 There are a number of areas on Indic wikipedias where content is either
 lacking or is of poor quality. Health-related content is a prime example of
 this.
 Potential for solution

 There is a strong and diverse Indian diaspora in the United States.
 Eastern Seaboard has a large number of Indian expats that have either
 settled there or live there for work/business. This was evidenced by the
 20,000+ people attending a speech in Hindi by the Prime Minister of India
 at Madison Square Garden, New York.

 In general, the Indian origin community in the United States has very
 high literacy rates. They are also well-versed in English as well as at
 least one of Indic languages. Access to Internet is not an issue for this
 demographic. Enthusiasm for advancement of Indic languages is also evident
 by the many initiatives being pursued by this group.
 What is your solution?


1. Dedicated workshops for Indian Languages in United States of
America.
2. Informal User Group to conduct periodic meetings/offline events.
3. Collaboration with local chapters and editors to improve Offline
Wikipedia in Indian Languages.
4. Special content (health related articles/essential medicines info
etc) on Indic Wikipedia can be improved by specialized dedicated group of
Indian medical students in U.S.
5. Collaboration with (U.S based) like minded individuals and
organizations dedicated to improve Open Knowledge movement in India.

 Pilot Project

 Outreach events in

- New York,
- Washington D.C,
- Boston
- Colorado Springs


- A session here will serve as an aide to developing and/or
fine-tuning presentations and sequence of activities.


- San Diego.

 Goals

- Reach out to more Indians to increase their understanding of how
Indic Language Wikimedia projects work, and enable them to pass this
knowledge on to others.
- Improving and building upon contributions to Wikimedia projects in
English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Commons etc.
- Increasing visibility, reach and access to Wikimedia projects
amongst Indian Americans, especially in students.
- Sign up students interested in our various activities  any other
training workshops planned.
- Conduct 

[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola

[Pine W]

Forwarding an article from Wikimedia-l about readership and authorship of
English Wikipedia's information about Ebola, and the quality and authorship
of English Wikipedia's medical content in general.

Pine

*This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/






*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*

*—Catherine Munro*

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Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:27 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source
for Information on Ebola
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org


http://nyti.ms/1rHy4fK

Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola
Noam Cohen
October 26, 2014
The New York Times

Neat! (And a bit terrifying.)

MZMcBride



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[Wikimedia Education] Individual Engagement Grant funding available

[Pine W]

Forwarding from Siko Bouterse:

Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program is
accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG

Your idea can improve Wikimedia projects by building a new tool or gadget,
organizing a better process on your wiki, conducting research on an
important issue, or providing other support for community-building. Whether
you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your
own project development time in addition to funding for a team to help you.
The program has a flexible schedule and reporting structure, and
Grantmaking staff are there to support you through all stages of the
process.

Do you have have a good idea, but you are worried that it isn’t developed
enough for a grant?  Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff
can give you advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab  Also, IEG will be hosting
three Hangout Sessions for real-time discussions to help you make your
proposal better - the first will happen on September 16th. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events

For inspiration, you can read more about past projects 
https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/ that received
funding or review open proposals 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing. We are excited
to see some of the new ways your grant ideas can support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects.

Submit your proposal in September! 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-apply
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Signpost reports: addition of Egypt; schedule modification for WMF

[Pine W]

Hi all,

The Mexico [1] and WMF Global Education [2] reports are now available in
the Signpost Newsroom with some caveats.

The Mexico report needs a copyedit and final review from my supervisor at
the Signpost.

The WMF Global Education report may get some minor changes between now and
publication. The WMF Education team may have a new photo available for use
that might be included in the article. For the time being I have included a
modified version of the March 2014 photo of the Grantmaking Department
plenary. When the photo of the Education team arrives I may re-evaluate the
photographs in the report. The report also needs a copyedit and a review
from my Signpost supervisor.

If you would like to talk to me about the Education Program or this
Signpost series, I will be available for a portion of August 7. I am
co-leading the North America portion of the Research Hackathon [3] and
would be happy to arrange side conversations as time allows. Please find me
on IRC or Google Hangout during the hackathon if you would like to meet.

I hope that the Signpost series on Wikimedia in Education has enriched your
understanding of education programs around the world, increased pride in
successful programs, and provided helpful information for conversations at
Wikimania.

Regards,

Pine

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-08-06/Wikimedia_in_education

[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-08-13/Wikimedia_in_education

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014/Meetups/Virtual_%28Americas%29


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 * In celebration of the July 2014 approval of the Egypt Wikimedians user
 group by the affiliations committee, this week's report will include a
 focused report on Egypt with an interview from Samir El-Sharbaty. The
 originally scheduled report on the broader Arab World Education Program
 with Tighe Flanagan will also be published this week.

 * Next week is Wikimania. I originally scheduled the Mexico report to
 publish that week and the WMF global report in the following week. To
 accommodate those who are attending education events at Wikimania and are
 interested in WMF's current thinking, I will make the report available for
 pre-publication viewing next week. I will send a link to the report to this
 email list. Feel free to share the link. The WMF report will be published
 in the Signpost as originally scheduled the week following Wikimania.

 Pine

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[Wikimedia Education] Signpost reports: addition of Egypt; schedule modification for WMF

[Pine W]

Hi all,

* In celebration of the July 2014 approval of the Egypt Wikimedians user
group by the affiliations committee, this week's report will include a
focused report on Egypt with an interview from Samir El-Sharbaty. The
originally scheduled report on the broader Arab World Education Program
with Tighe Flanagan will also be published this week.

* Next week is Wikimania. I originally scheduled the Mexico report to
publish that week and the WMF global report in the following week. To
accommodate those who are attending education events at Wikimania and are
interested in WMF's current thinking, I will make the report available for
pre-publication viewing next week. I will send a link to the report to this
email list. Feel free to share the link. The WMF report will be published
in the Signpost as originally scheduled the week following Wikimania.

Pine
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[Wikimedia Education] Invitation: Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7

[Pine W]

The Wikimedia Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7 takes place parallel to
the general Wikimania Hackathon in London.

Wikimania Hackathon information is available at
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon

Research Hackathon information is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014

From the Research Hackathon info page: this is an opportunity for anyone
interested in research on wikis, Wikipedia, and other open collaborations
to meet, share ideas, and work together. It's being organized by
researchers in academia and the Wikimedia Foundation, but we want anyone
interested in research to participate. Whether or not you consider yourself
a researcher, or would ever want to be one, come with questions, answers,
data, code, crazy ideas... or just your insatiable curiosity.

Local participation will occur at Wikimania London and in Philadelphia, PA,
US. Remote participation is possible and will include researchers and
community members globally.

Please see the Research Hackathon information page for scheduling and
sign-up details.

Further questions may be directed to Aaron Halfaker (ahalfa...@wikimedia.org)
or Leila Zia (le...@wikimedia.org).*

Pine

*A $1 fine will be imposed by Oliver Keyes on anyone who misspells Leila's
name or misdirects emails to the WMF Executive Director.
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Overcoming a roadblock to engagement

[Pine W]

In general:

1. Citing your own academic work and/or adding an article on Wikipedia
about your work would be to introduce original research AND potentially
COI, and both of those are not ok. You could propose an edit on an article
talk page with an explanation that you are the researcher.

2. Editing an article about yourself would be COI. You could propose an
edit on the article talk page with the explanation that you are the subject
of the article.

3. Encouraging your students to add your or their research on Wikipedia
would be meatpuppetry, original research, and/or potentially COI, and any
of those is not OK.

4. Encouraging your students to edit your biography on Wikipedia would be
meatpuppetry and potentially COI, and both of those are not OK. A professor
did this in the past and was caught.

When in doubt, I recommend writing on an article talk page, explaining your
relationship to the content that you are proposing to add, and writing a
draft of your proposed change for other editors to review.

Pine


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Jon Beasley-Murray 
jon.beasley-mur...@ubc.ca wrote:

 Hi:

 Your question was: is there a way to count the contributions that a user
 has made *on behalf of* another particular user? (my emphasis)

 And: It seems to me that the way to overcome this roadblock is to
 introduce a way of counting the contributions made by a person (say, a
 research student, or a colleague) *on behalf of* a Professor. (again, my
 emphasis)

 Which rather sounds like a proxy, by any definition of that term.

 I would be strongly against encouraging such practices.

 Take care

 Jon

 On Jul 10, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Jennifer Gristock grist...@me.com wrote:

 
  I too believe that the ideal approach is for academics to write about
 other people's work: that is why my original question was about ways of
 tracing/counting this.
 
  But if you're saying that a research student writing about other people
 'a work (plural, not singular ) is not advisable because they are somehow a
 'proxy', I must say I don't quite see it that way, but thank you for
 helping me to see the multiple ways in which this could be construed.
 
 
  Sent from my mobile
 
  On 10 Jul 2014, at 18:21, Jon Beasley-Murray jon.beasley-mur...@ubc.ca
 wrote:
 
  Jennifer:
 
  I would be very wary indeed of the model you're proposing, in which
 either individual researchers or their proxies insert their work into
 Wikipedia.  We see enough of that already, and I would be concerned if
 there were any official (or even semi-official) encouragement of the
 practice.
 
  The issue is less conflict of interest (though that's true, too) as
 (self)promotion (which you seem to be actively encouraging) and undue
 weight.
 
  This is not to say that professors (academics, researchers) should not
 be writing in their areas of expertise.  Of course they should!  But
 perhaps a rule of thumb is that they should be writing about *other*
 people's work in that area, rather than their own.
 
  Take care
 
  Jon
 
  On Jul 10, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Jennifer Gristock grist...@me.com
 wrote:
 
  Greetings everyone. I'm still working on that system to encourage
 university professors to contribute to Wikipedia, a system that is
 concerned not through teaching, like the Education Programme, but through
 research.
 
  I need some help. Can you tell me, in the Wikipedia API, is there a
 way to count the contributions that a user has made on behalf of another
 particular user? For example, a professor might ask a group of PhD students
 to make contributions involving his/her research on various Wikipedia
 pages, on his/her behalf.
 
  I have been frequently told (at the Teahouse and elsewhere) that
 Professors are not allowed to contribute information about their own
 published research papers on Wikipedia pages, because this would be biased.
 (Which is rather a downer for the professor, because this means they are
 forbidden to write about the things they are most passionate and
 knowledgeable about.)
 
  If this is rule is true, then it must certainly be seen as a roadblock
 to academic engagement with Wikipedia. If it isn't, then it is editors'
 perception of the rule as true (as I have experienced) that is the
 roadblock.
 
  It seems to me that the way to overcome this roadblock is to introduce
 a way of counting the contributions made by a person (say, a research
 student, or a colleague) on behalf of a Professor. So at the end of the
 year, the Professor can say 'my research contributed to X edits on
 Wikipedia' as easily as each individual student (who might contribute on
 behalf of many academic researchers) can count their individual edits.
 
  Can the API accommodate this in some way? Perhaps through some sort of
 'project' code or something?
 
 
  Yours hopefully,
 
  Jenny Gristock (Open_Research)
 
  Sent from my iPad
 
  On 9 Jul 2014, at 22:40, LiAnna Davis lia...@wikiedu.org wrote:
 
  Hi all!
 
  I wanted to draw your attention to the 

[Wikimedia Education] Signpost series about the Wikimedia Global Education Program

[Pine W]

Hello everyone,

Thank you to those of you who agreed to interview. I just wanted to let you
know that the Signpost report is nearly complete. We are working through
some final checks.

We will publish the report as a series. Below is the planned order of
publication. Occasionally the Signpost skips a week of publication due to
volunteer capacity shortages, so this schedule may change.

Week of July 9: Wikimedia education in the United States and Canada;
interview with LiAnna Davis, Head of Communications for the Wiki Education
Foundation

Week of July 16: Wikimedia education in Serbia; interview with Filip
Maljkovic, President of Wikimedia Serbia

Week of July 23: Wikimedia education in Israel; interview with Michal
Lester, Executive Director of Wikimedia Israel

Week of July 30: Wikimedia education in the Arab World; interview with
Tighe Flanagan, WMF Arab World Wikipedia Education Program Manager

Week of August 6: Wikimedia education in Mexico; interview with Leigh
Thelmadatter, Regional Ambassador and instructor at Monterrey Institute of
Technology and Higher Education.

Week of August 13: Wikimedia Global Education: WMF's perspective;
interview with Anasuya Sengupta, WMF Senior Director of Grantmaking

I hope you enjoy the series.

Pine
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[Wikimedia Education] Request for interviews from education program leaders

[Pine W]

Hi all,

In consultation with The_Ed17, I'm starting work on a series of Signpost
reports regarding meta issues. One of the subjects I have in the queue is
the education program. I'd like to interview the following people:

1. A leader of the Wikipedia Education program in Serbia
2. A leader of the Wikipedia Education program in Israel
3. A leader of the Wikipedia Education program in Mexico
4. A leader of the Wikipedia Education program in the US or Canada,
preferably a regional ambassador or professor
5. Someone involved in the Global Education program at WMF
6. Someone at the Wiki Ed Foundation

If you're in one of these groups, you speak English at at least the EN-2
level, and you're willing to be interviewed or know who a good person to
interview would be, please email me off-list. Interviews will probably take
place in late June or sometime in July, and hopefully be no more than half
an hour each. The goal is to get a broad survey of Wikipedia's use in
education in this Signpost article. The article will probably be published
in mid to late July.

Thanks!

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] inviting Stanford into WEP

[Pine W]

Hi James,

Kevin Gorman is the regional ambassador for the area that includes
California. I suggest that you contact him or the Wiki Education Foundation
about this idea.

Pine


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:37 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:

 Given
 http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/may/dschool-undergrad-reimagined-050514.html

 and
 https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Education/OpenKnowledge/Fall2014/about

 Who wants to try to invite Stanford to join the WEP?

 I bet the guy from CSLU who was willing to host their Wikimania bid would
 help.

 Best regards,
 James Salsman

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Israel’s Ministry of Education Wikimedia Israel Agree On New, Unique Initiative

[Pine W]

I'm forwarding this good news from WikimediaAnnounce-l that mysteriously
wasn't received by Wikimedia-l. I'm sending this to Wikimedia-l and
Education-l.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel it...@wikimedia.org.il
Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:58 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Israel’s Ministry of Education 
Wikimedia Israel Agree On New, Unique Initiative
To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org


(Posted also on the Wikimedia Blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/10/israels-ministry-of-education-wikimedia-israel-agree-on-new-unique-initiative/
)

An agreement was met in a meeting between Rabbi Shai Piron, Israel’s
Education Minister, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees, Itzik Edri, Chair of the Wikimedia Israel Board and
Michal Lester, Executive Director of Wikimedia Israel, regarding a shared
cooperation with Wikimedia Israel in the framework of the ministry’s school
curricula in the coming years. Through the planned cooperation, history,
geography and science teachers will receive special professional training
to instruct students on how to contribute to new or incomplete Wikipedia
articles for which information is lacking or inadequate.

The Education Ministry will also examine the possibility of integrating
Wikipedia writing assignments in the teaching of research and community
involvement. They will also consider having students who speak additional
languages (primarily English and Russian) write Wikipedia articles about
Israel in those particular languages.

Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron said, “It is important to us that the
education system in Israel leads in innovation and cooperating with
Wikipedia is a wonderful opportunity to think outside the box and enable
students in Israel to do things that make a difference from which others
can also benefit.”

Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
said, “Israel is today among the leading countries in the integration of
Wikipedia in the education system and academia. I hope our joint work model
will also serve as an example to other education systems around the world.”

In the framework of cooperation that is already in place between Wikimedia
Israel and the Ministry of education, several pilot projects are being
conducted. The projects involve teacher training in good Wikipedia usage,
article composition, Wikipedia article writing by gifted high school
students and the teaching of proper Wikipedia usage to elementary
schoolchildren. It is worth mentioning that through cooperation with
academics in a variety of universities and colleges throughout Israel,
hundreds of articles are written each year by students in courses. Thus
students write Wikipedia articles as part of their degrees, sometimes even
in lieu of exams or final papers. The Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv
University recently conducted a special 2-credit course on the subject of
Wikipedia and medicine.

Survey results published last week as part of Wikipedia Academy 2014 Israel
revealed that 84% of the Israeli public relies heavily on Wikipedia and 74%
say that it provides all the information they need. Over one third of the
population expressed interest in learning to write for Wikipedia.



*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
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