Ldavis (WMF)
Hello,
Just a quick note: in the other deliverables, we have tried to refrain from using contractions ("you'll"), except in dialogue. We should probably have added it to the Editorial guidelines, but I guess we didn't. Sorry if I sound like a prig. Best wishes//Hannibal 22:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks, Hannibal! Good to know. -Ldavis 17:01, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Lianna, and thank you for the invitation to the new meeting. Unfortunately, I work at the given time (I'm at my school right now). Hope I wll eventually be able to make it...:)--Saintfevrier (talk) 17:20, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
December meeting
editHi, LiAnna. I'll join the next meeting! Thanks for telling me! See you! --Everton137 (talk) 02:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
And January meeting
editLiAnna, thanks for the note! I was already wondering when the January meeting was going to be held. In December I was loaded with work from the end of the semester, but I'm very excited to be able to join in now. Domusaurea (talk) 23:37, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I am also wishing to join this first meeting. Again, I've forgoten the last one. I use only Linux and I've heard there are some issues with it. Can you confirm? How is it possible to test? I'll try to add on my google calendar to not forget this time! Thanks, --Everton137 (talk) 13:21, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
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editHey Ldavis, couple of minutes ago I left a mail to ldavis@wikimedia.org and glam@wikimedia.org too, please do have a look at Success story and that mail too and if possible please do reply. Thanks. Arnav Sonara (talk) 20:10, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Doodle Times
editHi, I'm confused about the time zone on the Doodle. Is that UTC or UTC-8? I'm UTC-6. I didn't see any clarification on the page. Thank you, Crtew (talk) 19:06, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Replied on your talk page. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 19:15, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
February Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting
editPlease join us for the February edition of the Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. Join us on WebEx on Wednesday, February 22 at 16:00 UTC. See outreachwiki:Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting for instructions on joining and a time zone converter. Thanks! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)
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- Sorry I have to miss this meeting! Let me know how it goes... =) Annie Lin (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 22:39, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Scheduling March Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting
editIt's time to schedule the March Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. If you're interested in joining us, please add your availability to this Doodle by Wednesday, 14 March, at 17:00 UTC. If you're interested in volunteering to lead the meeting, please leave a message on my talk page! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)
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March Wikipedia Education Program Meeting
editPlease volunteer to lead the meeting! Leave a message if you can help.
The March Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting will be on 21 March 2012 at 20:00 UTC. We will have updates from countries around the world and Ayush Khanna will present some results of data analysis he's done on students' contributions. Instructions for joining are on the page linked above. I hope you can join us on Wednesday! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)
- LiAnna, I think you and Jami made a great team leading the meeting last month! I was very sick and primarily just listening in, but you both did a great job! I think you should just continue doing your thang and it will all work out. Hope all is well with you! Cindamuse (talk) 01:14, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- (edited to add: Thanks for the t-shirt. I really appreciate it!) Cindamuse (talk) 01:15, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, Cindy! I appreciate the kind words, but we do want this to be a volunteer-led meeting, so I'm hoping that a volunteer will take the reins. :) -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 16:57, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lianna, sorry I missed the meeting... this was the first time I could have actually attended but I completely forgot. You see, I work at an evening high school (6-9:15 p.m. GMT+2) and I'm usually at work during the meeting. I'll be sure to set a reminder next time the time is convenient! Greetings from Kefalonia, Greece--Saintfevrier (talk) 22:31, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
My user page, Adville
editDear Lianna, I kindly ask you to help me to move what I wrote on my discussion page to my user page. I tried to write a presentation there, but was not allowed because I am "a new user trying to inser external links on a new page". I am a board member of Wikimedia Sverige an working with educational issues. This is my first month as that, but I hope to make a deference. So far I have succeded to get a "go" signal for me to talk with the teachers of the engeneer-institute KTH Royal Institute of Technology to be able to use Wikiversity. Now I "just" need to find interested teachers... Today I found the educational page here on Wikimedia outreach. I will look closer to it later on. Best regards, Adville (talk) 19:12, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Doodle for April Wikipedia Education Program meeting
editPlease leave your availability for the April Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting on this Doodle so we can find the best time for all of us.
I also need a volunteer to lead the meeting! Will you help? Leave a message. It requires no advanced preparation, just the ability to welcome everyone and move us through the agenda. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)
On-line contact
editHi, is it possible connect with you now somehow online? IRC/Facebook/other chat/Skype? Regards --Chmee2 (talk) 21:07, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Join us Monday for April Wikipedia Education Program meeting
editGreetings,
I need your help to lead the next Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting! Will you leave a message if you can help? It requires no advanced preparation, just the ability to welcome everyone and move us through the agenda.
The next meeting has been scheduled for Monday, April 23 at 20:00 UTC. See the meeting information page for joining instructions and a time converter. Hope to talk with you on Monday! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)
Message reply
editHi, I responded to your request at Talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting#Volunteers_needed.21 Pine(talk) 07:56, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Clarification please
editLianna, can you clarify what you mean by "Group on the Working Group are not the only ones working on leading the program" here? Pine(talk) 00:04, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
- I think I missed a few words while typing that. :) I've clarified there. Thanks for flagging it! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 00:12, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Making the Wikipedia Education Program Meeting better
editThanks for expressing interest in the Wikipedia Education Program Metrics and Activities Meeting. I'm investigating ways to make the meeting more effective, and I'd love to get feedback from you as to what we could do to improve the meeting. Please weigh in on the discussion there! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk)
I'm interested in joining the Wikipedia Education Program
editHi Ldavis,
my username on Wikimedia projects is Erasmo Barresi and the wiki I mainly work in is the Italian Wikisource (here's my talk page). I'm interested in participating in the Wikipedia Education Program, so last week (on 25 June) I filled out the form indicated in this page, but I have received no answer. Since the URLs of both the form I filled out and of the form you linked here contain the same words (in particular "wikimedia.org"), you can probably access my answers and contact me. If you can't or don't want, please do not ignore this message completely, but – if you know – tell me who can or wants. Thanks in advance.--217.203.247.186 10:36, 3 July 2012 (UTC) P.S.: I've also sent a message to education wikimedia.org.
LiAnne, I've emailed you on a Signpost matter. Tony1 (talk) 04:28, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
This Month in Education: August 2012
editHelp
editSomething is not working with this new process because I'm not listed and I don't have access to my course page. I want to add my syllabus and list my students but I'm not able. I have followed all of the steps and have not received any feedback. Please help! Classes start. I've also written to Frank about this. Crtew (talk) 17:19, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, Chad! I sent you an email in response to this and added your Course Page to the Fall 2012 list. Jmathewson (talk) 18:26, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Ping
editCould you respond to the question at Talk:Wikipedia Education Program#New face of Wikipedia Education Program? Thanks, Pine✉ 08:49, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Pine, I actually completely agree with Chmee2, and his comment is in response to edits made by others. There's a parallel discussion on this topic happening elsewhere on the Outreach wiki, so I added a link there so others could follow the discussion where it's happening. -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 16:32, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Two questions
editHi Lianna, I don't know who else to ask about these two questions. First, do we have a place for centralized discussion here on Outreach, and if not, could we make one and have it linked from the left nav? Second, what is the procedure for adding an entire new outreach project to the Outreach wiki or linking it from the Outreach homepage to the Meta project page, per this question? Pine✉ 07:18, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hey Pine, I am not sure we have one -- I think most people just put a comment on the main page talk as that user did, then if nobody objects, be bold and make the change. :) -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 16:15, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- OK, how would I change the left nav? It seems to me that we should have a link to a central discussion or village pump page, even if this new proposed program is declined. Pine✉ 20:19, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Edit MediaWiki:Sidebar. :) -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 23:13, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- OK, how would I change the left nav? It seems to me that we should have a link to a central discussion or village pump page, even if this new proposed program is declined. Pine✉ 20:19, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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editHi LiAnna, I think that you may be interested in this video. Perhaps you could find a use for it in Wikipedia's education outreach to Spanish-speaking Wikimedians and students. Commons:File:¿Qué_es_Wikipedia?.ogv --Pine✉ 01:36, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, Pine! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 16:52, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
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Education blog
editLiAnna, I have a suggestion. In addition to publishing This Month in Education as a talkpage newsletter and an email, could you have an education blog where you post these monthly newsletters at blog.wikimedia.org? There are several "sub-blogs" and to me it would make sense to have an education "sub-blog". --Pine✉ 23:42, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Pine! I like this idea. I tag all of the education-related posts Wikipedia Education Program, but I think it would be interesting to post the newsletter to the blog as well. In terms of having a special category in the navigation, that would be interesting -- I imagine will will be doing some reorganization of the blog categories with the new reorganization anyway. Would you mind making the suggestion at Talk:Education_Portal/Newsletter? I just contribute to the newsletter; it's run by Leigh Thelmadatter and other community members, so it would be wrong for me to make a decision without discussing with everyone. :) -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 17:57, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Lianna, it's been almost a month and there's been little feedback on the talk page. What do you think should be done? --Pine✉ 19:28, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not sure. Maybe you could add a post to the Newsroom encouraging people to participate in the discussion? -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 19:54, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Lianna, it's been almost a month and there's been little feedback on the talk page. What do you think should be done? --Pine✉ 19:28, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
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editHi LiAnna,
I'll write a post in French about the Projet pédagogique au Cégep de Chicoutimi and try to translate it the best I can in English.
I'll post you the link as soon as I think it's okay.
Regards, --Simon Villeneuve (talk) 01:17, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
- Great! I look forward to seeing the draft! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
- Hi !
- Before I translate my draft in English, can you take a look at it ? fr:Wikipédia:Projets pédagogiques/Cégep de Chicoutimi/WMFblog
I know you don't read French, but I think you can see if it's too short or long, if the pictures and the subdivisions are ok, etc.
I'll ask for the advice of others on the French Wikipedia too.
Thanks ! Simon Villeneuve (talk) 22:09, 26 February 2013 (UTC)- Done. Simon Villeneuve (talk) 15:13, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- Done. My username is Simon Villeneuve. --Simon Villeneuve (talk) 22:47, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- Done. Simon Villeneuve (talk) 15:13, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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WEP Question
editHi LiAnna,
I want to add the College list and other details in Institution List of WEP [Institution Page], but i don't see the way to do this, and i am also the complete College Ambassador Training program and tried for this page [Campus Volunteer Profile] but i got Permission error. So i don't understand what it means...... and i am also interested on Campus Ambassador, how can i proceed it? [| Prakash Neupane] Hey Prakash, since LiAnna is currently at Wikimania right now, I'll be happy to help. I have gone ahead and created a page for Islington College here, and I have also given you Campus Volunteer rights, since you have demonstrated the need for them. If you need any help, let me know, and I will be more than willing to assist! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 16:08, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
New instructor
editA person has started a user page at User:Rbricker indicating that they're an instructor planning to use Wikipedia. Would you like to contact them? --Pine✉ 00:19, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
- He's actually already contacted us on the Education Noticeboard, so I think that he just performed a formality at this point. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:39, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
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- Awww, thank you, Arjunaraoc! :) -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 17:19, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Education Program technical update: New features of course pages (test message)
editSeveral noticeable improvements to the EducationProgram extension (in addition to some small bug fixes) will go live on or around 2014-01-23:
Notifications
- All participants in a course (students, instructors, volunteers) will receive Notifications whenever their course talk page is edited. Thus, editors can use course talk pages to send messages they want the whole class to be aware of, and the class participants are likely to see them.
Special:Contributions student notice
- For users enrolled as students in courses that are active, a notice will appear at the top of Special:Contributions noting which course(s) they are enrolled in. This will make it easy for users who come across the work of student editors to find out that they are part of a course and identify other class participants.
Adding articles
- Course instructors and volunteers will be able to assign article to student editors, instead of all articles needing to be added by the student editors themselves.
Adding students
- Instructors and volunteers will be able to add users as students in courses, instead of all student editors needing to enroll for themselves. This makes it easier to maintain complete lists of students, and also makes the extension more suitable for tracking participation in edit-a-thons, workshops and other collaborative projects beyond the Wikipedia Education Program.
If you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know! --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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Difficulty with Scribus for Welcome to Wikipedia and Evaluating Wikipedia article quality publications
editI have already translated these two publications as well as Introduction to free licenses to Arabic in 2010. The same problem I faced was that Scribus does not support RTL languages. The solution then was to use Microsoft Publisher. Currently I do not have a Microsoft Publisher and Scribus has the same problem with RTL languages. Can you help me in this regard? HaythamAbulela 04:00, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- I do not have access to InDesign, but I have a translation software (SDL Trados)
that can open such extensions for translationI tried to open the indd file for Editing Wikipedia brochure and it did not open, and the file type (indd) is not supported.The problem would be pagination and changes in photo alignment. HaythamAbulela 01:05, 16 January 2014 (UTC)- I tried it and it opened, showing an error message as follows (The selected IDML file was not created by InDesign CS4 and will not be processed.) I will try, but still the final file shall be an IDML which I cannot preview.HaythamAbulela 03:53, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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editSeveral noticeable improvements to the EducationProgram extension (in addition to some small bug fixes) will go live on or around 2014-01-23:
Notifications
- All participants in a course (students, instructors, volunteers) will receive Notifications whenever their course talk page is edited. Thus, editors can use course talk pages to send messages they want the whole class to be aware of, and the class participants are likely to see them.
Special:Contributions student notice
- For users enrolled as students in courses that are active, a notice will appear at the top of Special:Contributions noting which course(s) they are enrolled in. This will make it easy for users who come across the work of student editors to find out that they are part of a course and identify other class participants.
Adding articles
- Course instructors and volunteers will be able to assign articles to student editors, instead of all articles needing to be added by the student editors themselves.
Adding students
- Instructors and volunteers will be able to add users as students in courses, instead of all student editors needing to enroll for themselves. This makes it easier to maintain complete lists of students, and also makes the extension more suitable for tracking participation in edit-a-thons, workshops and other collaborative projects beyond the Wikipedia Education Program.
If you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know! --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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editWe've started working on "editor campaigns", a system that we expect will eventually be able to replace our current Education Program extension (and be useful for many other purposes as well). The early work with that project will focus on a system for signup up new editors for editing campaigns (such as courses, but also edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.). Because of that, progress will be slow on the current course page system. However, we have several improvements that should be available within the next few weeks.
- Anyone can edit the main text of course pages
As part of the effort to make course pages behave more like regular wiki pages, we've enabled editing of course pages by anyone. Users who currently have the right to edit courses will have access to all the fields (so that they can change the start/end dates, and change the enrollment token). Users who currently cannot edit courses will be able to edit only the "page text" portion. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
- Simplified course editing interface
We've considerably simplified the interface for editing course pages, removing the options to rename courses. Changing the title of a course would also move the course page, creating confusion and leading to a number of bugs. Several other parts of the course editing interface were not very useful, so we've removed them to make it easier on newcomers. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
- Additional Notifications
Two students participating in the Facebook Open Academy mentorship program are currently working on additional Notifications for course pages. For the first of these, users will be notified whenever someone else adds them to a course.
Once again, if you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
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Education Program technical update, April 2014
editSince the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:
- Default course end date
The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.
- Notifications when you get added to a course
Whenever a user gets added to a course by someone else, they will now receive a Notification.
- Disabling individual student profiles
The student profile special page (Special:Student/Username, not to be confused with Special:Students) is a page that lists the courses a student editor is enrolled in, and is also supposed to list the articles that user is working on. However, the list of articles can include incorrect data in cases where an instructor or volunteer assigned the articles to the student editor. These profiles are being removed from the extension altogether. This change should go into effect Thursday, May 1. (Logs are still available to find out which courses a user is enrolled in.)
- Article edit notifications for students coming soon
A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.
- Duplicate courses and API deletion
Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.
If you have feedback about these changes, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let Anna Koval or me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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This Month in Education: July 2014
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- MACEDONIA: Internet marketing students learn about Wikipedia and suggest ways to improve its fundraising
- ISRAEL: Haifa University students write Wikipedia articles for academic credit
- MEXICO: Editing about Literary Theory in UNAM
- MEXICO: Professor training continues as part of the Wiki Learning program
- CZECH REPUBLIC: Education program presented at BarCamp
- GERMANY: Wikimedia Deutschland June Activities
- UK: 6th International Integrity and Plagiarism Conference
- UK: VLE content reuse at Wikimania
- TWL: The Wikipedia Library
- WMF: Learning & Evaluation to publish quarterly newsletter
- WMF: Updates from the Wikipedia Education Program and the Wikipedia Education Collaborative
- Articles of interest in other publications: Brazil, South Africa, The Signpost, and more
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed in the archives.
This Month in Education: August 2014
edit- Wikimania: Education at Wikimania
- U.S & Canada: U.S. and Canada Program Spring 2014 wrap-up
- Taiwan: Wikimedia Taiwan dreams of Open Knowledge
- Armenia: Vanadzor, Armenia again welcomes WikiCamp
- Netherlands: Education pilot projects by Wikimedia Nederland
- Sweden: Wikimedia Sverige creates Open Badges for education program
- Germany: Wikimedia Deutschland's July education activities
- Tech: VisualEditor for students and educators
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Israel, India, Armenia, Ukraine
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This Month in Education: September 2014
edit- Wikipedia Education Collaborative welcomes five new members
- Wikimedia Deutschlands recent activities: events, events and more events
- Working with Wikipedia expands at Tec de Monterrey
- Digital agenda for education and open badges to be tested
- Most successful Czech course continues again this year
- Articles of interest in other publications
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This Month in Education: October 2014
edit- Sweden: Swedish teacher wins national award for teaching with Wikimedia projects
- Greece: Greek university giving credit for translation of Wikipedia articles
- Greece: Wikipedia in Secondary and Adult Education: presentation at CIE2014 in Corfu, Greece
- Serbia & Hungary: Wikicamp 2014 in Serbia and Hungary brings chapters together
- Bulgaria: Bulgarian college students will explore Wikipedia in a new lecture course on "New Media and Participatory Culture"
- Bulgaria: Bulgarian college teachers "became nodes" in the Wikipedia Network
- Israel: 9th grade students in Be'er Sheva, Israel conclude a year-long project on Wikipedia
- Mexico: New classes and activities at Tec de Monterrey
- Catalonia: Education Program Extension enabled on Catalan Wikipedia
- Ukraine: Education Program Extension enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia
- Netherlands: Education Program Extension enabled on Dutch Wikipedia
- WMF: Data Collection Round II has started: be part
- Articles of interest in other publications: Poland, Philippines, United States, WikiProject Medicine, Jimmy Wales, and more
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This Month in Education: November 2014
edit- France: Wikimedia France obtains an agreement from the French Ministry of Education
- Mexico: Tec de Monterrey wrapping up semester projects
- Mexico: A student in Mexico makes the best of her study to edit Wikipedia
- Egypt: Egyptian Student invites his colleagues at Al-Azhar University to edit Wikipedia
- Sweden: Successful Wikipedia assignments presented by faculty at national conference in Sweden
- Global: Wikipedia Education Collaborative members meet in Edinburgh
- Global: Iberoconf discusses Wikipedia in education
- Global:Welcoming new WMF staff supporting education
- Articles of interest in other publications: MIT, Myanmar, and Jimmy Wales
This Month in Education: December 2014
edit- Uruguay: Wikipedia Education Program Celebration in Uruguay
- Egypt: Egyptian students wrap up their 5th term on Wikipedia with great success
- Serbia: First Wikipedia ambassador at the University of Belgrade
- Sweden: Swedish Wikimini 1 year anniversary
- UK: Wikimedia UK processing EduWiki 2014
- Regional: Eastern European education programs presented at regional conference
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Korea, Australia, the Gender Gap, the Wikipedia Library, WikiProject Medicine, Adrianne Wadewitz, Jimmy Wales, and Wikibombs
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This Month in Education: [January 2015]
edit- Czech Republic: Young Czech scientists upload pictures at Fluorescent Night
- India: 100+ Indian college students will contribute to Wikipedia to support national pilgrimage
- Sweden: Master students design prototypes for categorizing images on Wikimedia Commons
- Egypt: Wikipedia Education Program expands to new campuses in Cairo
- Syria: Pilot Wikipedia Education Program in Syria
- Wikimania: Get a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2015 and discuss education with the worldwide movement
- Mexico: Wiki Learning expands to three campuses at Tec de Monterrey
- Sweden: Open Badges in the Education Program in Sweden
- Czech Republic: Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Egypt, India, Armenia, Books, Jimmy Wales, and more
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This Month in Education: [February 201
edit- Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia runs WikiCamps with great success
- Greece: Corfu adult school piloting WikiExpeditions and article writing on Wikipedia
- Serbia: High school student advocates for Education Program
- Sweden: Education Program succeeds with high school students
- Armenia: WikiClub contributes more than 300,000 bytes to Armenian Wiktionary in a month
- Egypt: New campus ambassador and new Chinese translation class
- Resources: New education toolkit helps program leaders develop their programs
- Resources: New education learning patterns answer many of your questions
- Communications: Wikipedia Education Program is now on Facebook
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Australia, Ireland, Black History Month, WikiWomen and Jimmy Wales
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This Month in Education: March 2015
edit- Uruguay: A new edition of Wikipedia Education Program kicks off in Uruguay
- Czech Republic: Czech senior citizen program scales up
- Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their sixth term on Wikipedia
- Israel: Education/Newsletter/March 2015/Educator conference successfully concludes teachers' online courses
- Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina reinforces gender diversity on Wikipedia with several women targeted events
- Mexico: Novel photo projects related to editathon at Tec de Monterrey
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Events commemorating WikiWomen History Month, WikiMed and Black History editathons
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This Month in Education: April 2015
edit- WMF: Quarterly update from the education team
- Armenia: Teachers and journalists of Armenian community in Lebanon joined Wikipedia and Wikipedia Education program
- Ukraine: First round of WikiStudia wraps up with success
- Greece: Greek Adult school completes wikiexpedition on Greek villages
- Mexico: New to Wikipedia: A personal perspective
- Latvia: Education Program Extension enabled on Latvian Wikipedia
- Russia: Education Program Extension enabled on Russian Wikipedia
- Sweden: Students nominated for their MOOC on Swedish Wikiversity
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Studies and news from Harvard to Cambridge, women events and history editathons
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This Month in Education: May 2015
edit- Tunisia: Rachidia music school celebrates 80 years of love and art by editing Wikipedia
- Mexico: Five new classes begin experimenting with Wikipedia
- Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WikiArabia 2015
- China: Chinese students commemorate deceased philanthropist Run Run Shaw
- Argentina: Editathon for young students to edit articles about their school
- Mexico: Maria enjoys editing Wikipedia as her community service
- Global: Registration for Wikimania Education Pre-Conference in Mexico City is now open!
- Sweden: Wikimedia conference 2015: better understanding for Wikipedia in Education
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: School editathons, medical research, Jimmy wales and new Wiki
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This Month in Education: June 2015
edit- Uruguay: A Wikipedia project in foreign languages receives a teaching award
- Hong Kong: The First Wikipedia Education Program in Hong Kong
- Greece: Adult school graduates learn to edit Wikipedia and inspire their peers
- Sweden: Mid-year Summary from the Wikipedia Education Program
- Mexico: New video tutorial for Commons created by students
- Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia New Office, Annual Conference, and WikiCamp 2015
- Argentina: Argentina contributes to a massive cross-border course of free knowledge in Spanish-speaking countries
- Israel: Education Program Extension enabled on Hebrew Wiktionary
- Global: New recognition certificates for program students, teachers and leaders
- Media Articles of interest in other publications: Uk, India, Palestine and more
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This Month in Education: July 2015
edit- Israel: Wikimedia Israel's annual conference helps expanding its education activity
- Community: Join the Community Health learning campaign on Meta
- Global: Wikimania 2015: education highlights
- Education Collaborative: Wikipedia Education Collaborative is changing. Be part of the movement!
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Wikimania, Wikipedians in residence and public domain value
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This Month in Education: August 2015
edit- Sweden: The benefits of teaching with Wikipedia broadcasted on Swedish National Radio
- Mexico: Summer term ends with great success and Fall begins at Tec de Monterrey
- Newsletter: On its third birthday, a retrospective of This Month In Education and proposed changes to the publication process
- Newsletter: Call for volunteers - This Month In Education
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Israel, Mexico and Australia
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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015
edit- Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
- Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
- Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
- Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
- Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
- Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
- Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
- Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
- Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
- Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
- France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
- Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
- Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
- Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
- Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
- Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
- Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
- Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
- Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
- Sweden: Science Outreach on Wikipedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
- Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Wikipedia as a learning tool
- Global: The Wikipedia Education Program now on Twitter
- Global: Recent improvements to the Wikipedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
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This Month in Education: [March 2016]
editBy Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.
WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.
Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from Arabic Brochure of Editing Wikipedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Wikipedia without problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Wikipedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Wikipedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Wikipedia Education program in Egypt and how it worked since February 2012 till the November 2015, as the seventh edition ended last October. All discussions were about the program's mechanism and what were the motivations keeping it going. The program helped increasing gender diversity and supported the featured content on Arabic Wikipedia. Wikipedia Education Program, like any other initiative, has achievements and dark sides, for that reason, the representatives had to locate both of them and how they influence the Arabic community and how the community interact with this phenomenon.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).
Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all B.A. students on campus
On October 19th a new for-credit elective course called "Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge"[1] has opened at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The semester-long course (13 weeks) is available to all B.A. students on campus and this semester about 50 students from various disciplines are taking part in this first-of-its-kind course in Israel.
The course draws from "flipped classroom" concepts and uses "blended learning" methods, which practically means combining in-class lectures, workshops and small-group activities, as well as online individual learning. Both the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and the Wikipedia Education Extension are used to monitor the students' work and progress throughout the course.
The course has 2 main assignments - expanding an existing stub, as well as writing a new article, in the hopes that the content added during the course will assist not only the students themselves, but also future generations of learners as well as the general public. Though the course focuses on adding quality content to Wikipedia, it also aims to help students sharpen their academic skills and their 21st century skills, highlighting collaborative learning, joint online research and interdisciplinary collaborations in the process of constructing knowledge.
This course was initiated and is led by Shani Evenstein, an educator, Wikimedian and member of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative, in collaboration with the Orange Institute for Internet Studies, as well as the School of Education at TAU. The syllabus for the new course builds on the success of Wiki-Med, a for-credit elective course, which was designed in 2013 and is led by Evenstein at the Sackler school of Medicine for the third consecutive year. While Wiki-med is focused on contributing medical content to Wikipedia and is only available to Medical Students on campus, the new course is designed to accommodate students from different academic disciplines and varying backgrounds.
The course was chosen to be part of TAU's cross-discipline elective courses system ("Kelim Shluvim") and was approved by the Vice-Rector, who heads the program. In that, the course marks an important precedent in the collaboration between Academia and the Wikipedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Wikipedia on a university level, offering it to all students, rather than a faculty level or individual lecturers as mostly practiced. It is our hope that other higher education institutions will follow this example and offer similar courses to students both in Israel and around the world.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Israel here.
By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina
Snippet: University professors become Wikipedians in an online course during just a week.
Educators with different profiles and from different latin america countries, but most of them professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from different faculties, have just participated in the online training and free course "Educational scenarios with technology. Among the real and the possible" organized by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy (CITEP) of this university.
Different educational activities were carried out simultaneously. During the week and under the topic “Open movement”, Wikimedia Argentina participated with three different proposals: starting with an interview of Patricio Lorente accompanied with a short text to know more about the movement. To make an immersive experience we designed " Knowing Wikipedia by first-hand or Wikipedia in the first person" to work directly on the platform translating articles from english to spanish from a list created especially for that purpose. Along with this specific proposal, educators participated in a videoconference with Galileo Vidoni (available in Spanish), where participants could talk and learn more about how are the first steps to become a Wikipedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.
With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Wikipedia, indeed many of them mentioned that they had it as a pending to learn and participate on the free encyclopedia, but never had the time or the real chance. The enthusiasm was also present on social networks, where they shared the experience with the hashtag #escenariostec.
The result
More than 100 educators got involved and exchanged their experience in an online forum with more of 280 messages that reflected their learning process while experiencing with the activity. 80 of them were new users, and they created 61 new articles in spanish. An important fact: 78 of them were women, which means that working with educators is a key issue to continue closing the digital gender gap.
Finally from CITEP, they shared the following insights regarding the question that ran through all the activities that took place during the week dedicated to the open movement. Some thoughts can be sum up as follows:We share some of the voices of the protagonists in social networks with storify (available in Spanish). Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.The collaborative production in open environments: chaos or construction? (...) For the teacher also means accepting new challenges: encourage students to produce knowledge in an environment of divergent nature, it requires permanent operations and convergence. In a space that fosters interventions unmarked, the teacher needs to frame depending on the purpose of education and teaching purposes. (…) Wikipedia is the best example of the challenges posed by the digital era in the educational field, it forces us to rethink the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge and allows us to confirm that the collaborative work does not lead to chaos, if not to the construction. (. ..) [Authors: Angeles Solectic and Miri Latorre]
By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)
Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Wikipedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.
Collaboration between Wikipedia and Czech institutions has always been a priority for Wikimedia Czech Republic, but the year 2015 has taken this to another level. First, an official memorandum of collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) was signed in May 2015, to be followed by official collaboration with Masaryk University in Brno (the second largest city and university in the Czech Republic), which was contracted in November 2015. In fact, Wikimedia activities in Brno have been blooming for several years now, mainly as a result of the community's own development, but aided substantially by the external interest in Wikipedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.
In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Wikipedians – Marek Blahuš (Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first "Wikipedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Wikipedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference (more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Wikipedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9000 articles on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias (more in English here). His current work as Wikipedian in residence is funded by Masaryk University and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic as well as Masaryk University's rector Mikuláš Bek.
Since February, Wikipedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Wikipedians team", gathering local Wikipedians and facilitating contacts with the university, aided by his status of a graduate and current employee in its language center. Articles about Masaryk University alumni and faculties have been identified and improved after consultations with Masaryk University archives and libraries which provided helpful resources. Wikipedia citation templates can now be directly generated from the university's on-line archive of theses. In September, a public conference called "Masaryk University Is Getting High on Wikipedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Wikipedian Jan Sokol (Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Wikipedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech "Students Write Wikipedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Wikipedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Wikipedia.
The program is actively preparing for 2016 when we expect Wikimedia Czech Republic to take a more active role in overseeing the initiatives as well as the creation of a position of a "Wikipedian in Brno" – person officially in charge of the wide array of Wikimedia activities happening in the city. The chapter's annual plan includes initiatives to increase the number of university courses which incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Wikipedia at various events, scanning and uploading of images from institutional and personal archives, and much more. Let's wish that our plans come true!
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.
By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)
Snippet: Student participation is more than just text!
For the Fall 2015 Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey held two wiki expeditions in Mexico City and began a collaboration with the Museo de Arte Popular. We also received our first grant!
Wiki expeditions
editThe 32-campus Tec de Monterrey system has each semester an event called "Semana i" (i Week), when students forego normal classes for an entire week to work on challenging projects called "retos." For the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, one option for students was to work with Wikimedia, with the aptly named projects "Reto Wikimedia." Both campuses opted to do wiki-expeditions to different parts of Mexico City. The Mexico City campus had the larger group with almost 90 students registered, who covered the two southern boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan. The Santa Fe group had 35 participants, and covered the San Ángel neighborhood found not far from this campus.
Both campus took photos of landmarks with the Mexico City campus also focusing on photos of everyday life in the south of the city. The Mexico City campus tallied 5264 photos, 8 videos and 36 articles, including articles related to the area into French, Swedish and Danish. The Santa Fe group tallied 605 photos, and ten articles in Spanish on landmarks in San Ángel.
In addition, the Mexico City campus had a special speaker the borough chronicler of Xochmilco, Sebastián Flores Farfán. A short montage video of the event is in the works.
Some student photos:
Some video clips of the event:
Animation clips with the Museo de Arte Popular
editWikiservicio, students working with Wikimedia for their community service requirement, added a new component. To attract more students and encourage more students to do all of their community service hours with Wikimedia, a collaboration was set up with the Museo de Arte Popular (MAP)... the first of many we hope! Six students from the digital art and animation major (see last newsletter) have continued working with Wikimedia, but focusing their efforts in creating short animation clips in relation to the mission of promoting and preserving Mexican folk art. One clip has been completed and can be see to the right of this text. So far, the video has subtitles in English, German, French and Punjabi. A second clip is nearing completion at the time of this writing.
Classes and Wikimetrics
editFifteen students completed work with Wikiservicio doing translations, writing new articles and doing photography projects. As of this date, 7 have indicated interest in working with Wikiservicio on campus and another six with MAP.
Five university level classes and one high school class on the Mexico City (South) campus have had projects, all in writing and translation, with some video work.
Wikimetrics for the semester are:
According to Wikimetrics tool....
- 9,589,918 bytes to Spanish Wikipedia
- 3,098 edits to the mainspace of Spanish Wikipedia
- 367 pages created in the mainspace of Spanish Wikipedia
Manual count
- 302 student and teacher participants
- 281 Spanish Wikipedia articles created or expanded
- 6,057 photographs
- 10 videos
- 9 articles in English Wikipedia
- 2 articles in French Wikipedia
- 1 article in Swedish Wikipedia
- 1 article in Danish Wikipedia
First grant Wiki Learning received its first grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The long-term goal of this grant is to establish a system for financing Wiki Learning. The grant, which totals a modest 12,500 Mexican pesos, will be used for swag, such as t shirts, stickers, buttons, etc, especially for Semana i activities and promotion of wiki activities to other campus. The money will also be used for incidental travel expenses, especially for projects needing to move expensive camera equipment.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico here.
By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)
Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina.
The digital free magazine Aprender para Educar (Learning to educate) of the National Technological University (UTN) is recognized in the community of education and technology in Argentina to write about innovation issues in Spanish, which is not common in the academic dissemination and teacher training field.
Cristina Velazquez, general editor of the magazine invited Wikimedia Argentina to write an article that generally describes their activities in the Education Program, after reading the proposal she decided to publish it as the main article of the 12th edition.
To describe the education program, WMAR wrote two notes completing one another, as doing a zoom: from the local to the global and from the global to the local, showing how a movement of this magnitude does not stand alone, it is part of a huge network.
Melina Masnatta, education manager in WMAR and Patricio Lorente, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees wrote those two notes.The first one focuses on the Education Program, implementation, challenges and obstacles that they had at the beginning, plans to integrate it into the classrooms in Argentina and how different Wikimedia Projects are also relevant in education. The most important thing, Melina adds, is to strengthen the values that inspire them, show how the free culture give meaning to education in general and digital culture in particular.
Meanwhile in the second part, Lorente focuses on the global movement, the community pillars, the agenda of today's challenges and the effort of their volunteers as protagonists. It is not easy show the world what drives us and why we work as volunteers in different countries. In education very few people understand the value of building free knowledge. There is still a great prejudice or negative perceptions of Wikipedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Wikipedia is built.
Everybody reads Wikipedia, but few people edit it. We can change this fact by spreading in spaces such as the Journal of the UTN and inviting more people to collaborate and be the protagonist of this huge collective work for humanity.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an exceptional record of WEP excellent content.
Bassem Fleifel, an online ambassador of Cairo university spanish course, played a prominent role to help all students to encourage them to nominate their excellent content to be a featured and good articles in Arabic Wikipedia. Those articles are History of bread (Featured article); Walt Disney; Daniel Radcliffe; Al-Andalus; Poet in New York; and Popol Vuh.
The seventh term, the program started in Cairo University with promoting posts on Wikipedia and social media websites to help new participants understand the general idea of the program as well as holding meetings with professors from the departments of History, chinese, English language and Spanish language. Walaa Abdel Manaem (program leader in Cairo University) and Bassem Fleifel (online ambassador) have held some workshops in campus and online for the whole students to teach them "How to edit Wikipedia". On the other hand, Prof. Abeer Abdel-Hafiz has exerted great efforts with her students in addition to introducing Walaa to new classes of senior students for whom she has organized general seminars about Wikipedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Wikipedia.
This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia or working on articles about history. They already have chosen some articles to translate with the target of nominating them to be a featured and good articles.
Most of students worked on articles about different topics like history, writers, actors, history of food and drink, mayan literature, islam and politics, etc. This course itself achieved an exceptional record of Wikipedia Education program excellent content and the best term ever in the history of WEP in Egypt in general and in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in specific. Walaa has held 2 online webinars to follow up with her students in addition to the workshops held at the campus. Regarding numbers, 38 students joined this course, of which 35 are female and 3 are male students. They worked on 1748 articles adding more than 12,282,943 million bytes to the article namespace on the Arabic Wikipedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.
See the course page of this group on the Arabic Wikipedia here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)
Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Wikipedia editing as one of the main parts in a subject on communication of History.
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest higher education institution, and it is the first time Wikimedia Norway collaborates with this University in forming and using Wikipedia editing as a integrated part of higher education. The collaboration started by Wikimedia Norway contacting assistant professor John McNicol, who already had gotten some media attention on his eagerness to make students skilled in knowledge sharing.
Starting off with a two hour lecture on the secret world of Wikipedia and a two hour editing workshop in mid-September, and in October the students will evaluate the life of their articles. Has there been many additional edits on their articles? Discussions? Request to delete everything? For Wikimedia Norge it is fun to see the students both engaging in Wikipedia editing and using the ways of Wikipedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Norway here.
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- Argentina: Educational hackathon about digital sources, big data, and Wikipedia
- Argentina and Mexico: First mentoring program between the Argentine and Mexican chapters
- Czech Republic: Czech education program turns professional with a new education manager
- Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate the seventh conference of WEP
- Nigeria: Wikipedia workshop for students of Fountain University
- Sverige: Teacher celebrated for excellent pedagogy with Wikipedia
- Taiwan: Taiwanese students use Spoken Wikipedia as their service learning
- Global: Education Program Historic Data Campaign
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
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This Month in Education: [June 2016]
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- Argentina: A New Online Course in a New Virtual Campus
- Czech Republic: How to survive the Big Bang in your education program
- Estonia: An online elective course on Wikipedia for high school pupils in Estonia
- Greece: Argostoli Evening School students and a Wikitherapy participant turn Wiktionary project into Android app
- Israel: New training materials in Arabic by WMIL
- Mexico: Luz María Silva's students and their adventure editing Spanish Wikipedia
- Mexico: Spring semester wiki activities end at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City
- Netherlands: Maastricht University 40 years
- Sweden: Students in Sweden edit Somali Wikipedia
- Taiwan: Visualizations of relationships among knowledge? Try WikiSeeker!
- Wikimania 2016: Education at Wikimania
- Wikimedia Foundation: Education Program surveys are here!
- Wikimedia Foundation: Vahid Masrour joins the education team at the Wikimedia Foundation
- Global: Programs and Events Dashboard Update
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the Education Newsletter.--Sailesh Patnaik (Distribution leader) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:53, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
This Month in Education: [September 2016]
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- Armenia: Armenian students inspire their parents to join Wikipedia
- Brazil: Brazilian Wikimedians interview editor of academic journal Wiki Studies
- Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their eighth term and start their ninth term on WEP
- Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate eighth WEP conference
- Greece: Online wiki training for educators in Greece
- Israel: Outcomes report on a Wikipedia Course “Skills for Producing and Consuming Knowledge”, Tel Aviv University
- Israel: Wikipedia as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Medical Education at IAMSE Medical Education Conference
- Israel: "Writing a new article is a special experience that feels new every time"
- Mexico: Video projects redefine student Wiki work and student community service
- Russia: Wiki Workshop at Saint Petersburg Internet Conference 2016 in Russia
- Sweden: Swedish National Agency of Education endorses Wikipedia Education Program
- Turkey: Psychology students of Uludag University are very proud of contributing Turkish Wikipedia
- West Africa: West African schools will test Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader
- Global: Programs and Events Dashboard Update
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
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This Month in Education: December 2016
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- Greece: Greek schools collaborate to write on local history
- Israel: It’s a win win project: An interview with Sivan Lerer, a teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Germany: Open Science Fellows Program launched in Germany
- Basque Country: Students go wikipedian in the Basque Country
- Norway: Third term of Wikipedia editing at the University of Oslo
- Macedonia: First Wiki Club in Macedonia
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
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This Month in Education: [February 2017]
editVolume 6 | Issue 1 | February 2017
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Common Challenges: Time is not an unlimited resource
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Wikilesa: working with university students on human rights An auspicious beginning at university in Basque Country The Wikipedia Education Program kicks off in Finland The Brief Story of Mrgavan WikiClub Citizen Science and biodiversity in school projects on Wikispecies, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
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WMF Education Program to be featured at the Asian Conference for Technology in the Classroom An invitation to participate in the "Hundred Words" campaign! Education Collab updates membership criteria
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Students Can Learn By Writing For Wikipedia Online communities are supercharging people's careers Using open source to empower students in Tanzania Signpost Special Issue: Wikipedia in Education
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This Month in Education: [March 2017]
editVolume 6 | Issue 2 | March 2017
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. Be sure to check out the full version, and past editions. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team!
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Featured Topic | Newsletter update
Overview on Wikipedia Education Program 2016 in Taiwan |
From the Community |
High School and Collegiate Students Enhance Waray Wikipedia during Edit-a-thons Approaching History students as pilot of Education program in Iran An experience with middle school students in Ankara Wikishtetl: Commemorating Jewish communities that perished in the Holocaust |
From the Education Team |
UCSF Students Visit WMF Office as they start their Wikipedia editing journey |
In the News |
Från dammiga arkiv till artiklar på nätet |
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This Month in Education: [April 2017]
editVolume 6 | Issue 3 | April 2017
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How responsible should teachers be for student contributions? |
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Cairo and Al-Azhar Universities students wrap up their ninth term and start their tenth term on WEP Glimpse of small language Wikipedia incubation partnership in Taiwan Key to recruiting seniors as Wikipedians is long-term work Western Armenian WikiCamper promotes Wikiprojects in his school Building a global network for Education |
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This Month in Education: September 2017
editVolume 6 | Issue 8 | September 2017
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This Month in Education: October 2017
editVolume 6 | Issue 9 | October 2017
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Your community should discuss to implement the new P&E Dashboard functionalities |
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Wikidata implemented in Wikimedia Serbia Education Programe |
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This Month in Education: November 2017
editVolume 6 | Issue 10 | November 2017
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Hashemite University continues its strong support of Education program activities Wikicontest for high school students Exploring Wikiversity to create a MOOC Wikidata in the Classroom at the University of Edinburgh How we defined what secondary education students need Wikipedia Education Program in Bangkok,Thailand Wikipedia workshop against human trafficking in Serbia The WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique kicks in 4 francophones African countries
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Student perceptions of writing with Wikipedia in Australian higher education |
This Month in Education: December 2017
editVolume 6 | Issue 11 | December 2017
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Wikimedia Serbia has established cooperation with three new faculties within the Education Program Updates to Programs & Events Dashboard WM User Group Greece organises Wikipedia e-School for Educators Corfupedia records local history and inspires similar projects Wikipedia learning lab at TUMO Stepanakert Wikimedia CH experiments a Wikipedia's treasure hunt during "Media in Piazza" |
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Things My Professor Never Told Me About Wikipedia "Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research" Conference in Ireland |
This Month in Education: January 2018
editVolume 7 | Issue 1 | January 2018
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Bertsomate: using Basque oral poetry to illustrate math concepts |
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Wikimedia Serbia celebrated 10 years from the first article written within the Education Program WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique update The first Swedish Master's in Digital Humanities partners with Wikimedia Sverige How we use PetScan to improve partnership with lecturers and professors
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This Month in Education: February 2018
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This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
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WikiProject Engineering Workshop at IIUC,Chittagong What did we learn from Wikibridges MOOC? Wikimedia Serbia launched Wiki scholar project Karvachar’s WikiClub: When getting knowledge is cool More than 30 new courses launched in the University of the Basque Country |
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The Education Extension is being deprecated (second call) The 2017 survey report live presentation is available for viewing |
This Month in Education: March 2018
editVolume 7 | Issue 3 | March 2018
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Animated science educational videos in Basque for secondary school student Beirut WikiClub: Wikijourney that has enriched our experiences Students of the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade edit Wikipedia for the first time The role of Wikipedia in education - Examples from the Wiki Education Foundation |
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This Month in Education: April 2018
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Global perspectives from Western Norway Togh's WikiClub: Wikipedia is the 8th wonder of the world! Workshops with Wiki Clubs members in the Republic of Macedonia |
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This Month in Education: May 2018
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This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
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Creating and reusing OERs for a Wikiversity science journalism course from Brazil Inauguration Ceremony of Sri Jayewardenepura University Wiki Club Wiki Education publishes evaluation of Fellows pilot The first students of Russia with diplomas of Wikimedia and Petrozavodsk State University |
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A lofty vision for the Education Team UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2018, Digital Skills for Life and Work |
This Month in Education: June 2018
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Featured Topic | Academia and Wikipedia: the first Irish conference on Wikipedia in education |
From the Community |
Ashesi Wiki Club: Charting the cause for Wikipedia Education Program in West Africa Wikimedia Serbia has received a new accreditation for the Accredited seminars for teachers Côte d'Ivoire: Wikipedia Classes 2018 are officially up and running Basque secondary students have now better coverage for main topics thanks to the Education Program What lecturers think about their first experience in the Basque Education Program |
From the Education Team | Education Extension scheduled deprecation |
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Wikipedia calls for participation to boost content from the continent Wikipedia in the History Classroom Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool Complicating Writing in the Technical Writing Classroom When the World Helps Teach Your Class: Using Wikipedia to Teach Controversial Issues |
This Month in Education: July 2018
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Wikipedia+Education Conference 2019: Community Engagement Survey
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From the Community |
Young wikipedian: At WikiClub you get knowledge on your own will Wikipedia in schools project at the "New Technologies in Education" Conference Basque Education Program: 2017-2018 school year report
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UNESCO ICT in Education Prize call for nominations opens An educator's overview of Wikimedia (in short videos format) |
This Month in Education: August 2018
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The reconnection of Wikimedia Projects in Brazil Christ (DU) students enrolls for 3rd Wikipedia certificate course Educational wiki-master-classes at International "Selet" forum |
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This Month in Education: September 2018
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Edu Wiki Camp 2018: New Knowledge for New Generation Education loves Monuments: A Brazilian Tale History of Wikipedia Education programme at Christ (Deemed to be University) Preparation for the autumn educational session of Selet WikiSchool is started |
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This Month in Education: November 2018
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A new academic course featuring Wikidata at Tel Aviv University How we included Wikipedia edition into a whole University department curriculum Meet the first board of the UG Wikipedia & Education The education program has kicked off as the new academic year starts The education program has kicked off as the new academic year starts in Albania The first Wikimedia+Education conference will happen on April 5-7 at Donostia-Saint Sebastian Using ORES to assign articles in Basque education program What to write for Wikipedia about? Monuments! Wikifridays: editing Wikipedia in the university Writing articles on Wikipedia is our way of leaving legacy to the next generations |
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