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Welcome to Wikipedia, James Council! Thank you for your contributions. I am MartinPoulter and I have been eWikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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[edit]Be careful about revealing private information, as your rights to privacy may not extend as far as you believe. See Wikipedia:On privacy, confidentiality and discretion. You shouldn't post your email ID. But there is a way to link email IDs to Wikipedia accounts so that the "Email this user" button appears at the left. When you do that, any user who wants to contact you can do so, but they cannot see your email ID. But you see both their username and email ID, which makes this feature safe to use. Which is why I requested you to use the "Email this User" option, so you don't have to post your email ID and people can still contact you. Happy editing! Miss Bono (zootalk) 18:18, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
It is good that you have taken the time to expand this article. However, the style and structure of the material is not encyclopedic. Could you rewrite it to fix these issues? I am happy to assist you with this. --JorisvS (talk) 12:02, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the feedback. The expansion of Spotlight Effect was part of a psychology class project, Spring 013 semester, which expanded 12 stubs having to do with psychology. Some are better than others. There is at least one other that needs to be rewritten in encyclopedic style. I will pass along your feedback to the group that did this, but I can't guarantee that they will follow up. I will try to check in this summer and work on it myself. I do plan to continue assigning Wikipedia improvement projects to my classes, which I think is a much better use of their time than the standard term paper. If you have any suggestions for setting up assignments so that problems like this are forestalled, please let me know. Thanks much! Jim
- It would be good to give them specific instructions about formatting an article, see WP:MOS, the standard layout of Wikipedia articles (WP:MOS/Layout), and, most important of all, the content of Wikipedia articles, see WP:Core content policies. Wikipedia articles should not review scientific studies, but the state of the art of the knowledge about a topic and how this knowledge developed (i.e. its history).
- Article sections should cover specific subtopics of the topic. If an article becomes very long, subtopic may get their own dedicated article, with only a summary remaining at the original article and a reference to the main article using {{Main|XXX}}. Language should be precise, professional, and non-redundant (which is exactly the ideal for scientific articles, and hence good practice for students).
- Ideally, all statements should be accompanied by a citation that says what the statement says (in terms of content, not words) with no additional personal reflection: No original research, especially note WP:SYNTH. The inline references should not be like those of an article in APA style, but should use <ref name=XXX>...</ref> for the first instance of a reference and all other instances <ref name=XXX/>. The entry in the reference list is the "..." in the inline citation and may be fully in APA style, but whenever possible should include a link to the scientific article, so that preferably everyone can open it and verify the material.
- The text in the article should be in sentence case, never in title case, not even in the section headers or in the article title itself. So, it should always be "spotlight effect", never
"Spotlight Effect". - It may be a good idea to give some points for the clarity of the material, spelling, and following the relevant style. It may also be an idea to include two rounds of writing, the second one after initial feedback (which is typically necessary to write a good article or essay anyway). Do you have any questions? --JorisvS (talk) 13:45, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]The message was for you. Your email is at your User Page. You should remove it from there, and enable the email option that Wikipedia offers. As for your username, in my opinion you should change it but of course, that's up to you. See the Messager Technical13 left for you at my talk page. Cheers! Miss Bono (zootalk) 13:43, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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History and Systems course
[edit]Hi James--I noticed you're running a course in psychology with a Wikipedia component. Just wanted to drop by and thank you for integrating Wikipedia editing as a part of coursework. History of the discipline is not really well-represented here outside of the usual big names and their legacies. I also wanted to offer any help you might need reviewing articles or with questions you might have. I saw your questions at the Teahouse and while I'm not an official online / campus ambassador, I have a great deal of experience helping new editors on Wikipedia (through the Teahouse and otherwise) and a Master's degree in cognitive psychology. Let me know if there's any help you need. I, JethroBT drop me a line 20:37, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]Your Wikipedia account was previously granted a user right called "course instructor" by the Wiki Education Foundation. That right enabled you to create a course page through the EducationProgram MediaWiki extension. Starting in fall 2015, the Wiki Education Foundation has discontinued its use of this extension. Going forward, users should create course pages through the Wiki Education Foundation website. That application is more user-friendly, and any content is automatically mirrored to Wikipedia. To prevent confusion, we'll be removing your "course instructor" user right, as it is not needed with the new system. This is simply a notification of the technical change to your account. No action is needed from you at this time.
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Reals name on Wikipedia
[edit]Hello, I noticed that you are an instructor and that it seems like a lot of your students, as well as yourself, are using their real names as their usernames. While this is not against Wikipedia policy it should be noted that all contributions to Wikipedia are permanent and are stored under the editor's username. For the relevant information please see WP:REALNAME. Please make sure your students know that any edits done under a real name account could be traced back to the person. It is important to realize this to avoid any possible issues in the future. Students who have made a real name account and do not want to continue using it can just create another one. If you have any questions or would like more information on Wikipedia policies please leave me a message on my talk page Thanks! --Stabila711 (talk) 04:46, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
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- Hi James Council! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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History & Systems Question
[edit]I was reading up on the rules for uploading images to wikipedia, and I think I got a little confused. I want to use a picture of Nancy Bayley for our infobox, but none of the webpages I find with her photo have any information on who took the photo, where it came from, or if it is in public domain. Every webpage seems to have the same image of Bayley, but I can't figure out its source. Do you have any recommendations for how to go about finding a usable image of her? Thanks!
Haylee.schumacher (talk) 17:34, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Dr. Council, I am having issues with citing my sources. Once I have created a citation it will not let me not that citation later on. When I try to note that citation a second time it creates a new, blank citation. Cassiehoffman (talk) 19:38, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
This Month in Education: [March 2016]
[edit]By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
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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:
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]
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.
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
[edit]The 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
[edit]Wikiservicio, 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
[edit]Fifteen 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)
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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.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:26, 1 March 2016 (UTC).
References
- ^ Link to the course page at the TAU website (in Hebrew) - http://www2.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?course=1880180101&year=2015
This Month in Education: [March 2016]
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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
We apologize for an earlier distribution that mistakenly took on the older content. We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the newsletter we are sharing now.--Sailesh Patnaik (Distribution leader) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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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
We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:00, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
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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We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
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The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using Saileshpat (talk) 19:07, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
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The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:18, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]RIP Jim
[edit]Jim passed away this summer. He supported over 350 student editors who added over 150,000 words to the project. He was an amazing person to know, and will be missed. Guettarda (talk) 19:30, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
- Rest in Peace, Your Contributions will never be forgotten --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 01:39, 30 September 2019 (UTC)