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This Month in Education: September 2022

Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

 
The Movement Charter Drafting Committee at the Wikimedia Summit in September.
  • Movement Charter Drafting Committee's participation at the Wikimedia Summit: The MCDC members presented initial drafts of the three chapters of the Movement Charter: Preamble, Values and Principles, and Roles and Responsibilities. The three chapters were prioritized to lay the groundwork for the rest of the Charter. MCDC members attended breakout rooms to discuss the progress with all attendees - both online and offline. The drafts received valuable feedback from the affiliates in many sessions. The Committee also launched a survey to gather feedback and suggestions on the Movement Charter development. Report for the Wikimedia Summit can be found here.
  • Learn about Movement Charter Drafting Committee’s work in September: The Committee released its regular monthly update from September 2022. It includes highlights about the Committee's progress in creating the Movement Charter content, results of the Wikimedia Summit, and an important announcement about membership.

Coming up:

  • Community consultations. In November the MCDC will be organizing events to hear your thoughts on the first three drafts. There will be onboarding sessions for community members to learn about Movement Charter and ask their questions to the Committee members. Community members will be able to share their thoughts and feedback via open and anonymous surveys, along with Meta pages, MS Forum and email. Details to be communicated by the MSG team.
  • Conference engagement. MCDC members will be attending the following conferences in October/November:
    • WikiArabia (28 - 30 October): Anass, Ravan, Reda will facilitate a discussion about the Movement Charter. Additional sessions include a conversation about the roles & responsibilities, and a conversation about hubs. .
    • WikiIndaba (4 - 6 November): Anasss will present a Movement Charter update.
    • WikiCon francophone (17 - 20 November): Anass, Georges and Reda will present a Movement Charter session.
    • WikiConNL (19 November): Ciell will present an Movement Charter update.
  • Movement Charter Ambassadors Package. Individuals and/or groups from various communities will be able to get resources and support to help increase the engagement of community members in the Movement Charter. The details to be shared by the MSG team.


--15:24, 25 October 2022 (UTC).

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Educational institutions - Wikipedia cooperation

Hi LiAnna, I had a for me interesting experience when I learned that an editor from the Boston College was not able to get his draft approved in an unlucky way, here and here (as to me, all involved acted in good faith) which lead to several discussions which in part are still going on. I am trying to find and support a mechanism with which the drafts and articles from editors from educational institutions can be labeled so interested reviewers can act in a collaborative way. Similar like the women in red. I was told that such a mechanism or a similar one already exists and would be glad to learn more about it.

I believe if the editor would have been prepared and welcomed better for/by the wikipedia community they'd have had a more pleasant start for their wikipedia experience. Now their draft has been declined twice, a merge discussion is going on and actually their article Miss Zhao's suicide is/was rather well elaborated from the beginning.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 06:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the question! We have an extensive program where thousands of students each term contribute content to Wikipedia; you can see the students in action this term here. Wiki Education provides a series of training resources that help guide the small numbers of students who create new articles each term into effectively doing so (here's our moving out of the sandbox training), but occasionally some students simply don't follow our guidance. In this case, it looks like the issue was compounded by the student putting quotes on the article title in our Dashboard software, which meant the automatic hidden category on the article and the note on its talk page never posted. (You can see how this works in action at Thraustochytrids, another new article created by students in our program that term.) It looks like this student didn't actually engage with our trainings and tried to do it without understanding what was happening, since they created it in both mainspace and draft space. (It's elaborate in main because the student also created it there -- the student's work is already in mainspace, so I think they'll be fine with an extra draft they accidentally started being declined.) Please feel free to ping User:Ian (Wiki Ed) if you see other work from our student editors who need some help -- we're happy to jump in on those! --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:33, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer, I sincerely must admit it was a long answer and it took me some time to think over it. I am not so much worried about the editors thoughts about a declined draft. I am rather sure their tutor prepared them for what is to expect from the wikipedia process. But I worry about if an editor who created a fairly elaborated article (close to a GA) would recommend editing on Wikipedia. I have learned that there exists the hidden Category:Wikipedia Student Program. But there the articles can hardly be found. Has there been thought about creating the hidden AfC category about drafts/articles created by members of WikiEd. There exist many subcategories already and I'd support the creation of such a category. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:25, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
I learned there are other categories around the Wikipedia Eduction Program and will try to find a category over which articles created or edited by editors of the Wikipedia Students Program. While writing this I just realized the Student program is a different program than the Wikipedia Education Program. Its a rather large nucleus I wasn't aware of it for years and am interested in supporting it. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 02:26, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm pinging @Sage (Wiki Ed): to this conversation, as he runs our technology, including the Dashboard application that is adding those categories, so he might have a better sense of the categorization. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:59, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Paradise Chronicle: Hi! It looks like you've found the existing categories that our system adds to the sandboxes of student editors. If there's anything related to that you want to inquire into further, please give me a ping.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:15, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi @Sage (Wiki Ed), well this is great. What kind of category is this? I have checked this sandbox, but it didn't have any. If I knew, I might help to wikify (add wls from and to) the articles once they are released into main space.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 22:51, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
The only one we use is the hidden category you linked above, Category:Wikipedia Student Program. It gets added via the preload templates we use for several sandbox exercises as well as the sandbox draft pages where student editors start their main contributions, like here. It does not get added to the default `/sandbox` page because we discourage student editors from using that so that they don't end up trying to go through AfC (since submissions often won't get reviewed before the course ends). Although I guess it would make sense to add it to the template we use for those sandboxes, {{dashboard.wikiedu.org sandbox}}, for the not-infrequent times when student editors use that sandbox anyway. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:54, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 53

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 53, September – October 2022

  • New collections:
    • Edward Elgar
    • E-Yearbook
    • Corriere della Serra
    • Wikilala
  • Collections moved to Library Bundle:
    • Ancestry
  • New feature: Outage notification
  • Spotlight: Collections indexed in EDS

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Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

Ask Me Anything session introduction (12 November), presented by a Movement Charter Drafting Committee member.
  • MCDC members attended the “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” sessions to provide more information about the Movement Charter, its goal, why it matters and how it impacts the communities. Recordings of the presentations in different languages can be found here.
  • The Movement Charter Ambassadors Program: Movement Charter Ambassadors (MCA) are individuals or groups interested in helping to ensure that their communities are fully engaged in community consultations. MCA are interested in supporting their communities to understand the content of the Movement Charter as well as ensuring that their communities can easily provide feedback. Anyone can become a MCA! Dedicated funds are available to support the MCA and their activities. Are you interested in becoming a Movement Charter Ambassador for your community? Sign up here!
  • The Movement Charter Drafting Committee will close membership: The  Committee decided not to add new members or replace those who step down after 1 January 2023, unless for exceptional reasons.
  • Learn about Movement Charter Drafting Committee’s work in October:  The Committee released its regular monthly update from October 2022. It includes highlights about the Committee's progress in drafting the Movement Charter content, its upcoming community consultation and participation at Wikimedia events.

Coming up:

  • Regional feedback conversations: The MCDC’s community consultations to collect feedback on the first three sections of the Movement Charter will take place between November 20 and December 18, 2022. You are invited to join one of the regional conversations planned for the eight regions (and various languages) of the Movement. Please note that interested people can share their feedback in different ways, including on the Meta talk page, on the Movement Strategy forum, filling out a survey (anonymously) and sending an email to: movementcharter wikimedia.org.
  • Sign up here to become a Movement Charter Ambassadors from your community and help ensure that your community is aware of the conversations around the Movement Charter! 


--13:37, 20 November 2022 (UTC).

The Signpost: 28 November 2022

This Month in Education: End of the 2022

Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

Presentation about the Values & Principles chapter by MCDC member Georges Fodouop.
Presentation about the Roles and Responsibilities chapter (statement of intent) by MCDC member Manavpreet Kaur.
  • Learn about Movement Charter Drafting Committee’s work in November: As usual, the Committee released its regular monthly updates from November 2022. This month’s updates include highlights about the external facilitator hiring, next in-person meeting of the Committee and updates about the new drafting groups, among others.
  • First community consultation period: From mid November to mid December 2022 the Committee members took part in 8 regional feedback sessions. Committee members joined the sessions to provide clarifications and answer to questions that came from different language communities on the Movement Charter.
    • Recordings of the presentations shared during the regional meetings are available here for those interested.
    • A list Frequently Asked Questions that came up in the calls is available on Meta.
    • If you have not shared your feedback on the drafts of the Movement Charter yet, please do so by filling out this anonymous survey, which is open until January 2, 2023 and is available in more than 12 languages.
  • The Movement Charter Ambassador Program received over 15 proposals. The ambassadors are currently putting their initiatives into action in various local communities. The Movement Charter Ambassadors Program will once again be opened for applications in the second quarter of 2023, in preparation for the next  round of Movement Charter consultations. Both individuals and organizations will be able to apply. Those interested in becoming Movement Charter Ambassadors are encouraged to sign-up.

Coming up:

  • Community Conversations summary: The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation will prepare and publish the final summary report of the community feedback in January 2023. The report will be shared with the MCDC and the communities on different channels of communication.
  • Feedback on the Movement Charter: There will be additional ways to engage with the Movement Charter content, including the early feedback on the proposed ratification process and a new set of draft chapters in the second quarter of 2023.


--14:27, 22 December 2022 (UTC).

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Books & Bytes – Issue 54

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

  • New collections:
    • British Newspaper Archive
    • Findmypast
    • University of Michigan Press
    • ACLS
    • Duke University Press
  • 1Lib1Ref 2023
  • Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --14:14, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 February 2023

This Month in Education: January 2023

The Signpost: 20 February 2023

Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

 

Coming up:

  • Community feedback on the ratification methodology proposal of the future Movement Charter. The feedback was postponed until March 2023. The communities will be able to review the ratification methodology and share their early input on the open questions.  
  • The MCDC will soon announce a “Call for Advisors”. The call will be an invitation for interested individuals with relevant expertise and knowledge to participate in drafting the Charter. Advisors will be considered non-voting members.
  • Responses to the community consultation feedback by the MCDC. The Committee has been carefully reviewing feedback collected in the consultation from November & December 2022, and will publicly share responses to the feedback by March.  


--14:20, 22 February 2023 (UTC).

The Signpost: 9 March 2023

This Month in Education: February 2023

Books & Bytes – Issue 55

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023

  • New bundle partners:
    • Newspapers.com
    • Fold3
  • 1Lib1Ref January report
  • Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:45, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 March 2023

Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

 

Coming up

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--11:34, 21 March 2023 (UTC).

The Signpost: 03 April 2023

This Month in Education: March 2023

Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

 
Committee's meeting in New York, in early March.

Coming up:

  • Revised chapters: The Committee is preparing to publish the revised draft chapters of The Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities intentions statement, based on the community feedback received in November and December 2022.
  • Inviting advisors and experts: The Committee is preparing to welcome a number of advisors from outside the Committee. All interested Wikimedians were invited to apply earlier (you can still apply here!). Additionally, the Committee is planning and scheduling meetings with individuals with specific sets of expertise in various topics, including stewards, movement committees, Wikimedia Foundation and affiliate staff, and others.

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--19:18, 15 April 2023 (UTC).

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This Month in Education: April 2023

Books & Bytes – Issue 56

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023

  • New partner:
    • Perlego
  • Library access tips and tricks
  • Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:03, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

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This Month in Education: June 2023

The Signpost: 17 July 2023

Books & Bytes – Issue 57

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023

  • Suggestion improvements
  • Favorite collections tips
  • Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:22, 18 July 2023 (UTC)