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Reuse of your IRC for a new event? edit
Hi Laura, I've noticed you made an IRC channel for your 2012 event -- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp. I'm asking permission to reuse the channel for an event Oct 15, 2015 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Montreal/Women_in_Architecture. As this is time sensitive i might assume permission. Feel free to update my meetup page if you'd like me not to give out the channel. Thanks! --Frederika Eilers (talk) 22:56, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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I'm curious, why did you stop editing? Anything in particular, or just a lot on your plate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.7.156.156 (talk) 14:21, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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Sport in Australia edit
Hello, the Sport in Australia article has dilapidated over the past 48 hours. I tried undoing the subsections of individual sports and asked the editor to take it to talk page, but was reverted. Since then other editors/IPs have jumped on the bandwagon and I want to avoid an edit war. Any ideas? - HappyWaldo (talk) 10:53, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- The last time a major restructure happened, there was an RfC on it. It might be worth going back to that RFC and citing that, or creating a new RFC on the structure. The individual sport sections are crap, because they don't explain sport in Australia. They explain individual sports in isolation. No Australian sport marketing textbook, no Australian history of sport book is organized that way. It often comes down to people doing this to push the agenda of their own sports. --LauraHale (talk) 13:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- Agreed. The subliminal code warring is cringe worthy. Thanks for stepping in. - HappyWaldo (talk) 11:19, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- The last time a major restructure happened, there was an RfC on it. It might be worth going back to that RFC and citing that, or creating a new RFC on the structure. The individual sport sections are crap, because they don't explain sport in Australia. They explain individual sports in isolation. No Australian sport marketing textbook, no Australian history of sport book is organized that way. It often comes down to people doing this to push the agenda of their own sports. --LauraHale (talk) 13:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- Anything that gives equal weight to ice hockey and cricket implies inherent bias in the article in favor of ice hockey. I doubt that edit will stick for you and I'm not willing to do much more than that. Any attempt to put that information in on a by sport level should knock the article back to start status. At one point, the article was about three days worth of work from being a GA nomination as the structure was right to let people know about sport (in total) in Australia... but this code warring BS and wanting to say that one code was better than other killed it. :/ --LauraHale (talk) 11:23, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
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I see that you added the photo to Jenna O'Hea taken at the Opals camp in May 2012. I have a recent photo of her in a Seattle storm uniform. In general I think it makes sense to use the more recent photo in the INFOBOX. It may be desirable to also use the photo you added further down in the article perhaps next to the discussion of her involvement with the Opals. I haven't done that let's discuss and I'll be happy to do it if you think it makes sense.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:41, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
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Sport in Australia edit
Hi Laura, just regrading your view on not having sections of individual sports on the Sport in Australia page, it's really the best model. For example there is a lot of information that doesn't belong in the history section, and the way the article is structured now. For example information like
- On how Cricket is an important part of the Australian culture.
- On how people think that playing England in Cricket is way of avenging past a perceived wrongs from the former imperial force.
- On how Cricket is that important in Australian culture that it has been described in jest that the captain of the Australian Cricket team is the most important job in Australia after the Prime Minister.
- A reflection of these Cricket community perceptions I just mentioned, three Australian cricket captains have been named as Australian of the Year; Allan Border in 1989, Mark Taylor in 1999 and Steve Waugh in 2004.
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- On how to get drafted to the major sport leagues in the country.
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- On how the NBL used to be played in the Australian Winter, but switched to be being played in the Summer so it didn't have to compete with the countries big Winter sports.
- That Australia has been very successful in the Swimming at the Olympics, having won the second most amount of Gold medals and medals.
- On how Australia have been very successful in Tennis sport, having the second most amount of Davis Cup wins, and being ranked second in coming Runner Up.
- On how the Australian national Cricket team is the most popular national team.
- On how the Heartland of Australian rules football is the State of Victoria.
- On the biggest rivalries in the major sports.
- On how Australian rules football is so popular in Victoria that the game has been described in Victoria as a Religion.
- On how many players in the AFL have been drafted the unconventionally route through the Rookie Draft, and by playing in secondary level State leagues.
- Naming the most notable and famous athletes in history in the major Australian sports.
- On how at the start of every season the two Premiers of the National Rugby League & the Super League from the previous year play off in the World Club Challenge, to determine the World Champions.
- On how the AFL Grand Final is arguably Australia's biggest sporting event.
- On when the seasons are in which sports are played.
- On what days of the week the major sports are played, and what days the biggest games are played.
- And more.
These types of information don't belong in a History section, or any other of the sections on the page. Also just having the information that's in the history section now on the sports you have to read through the whole article to find all the information on one sport. This way all the information on every sport is in one place, it's more practicable. The previous structure of the article was not Undue Weight, it gives the platform to describe what the sporting landscape in Australia is, and what the things are that make up the Australian sporting landscape that are important to the Australian people. I think this is a better option.SportsEditor518 (talk) 11:55, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- Yep, individual sport sections are completely unnecessary. It should 100% not be organized that way because Australian sport is not treated that way by any good Australian sport history book. As for your individual points about the inclusion of these individual facts, you are better off discussing them on the talk page to try to arrive at consensus, knowing that the individual sport sections lead to bias and do not inform readers about Australian sport in total.
- The history of Australian sport as a national thing is defined by its major events, by money and by media attention. The major events are actually chronicled in a lot of Australian books and you can probably do a good job by going through the ones they list and trying to come up with a list of the most important events historically.
- "Cricket in Australia" as a section provides zero information about sport in Australia, unless the cricket section is continually referencing other sports "While Australia was winning the ashes, ____ took place." or "Australia's major cricket league pulls in $$$$Million a year in profits, X amount MORE/LESS than the AFL and NRL." If it doesn't do this, you cannot situate the sport in any useful context. Ice hockey and basketball become as important as cricket. --LauraHale (talk) 12:03, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- No the most important thing that makes up the Australian sporting landscape is the culture and traditions related to the sports played in the country, not major events.
- And the fact that the model at the moment might lead to bias is irrelevant. You don't not have the best model because there might be problems, you deal with them when they arise. Every other countries page has this model, and they don't have a problem.
- Ice Hockey and Basketball are not as important as Cricket, and they are not described that way.
- There are sections that describe all of Australian sport in one text, for example the history section. The individual sport sections does describe the information the best. Like I said it gives the platform to describe what the sporting landscape in Australia is, and what the things are that make up the Australian sporting landscape that are important to the Australian people. And your proposed platform doesn't have the place for the lots of information that describe the Australian sporting landscape, the things that make it up, and the things from the Australian sporting landscape that are important to the Australian people. That's the most important thing.
- Also everything that you want in the article is in there, the article has just been added to, so none of your problems are present.
- The current model gives the platform to best describe the content, and does that. SportsEditor518 (talk) 12:33, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- I'm reminded why I don't edit Wikipedia any more. You're right. Absolutely. I'm doing my PhD on Australian sport. I have a big library of books on Australian sport. I've read extensively on Australia sport. I know the sources and I can cite the sources. But absolutely You're right. A section titled "Cricket in Australia" makes sense. Reading this section on "Sport in Australia" will provide me with unique insights into the whole Australian sporting landscape. If it wasn't for you... god, please. I am so fucking sorry for this. I just... I had no fucking clue. I mean, seriously. No fucking clue. You're just so much smarter than me, and know so much more than me... and well, you've sold me. "Cricket in Australia" and "basketball in Australia" as subsections give me a much better idea of the whole Australian sporting landscape. How could I have been suck an idiot? Can you ever forgive me? Can you forgive me for reminding you about the RFC? Can you forgive me for asking you to use the talk page before making these changes? No? :( Never? :( Well, I'll just leave Wikipedia again so you can go on promoting cricket, and taking an article that could have been a GA back to Start class, so you can go back to violating consensus. That's fine. --LauraHale (talk) 13:21, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Well that's an adult approach. You didn't address any of my points or rebut them. I am a reasonable person, if you can prove to me why this isn't the best model I'll happily remove it. But until then stop being a Child.SportsEditor518 (talk) 13:38, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- SportsEditor, please familiarise yourself with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, especially WP:CONS. Even if you manage to build a consensus in favour of individual sports sections, the ones you have written will need a major overhaul. You are taking a borderline good article and turning it into an unreadable mess. - HappyWaldo (talk) 14:13, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi LH, great to see you back. I'll definitely try to expand some of the Nation articles. I'm presently finishing off the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and then updating the competitors stats with the results. Once that's done I'll see what I can help with. Peace and good tidings to you and your loved ones. FruitMonkey (talk) 13:36, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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Fiji Paralympic Association edit
Hi, I notice that you are back editing here. Sadly, some of the earlier problems seem to be continuing. I have corrected the Fiji Paralympic Association article[1]. It looks as if you misread the source and thereby included incorrect information in the article. The source doesn't state that the support is no longer equal for Olympic and Paralympic athletes or that only a few sports still are supported, but that despite the equal support, success has only been achieved in a few sports, due to other reasons. Fram (talk) 10:52, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Committee Paralimpic Andorra edit
Okay, I thought the above was poor, but this seems to be worse. Where did you get Committee Paralimpic Andorra? You should know by now that your Spanish (or Catalan) is poor, so please don't try to guess the Spanish name of the Paralympic Committee of Andorra. It should have been "COMITÈ PARALÍMPIC ANDORRÀ", if you wanted it like that, only it seems that no organization of that name exists (the name is used in the press regularly though). All that seems to exist now is the Federació Andorrana d'esports adaptats, with president Jordi Casellas Albiol[2]. You can see at the official page of the Andorran government about sports agencies[3] that they list the "Federació Andorrana d'Esports Adaptats" (located in Ordino) and the "Comitè Olímpic Andorrà", but no paralympic committee with such a name (and certainly not with the name of our article).
If you create an article about an organisation, the least you can do is check whether you have the right name for it. Otherwise, please don't bother. Fram (talk) 11:07, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Irma Khetsuriani edit
I have moved Irma Khetsuriani, a page you recently created, back to User:LauraHale/Irma Khetsuriani from where you had recently moved it from the mainspace. As far as I know, you don't speak Georgian (neither do I) and we both have to rely on Google translate or a similar tool to help us. Please correct me if I am wrong here.
In your article, your first source is [4], which you use 11 times in the article to source statements like "The family left the region during the war with very few possessions.", "At the age of 17, she entered the University of Kutaisi, where she studied English and informatics.", " At one point, the disease was so severe that her lung almost collapsed and she was near death." and so on.
Which is all very impressive, considering that apparently the article only has the following to say about Khetsuriani (through Google Translate): "6. Irma Khetsuriani-second year of life in a wheelchair enchained able to continue to maintain its position among the successful, parasportsmenta the World Cup and became vice-champion of the world." I may be missing something here, and in that case please explain it to me, but otherwise it seems as if your source does not contain most of the statements you link to it at all, not even something vaguely resembling it.
Looking at other statements you make in the article:
"One of Khersuriani's best friend is fellow Georgian wheelchair fencer, Temo Dadiani also from Abkhazia. The pair met at a rehabilitation center in Ukraine.[7]"
Source 7 is [5], which states
- "Irma is an international fencing champion, whom Tinatin met in a rehabilitation center in Ukraine." Now, Tinatin is Tinatin Kuskusela, not Temo Dadiani. Dadiani is also mentioned in that article, but in a completely different context. So here at least it is clear that you have completely misread or misrepresented the source (in English).
Your article:
- "She lost to American Ellen Geddes 9 - 15 in the quarterfinals. Geddes would go on to win bronze while Khersuriani finished fifth.[22]"
Source[6]: "Geddes went 3-3 in the Category B women’s epee pools to advance to the quarter-finals where she defeated Irma Khetsuriani (GEO), 15-9."
Nowhere in that article is it said that Khetsuriani finished 5th, which isn't automatic when you lose a quarterfinal in fencing.
I haven't checked every source, these few were sufficient to see that you don't seem to have improved your editing much in your absence and that articles you create can't be accepted in the mainspace as they stand.
Please radically change your approach to editing, or get a mentor, or do something else, but don't again flood the enwiki mainspace with articles with major sourcing issues, wrong information, wrong titles, and so on, like in the above examples (which cover three of the last four articles you created, indicating that these problems are the rule, not the exception). Fram (talk) 08:52, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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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: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 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.
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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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The article Sint Maarten women's national football team has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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- Argentina: A New Online Course in a New Virtual Campus
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- Greece: Argostoli Evening School students and a Wikitherapy participant turn Wiktionary project into Android app
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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
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- Netherlands: Maastricht University 40 years
- Sweden: Students in Sweden edit Somali Wikipedia
- Taiwan: Visualizations of relationships among knowledge? Try WikiSeeker!
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- Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
- Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
- Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
- Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
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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
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- Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle
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- ^ Link to the course page at the TAU website (in Hebrew) - http://www2.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?course=1880180101&year=2015