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Need some help with my class/course page
Hi Sage, I found you listed as an online ambassador, and am contacting you to see if you could be available to help my class in History and Systems of Psychology at North Dakota State University. I've had 5 classes so far working on Wikipedia Psychology articles rather than the traditional term papers. It's been a great experience for me and my students, but I still have a lot to learn. I've gotten my class started with editing tutorials and they've now picked articles to work on this semester. Not sure what you need from me (e.g., access to course page?), but it would be nice to know that we can call on you for help from time to time.

The url for my course page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:North_Dakota_State_University/History_of_Psychology_%28Fall_2014%29 Please let me know how I can make maximum use of this. (BTW, I have done a few edits of this post as various thoughts have occurred to me. This includes asking for help changing the title of the course page. I realize now that this would not be a good idea, and am sticking with it.) Thanks! J.R. Council (talk) 22:23, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * James: Hi! Sure, I'll sign on as an ambassador for your course. History of psychology is not an area that I know much about, but definitely feel free to ask any time you or your students want some help.--ragesoss (talk) 22:37, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I see you've signed on and done some formatting. Thanks much! Feel free to edit as you see fit. I appreciate your help. I think I can handle the content, but I still have a lot to learn about the policy and procedures of Wikipedia. Will try not to be too needy, but I'm sure I'll be in touch a few times over the semester. Best! J.R. Council (talk) 17:05, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

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The wonderful annual meeting! And more!




Hello, fellow Wikipedian!

I am excited to announce our upcoming Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!

Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

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Can you please add the group photo to Meetup/Seattle? There is a Commons category for Wikimedia Cascadia that you can use for the photos, although I wouldn't identify individual faces in the photos. Thanks, --Pine✉ 02:44, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

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Course page activity log
Hi Sage. I'm noticing that the list of student activity only seems to go back a few days. Are listings purged after some period of time, or is there some way I can access older listings. Thanks, Jim J.R. Council (talk) 20:01, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Jim: The course activity feed only shows the latest 7 days of activity. (We're working on an improved version that will be more flexible, but it's still in development.) To check on earlier activity, you can go to the "User contributions" page (Special:Contributions, also linked from the Tools section of the sidebar when you are on a userpage) for individuals, or browse the page histories of the articles.--ragesoss (talk) 20:07, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
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History of Psychology NDSU
Hi Ragesoss,

I am working on a project for my History of Psychology class at NDSU. The article I am working on is Unconditional Positive Regard. I inserted two block quotes into the article under the Examples of UPR section and it has indented the rest of the article. Both the instructor and I have had trouble fixing this formatting issue. Is this something you would be able to help us fix? Thank you! NMartin319 (talk) 16:48, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi NMartin319. I've fixed it. The problem was that at the end each block quote, you were using the same opening blockquote tag ( ") again, instead of the closing blockquote tag (" ).--ragesoss (talk) 00:12, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

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You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!

You are also invited to our WikiSalon on Thursday, December 18 at 7 PM.

Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

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Wikimedia genealogy project
Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:51, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

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Alhazen revision project
Sage:

There's been some recent activity on the Alhazen page, attempting to tone down some of the excessive claims for his significance (some being legacies of the Jagged_85 era). This is a difficult editing project as it puts the opinions of the scholarly community at odds with the bureaucratic/political opinions of UNESCO. A new editor Sonja Brentjes, an expert in Islamic science, is doing some good edits but she is not familiar with the ways of Wikipedia. I gave her some advice on her talk page and I would appreciate it if you would drop by and comment, either there or at the Alhazen talk page. Thanks, --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 02:59, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

selfies course
Hi Sage.

I am teaching a short course on selfies. It's crosslisted as sociology and anthropology. I saw you posted the first Wikipedia page on the topic and wondered if you would do a Skype session or Google Hangout with my class this week or next. Class meets daily but only in January 2015 through Jan 22nd. It meets 2:30 - 5pm ET. Email me at kyraocity at g mail if you'd be interested. What I am interested in is having you talk about the use of Wikipedia as a contributor and encourage my undergrads to become content creators. I also need help thinking thought what we could do in a short period of time (a Wikimedia project? Just use the sandbox? How do we learn to add a good subentry to Wikipedia?)

I tried this last year and failed at creating an encyclopedia entry. We need a crash course pref. a person but also videos will work.

Thanks, Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. Adjunct Assoc Prof Baruch College-CUNY — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kyraocity (talk • contribs) 13:43, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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Wikimania 2015
Hello friend, we never met before but I have seen you around. Are you going to attend Wikimania 2015? I may also attend this year. Hope to see you there :).  Jim Car ter  03:51, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh. BTW I have submitted a proposal, I would be glad if you attend my presentation :) (if accepted).  Jim Car ter  03:55, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Jim. I am going to Wikimania! Your proposed session looks interesting; is this something you've already started working on, or are you just proposing the idea in your session? (If you're still in the phase of trying to generate interest and get support, I would suggest starting a grant proposal, as that is a good way to get feedback on project ideas and figure out the next steps to making them happen. (Here's the session I'm proposing for Wikimania.)--ragesoss (talk) 17:40, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I have started working on this. As I mentioned in my submission, I'm from a small industrial town, Rishra. I have done a quick experiment; I have installed a WiFi router with a Aircel connection in a public park. Now I asked five people to use the Wifi connection to access Wikipedia and yes, it worked! They where able to use the connection for free. And I don't have to pay anything to the operator, Aircel. As Wikipedia is free of charge from Aircel. I will take a look on your session. Have a nice day!  Jim Car ter  04:06, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

File:Fairey poster photo source?, by stevesimula.jpg
The file is displayed at 220 pixels in the HOPE poster article when not signed in. The maximum user preference is 300 pixels. I can see tiny words at that size, but they don't matter. I can already see various derivatives at any size per WP:NFCC. The bot can shrink a square image to 315 or 308 pixels at file description page. --George Ho (talk) 09:35, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * George Ho Thanks. In my opinion, for this particular file it's already quite small enough. Although the whole image is 400x400, the actual fair use images used within it are just a fraction of that each, and are already just big enough to make it easy to understand what the image is illustrating.--ragesoss (talk) 17:34, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
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Upcoming events:


 * February 6–8: The third annual ArtBytes Hackathon at the Walters Art Museum! This year Wikimedia DC is partnering with the Walters for a hack-a-thon at the intersection of art and technology, and I would like to see Wikimedia well represented.
 * February 11: The monthly WikiSalon, same place as usual. RSVP on Meetup or just show up!
 * February 15: Wiki Loves Small Museums in Ocean City. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, with support from Wikimedia DC, will be leading a workshop at the Small Museum Association Conference on how they can contribute to Wikipedia. Tons of representatives from GLAM institutions will be present, and we are looking for volunteers. If you would like to help out, check out "Information for Volunteers".

I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.

If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.hare@undefinedwikimediadc.org.

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Wikimedia DC celebrates Black History Month, and more!
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Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.

First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).

Now, I am very pleased to announce:


 * Tuesday, February 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM there will be #WikiTurgy at the University of Maryland. Join fellow theatre enthusiasts for a “mass act of public dramaturgy!”
 * Thursday, February 19 from 10 AM to 4 PM we are hosting the Howard University Black History Edit-a-Thon. We are working in partnership with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of African-American and African diasporic history.
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 * Finally, our monthly dinner meetup is on Saturday, February 28.

There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!

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Hi, I've noticed that four tags added by wikiedu OAuth apps, found at the bottom of Special:Tags, didn't have any recent hit (three of them also marked inactive). Those are CID 144, 142, 150, 159. I was wondering if they were still needed. If not, could they be un-defined so that they can be deleted ? Thanks, Cenarium (talk) 23:59, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Cenarium: 142, 144 and 150 can definitely be deleted. 159 was for a local testing instance for development. That developer may use that OAuth consumer again when we return to developing the related app, but I don't see any need to maintain a tag for that. The two that are still in active use are 151 and 154.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:10, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it looks like the OAuth extension permanently defines the tag associated to an app so it always remains present when applied at least once. I'll file a bug that allows to un-define the tag or delete old entries. Cenarium (talk) 15:03, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

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Editing for Women's History in March
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 * Wednesday, March 11: March WikiSalon – 7 PM to 9 PM
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 * Friday, March 13: NIH Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon – 9 AM to 4 PM
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 * Saturday, March 21: Women in STEM Edit-a-Thon at DCPL – 12 PM
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 * Friday, March 27: She Blinded Me with Science, Part III – 10 AM to 4 PM
 * Smithsonian Institution Archives Groundbreaking Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Free lunch courtesy of Wikimedia DC!
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 * Saturday, March 28: March Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
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Double Sandboxes?
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Edit Activity Graphs
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I'm the author of https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Observed_Editing_Patterns, the talk wasn't selected but you can take a look at the graphs visualizing the entire edit activity of a wiki I made - https://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikigraphs/data/wikis.html. I'm documenting work at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_Analysis_%26_Graphs.

I've also put down some of the preliminary inferences regarding editor activity on en. Each graph has a selector on top of the page that allows you to filter it. On taking the cursor to the left end of the selector you'll get a resize cursor, you should then be able to redraw/drag the selection.

The thread I started on the research mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2015-July/004582.html. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeph paul (talk • contribs) 18:44, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

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This Friday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA
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Oct 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Sunday Nov 22: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon
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2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Hi Sage, Just a quick note to say hi and share some news. First, thanks for the tips during my last semester of teaching. Using Wikipedia in the classroom at Pitt was really challenging but I'm glad I did it. Their work represented a real improvement of the articles, in general. As a result of that experience I decided to keep editing, and now I'm co-hosting the upcoming Pittsburgh Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon, March 5, 2016. From what I can tell, you used to hold the local edit-a-thons (maybe social events too?) so I thought I'd reach out, both of our respect for a senior Wikipedian and as someone who might be able to help me rally the troops for this awesome event. Feel free to reply here or hit me up online. Google finds me easily. Peace! Aolivex (talk) 03:11, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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== Dec 9: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC; Dec 12: Art & Law editathon + Dec 13: Black Film editathon ==

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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015
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 * Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
 * Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
 * Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
 * Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
 * Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
 * Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
 * Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
 * Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
 * Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
 * Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
 * France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
 * Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
 * Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
 * Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
 * Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
 * Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
 * Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
 * Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
 * Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
 * Sweden: Science Outreach on Wikipedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
 * Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Wikipedia as a learning tool
 * Global: The Wikipedia Education Program now on Twitter
 * Global: Recent improvements to the Wikipedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
 * Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon
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February events and meetups in DC
Greetings from  Wikimedia DC !

February is shaping up to be a record-breaking month for us, with nine scheduled edit-a-thons and several other events:
 * On Friday, February 12, NPR will host a Black History Month First Edit event.
 * On Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, we're working with the Wiki Education Foundation to hold a series of four edit-a-thons at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting.
 * On Tuesday, February 16, we're holding the Smithsonian American Art Museum and American University WikiWorkshop with Professor Andrew Lih's class.
 * On Saturday, February 20, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will host the African American Artists Edit-a-Thon.
 * On Friday, February 26, Howard University will host its second annual Black History Month Edit-a-Thon.
 * On Saturday, February 27, we have three different events. In the morning, we're holding an Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.  In the afternoon, we'll host our second February WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.

We hope to see you at one—or all—of these events!

Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at [mailto:info@wikimediadc.org info@wikimediadc.org] !

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This Month in Education: [March 2016]
Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015 By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group) Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.

WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.

Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from, , 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).

Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University By Shani Evenstein (WMIL)



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" 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.

The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer? 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. Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official 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.

Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico 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
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:

Animation clips with the Museo de Arte Popular
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
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.

Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities 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. Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)

Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an.

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.

Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia 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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 * 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
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Saturday, March 5: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Looking for something to do in DC in March? We have a series of great events planned for the month:
 * On Wednesday, March 9, we'll host our first March WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle.
 * On Friday, March 11, the National Archives will host the Women in the Civil War Edit-a-Thon.
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