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Wiki​​Education​​Monthly​​Report,​June 2018 Wiki Education Monthly Report, June 2018 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Board and senior staff at the in-person board meeting in Tiburon. Highlights ● Wiki Education held its second in-person board meeting for the 2017-2018 fiscal year in Tiburon. Our Senior Leadership team informed the Board of key initiatives the organization is planning to undertake in fiscal year 2018–19. Board members also discussed and approved Wiki Education's new strategic plan, as well as the annual plan and budget for the year ahead. ● We announced our new three-year strategy. The strategy focuses on three strategic goals around Equity, Quality, and Reach: Increase knowledge equity by focusing on content and communities that are underrepresented on Wikipedia and Wikidata; provide people who seek knowledge online with accurate information in topic areas that are underdeveloped; and reach large audiences with free knowledge by making Wikipedia and Wikidata more complete. Read more about the strategy here. ​ ​ ● We also announced the Annual Plan for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. This year will be one of transition as we implement necessary strategic shifts to ensure our organization's sustainability. Read more about the plan here. ​ ​ ● Several of Wiki Education's partners committed to participate in the Wikipedia Fellows program in July and beyond, including the National Communication Association, Association for Psychological Science, Linguistic Society of America, American Chemical Society, and the Association for Women in Mathematics. It's exciting to see such enthusiasm for another program that we believe can make a real impact! ● Google Summer of Code student Pratyush has brought the new Article Finder tool to a ​ ​ point where it's already quite useful for instructors and students to explore topic areas and find articles on Wikipedia. The tool will help students and instructors find articles in need of development in an automated, straight-forward way. Programs Educational Partnerships In June, several of Wiki Education's partners committed to participate in the Wikipedia Fellows ​ program, including the National Communication Association, Association for Psychological Science, Linguistic Society of America, American Chemical Society, and the Association for Women in Mathematics. Several of their members will join Wikipedia Fellows cohorts in July and beyond. 1 Classroom Program Status of the Classroom Program for Spring 2018 in numbers, as of June 30: ● 400 Wiki Education-supported courses were in progress (220, or 55%, were led by returning instructors). ● 8,336 student editors were enrolled. ● 56% of students were up-to-date with their training. ● Students edited 8,910 articles, created 709 new entries, and added 6.71 million words. The Spring 2018 term is officially over, and we're already gearing up for the Fall! Though June was a pretty quiet month for student editing, Wikipedia Content Experts Ian Ramjohn and Shalor Toncray were busy combing through courses and closing them out on our end. Classroom Program Manager Helaine Blumenthal has begun perusing our instructor survey and planning for the Fall term. The summer is an opportune time for the Classroom Program team to reflect on the previous term. While we've supported thousands of students and courses for almost a decade, we're continually learning how to improve our students' and instructors' experiences. While it often takes several terms to implement changes, the summer is when many of these innovations take shape. We're also looking forward to seeing the great work that our Summer 2018 students do. ​ ​ Student work highlights Although the Incredibles 2 shows plenty of heroes wearing spandex and costumes, the saying still stands that not all heroes wear a costume, as students in Kirstyn Leuner's Literacy and Social ​ Justice class can attest. One such hero is Jean Childs Young, an educator and Civil Rights ​ ​ ​ Movement advocate who fought for equal access to education in the United States, children's rights, voter rights, and access to voter registration for African Americans. Prior to this course, Young lacked an article on Wikipedia, but thanks to one hardworking student, this has been rectified. Together with her husband and fellow activist Andrew Young, Young organized a voter registration rally in Thomasville, Georgia, despite facing hostile resistance from the Ku Klux Klan. Her tireless work was also a deciding factor in her being named the chair of the American committee of the UN International Year of the Child in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter. When she died in 1994 Young's funeral was well attended and the tributes to her included a poem read by Maya Angelou, a eulogy spoken by Coretta Scott King, and a personal note from President Bill Clinton. This was not the only stellar contribution by students in the Santa Clara 2 University course. One student noticed that there was no independent article on violence against ​ women in Mexico, only a subsection in the main article on women in Mexico. Aware that this is ​ a major topic in any country, the student set about creating a page that now contains a better overview of the topic than was previously on Wikipedia. The value of a good education cannot be emphasized enough, but unfortunately access to higher education remains closed to many. The 2001 California Assembly Bill 540 is intended to help ​ ​ reduce the barrier to access by allowing access to in-state tuition rates for undocumented and other eligible students at California's public colleges and universities. This greatly benefits undocumented students, as they face additional obstacles such as higher rates of poverty, lack of government-sponsored financial assistance, and social marginalization. Thanks to a University of California, Santa Cruz student in Elizabeth Beaumont's Constitutional Meanings and Movements ​ class, the article for this Bill has now been updated and revised to give readers clearer and more ​ up-to-date information. Students in Peter Clift's Basin Studies class created articles on three of the world's sedimentary ​ ​ basins — the Grenada Basin, located in the southeastern Caribbean, the Lusitanian Basin, located ​ ​ ​ ​ both onshore and offshore in western Portugal, and the Nam Con Son Basin located southeast of ​ ​ Vietnam. Another student expanded the Wessex Basin article, which prior to the expansion was ​ ​ just a three-sentence stub. Over the years, various iterations of this class have created or expanded articles on a number of these basins, narrowing a gap in this area of geology. Other classes were also active in the field of geology. The meeting of two plates of the Earth's crust is a geologically active zone. If one plate is pushed under the other, a process known as subduction, the mixture of melting rock and water can create an active volcanic zone. The Aleutian subduction zone, where the Pacific plate is pushed under the North American plate, is responsible for the Aleutian arc of volcanoes. A student in William Wilcock's Marine Geology ​ and Geophysics class created the Aleutian subduction zone article. ​ ​ ​ A satellite galaxy is a small galaxy that orbits a larger host galaxy, held in orbit by its ​ ​ gravitational potential. A student in Aaron Barth's course, Galactic Astrophysics, converted the ​ ​ existing short, incomplete article into a far more substantial article which improved both rigor and readability. Other students in the class expanded a range of articles including metallicity, ​ ​ stellar kinematics and Lutz–Kelker bias. ​ ​ ​ In biodiversity studies, there's a lingering question of how many more species you might have recorded if you have kept searching. The question of how many species you missed is known as the unseen species problem. A student in Daniel Lewis' Humanistic Ecology class created an ​ ​ ​ ​ article about the techniques used to answer this problem (which have also been applied to the 3 question of how many words William Shakespeare knew). Eurytherms are organisms which can ​ ​ function at a wide range of environmental temperatures. Desert pupfish, for example, can function in environments that range from 8º C to 42° C. A student in the class expanded Wikipedia's very short eurytherm article, making it much more complete. Another student took the short article on functional ecology and greatly expanded it. Other articles improved by ​ ​ students in the class improved the article about the documentary After Winter, Spring, the ​ ​ disaster tourism article and the Māori and conservation article. ​ ​ ​ Finding and adding good images to Wikimedia Commons can be difficult at times for students, however these two students in Sheila Afnan-Manns's course at Paradise Valley Community ​ ​ College found some good material to add. One student added an image of an adorable husky puppy, while another edited an existing Commons image of the Frankfurt Zoological Garden in order to make the building the sole focus of the image. The bottom third of the original image was dominated by the road in front of the building. Frankfurt Zoological Garden Image: File:Zoo23.jpg, Glieten, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. ​ ​ ​ Image: File:Pup in car (1).jpg, rabiem22, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. ​ ​ ​ 4 Community Engagement Visiting Scholars Matching update Jean Philippe has begun his appointment at Rutgers University. UNM and NDSU are still pending. Work by Visiting Scholars ● Rosie: (a small sampling) Sarah Doudney, Emily Chubbuck, , Ada Clare, Kate McPhelim ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Cleary, Clara Erskine Clement, Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterson,
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