Making Wikipedia: Students as Information Creators
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Making Wikipedia:
Students as Information Creators
NMC Summer Conference Chanitra Bishop
June 16, 2016 Iris Finkel
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Teaching with Wikipedia
• Why?
• Used by EVERYONE!!
• Teach critical thinking skills
• Encourage students to be producers of information
video - open access image - open access
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Wikipedia Stats
•Began January 2001
•8,000 views per second
•7 million views per month
•5 million articles
•3 million edits per month
•30,000 editors
Data as of April 2016 - https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm
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Wikipedia Stats
Also top website for information on
the go:
Knight Foundation
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Wikipedia Stats
Top source of medical information
Engaging Patients Through Social Media Engaging Patients Through Social Media
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Even used by scholars
The Oxford Textbook of Zoonoses Vs. Ebola Virus
chapter 31, “Marburg and Ebola viruses,” written by Graham Lloyd, works at the British government-research facility Porton Down
Pinsker, Joe. “The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia--For Pay.” The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company. 11 August, 2015. Web
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Activity
• You have two articles on the same
topic
• Read them and compare/contrast the
two articles
• Questions:
• Do the articles have the same info?
• What’s the same? What’s different about
the two?
• Is one better than the other?
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Types of Editing Assignments
•Short assignment
• Copy edit an article
• Fix or add links
•Class vs. individual students edit
•Edit an existing article
•Create a new article
•Adding images • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia
•Coding
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Wikipedia @ LaGuardia Community
College
http://goo.gl/m4tdY4
Teaches: Wikipedia editing paraphrasing plagiarism
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Wikipedia @ LaGuardia Community
College
Teaches: Wikipedia editing & practices –plagiarism not allowed – students required to paraphrase
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Wikipedia @ LaGuardia Community
College
Teaches: Source evaluation & critical thinking skills
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Classroom Experience
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What students have to say
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Wikipedia Resources
•Wiki Edu resources
• For instructors
• Tutorials
• Managing the Wiki Edu Dashboard
• For students
• Tutorials
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For Instructors
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Wiki Edu Dashboard
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For Students
And more...
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Instruction
• 5 Pillars
• Creating an account
• Using the sandbox
• Visual editor vs. wiki markup
• Moving article to main space
• History
• Talk pages
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Five Pillars
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Creating an account
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The Sandbox
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History
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Talk
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Outreach and Collaboration
• Librarians - Connect with faculty
• Faculty – Work with librarians
• Connect with local Wiki chapters
• Host Edit-a-thon
• Have a theme
• Select articles to edit
• Provide print & online sources
• Goal is to have a single edit
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Wikipedia @ Hunter College
• Spring 2016
• Hosted Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women of African Diaspora
during Women’s History month with AfroCrowd & Africana
Puerto-Rican/Latino Studies
• Fall 2016/Spring 2017
• Work with classes in the Africana Puerto Rican/Latino Studies
department
• Continue to have edit-a-thons
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Sources
• Altman, Thomas, Rosen, Daniel, Nadarajah, Siva, et. al.
Engaging Patients Through Social Media. New Jersey: IMS
Institute for Healthcare Informatics, 2014. Web.
• Lynch, Jack. You Could Look it Up: The reference shelf
from Babylon to Wikipedia. New York: Bloomsbury Press,
2016. Print.
• Pinsker, Joe. “The Covert World of People Trying to Edit
Wikipedia--For Pay.” The Atlantic. Atlantic Media
Company. 11 August, 2015. Web.
• Thonemann, Peter. “The All-Conquering Wikipedia”The
Times Literary Supplement. 16, May 2016. Web.
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Further Reading
• Dougherty, Jack, O’Donnell, Tennyson.Web Writing:
Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and
Learning, University of Michigan Press. 2015. Web.
• Nawrotzki , Kristen, Dougherty. Writing History in
the Digital Age. University of Michigan Press. 2013.
Web.
• Wiki Education Foundation -wikiedu.org &
dashboard.wikiedu.org