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Wikipedia: a platform for learners as producers

#W03Dr Martin Poulter

Jisc Wikimedia Ambassdor 2013/14

@mlpoulter

I don’t like . I like .I’m a Wikipedian.

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What is Wikimedia?

“Imagine a world in which

every single human being

can freely share in the

sum of all knowledge.

That's our commitment.”

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Some numbers

80,000

two billion

285

25,000

3

500 million

20 million

11

5 million

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Assessment levelsClass Criteria

FA The article has attained featured article status. Detailed community review process.

GA The article has attained good article status. Specific review process

B The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.

C The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup.

Start The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as notability, and provide sources to establish verifiability.

Stub The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short, but if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category.

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Some article hit rates

Article Monthly hitsAsperger Syndrome 426,803Henry VIII of England 438,855Volcano 160,940Habeas Corpus 123,500John Locke 179,382Lymphoma 226,934World War I 516,579Dependent and independent variables 220,831

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Is and Is Not

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Wikipedia Educational Assignments

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Student experience

• 72% of students (from a US survey reported by the Wikimedia Foundation) preferred a Wikipedia assignment to a conventional assignment.

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Wikipedia Educational Assignments

• Course leader chooses a range of relevant Wikipedia articles

• Students and T.A.s get Wikipedia training

• Students prepare and review drafts• Students interact with other

Wikipedians• Lecturer reviews articles before and

after the course• Students write reflective paragraphs

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How does an encyclopedia article differ from a student essay?

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Wikipedia Educational Assignments

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education

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Slide by Annie Lin of the Wikimedia Foundation, CC-BY-SAhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Annie_Lin_keynote_presentation_at_EduWiki_conference.pdf&page=14

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What might go wrong?

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Thanks

martin.poulter@wikimedia.org.ukwiki.wikimedia.org.uk

infobomb.orgTwitter: @mlpoulter