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Wikipedia in the library - the elephant in the (reading) room?
Nancy Graham, University of RoehamptonAndrew Gray, British Antarctic Survey
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the project
• A collaboratively-written encyclopedia
• A synthesis of published material
• Aiming for neutrality and verifiability ...not editorial authority
• Free to use, distribute and reuse
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the numbers
• Thirteen years old
• 30,000,000 articles in 280 languages
• Growing by 8-10,000 new articles/day
• Reaching 500,000,000 readers/month...or 7% of the world’s population
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the problem
“We have a problem. The kids these days are reading too many encyclopedias.”
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the opportunity
• Users are actively seeking out the resource• “Don’t do that!” is never very effective
• This is a perfect teaching moment– how to tell the good from the bad?– thinking critically about online material– engaging with the means of production– what are we actually saying “don’t” to?
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mapping to ANCILhttp://ccfil.pbworks.com/f/ANCIL_final.pdf
ANCIL Strand Example learning outcomes from ANCIL
Wikipedia related activities
1 – Transition from school to HE
Assess your current info-seeking behaviour and compare to experts in your discipline
Using a Wikipedia article on your topic, use the references to identify familiar and unfamiliar sources.
3 – Developing academic literacies
Identify appropriate terminology, use of language and academic idiom in your discipline
Assess and compare the quality of 3 short Wikipedia articles (one poorly written)
4 – Mapping and evaluating the information landscape
Develop evaluative criteria for recognizing and selecting trustworthy sources of academic quality in your discipline
Compare a Wikipedia page with a traditional encyclopaedia. Compare with excerpts from textbooks and journals.
7 – Ethical dimension of information
Summarise the key ways you can use and share information without infringing another’s rights
Students asked to find suitable images for re-use using Wikimedia Commons.
8 – Presenting and communicating knowledge
Use language appropriately in your academic writing
Discuss the importance of writing objectively in Wikipedia
9 – Synthesising information and creating new knowledge
Assess the value of new information objectively in the context of your work
Students to debate a topic using information from Wikipedia
10 – Social dimension of information
Transfer the skills of finding, critically evaluating and deploying information to the workplace
Ask students to use only freely available sources from Wikipedia to answer a subject query, then search using subscription sources.
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some thoughts
• On average... quality is acceptable• 2005 study: four errors in WP for three in Britannica• 2011 study (in English, Spanish, Arabic):
“…the Wikipedia articles in this sample scored higher overall than the comparison articles with respect to accuracy, references, style/ readability and overall judgment…”
• But millions of articles = millions of problems• Radically transparent editorial process• Signs are there for alert readers
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looking for the hints
Article tags
Talk pages and histories
Corner icons - locked (a red flag) - quality ratings (positive)
...and, most basic of all, style
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moving onwards
Footnotes
Internal navigation
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the projects• Wikipedia Education Program
– Encouraging teachers to engage with WP– Content creation, critical assessment, etc.
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal • Online courses
– “Writing Wikipedia” MOOC (now fourth round)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WIKISOO
• Outreach resources– Wide range of past projects for different audiences– Some printed/printable material available
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf
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case studies
• Head & Eisenberg (2010): survey of the ways students use Wikipedia as a resource
• Sormuen & Lehtiö (2011): students wrote Wikipedia articles, which were examined to study their citing/plagarising habits
• Konieczny (2012): survey of five years of teaching using Wikipedia in various ways
• Roth, Davis & Carver (2013): examination of student engagement with Wikipedia-related teaching projects
...and many other examples of university projects
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Contact details
Nancy Graham, University of RoehamptonEmail: [email protected] Twitter: @msnancygraham
Andrew Gray, British Antarctic SurveyEmail: [email protected] Twitter: @generalising
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