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
Teaching with Wikipedia
• Why?
• Used by EVERYONE!!
• Teach critical thinking skills
• Encourage students to be producers of information
video - open access image - open access
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
Wikipedia Stats
Also top website for information on
the go:
Knight Foundation
Wikipedia Stats
Top source of medical information
Engaging Patients Through Social Media Engaging Patients Through Social Media
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
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?
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
Wikipedia @ LaGuardia Community
College
http://goo.gl/m4tdY4
Teaches: Wikipedia editing paraphrasing plagiarism
Wikipedia @ LaGuardia Community
College
Teaches: Wikipedia editing & practices –plagiarism not allowed – students required to paraphrase
Wikipedia @ LaGuardia Community
College
Teaches: Source evaluation & critical thinking skills
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Classroom Experience
What students have to say
Wikipedia Resources
•Wiki Edu resources
• For instructors
• Tutorials
• Managing the Wiki Edu Dashboard
• For students
• Tutorials
For Instructors
Wiki Edu Dashboard
For Students
And more...
Instruction
• 5 Pillars
• Creating an account
• Using the sandbox
• Visual editor vs. wiki markup
• Moving article to main space
• History
• Talk pages
Five Pillars
Creating an account
The Sandbox
History
Talk
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
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
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.
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
