Bumping this post up to the top for the OU Academic Tech Expo presentation! (as an aside, just was in a G+ discussion about using PPT in teaching/classes and how much I don’t like closed slides – so am posting my presentation here as well as extra links).
Wikipedia – what is it and why should I learn to love it?
- Wikipedia is an openly editable encyclopedia, based on the MediaWiki platform
- Wikis and Wikipedia are not the same thing, a wiki is a platform designed for quick editing by multiple users, Wikipedia is a specific implementation of a wiki.
- 82% of students use wikipedia for research, but most only as a starting point for projects.
So we know students are going to Wikipedia, it is time to learn to love it!
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Here are the links from the original post made for the OU TSI…..
This morning, John Stewart and I are giving a panel presentation at the OU Teaching Scholars Initiative. We have pulled together a lot of links that we plan to share, and I though I would post them here as well.
General:
- Wikipedia:
- Wikipedia FAQ:
- Educause – 7 Things you should know about wikis
- Educause – 7 Things you should know about Wikipedia
- https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7026.pdf
- Wikis in Plain English from Common Craft Video
- Wikipedia, a Professor’s Best Friend – from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Academics Continue Flirting With a Former Foe: Wikipedia
- Clint LaLonda on My first published Wikipedia article
How to Wiki:
- Editing Wikipedia, a print guide for new contributors
- Wikipedia Education Program:
- Wikipedia Education program/Ambassadors
- Wikipedia:School of Open course
- Wikipedia: Help:Editing
Writing in the Classroom
- A really good E-Book chapter on the Wikiblitz:
- Stewart’s Education Program: /History of Science from Antiquity to Newton (Fall 2013)
- Women in Classics or archaeology Wikipedia editathon
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Women in Science Edit-a-thon – Oklahoma
- Hackpad for classes
How Wikipedia is used:
- Wikipedia article traffic report how many times a specific wikipedia article was viewed by month.
- You can find similar information from Wikipedia.
- According to the Wikimedia Foundation use statistics, there are 8,547,297 page views per hour on the English Wikipedia site in October 2014.
- Wikipedia Statistics:
- There are 4,688,324 Content pages in the English Wikipedia
- German is #2, followed by French, Dutch, Italian…
- 750,769,355 page edits
- average of 21.62 edits per page
- 23,657,648 registered users (English site)
- 122,745 have edited something in the last 30 days
- There are 4,688,324 Content pages in the English Wikipedia
- Wikipedia is the #1 source on healthcare information for doctors
- Wikipedia articles are predominantly edited by men (9 out of 10)
- MIT Technology Review has a good discussion of some of the editing issues.
- the BBC spotlighted some WIkipedians in 2012, as did the Wall Street Journal in 2014
- Wikipedia has an article on systemic bias in its own site.
- The majority of sources cited in Wikipedia english articles are from news magazines, with Books, Archives, Video and Government sites following.