Using Wikipedia in the Classroom

Wikipedia Education Program (WEP)

• information for educators, volunteers, and students
• WEP is one part of Wikimedia Outreach, started in 2010
• supports professors who want to use Wikipedia in the classroom
• "educators and students around the world contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in an academic setting"

Education/Toolkit (Wikimedia Outreach)

• introduces the Wikipedia Education Program (Start, Plan, Run, Evaluate, Connect)

Reasons to Use Wikipedia (Wikimedia Outreach)

• student engagement, student learning
• notes challenges

Case Studies (Wikimedia Outreach)

• Write a feature article
• Creating local content
• Videos

WikiEdu - Teach with Wikipedia

• formed in 2013
• bridges academic and Wikipedia
• spin-off of Wikipedia Foundation
• supports Wikipedia Education Program in U.S. and Canada
• instructors can sign up for its Wiki Education's Classroom Program
• supports instructors, offers online trainings, offers timelines & dashboard

WikiEdu - for Instructors

• orientation for instructors, case studies, example grading rubric and more

WikiEdu - Training Libraries

• excellent training materials
• includes "How to teach with Wikipedia", will prompt you to enter through your Wikipedia account

Some lists are created which point to Wikipedia content that needs further development.

• Wikipedia Stubs - a stub page is a short or incomplete article
• Wikipedia Worklist - worklists created by bots, tracks and assesses articles
• Women in Red - focused on turning red links (that lead to nowhere) to blue links and improving/creating articles on women; see worklists for possible articles
• Wikipedia Articles in Need of Updating - look for links to more recent pages in need of updates

Other:

• Assessment - Quality Grading Scheme
• Citation Hunt - a tool which refers to information in Wikipedia that requires citation(s)

Incorporating Wikipedia

• Assigning students to edit Wikipedia: Four case studies - Carver, Davis, Kelley, Obar & Davis (2012) in E-Learning and Digital Media, 9(3), 273-283.
• Lazy virtues: Teaching writing in the age of Wikipedia - Cummings (2009), Vanderbilt UP

Gender Gap

• Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history - Nicosia  & Carroll at The Conversation
• The future is interdisciplinary: Addressing Wikipedia’s gender gap - Villeneuve (2017) at WikiEdu
• Why do so few women edit Wikipedia? - Torres (2016) at Harvard Business Review
• Anyone can edit, not everyone does: Wikipedia's infrastructure and the gender gap -- Ford & Wajcman (2017) from Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 511-527. doi:10.1177/0306312717692172

Content

• “The sum of all human knowledge”: A systematic review of scholarly research on the content of Wikipedia - Mesgari et. al (2015) from Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(2), 219-245.

Students Using Wikipedia

• Once reviled in education, Wikipedia now embraced by many professors - Young (2017) at EdSurge
• Should university students use Wikipedia?  - Coomer (2013) at The Guardian
• Students' use of Wikipedia as an academic resource — patterns of use and perceptions of usefulness - Selwyn & Gorard (2016) at The Internet and Higher Education

Science & Wikipedia

• Sustaining science at WikiEdu, refers to Wikipedia's Year of Science initiative in 2016 (improving science coverage)

News @ WikiEdu

• news blog

The Five Pillars or fundamental principles of Wikipedia.

5 Pillars of Wikipedia by Guilia Forsythe on flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/21684596874/
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