User:Mozucat/workshops
Presentations/Workshops
[edit]University Engagement with Wikipedia Projects - Wikicurious event at Civic Hall, 19 July 2024.
WNYC+Nancy@SXSW - 14 March 2018.
"Teaching with Wikipedia." CTLET Wikipedia Initiative, York College, CUNY. 22 February 2018.
“WP NYC College Educators Nework” - LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. 07 October 2014.
“Teaching About Wikipedia.” Professional Development Day, City College of New York Library. 28 May 2014.
“Crowdsourcing Information Worldwide: The Wikipedia Phenomenon.” Rutgers University Libraries. New Brunswick, NJ. 25 October 2011.
“Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Leveraging Library Expertise and Collections in the Wikipedia Environment.” METRO. 27 September 2011. Workshop overview:
- For instructional handouts, videos and guides: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia Loves Libraries: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries
- Wikipedia: GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums): http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM
- Wikimedia: Wikipedia Campus Ambassador main page - http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Campus_Ambassador
- Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses (Spring 2011 [review these for course project and assignment ideas]
- Wikipedia: NYU course page, Spring 2011/Copyright, Commerce, and Culture
Selected readings:
- Lih, Andrew. Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion. Published March 2009. ISBN 1401303714
- Reagle, Joseph M. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010. Full text online: http://reagle.org/gfc
- Reagle, Joseph M. and Lauren Rhue. “Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica.” International Journal of Communication 5 (2011), 1138–1158. http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/777/591
- Johnson, Jenna. “Wikipedia Goes to Class.” Washington Post. 29 May 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/wikipedia-goes-to-class/2011/05/03/AGNF4NEH_story.html [About public policy classes]
"Wikipedia in the Classroom" - CUNY IT Conference 2009 - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Dec. 4, 2009
- Open Education at CUNY
- What free resources online are not yet being fully explored by educators? How can we can develop new ways of teaching and creating content?
- Students report a disconnect between classroom practices and integration of educational technology. See recent CDW study: http://newsroom.cdwg.com/features/feature-11-02-09.html
- Wikipedia & Education - some common goals: free, community-driven, collaboration, citation, engagement, publicity...
- We need to start thinking about making use of this highly public, freely accessible resource. Some examples:
- Wikipedia: School and University Projects - Suggested exercises, descriptions of current projects in a range of classes.
- Wikipedia: WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem - The University of British Columbia's class SPAN312 ("Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation") contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. The goals of this highly successful project were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project's end, they contributed three featured articles and eight good articles. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist.
- Wikiversity
- Some general ideas for classroom usage:
- Analysis of an entry relevant to course content.
- Supply missing references/citations to a relevant entry.
- Extra credit ideas: improve a problematic entry or create a needed one.
- Start conversations on the role of encyclopedias, comparison of information sources, citation issues, print vs. digital, authority, truth...
Wikipedia Demystified: Content, Coverage & Controversies
- LG Opening Sessions - Tuesday, September 8, 2009
- Presentation: slides
How to Edit/Contribute
- Anatomy of a Wikipedia Entry
- Wikipedia:Article_wizard2.0 - Thinking of creating a new entry?
- Wikipedia:Cheatsheet - List of basic commands.
- Wikipedia:Citing_sources
- Wikipedia:Tutorial_(Wrap-up_and_more_info) - Check out the step-by-step tutorial; list of resources for learning more.
- Wikipedia:Instructional_material#Editing_Wikipedia - Video tutorials.
Ideas for work that needs to be done
- Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia
- Discussing an article; Wikiquette; Consensus
- Correcting/expanding an article; WP:CITE; WP:MOS
- Writing a new article
Bibliography
[edit]- Books
- Ayers, Phoebe, Charles Matthews & Ben Yates. How Wikipedia Works. San Francisco: No Starch Press. Published September 2008. ISBN 978-1593271763. howwikipediaworks.com Online in several versions, including downloadable html.
- Broughton, John . Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. O'Reilly books. Published January 2008. ISBN 978-0596515164. As available online in the form of a set of Wikipedia help pages.
- Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture. New York: Doubleday/Currency, 2007. ISBN 9780385520812
- Lih, Andrew. Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion. Published March 2009. ISBN 1401303714
- Reagle, Joseph M. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010. ISBN 9780262014472 Web edition available.
- Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 9780060839789
- Selected Articles
- Baker, Nicholson. “The Charms of Wikipedia”. Rev. of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, by John Broughton. New York Review of Books 20 Mar. 2008: n. pag. .
- Black, Erik W. “Wikipedia and Academic Peer Review: Wikipedia as a Recognised Medium for Scholarly Publication?” Online Information Review 32.1 (2008): 73-88. ProQuest Platinum Periodicals.
- Broidy, Ellen. “Gender and the Politics of Information: Reflections on Bringing the Library into the Classroom.” Library Trends 56.2 (2007): 494-508. ProQuest Platinum Periodicals.
- Carberry, Genevieve. “Student’s Wikipedia Hoax Quote Used Worldwide in Newspaper Obituaries”. Irish Times. IrishTimes.com, 6 May 2009.: n. pag.
- “Encyclopaedia Britannica and Nature: A Response”. Nature. Nature Publishing Group. 23 Mar. 2006.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Fatally Flawed: Refuting the Recent Study on Encyclopedic Accuracy by the Journal Nature". Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Corporate Site. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mar. 2006.
- Giles, Jim. “Internet Encyclopedias Go Head to Head.” Nature 15 Dec. 2005: 900-901. Web. ProQuest Platinum Periodicals.
- Kittur, Aniket, Ed H. Chi, and Bongwon Suh. “What’s in Wikipedia? Mapping Topics and Conflict Using Socially Annotated Category Structure”. CHI 2009: Digital Life, New World: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, August 4–9, 2009. Ed. Saul Greenberg, et al. Boston: Assn. for Computing Machinery, 2009. 1509-1512. .
- Noah, Timothy. “More on Wikiality: The Arguments for a Notability Guideline Don’t Hold Up”. Slate 1 Mar. 2007: n. pag. Web. .
- Reagle Joseph M. “A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking”. Joseph Reagle, n.d. Web. . - Also see main page for more good research relating to a thesis on Wikipedia.
- Rector, Lucy Holman. “Comparison of Wikipedia and Other Encyclopedias for Accuracy, Breadth, and Depth in Historical Articles.” Reference Services Review 36.1 (2008): 7-22. EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service. .
- Rosenzweig, Roy. “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past”. The Journal of American History 93.1 (2006): 117-46. CHNM [Center for History and New Media] Essays. .
- Royal, Cindy, and Deepina Kapila. “What’s on Wikipedia, and What’s Not . . . ?: Assessing Completeness of Information.” Social Science Computer Review 27.1 (2009): 138-48. Sage Journals Online. .
- Runciman, David. “Like Boiling a Frog” Rev. of The Wikipedia Revolution, by Andrew Lih. London Review of Books 28 May 2009: n. pag. .
- Shaw, Donna. "Wikipedia in the Newsroom". AJR: American Journalism Review (Feb/Mar 2008) : n. pag. .
- Videos
- Heavy Metal Umlaut, 10 February 2005, [08:29]. Jon Udell - From a few years ago, but still a great screencast that shows the life of a Wikipedia entry.
- "The Truth According To Wikipedia", 07 April 2008, [48:12], dir: IJsbrand van Veelen, VPRO Backlight - Documentary produced by a Dutch public broadcasting network with interviews.
- "Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story", dirs: Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill - Trailer for as yet unreleased (as of September 2009) documentary.
- "Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface (in under 7 minutes)", 2008, North Carolina State University Libraries [06:41]- Good library tutorial that introduces viewers to what goes on behind-the-scenes so they can make the best use of what's on the surface. Watch a higher quality version with captioning here: "high quality version"
- "Wikis in Plain English", May 2007, [03:52].
- "Wikipedia Explained", 25 May 2010, [03:46].
- "Wikis in University Teaching and Learning - Richard Buckland FULT UNSW", 03 February 2009, The University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia [55:17] - Not covering use of Wikipedia specifically, but informative nonetheless. Professor Richard Buckland has been using wikis in his large class (100-500 students) teaching in Engineering and Computer Science since 2000. This video presentation covers these experiences and offers suggestions for other instructors.
More Resources
[edit]- Alphascript Publishing/VDM Publishing, an example
- Wikimedia Outreach Bookshelf - http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/ - Instructional materials including handouts, tutorials, videos.
- FAQ for Librarians - http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_For_Librarians
- Wikipedia:Instructional material
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies - An incomplete but well-organized list of academic conference presentations, peer-reviewed papers and other types of academic writing which focus on Wikipedia as their subject. Links and descriptions provided.
- User:DGG/NYPL
- Deletionpedia - Archive of deleted entries.
- WikiDashboard - Social dynamic analysis tool. Tracks editorial activity on individual entries.
- Wikiscanner - Tracks anonymous edits from well known organizations.