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10 Reasons to work with Wikimedia UK

How easy the Visual Editor - 5 minute walkthrough.

Edinburgh Residency infographic - Year one

1. Wikipedia's new WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Visual Editor interface is intuitive, super easy to learn, fun and "really addictive".
2. Anyone can edit Wikipedia BUT there are checks and balances to help revert unhelpful edits in minutes. (Only 7% of edits are considered vandalism).
3. Wikidata – query, analyse & visualise the largest reference work on the internet. Add your research data to combine datasets on Wikidata.
4. WikiCite – tidying up the citations on Wikipedia to make a consistent, queryable bibliographic repository enhancing the visibility and impact of research. Now with the I4OC initiative (April 2017) there exists a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data. Before I4OC started, publishers releasing references in the open accounted for just 1% of citation metadata collected annually by Crossref. Following discussions over the past months, several subscription-access and open-access publishers have recently made the decision to release reference list metadata publicly. These include: American Geophysical Union, Association for Computing Machinery, BMJ, Cambridge University Press, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, EMBO Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, SAGE Publishing, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley. These publishers join other publishers who have been opening their references through Crossref for some time.
5. Wikisource – Quotations and images from long ago can still touch and inspire. Out of copyright texts such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh (1914) or digitised PhD theses can be uploaded & linked to from Wikipedia.
6. Content Translation – The new tool allows Translation Students to get much-needed published translation practice and help share knowledge globally; correcting areas of under-representation and building understanding. Building bridges not wall.
7. The gender gap is real and working with Wikipedia helps address this as part of Athena Swan initiatives; creating new roles models for young & old alike.
8. Develop students’ information literacy, digital literacy, communication & research skills.
9. Share your research & library collections’ material to Wikipedia the right way and open it up to a global Open Knowledge community of millions demonstrating impact with detailed metrics.
10. Fake news is prevalent. Engaging with Wikipedia helps develop a critical information literate approach to its usage and to other online sources of information.
    

Staff and students are already consulting Wikipedia for pre-research purposes so why not ensure gaps in representation and inaccuracies are addressed? Because if not you then who?
Key learning points from last year

Compilation of reflections from course leaders and students who have taken part in the Wikipedia in the Classroom assignments in World Christianity MSc, Reproductive Biology Hons. and Translation Studies MSc

• Sharing good practice & working collaboratively is crucially important.
• Creating a variety of stimulating events where practitioners from different backgrounds participate in an open knowledge community has proved to be a successful approach.
• Wikipedia & its sister projects offer a great deal to Higher Education and can be successfully integrated to enhance the learning & teaching within the curriculum.
• Areas of under-representation and systemic bias have proven to be extremely important motivators for participants.
• Demystifying Wikipedia through presentations, workshops & scaffolded resources has yielded positive reactions & an increased understanding of Wikipedia's important role in academia.