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Comparing Wikipedia, Traditional Encyclopedias, and Generative AI: The Wikipedia Assignment as Tool for Student Information Literacies

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Professor Katie Holt holds the Alieen Dunham Chair in History at The College of Wooster. I’ve long been an advocate for teaching with Wikipedia as a pedagogical approach to help students strengthen their information literacy skills. The guided trainings provided by Wiki Education help students think about how to critically evaluate different sources of information. … Continued

Wikipedia, Graduate Students, and Me: A First-Gen’s Journey

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Dr. La’Tonya Rease Miles teaches graduate students in the Santa Clara University Department of Education Leadership. She first incorporated a Wikipedia assignment in spring 2023. I am a proud first-generation college graduate, and my research focuses on narratives and media representations of the first-generation college experience.  But I didn’t fully connect with my first-gen identity … Continued

Finding unexpected gaps in well-covered fields

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Con B. Trumbull is the archivist and assistant trainmaster of the Nevada Northern Railway. Like many, my Wikipedia journey started as a casual user, quickly looking up facts and figures to answer a question. Though I knew that the platform was user-generated and could be edited freely, I had no understanding of what the process … Continued

Filling the gaps: Why my students work with Wikipedia

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Dean Allbritton is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Colby College, where he teaches courses on Spanish visual culture, illness, and gender and sexuality. He also serves as Director of the Center for the Arts and Humanities at Colby College and Executive Director of the New England Humanities Consortium. When I introduce the idea of … Continued

Summarizing the Conversation: Empowering Students to Write and Disseminate Scholarly Literature Reviews via Wikipedia-Editing Assignments

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Rachel Miller, PhD is an associate professor of art history at California State University, Sacramento. When assigning art history research papers, a question from students that I always dread is “How many sources do I have to use?” I’ve tried out different responses, from a curt “As many as you need” to a lengthy explanation … Continued

Open Pedagogy in Practice: An Academic Librarian’s Wikipedia Journey

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What’s it like to learn to edit Wikipedia? Librarian Kelly Omodt at the University of Idaho Library reflects on her path from newcomer to contributor as a Wiki Scholars course participant. My introduction to Wikipedia, like most school kids, was a warning to never use the site for serious research. Imagine my surprise while reading … Continued

Hitting the High Notes: Balancing Opera and Outreach at Wiki Education

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Melissa Joseph is an outreach specialist at Wiki Education, where she leads strategic campaigns to connect scholars and scientists with opportunities to contribute to Wikipedia. With a background in nonprofit education work and partner management, she brings over five years of experience in digital outreach, student support, and relationship building. Alongside her role at Wiki … Continued

Breaking generational ceilings: 8 questions with a student editor

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Biology major Devani Rodriguez-Rangel is a recent graduate of Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. As part of her Wikipedia assignment, Devani improved the Wikipedia article focused on environmental scientist Miriam Rodón Naveira. 1. Why was it important to add more information to Miriam Rodón Naveira’s Wikipedia article? What did you hope readers would take … Continued

Wikipedia in the Classroom

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Dr. David Peña-Guzmán is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Comparative World Literature at San Francisco State University. He works on animal studies, the history and philosophy of science, continental philosophy, and theories of consciousness, and is the author of When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, co-author of Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers’ Brief, and co-host … Continued