Tona Hangen is a professor of history at Worcester State University. She incorporated a Wikipedia assignment into her course for the first time last term. For over a decade I have taught a history and political science course on American citizenship that coincides with the fall election season in even-numbered years. In my usual version, … Continued
David-James Gonzales is an Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the host of New Books in Latino Studies. He is a historian of migration, urbanization, and social movements in the U.S., and specializes in Latina/o/x politics and social movements. I began teaching with the Wikipedia assignment in the spring of 2018. At … Continued
Eiko Strader is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and the Director of Graduate Studies in Public Policy and WGSS at the George Washington University. She began incorporating Wikipedia assignments into her Gender, Welfare, and Poverty course in 2021. What is feminist praxis? To start discussing potential answers … Continued
Terri Hlava teaches Justice Studies, Disability Studies, and Cultural Pedagogy courses at Arizona State University. It wasn’t very long ago that Wikipedia meant a website to look up information, a first stop in a learning journey. But now, it means so much more to my teaching partner and me. These days, the Wikipedia assignment means … Continued
Gretchen Sneegas is an assistant teaching professor of geography at the University of Washington. I first taught with Wikipedia in Winter 2024 as part of my Geographies of Energy and Sustainability class. Perhaps this was a teensy bit ambitious, given that it was both my first time teaching this course, and my first year teaching … Continued
Anne-Christine Hoff is an associate professor of English at Jarvis Christian University. Back in January of this year, I took a three-week, six-hour introductory course on Wikidata through the nonprofit Wiki Education. Before the course’s start, I knew little to nothing about Wikidata, and I had several preconceived notions about the database and its uses … Continued
Debby Kurti is a professor of Computer Information Systems at Victor Valley College in Victorville, CA. She incorporated the Wikipedia assignment into her classroom for the first time in spring 2024. 1. This is your first time teaching with the Wikipedia assignment, and you knocked it out of the park! Why did you decide to … Continued
Iris Leung, Juntong Shi, Peiyi Sun, and Nicole Zhang are students in professor Helen Choi’s fall course WRIT 340 for Engineers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. For an upper-division composition course for engineers at the University of Southern California (USC), we edited a Wikipedia article on the Chinese online marketplace, … Continued
Dr. Kathryn Jasper began implementing Wikipedia assignments at Illinois State University in Fall 2022. Here, she reflects on the experience. Where do people get their history? The American Historical Association conducted a study in recent years on that very question and the results, reported in a table, show that most people get their history from … Continued
