By Kaelynn Ross, student at the University of Alaska Anchorage Trying to figure out a direction for my Wikipedia assignment last term proved to be tricky. I hadn’t spent much time on Wikipedia previously, and all of the things I was interested in also seemed to be loved by many other editors, so finding additional … Continued
David Minh is the Robert E. Frey, Jr. Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Illinois Institute of Technology and the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Biagon Inc. Introduction This semester was the first time I had students complete the Wikipedia assignment, where they evaluated and made edits to an article in the free online encyclopedia. … Continued
Michenael is a first-year student at Rutgers University-Newark. She plans to major in diagnostic medical imaging to become a sonographer. As part of her Wikipedia assignment in fall 2025, Michenael improved the Wikipedia article focused on tech entrepreneur and activist Judith Adem Owigar. 1. Was your work on Wikipedia meaningful to you? In what way? … Continued
Jane Sancinito is Assistant Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is an ancient historian, focusing on merchants, artisans and working people in the Roman Empire, a numismatist, studying ancient coinage, and a specialist in the concept of greed in the pre-modern world. I never considered myself much of a Wikipedia editor. I … Continued
Jennifer Lynn Stoever is an Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out!, and author of The Sonic Color Line (NYU Press). She is an interdisciplinary scholar who researches the role of sound in constructing racial identities. Her current book-in-progress details how Black women and their record collections were fundamental to the … Continued
Dr. Jennifer Bernstein is Editor-in-Chief of the University of California Press journal “Case Studies in the Environment” and adjunct faculty at Texas Tech and Tarleton State Universities. A Graduate-level Wikipedia editing assignment in Environmental Studies Course: ENVS 5185: Research and Writing in Environmental Studies (Tarleton State University) Enrollment: 18 graduate students Final reflections analyzed: 16 … Continued
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
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
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
