In January, I traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the Linguistic Society of America annual conference and spread the word about the Wikipedia Year of Science. This was our first conference with LSA after announcing our partnership in November. I met close to 100 linguistics instructors over three days for lots of conversation about language learning, digital pedagogy, and the presence of linguistics … Continued
Earlier this month, I hosted a “Teaching with Wikipedia” workshop at Hunter College alongside Chanitra Bishop. Twenty one instructors from across greater New York learned about our Classroom Program and Year of Science. After showing off our Dashboard, the conversation shifted to details about running the assignment. Instructors wanted to know more about the six-week timeline, and wondered if the assignment might take up too … Continued
On Friday, February 19, Educational Partnerships Manager Jami Mathewson and I will be presenting a “Teach with Wikipedia” workshop at California State University, East Bay. Research and reference librarian, Tom Bickley, will also be joining us. His subject specialties include music, philosophy, math and computer science. As an instructor in our program, Tom can speak from experience … Continued
This weekend (January 8-10), I’ll be attending the Linguistic Society of America’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. In November, the Wiki Education Foundation announced our educational partnership with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) to target and improve linguistics topics on Wikipedia. Wiki Ed is supporting LSA members in two ways: First, by supporting instructors as they assign students to edit Wikipedia. Second, by … Continued
On Tuesday, January 12, I’ll be presenting Wikipedia assignments to librarians and instructors at Hunter College in New York. Wikipedia writing assignments are a great way for students to engage with course literature. From humanities, to social sciences, to STEM fields, when students research their topic to write a Wikipedia article, they’re writing for an … Continued
Our Classroom Program has produced high-quality content working with student editors through classroom assignments. Since student editors have been shown to add high-quality content to Wikipedia through class-based assignments, we were interested in seeing if we can replicate that model outside of the classroom. We wanted to know if students would edit in their free … Continued
This spring, we’ve been piloting a program with student clubs to encourage students to contribute text and images to Wikipedia articles as part of their extracurricular activities. Field trips and workshops at UC Berkeley and the University of Arizona were successful at bringing enthusiastic students together to edit, and in May, we brought workshops to four … Continued
As you might tell from their name, students from UC Berkeley’s Berkeley Water Group Idea Lab (BWGIL) are passionate about water. The group aims to share knowledge about water use in California. Editing Wikipedia was a natural fit. “The most surprising thing to me was the major content gaps that Wikipedia pages pertaining to water, … Continued
Students at the University of Arizona GeoClub made their first edits to Wikipedia as part of Wiki Ed’s program for high-achieving student clubs. The GeoClub is a graduate student group focused on geological sciences, studying subject areas such as tectonics, geochemisty, paleoclimate, mineralogy, and paleontology. Students at the University of Arizona have unique access to … Continued
