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Adding Latinx scholars to Wikipedia
Marina Corrales’s career goal is to become a university librarian. She was excited when she took Dr. La’Tonya Rease Miles’s Social Innovation for Social Impact Leaders class at Santa Clara University this spring and discovered she’d be writing a Wikipedia article as part of the course. “I’ve referenced Wikipedia extensively throughout my academic career and … Continued
Chemistry student demystifies battery technology through Wikipedia
Last year, 1 out of 7 cars bought around the world was an electric vehicle. That’s a huge uptick from just 6 years ago where only 1 in 70 were EVs. As consumers seek to understand more about this fast-growing market, it’s likely they’ll turn to Wikipedia for clear explanations of complex topics. Take lithium … Continued
Diversifying Wikipedia’s STEM biographies
This spring, students at diverse colleges and universities across the United States tackled a glaring hole on Wikipedia: adding biographies of people in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to Wikipedia. This term was the first of a planned three-year project, funded by the Broadcom Foundation, aimed at engaging a diverse group of students in writing … Continued
Applying the Wikipedia assignment to a career in chemistry
Robin Stoodley’s CHEM 300 course at the University of British Columbia is a third-year undergraduate course on communicating chemistry. Students are asked to think about the context of their topic and their audience when they write. As the course focuses on written communication of scientific topics, the Wikipedia assignment is a great fit. Students take … Continued
How I build my Wikipedia assignment around content gaps
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
Wiki Education may start in classrooms, but it demonstrates that learning can happen anywhere
Alex Kendall completed Dr. Cecelia Musselman’s Science Writing course this Spring at Northeastern University, where students had the opportunity to participate in the global dissemination of scientific knowledge and knowledge creation through a Wikipedia writing assignment. Here, Alex reflects on the experience after adding 39 references and thousands of words to the Wikipedia article about … Continued
Writing the book on primate archaeology
When I send Adela Cebeiro an email asking to interview her about Wikipedia, I get an out of office message that she’s doing fieldwork in South Africa. Considering I’m writing to ask her about her experience in Justin Pargeter’s African Prehistory course at New York University, I’m impressed but not surprised. Adela just finished the … Continued
Wiki + Climate
Climate solutions are proven, powerful, and effective, but they aren’t happening at the scale necessary to curb climate change quickly. Why? We need a mindset shift on a collective level in order to cut emissions across all sectors. We also need to communicate to the public and policymakers that we have everything we need to … Continued
