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Wikipedia and Higher Education: beat them or join them?

Wikipedia and Higher Education: beat them or join them?. Dr Martin Poulter. Director at large Wikimedia UK. The Economics Network / DeSTRESS project / TRUE project / METAL project. “ Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge .

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Wikipedia and Higher Education: beat them or join them?

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  1. Wikipedia and Higher Education: beat them or join them? Dr Martin Poulter Director at large Wikimedia UK The Economics Network / DeSTRESS project / TRUE project / METAL project

  2. “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”

  3. Wikimedia projects • Free content • Charitable • Volunteer-run • Multilingual

  4. “Bronchial anatomy” by Patrick J. Lynch via Wikimedia Commons. CC-BY

  5. Some statistics • 1,000,000,000 edits so far • >400 million visitors per month • Aiming for 1 billion per month by 2015 • Nearly 100,000 active registered editors • 10 million files (images, audio, video)

  6. Wikipedia • >17,000,000 total articles • 3,634,844 articles in English • 3,270 are Featured Articles • 5 million hits per day on English Wikipedia main page • More than 270 Wikipedias Image by user He!ko on Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA

  7. Featured articles: 5000 pages Art project by Rob Matthews, Brighton

  8. Wikipedia culture • Be Bold • Revert • Discuss

  9. Meanwhile, in HE 2699 words

  10. The Wikipedia legal blurb • 983 words, mostly spelling out the CC-BY-SA licence • 469 words aimed at contributors • 482 words aimed at re-users

  11. The power of the network Cartoon by XKCD, http://xkcd.com/214/ CC-BY-NC Applies to contribution as well as consumption

  12. UKOER alphabet soup TIGER CORE FETLAR CETIS OTTER OSIER JORUM DeSTRESS XERTE PHORUS SCORE UNICYCLE

  13. Wikipedia behind-the-scenes Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors WP:GLAM Self and Identity Task Force Wikiproject Medicine Wikiproject Novels WP:FEEDBACK Hematology-Oncology Task Force WP:CONTRIBUTE Wikiproject Somerset Wikiproject Psychology WP:BACKLOG Wikiproject Military History

  14. One user interface “Build it and they will come” vs. “Put it where people will look for it”

  15. Our options? Beat them • Ignore • Recognise • Learn from • Co-operate • Partner Join them

  16. Wikimedia → UKOER: suggestions • Make Wikimedia files searchable in cross-search tools • Identify Featured Content in Wikiversity/Wikibooks and make it visible in catalogues/ search. • Facilitate educational assignments that have open content as output. • Tolerate more risk.

  17. UKOER → Wikimedia: suggestions • Create Wikiversity views of UKOER content • Content partnership: bulk dumps of content into Wikimedia • Reviews of Wikiversity content & practice to identify strengths & flaws • Set up a Wikiproject within WP or WV?

  18. Martin Poulter @mlpoulter infobomb.org m.l.poulter@bristol.ac.uk American Library Association wartime poster remixed by Brian Moore, Brianmooremedia.com

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