Wikipedia: The MED3040 Publishing Cultures module - Behlul Sulimani (slides 1-6) Republishing Project - Lauryna Sakalyte (slides 7 - 13) Portal for Learning - Clem Rutter (slides 14 - 20) We are not in a post-fact world - Ewan McAndrew (slides 21 - 42) 21st Century Learning Skills - Judith Scammel (slides 43 - 49)

1. Wikipedia: The
MED3040
Publishing
Cultures
module
Wikimedia UK Education Summit
in partnership with Middlesex University
Behlul Sulimani

2. Introduction
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• MED3040: Publishing
Cultures features a
Wikipedia section to the
course contents, with a
final assessment
surrounding the editing
of Wikipedia.
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3. What we’ve done…
• As a class using Pirate Pad, a platform allowing
participants of the course to collectively edit
work together, we’ve focused mainly on editing
the Wikipedia page for the North London
Literary Festival which runs from this University
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• As a result of the input of students on the course,
the Wikipedia page has changed from a basic
factsheet with no more than a few sentences
into a Wikipedia page filled with pictures,
detailed information and sourced facts. We’ve
transformed a ‘’poor’’ and ‘’unloved’’ Wikipedia
page into something we’ve been proud to
collectively create.

5. What we’ve learnt
• We’ve learnt so many skills, from basic
WML (Wiki Markup Language) to the
creation of info boxes, to adding
pictures and adding text whilst abiding
to Wikipedia and the fellow editors
rules and expected conduct.
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• We’ve learnt to be inspired to create our
own content off our own backs for
Wikipedia. Speaking for myself here,
I’ve had fun adding pictures from
Wikimedia and uploading them to the
Wikipedia pages of those without any
pictures in their info boxes.

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9. Middlesex
University
GENDER STUDIES
Popular Science Monthly

10. https://wikisource.org

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14. Portal for Learning
Clem Rutter

15. WP and the needs of primary and secondary aged pupils
The question I intend to address is how does WP service the
needs of primary and secondary aged pupils, and how can we
harness their skills in improving Wikipedia.
We agree that we are failing them
We as a body appear to be scared of them, and initiatives will
always be greeted with-
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thats important but maybe next year,
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or ẃe have no way of reaching them,
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or we should just let them use simple,

16. Needs of children
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The teacher learns the topic- so he can set the
task.
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The child looks at the task
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The parents feverishly support the child- and in
the end do the task the teacher has set, writing
out the answer, which the child copies and hands
in
Vast number of social class, and work-life balance issues here

17. The partners
There are other players.
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There is the oppressive national curriculum,
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More benign curriculums.- Curriculum writers
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GCSE exam boards who interpret it. - Exam boards
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London schools were always helped by ILECC which has morphed into London Grid for
Learning. -Advisory service
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Teachers were assisted by their professional bodies- Unions
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and local teachers centres managed by the LEA. (some have survived)- INSET
providers
These are our potential partners.
Our approach is to let out partners list classify and list the articles that would assist
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the teacher preparing the topic,
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the child that investigating the idea
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and the parents that will be supporting the learner.
We provide the means

18. Our role
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Our role is to facilitate this by providing a portal
(or software structure that allows it to happen)
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To provide a partnership structure to enable the
people concerned to come on board.

19. Wikiproject:Portal for Learning

20. Directions
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Listen to our new partners on the way forward- they must lead
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Never underestimate some youngster ability to master a subject. A
good teacher may be a provisional expert- but recognises when a
focused youngster is better than them on a particular topic then
and exploits it. The same will go for some of our articles.
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Youngsters work alongside their parents. Train the parent in wiki-
editting- and we will have two new editors. The parents are out
partners.
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I haven't mentioned Wikidata- but surely a product tag could
become an attribute

21. Ewan McAndrew – Wikimedian in Residence
Tinyurl.com/WikiResidency

22. 34
Training
sessions
12
editathons
The University of Edinburgh residency

24. Building a network of nodes (or people as we like to call them)

25. WIKIPEDIA IN THE CLASSROOM
A powerful tool for educators
• Enhances learning & teaching in the curriculum.
• Helps develop & share knowledge in their subject discipline.
• Raises the visibility & impact of research in their particular field.
Practitioners can swap out existing components in favour of Wikimedia learning activities which develop:
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• Information Literacy
• Digital Literacy
• Academic writing & citation
• Critical thinking
• Literature review
• Writing for different audiences.
• Research skills
• Communication skills
• Community building /Online citizenship
• Collaboration

26. Translation from one language Wikipedia to another.
Independent Study module – Translation Studies MSc assignment
“It is very fun but challenging at the same time.
I feel like I am doing something very
meaningful.
It not only helps me with my translation skills,
but also makes me feel that I am contributing to
Wikipedia, to people, to the society.“ – Student
feedback

27. List of Wikipedias
Taking ownership:
“I can help fix this.”

28. World Christianity MSc – Wikipedia literature
review assignment (5% of course credit).
Representing a more holistic world view of
Christianity

29. Redressing the gender gap
Less than 15% of editors on Wikipedia and only 16.85% of biographies are about women
65% of
attendees at
our events thus
year have been
female.

30. 3700+ views since
September 2016
Reproductive Biology (Hons.)
– Wikipedia research assignment.
38 students researched and wrote 8 articles
related to reproductive health.

31. Key learning points
• Creating a variety of stimulating events engages practitioners from different backgrounds.
• Working collaboratively and sharing good practice & has been crucially important.
• Once understood, Wikipedia & its sister projects offer a great deal to Higher Education and can be successfully
integrated to enhance the learning & teaching within the curriculum.
• Demystifying Wikipedia through presentations, workshops & scaffolded resources has yielded positive reactions &
an increased understanding of Wikipedia's important role in the dissemination of knowledge.

32. “Knowledge is alive and growing
and… it is most useful when it is
used; not just static, but engaged
with, built upon, expanded on.”
Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, December 2016
1. Sharing good practice.
2. Building on prior learning..

33. https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Universities

34. Type Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh
TYPE WP:UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

35. Tinyurl.com/wikihopper

36. Video interviews with staff & students

38. Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: +44 (0) 7719 330076
Twitter: @emcandre
Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
Our Mission
The creation, dissemination and curation
of knowledge
www.ed.ac.uk/is
Information Services
The University of Edinburgh
Argyle House
3 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh EH3 9DS
United Kingdom

39. Our Mission
The creation, dissemination and curation of
knowledge
“To empower and engage people around
the world to collect and develop
educational content under a free license
or in the public domain, and to
disseminate it effectively and globally.”

40. “Knowledge creates understanding
– understanding is sorely lacking
in today’s world.”
Katherine Maher, Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation December 2016.
Why is this important?

41. Wikipedia – the Digital Gateway to
Academic Research
•“Wikipedia is today the gateway through
which millions of people now seek access to
knowledge which not long ago was only
available using tools constructed and
maintained by professional scholars.”
• (William Cronon)
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• https://www.refme.com/blog/2016/01/15/wikipedia-the-digital-gateway-to-academic-
research

42. Spouse: Fanny Stevenson
Place of birth: Edinburgh
Place of death: Vailima, Samoa.
Father: Thomas Stevenson
Educated at: University of
Edinburgh

43. Source: Students editing Wikipedia (Lafferty, 2013)
https://mededelearning.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/students-editing-wikipedia/
Judith Scammel

44. Students editing WikipediaStudents editing Wikipedia
Natalie Lafferty, Lecturer & Director of Technology in Learning at the College of Medicine,
Dentistry and Nursing at the University of Dundee.
• Keen advocate of student engagement in the development of online learning resources,
online learning environments and assessing the usability of educational technologies
https://mededelearning.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/students-editing-wikipedia/

45. Student feedback (Roth, Davis & Carter, 2013)
 “Students appreciated the usefulness of contributing to Wikipedia and found
satisfaction in making information accessible to the public worldwide”
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 “Students engaged with an online community and appreciated feedback and
collaboration”
 “Instructors and students observed that student research and writing skills
improved”
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 “Qualitative data from both students and professors indicates that in learning
basic writing skills, a Wikipedia writing assignment is comparable to a
traditional research paper, however, students are more engaged in a
Wikipedia assignment”
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Students editing WikipediaStudents editing Wikipedia

46. Lafferty (2013):
 Critically review and edit a page
 Improve an entry relating to a medical topic
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Poulter (2014):
3 ways to use Wikipedia as an education tool
 Review sources
 Publish and create new content
 Collaborate with volunteer editors
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 Dr Martin Poulter: https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter
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Students editing WikipediaStudents editing Wikipedia

47. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med
“Imagine a world in which every single person
is given free access to the sum of all medical
knowledge. That's what we're doing.”

48.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine
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◦ Founded in 2004 Jacob de Wolff – Consultant, London
North West Healthcare NHS Trust; http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jfdwolff
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 Dedicated to improving medical information
◦ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Showcase
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 Key Initiatives
◦ Partner with medical education
◦ Collaborative publication - Wikipedia-based peer-
reviewed journal
◦ Translation task force
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WikiProject: MedicineWikiProject: Medicine

49.  Lafferty, N (2013) Students editing Wikipedia. Available at: https
://mededelearning.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/students-editing-wikipedia/
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 Poulter, M (2014) 3 ways to use Wikipedia as an education
tool. Available at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/blog/3-ways-use-wikipedia-education-tool
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 Roth, A., Davis, R., & Carver, B. (2013). Assigning Wikipedia
editing: Triangulation toward understanding university
student engagement. First Monday, 18(6). http://
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4340/3687
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