Presented by Samara Carter and Monique Clark at the 2013 Power Up Your Pedagogy Conference held at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College.
This is the slide deck of a presentation I did in 2009 at the University of the Sunshine Coast to a group of teacher-librarians. Most of the content is almost certainly out of date now in 2016, but some might find parts of it useful for their own presentations.
Wikiconference USA 2015 - What Wikipedia Must DoAndrew Lih
By Andrew Lih, Keynote address on October 9, 2015 at the US National Archives and Records Administration, Wikiconference USA 2015 - What Wikipedia Must Do
The Future of Knowledge in the Age of Wikipedia - REMIXNYC 2014Andrew Lih
The Future of Knowledge in the Age of Wikipedia, talks about the history of the world's most popular reference work, how galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) have come to work with it, and the challenges to Wikipedia's growth. We also describe how Wikipedia solves the "knowledge gap" problem by being the unusual blend of speed, depth and accuracy.
Subjects discussed: Smithsonian, British Museum, National Archives, VOX, Ezra Klein, Wikidata, Histropedia, Wikipedia, mobiles, Jimmy Wales, Ward Cunningham, Larry Sanger.
By: Andrew Lih of American University and author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia.
A half hour talk for around 80 National Honor students on using Wikipedia effectively for academia. An updated version of this Powerpoint has been uploaded on 5/13/08 at 12.20pm. You can also view the video of this talk at http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2192
Presented by Samara Carter and Monique Clark at the 2013 Power Up Your Pedagogy Conference held at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College.
This is the slide deck of a presentation I did in 2009 at the University of the Sunshine Coast to a group of teacher-librarians. Most of the content is almost certainly out of date now in 2016, but some might find parts of it useful for their own presentations.
Wikiconference USA 2015 - What Wikipedia Must DoAndrew Lih
By Andrew Lih, Keynote address on October 9, 2015 at the US National Archives and Records Administration, Wikiconference USA 2015 - What Wikipedia Must Do
The Future of Knowledge in the Age of Wikipedia - REMIXNYC 2014Andrew Lih
The Future of Knowledge in the Age of Wikipedia, talks about the history of the world's most popular reference work, how galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) have come to work with it, and the challenges to Wikipedia's growth. We also describe how Wikipedia solves the "knowledge gap" problem by being the unusual blend of speed, depth and accuracy.
Subjects discussed: Smithsonian, British Museum, National Archives, VOX, Ezra Klein, Wikidata, Histropedia, Wikipedia, mobiles, Jimmy Wales, Ward Cunningham, Larry Sanger.
By: Andrew Lih of American University and author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia.
A half hour talk for around 80 National Honor students on using Wikipedia effectively for academia. An updated version of this Powerpoint has been uploaded on 5/13/08 at 12.20pm. You can also view the video of this talk at http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2192
Learn about the Wikimedia foundation, how to take advantage of Wikipedia as a tool for research, ESL, and writing, and how to contribute to Wikimedia as a librarian. Presented by Monique Clark and Samara Carter at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference on September 27.
Free for All: Wikipedia, Wikimedia, and the Future of HistoryAndrew Lih
Free for All: Wikipedia, Wikimedia, and the Future of History
Chautauqua Institution, Week 4
Future of History
Andrew Lih, July 20, 2022
https://chqdaily.com/2022/07/tech-journalist-smithsonians-wikimedian-at-large-lih-to-trace-wikipedias-power-in-cultural-heritage/
https://chqdaily.com/2022/07/digital-strategist-andrew-lih-traces-past-present-future-of-information-knowledge-through-lens-of-wikipedia/
2. What is a Wiki?
The simplest online database that could possibly work
(‘wiki wiki’ means ‘rapidly’ in the Hawaiian language).
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to
freely create and edit web page content using any web
browser.
Open editing encourages democratic use of the Web
and promotes content composition by non technical
users.
3. What is Wikipedia?
A free content, multilingual encyclopedia
written collaboratively by contributors around
the world
The site is a Wiki - anybody can edit and add
to an article. Offers quick understanding on
controversial issues. Strong in current affairs.
(Google search: define: Wikipedia)
4. What isn’t Wikipedia?
It is not an archive (it was decided that
poems and other literary works were not
suited to Wikipedia)
5. Wikipedia’s dream
‘Imagine a world in which every single person on the
planet is given free access to the sum of all human
knowledge. That's what we're doing.’
(Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia,
Masters in Finance, and nearly a PhD)
Goal: 250,000 articles in every language
spoken natively by at least 1m people
(ie 347 languages)
6. How and why it works
Operates on an open society basis, where
people trust each other!
Written by 1000s of volunteers in all languages
Run by a non profit organisation – Wikipedia Foundation
Wikipedia will spend $2-3m in 2007 – all donations (mostly from
the USA)
Cost to run Wikipedia - $25-30,000 per month in bandwidth
See Margaret Fulton’s entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fulton
7. Free?
Free access (if you have the internet)
Free speech (although it is vigilantly
checked)
Freedom to:
– copy
– modify
– redistribute commercially or non commercially
8. Popularity
9th most popular site on the internet; 6th in
Germany; 12th in India, Japan and Iran
2.23% use cnn.com every day, 6.19% use
Wikipedia every day
2005-6 there was a big jump in popularity
9. How good is Wikipedia?
A study compared Wikipedia with
Encyclopedia Britannica
– Wikipedia had an average of 4 errors per article
and Britannica 3
– Wikipedia followed up on errors after the study,
whereas Britannica just got defensive (according
to Jimmy Wales)
10. How should it be used by students?
RESA Online discusses this
www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/learn/resaonline/
?
PATH=/Resources/LitReview/Methodology+i
n+the+social+sciences+and+humanities/&de
fault=Research+methodology+issues/Wikipe
dia+as+a+research+tool.htm
Main point – articles are not refereed, so
Wikipedia should be a starting point only
11. Offshoots
Citizendium http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page
Aims to improve on the Wikipedia model by adding ‘gentle expert
oversight’ and requiring contributors to use their real names –
founded by an ex founder of Wikipedia, who was losing sleep at
night!
Uncyclopedia http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Anonymous http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Anonymous
Kangaroo http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo
12. How can you create a wiki?
Use some free software and web space
eg Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com/
‘Create simple web pages that groups, friends, and
families can edit together’
Pick a username
Set your password
Enter your email address
13. Wikis in universities
1. Education
2. Communication
UniSA courses – for student assessment and
resources eg Information Architecture and Design
Boston College student wikia (Wikia offers free
MediaWiki hosting for your community to build a
free content wiki-based website)
CaseWiki – an encyclopedic reference about Case
Western Reserve University and its surroundings
More examples: School and university projects
(Wikipedia)