An expanded version of the previous year's presentation. Blurb: Stuart Yeats (sic) leads a discussion about wikipedia use in teaching and research in university contexts, including setting editing as coursework, adding your research results to wikipedia and using wikipedia as data. In the second half of the session, Stuart will talk his way through the creation of a new wikipedia article, explaining what he's doing, why he's doing it and how to avoid common mistakes.

1. Working with Wikipedia
2018 Resbaz Wellington
stuart.yeates@vuw.ac.nz
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-1062
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates

2. Agenda
● Who am ?
● Working with wikipedia - create an account
● Working with wikipedia - teaching
● Working with wikipedia - research
● Working with wikipedia - promotion
● Who are you ? discussion
● Creating a new biography

3. Who am I?
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates
● More than a decade, more 50k edits, hundreds of new articles
● Organised a number of real-world wiki events; participated in many
● Library-worker with a PhD in Computer Science by day
● Husband / father of two toddlers by night

4. Working with Wikipedia - Create an account
● Create an account
● Gives you a pseudonym
● Makes your editing more private
● Allows better / more efficient feedback cycles
● Separates you from many of the trolls
● Wikipedia is less toxic than many sites (twitter, facebook, etc), but the usual
caveats about accounts and account names which indicate minority statuses
apply
● Templates can credit work to your ORCID

5. Working with Wikipedia - Teaching
● Assigning articles as required background reading
● Assigning critiques of articles as assessed pieces of work
● Assigning editing as an assessed piece of work

6. Working with Wikipedia - research
● Datasets - many, many datasets
● Manipulation of content
● Manipulation of interface

7. Working with Wikipedia - promotion
● Fields of speciality
○ The best editors are those who still remember what it was like learning their specialisation
rather than those who are the world experts
○ Similar skill set to tutoring and/or science communication
● Conflicts of interest
● Biographies (living / dead)

8. Who are you?
● Round table intros and of how we’d like to interact with wikipedia

9. Discussion?

10. Creating a new biography
● My current project is writing wikipedia articles for all female New Zealand
professors.
● Turns out there are more than I had anticipated (~250)
● A list of candidates
● A template biography
● Research all the candidates...