'The Open University: Teaching with Wikipedia' in a nutshell:
When: Wednesday, 18th November 2020, 1.30 - 4:30 pm
Where: Remotely, wherever you are!
Info about the event
Millions of people every day seek access to knowledge through Wikipedia.
Wikimedia in Education - Wikimedia UK in partnership with the University of Edinburgh showcasing 14 case studies
The workshop aims to develop capability amongst participants (language teachers and researchers) in editing Wikipedia so that they can:
contribute to the availability of knowledge on language teaching and learning
increase their awareness of the pedagogical opportunities of involving students in editing Wikipedia
Contributing content to Wikipedia or making content available in multiple languages can give form and render visible the legacy of language teaching and learning research and practice, and in turn generate digital content that becomes available for researchers, teachers and learners. Involving students in editing Wikipedia can help them develop capability in writing, researching, and digital and collaboration skills, whilst engaging in a meaningful activity that has a real impact in the world beyond academia.
And did you know that most Wikipedia editors are male (around 85%), and that there are fewer and less extensive articles on Wikipedia about women? There are hundreds of female linguists, researchers, translators and educators in the field of language studies who meet Wikipedia’s standards for notability but don’t yet have a page. Maybe time to add some of them to Wikipedia!
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in residence at The University of Edinburgh, and Dr Sara Thomas and Dr Richard Nevell from Wikimedia UK will deliver an introductory presentation on Teaching with Wikipedia, followed by a hands-on workshop to introduce Editing Wikipedia. The event will close with a demo on Translating Wikipedia.
Participants can attend any or all of the sessions.
Schedule
Wednesday 18th November 2020, starting at 1:30 and 3:30pm. Participants will have received an invitation with a link to join the session.
1:30 - 2:00pm Presentation - Teaching with Wikipedia - Ewan McAndrew, University of Edinburgh, and Dr. Richard Nevell, Wikimedia UK.
2:00 - 3:00pm Editing Wikipedia hands-on training from Dr Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK
3:00 - 3:30pm - Break
3:30 - 4:30pm Translating Wikipedia demo from Ewan McAndrew, University of Edinburgh.
You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist
here.
All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found below:
A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
A guide to elements to include in a wiki-biography, with a checklist to ensure you include as many as you can when editing.
A guide to adding infoboxes (those handy things on the right side of a page with a summary of key info).
A complete beginner's introduction to adding information onto Wikidata. If in doubt, take a look at someone else's Wikidata entry for inspiration!
Steps to adding a photograph to Wikimedia Commons so you can use it in a Wikipedia article - the picture has to be your own for you to add it.
Guide to creating your Wikipedia userpage to introduce yourself to other editors.
Using talk pages
Citing your sources
Avoiding plagiarism
Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
Polishing your articles
You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on
Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.
Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:
You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking
"Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
The
Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.
After today
Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles.
Please sign your messages on
talk pages with four
tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "
signature" (your username and a date stamp). The or button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the
mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.