Great that you're thinking of doing this, Brianna - and thanks so much to Andrea, who's given me a few more references to follow up on. :-) I'd also add to the list a piece by Doug Achterman < http://news.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqarchives/v33/335ach... about the need for library and teaching staff to coordinate activities around information retrieval in general, including on Wikipedia. But yes, Andrea's right - this literature points to the fact that much more work is needed both in doing research, and in educating both students and educators about the values and pitfalls of using Wikipedia. I'm doing a class next week on educational implications of wikis/Wikipedia - and part of that is to give a look at what happens "inside Wikipedia". You can find this at: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Inside_Wikipedia - please go edit/comment/fork as you see fit. (Actually, Andrea, I've already put your abstract in the references section - let me know if I should remove/replace it.. :-))
Brianna, as to the wiki research bibliography, I don't know what's happened - it might be worth emailing Jakob Voss and/or Patrick Danowski about it (I don't know if either are reading this list these days)...
Cormac
On Feb 19, 2008 5:26 AM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I am thinking to make a submission to a "computers in education" conference, either a non-refereed paper or a "workshop". The audience will be "teachers and teacher educators". Around 600 people will attend. The conference is held every two years. One of the conference themes is "E-learning including information literacy, Web 2.0 and school libraries". At first I thought to do a workshop, but their computer labs have only 15-20 computers, which seems very limited to me. So then it seems like a non-refereed paper is best.
I think a good topic might be '"Safe wiki": Teaching responsible use of Wikipedia', as just like sex, an abstinence-only approach will not be very successful when it comes to students & Wikipedia. ;)
Anyway I figure there may be some people here familiar with this kind of research, although I am not submitting a refereed paper it would still be useful to see what has been done before. I recall the wiki research bibliography - is it still alive? Both http://bibliography.wikimedia.de/ and http://tools.wikimedia.de/~voj/bibliography/ are dead links...
thanks, Brianna
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