I agree, this would be fascinating research. Having used Wikipedia with a number of my classes and conducted research in related areas, this sound fascinating.
Happy to talk more about it or assist if you need anything.
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With Incredulity toward Metanarratives,
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On Feb 8, 2019, at 1:07 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
Piotr,
I think this is an excellent topic, FWIW.
And I bet the Wikipedia Education Program would be interested in the outcomes of this research. And they might be willing to point you to potential interview candidates (tho, obviously, they have a strong US/EnWiki bias, so it wouldn't be the complete picture).
Best, J
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:43 AM Juliana Bastos Marques domusaurea@gmail.com wrote:
I can add something to this, from my own experiences and from what colleagues have told me. Here are some negative feedbacks to the experience of teaching with Wikipedia. Not in any particular order:
- Lack of support from the Wikipedia community (reversions, scaring
newbies - depends on the specifics of each language community) 2. Lack of teacher's experience in editing and dealing with the community (leads to poor management fo issues in 1) 3. Problems with infrastructure in the university 4. Students lacking interest in editing, doing everything in the last minute and not caring about the outcome after the end of classes.
Piotr, I'm very interested in following your research. I'd love to hear about studies examining these issues, and how they were/can be overcome.
Greetings, Juliana
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:04 PM Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl wrote:
I am mulling over a new research topic: what researchers think about teaching with Wikipedia type of assignment AFTER having tried it? AFAIK we have a lot of papers on how to teach with Wikipedia, some on effects on students and some about what instructors think about Wikipedia in general, but correct me if I am wrong, nobody has actually asked instructors about their experience with it? And from my personal experience with seeing such projects on Wikipedia, I think there's a lot of people who try it once and don't come back and well, do we know why outside educated guesses?
Right now I am just brainstorming this idea, so any thoughts, up to and including suggestions for what questions to ask, etc. are appreciated.
Also, I am generally conducting solo research, and all my prior papers on 'teaching with Wikipedia' have been solo authored (and my goal is as always to turn this research into publishable paper), but if someone really, really, really would want to join this project because they love the idea, and would want to be a co-author of the future paper, and/or present the results at a WikiSym or such that I sadly go to every five years or so, feel free to send me a private message. No promises, but I don't bite :)
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