Hi Nichole
Many thanks - I can see there are a lot of useful resources available. Interesting to flag identification of positive and negative indicators as a step. Will update you and list when we make progress. :-)
Best Mathieu
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Dear Mathieu,
Thanks for sharing your work! I hope that you will continue to share your work with the community, perhaps you could join one of the Wikimedia & Education User Group's open meetings, or join one of the participation spaces that my team hosts (We'll be sharing updates soon on the education mailing list https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wikimedia.org%2Fpostorius%2Flists%2Feducation.lists.wikimedia.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cmathieu.oneil%40anu.edu.au%7Ccf5affacf28a4c48288d08d978fbdcf5%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637673846179538723%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=BxBzJhBrtYhhynNgUPiImw3DxG0N4EJY9H9CVsCF%2Fk4%3D&reserved=0). There is also a monthly newsletter where you can share your work and hear from others: https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Foutreach.w... https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Foutreach.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEducation%2FNews&data=04%7C01%7Cmathieu.oneil%40anu.edu.au%7Ccf5affacf28a4c48288d08d978fbdcf5%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637673846179538723%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=WWXz99aS1S4M7AAqdYhTD4%2BUVsg28dAeX8szTQ0uxP4%3D&reserved=0
Regarding Media and Information Literacy + Wikipedia, last year my team piloted a teacher training program with three communities in Bolivia, Morocco, and the Philippines w/corresponding resources that you might find helpful. https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wi...
These resources were created for a secondary school educator audience, but can be adapted to various contexts. They are also currently available in 4 languages.
I hope this is helpful to you! Please always feel free to reach out to education@wikimedia.org for support.
all the best,
Nichole
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:24 AM Mathieu O'Neil mathieu.oneil@anu.edu.au wrote:
Hi everyone
Apologies if this has been covered previously on the list. I was inspired to write by the reference in the post below to the Wiki Ed Program.
I am about to launch with an education scholar colleague a funded research project aiming to develop fact-checking techniques with Y5, Y6 and Y7 schoolchildren in three Canberra schools (Australian Capital Territory). We are basing our approach to fact-checking on concepts developed by education scholars in the US such as "civic online reasoning" and "lateral reading": look away from the (potentially dubious) content; check the source. The easiest and most effective way to "check the source" is to look at a Wikipedia entry and check the reference list.
In parallel, I am convening a first-year communication course on media literacy at the University of Canberra with 140+ students. A couple of weeks ago we did a group activity on Wikipedia, where students were asked to review and discuss a Wiki Ed Program / Wikimedia brochure ("Instructor Basics: How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool") which clearly outlines editorial and behavioral policies such as NPOV, Reliable Sources, Assume Good Faith, etc.
We then asked whether any prior assumptions had been challenged. It became clear that when they were in high-school, these students had been forcefully and repeatedly instructed by their teachers to NEVER use Wikipedia ("unreliable"). After completing the activity, students overwhelmingly expressed amazement about the existence of quality controls on Wikipedia and said their opinion of its reliability had changed.
We also have anecdotal evidence that primary and secondary school teachers hold similar negative opinions about WP.
It would be helpful for us to find out if this negative image is specific to the Canberra education system, or has been encountered elsewhere. To that end, I would very much appreciate it if anyone could point me to any studies or projects which explore this issue, or who could share their experiences of how teachers perceive Wikipedia.
If you want to get in touch off-list I usually respond quickest to email sent at my primary address: mathieu.oneil@canberra.edu.au
Many thanks! Mathieu
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On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 1:15 PM Janna Layton jlayton@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
The September Wikimedia Research Showcase will be on September 15 at
16:30
UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme will be "socialization on Wikipedia" with speakers Rosta Farzan and J. Nathan Matias.
Livestream:
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtub...
Talk 1
Speaker: Rosta Farzan (School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh)
Title: Unlocking the Wikipedia clubhouse to newcomers: results from two studies
Abstract: It is no news to any of us that success of online production communities such as Wikipedia highly relies on a continuous stream of newcomers to replace the inevitable high turnover and to bring on board
new
sources of ideas and workforce. However, these communities have been struggling with attracting newcomers, especially from a diverse
population
of users, and further retention of newcomers. In this talk, I will
present
about two different approaches in engaging new editors in Wikipedia: (1) newcomers joining through the Wiki Ed program, an online program in which college students edit Wikipedia articles as class assignments; (2) newcomers joining through a Wikipedia Art+Feminism edit-a-thon. I
present
how each approach incorporated techniques in engaging newcomers and how they succeed in attracting and retention of newcomers.
More information:
- Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia
Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon Events on Newcomers <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.sprin...
, SocInfo 2016 (pdf <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsaviaga.com...
)
- Successful Online Socialization: Lessons from the Wikipedia
Education Program <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.acm.org..., CSCW
2020 (pdf <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cc.gat...
)
Talk 2
Speaker: J. Nathan Matias <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnatematias.... (Citizens and
Technology Lab <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcitizensand..., Cornell University
Departments of Communication and Information Science)
Title: The Effect of Receiving Appreciation on Wikipedias. A Community Co-Designed Field Experiment
Abstract: Can saying “thank you” make online communities stronger & more inclusive? Or does thanking others for their voluntary efforts have
little
effect? To ask this question, the Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) organized 344 volunteers to send thanks to Wikipedia contributors across the Arabic, German, Polish, and Persian languages. We then observed the behavior of 15,558 newcomers and experienced contributors to Wikipedia.
On
average, we found that organizing volunteers to thank others increases two-week retention of newcomers and experienced accounts. It also caused people to send more thanks to others. This study was a field experiment,
a
randomized trial that sent thanks to some people and not to others. These experiments can help answer questions about the impact of community practices and platform design. But they can sometimes face community mistrust, especially when researchers conduct them without community consent. In this talk, learn more about CAT Lab's approach to
community-led
research and discuss open questions about best practices.
More information:
Volunteers Thanked Thousands of Wikipedia Editors to Learn the Effects of Receiving Thanks <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizensan...
, blogpost (in EN, DE, AR, PL, FA) <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Fu...
The Diffusion and Influence of Gratitude Expressions in Large-Scale Cooperation: A Field Experiment in Four Knowledge Networks <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Fu..., paper preprint
More information:
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaw...
-- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwikimediaf...
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Dear Mathieu,
This comes up frequently in outreach events, especially to academia.
The first point to get across is that Wikipedia is a General Interest encyclopaedia, a tertiary source compiled from primary and secondary sources. Anyone studying a subject at university is expected to have much more than a general interest in that subject. It isn't new that some students have to be encouraged to read the reading list......
The second is that Wikipedia has been improving in quality for some time, and some people who assessed its quality in the very early years might find themselves pleasantly surprised if they take another look at it. Some of the studies still cited about Wikipedia are as old as 2008, and a study from 2008 is likely to be based on data from 2007. Four fifths of all the edits to the English Language Wikipedia have been since March 2008.
This last is especially true for people who made up their mind about Wikipedia in the very earliest years when the priority was to achieve quantity and inline citations were rare.
Jonathan
.
On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 09:25, Mathieu O'Neil mathieu.oneil@anu.edu.au wrote:
Hi everyone
Apologies if this has been covered previously on the list. I was inspired to write by the reference in the post below to the Wiki Ed Program.
I am about to launch with an education scholar colleague a funded research project aiming to develop fact-checking techniques with Y5, Y6 and Y7 schoolchildren in three Canberra schools (Australian Capital Territory). We are basing our approach to fact-checking on concepts developed by education scholars in the US such as "civic online reasoning" and "lateral reading": look away from the (potentially dubious) content; check the source. The easiest and most effective way to "check the source" is to look at a Wikipedia entry and check the reference list.
In parallel, I am convening a first-year communication course on media literacy at the University of Canberra with 140+ students. A couple of weeks ago we did a group activity on Wikipedia, where students were asked to review and discuss a Wiki Ed Program / Wikimedia brochure ("Instructor Basics: How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool") which clearly outlines editorial and behavioral policies such as NPOV, Reliable Sources, Assume Good Faith, etc.
We then asked whether any prior assumptions had been challenged. It became clear that when they were in high-school, these students had been forcefully and repeatedly instructed by their teachers to NEVER use Wikipedia ("unreliable"). After completing the activity, students overwhelmingly expressed amazement about the existence of quality controls on Wikipedia and said their opinion of its reliability had changed.
We also have anecdotal evidence that primary and secondary school teachers hold similar negative opinions about WP.
It would be helpful for us to find out if this negative image is specific to the Canberra education system, or has been encountered elsewhere. To that end, I would very much appreciate it if anyone could point me to any studies or projects which explore this issue, or who could share their experiences of how teachers perceive Wikipedia.
If you want to get in touch off-list I usually respond quickest to email sent at my primary address: mathieu.oneil@canberra.edu.au
Many thanks! Mathieu
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Reminder that the September Research Showcase is this Wednesday.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 1:15 PM Janna Layton jlayton@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
The September Wikimedia Research Showcase will be on September 15 at
16:30
UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme will be "socialization on Wikipedia" with speakers Rosta Farzan and J. Nathan Matias.
Livestream:
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtub...
Talk 1
Speaker: Rosta Farzan (School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh)
Title: Unlocking the Wikipedia clubhouse to newcomers: results from two studies
Abstract: It is no news to any of us that success of online production communities such as Wikipedia highly relies on a continuous stream of newcomers to replace the inevitable high turnover and to bring on board
new
sources of ideas and workforce. However, these communities have been struggling with attracting newcomers, especially from a diverse
population
of users, and further retention of newcomers. In this talk, I will
present
about two different approaches in engaging new editors in Wikipedia: (1) newcomers joining through the Wiki Ed program, an online program in which college students edit Wikipedia articles as class assignments; (2) newcomers joining through a Wikipedia Art+Feminism edit-a-thon. I
present
how each approach incorporated techniques in engaging newcomers and how they succeed in attracting and retention of newcomers.
More information:
- Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia
Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon Events on Newcomers <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.sprin...
, SocInfo 2016 (pdf <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsaviaga.com...
)
- Successful Online Socialization: Lessons from the Wikipedia
Education Program <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.acm.org..., CSCW
2020 (pdf <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cc.gat...
)
Talk 2
Speaker: J. Nathan Matias <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnatematias.... (Citizens and
Technology Lab <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcitizensand..., Cornell University
Departments of Communication and Information Science)
Title: The Effect of Receiving Appreciation on Wikipedias. A Community Co-Designed Field Experiment
Abstract: Can saying “thank you” make online communities stronger & more inclusive? Or does thanking others for their voluntary efforts have
little
effect? To ask this question, the Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) organized 344 volunteers to send thanks to Wikipedia contributors across the Arabic, German, Polish, and Persian languages. We then observed the behavior of 15,558 newcomers and experienced contributors to Wikipedia.
On
average, we found that organizing volunteers to thank others increases two-week retention of newcomers and experienced accounts. It also caused people to send more thanks to others. This study was a field experiment,
a
randomized trial that sent thanks to some people and not to others. These experiments can help answer questions about the impact of community practices and platform design. But they can sometimes face community mistrust, especially when researchers conduct them without community consent. In this talk, learn more about CAT Lab's approach to
community-led
research and discuss open questions about best practices.
More information:
Volunteers Thanked Thousands of Wikipedia Editors to Learn the Effects of Receiving Thanks <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizensan...
, blogpost (in EN, DE, AR, PL, FA) <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Fu...
The Diffusion and Influence of Gratitude Expressions in Large-Scale Cooperation: A Field Experiment in Four Knowledge Networks <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Fu..., paper preprint
More information:
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaw...
-- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwikimediaf...
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