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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
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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.
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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(a)wikimedia.org for support.
all the best,
Nichole
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:24 AM Mathieu O'Neil <mathieu.oneil(a)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(a)canberra.edu.au
Many thanks!
Mathieu
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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
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On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 09:25, Mathieu O'Neil <mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au>
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.youtu…
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.spri…
,
SocInfo 2016 (pdf
<
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsaviaga.co…
)
- Successful Online Socialization: Lessons from the Wikipedia
Education Program <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.acm.or…;reserved=0>,
CSCW
2020 (pdf
<
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cc.ga…
)
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%2Fcitizensan…;reserved=0>,
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%2Fcitizensa…
,
blogpost (in EN, DE, AR, PL, FA) <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2F…
-
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%2F…;reserved=0>,
paper preprint
More information:
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.media…
--
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Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <
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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(a)canberra.edu.au
Many thanks!
Mathieu
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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.youtu…
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.spri…
,
SocInfo 2016 (pdf
<
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsaviaga.co…
)
- Successful Online Socialization: Lessons from the Wikipedia
Education Program <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.acm.or…;reserved=0>,
CSCW
2020 (pdf
<
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cc.ga…
)
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%2Fcitizensan…;reserved=0>,
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%2Fcitizensa…
,
blogpost (in EN, DE, AR, PL, FA) <
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2F…
-
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%2F…;reserved=0>,
paper preprint
More information:
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.media…
--
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