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INFORMATION LITERACY LESSONS
IN WIKIPEDIA
PRU MITCHELL
Australian School Library Association Inc.
Presenter
• ASLA member
• Manager Information Services, Australian Council for Educational Research
• 2006 ‘Wikis in education’ in
Wikis: tools for information work & collaboration
• 2007 education.au Jimmy Wales visit
• 2008 Wikimedia Australia inauguration
• 2009 GLAM Wiki conference
• 2013 Committee Wikimedia Australia
• 2014 Wikimedia Future of Education
• 2014 ALIA Wikipedia and Libraries
Pru Mitchell
Session overview
1. Why Wikipedia and school libraries?
www.surveymonkey.com/s/WPLibraries
2. How does Wikipedia work?
3. Information literacy lessons in
Wikipedia
Using Wikipedia as a source
1. I have followed a link to Wikipedia
2. I have read a Wikipedia article to
find information
3. I know at least 3 ways to evaluate a
Wikipedia article
Editing Wikipedia
4. I have edited something in Wikipedia
5. I have edited a reference in
Wikipedia
6. I have a Wikipedia username
7. I have created a new Wikipedia
article
Contributing to Wikipedia
8. I understand Wikipedia's licence CC by-sa9. I have uploaded my own content to a
Wikimedia project10.I have taught others about Wikipedia11.I have conducted
research about Wikipedia12.I am involved in administration of
Wikipedia13. I have supported Wikipedia financially
Why teach about Wikipedia?
It’s where your students are going#7 site rank globally
It is free to access, free to copy [with attribution]
It’s not for profit and all about sharing knowledge
Wikipedia is different from other sources Does CRAP test apply?
School librarians transform learning 2014 AASL
Currency
Reliability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
Article rating system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles
Authority
Anonymous editors• are not registered• first-time /
occasional editors or vandals
New editors• registered but not
yet trusted Trusted editors• 4 days and 10
“good” edits to establish trust
Administrators and bureaucrats
Bots No paid editors
Who can edit Wikipedia?
Anyone
[View history] to see more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account
User name
User’s edits
Talk to /about this user
User’s role
Username created
Purpose / Point of view
• sources
• aboriginality
• activism
• indigenous
• photo
• race
• images
• copyright
• bias
• citation clutter
What is Wikipedia?
• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia• no original research• neutral point of view• statements must be verifiable• must reference reliable published so
urces• Wikipedia relies on crowd-sourcing• anyone can edit
• Wikipedia is big
printwikipedia.com
Wikipedia’s five pillars
Imagine a world in which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge
Neutrality - Verifiability – Consensus
Civility - Openness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Evaluating a Wikipedia article
1. Is the length and structure of article an indication of the importance of this subject?
2. Click on edit history activity: when was the last edit?
3. Talk page checked for debates: what are the issues in this article?
4. Check the references [or lack of] Are all claims referenced (especially if
controversial )? What is the quality of the sources? How relevant are the sources?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Evaluating_Wikipedia_brochure_%28Wiki_Education_Foundation%29.pdf
Verifiability
Wikipedia is only as good as its sources
Libraries have the best sources
Wikipedia has the most eyeballs
Wikipedia leads users back to sources at libraries
Jake OrlowitzFuture of libraries and
Wikipediaslideshare.net/
JakeOcaasi
Example of citation code from Trove
How safe is Wikipedia?
Yes, there’s vandalism and spam, but …Every edit is recorded, all old versions are saved
and can be easily restored after vandalismAbuse Filter – automated tool for preventing
common patterns of abuseRecent Change Patrol – people who monitor
recent edits across all topics for obvious vandalismWatchers – people who monitor pages of interest
to them – monitor for subtle vandalism“The beast of one billion eyes” – readers want
Wikipedia to be right not wrong
Watching articles
Keep tabs on how an article is changing
Click this to watch this article
Click it again to stop watching
“coloured” means you are watching it
Click here to see what is happening to the
articles you are watching
Wikimedia projects
Portals Australia Children’s literature
Simple English Wikipedia
Consensus
• Dispute resolution process:• Discussion on the article’s talk page• Seeking a third opinion• Requesting assistance from people interested in
the area• Noticeboards• Having a general “request for comment”• Mediation (formal and informal)• Arbitration committee
• Disputes cover everything from serious concerns to the mundane
People and organisations
Cannot use their own website or publications as proof of notability, nor material that uncritically repeats their PR
Can use reviews by independent people about them, independent newspaper reports, library books, etc
It is still OK to cite their publications in the article, but not sufficient alone to prove notability
An officially gazetted town, suburb, bounded locality is notable
Wikipedia Biographies of living persons policy
Teaching with Wikipedia
• Engaged students, global audience, real world purpose
• Unique assignment, peer feedback, cool and different
• Media literacy, identify bias, evaluate credibility
• Constructing knowledge, content gaps
• Discourse, collaboration, community of practice
• Expository writing, literature review, citation
• Critical thinking, process reflection
• Plagiarism, close paraphrasing, copyright
• Digital citizenship, online etiquette, wiki code
http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06580
Wikipedia research
Wikimedia Australia
VolunteersWe’re here to help …Advice on using Wikipedia (or other projects)Wikipedia edit training
Groups or one-on-oneDonate
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