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Wikipedia in the library - the
elephant in the (reading) room?
Nancy Graham, University of Roehampton
Andrew Gray, British Antarctic Survey
the project
• A collaboratively-written encyclopedia
• A synthesis of published material
• Aiming for neutrality and verifiability
...not editorial authority
• Free to use, distribute and reuse
the numbers
• Thirteen years old
• 30,000,000 articles in 280 languages
• Growing by 8-10,000 new articles/day
• Reaching 500,000,000 readers/month
...or 7% of the world’s population
the problem
“We have a problem. The kids these days
are reading too many encyclopedias.”
the opportunity
• Users are actively seeking out the resource
• “Don’t do that!” is never very effective
• This is a perfect teaching moment
– how to tell the good from the bad?
– thinking critically about online material
– engaging with the means of production
– what are we actually saying “don’t” to?
mapping to ANCIL
http://ccfil.pbworks.com/f/ANCIL_final.pdf
ANCIL Strand Example learning outcomes from
ANCIL
Wikipedia related activities
1 – Transition from school
to HE
Assess your current info-seeking behaviour and
compare to experts in your discipline
Using a Wikipedia article on your topic, use
the references to identify familiar and
unfamiliar sources.
3 – Developing academic
literacies
Identify appropriate terminology, use of language
and academic idiom in your discipline
Assess and compare the quality of 3 short
Wikipedia articles (one poorly written)
4 – Mapping and evaluating
the information landscape
Develop evaluative criteria for recognizing and
selecting trustworthy sources of academic quality
in your discipline
Compare a Wikipedia page with a traditional
encyclopaedia. Compare with excerpts from
textbooks and journals.
7 – Ethical dimension of
information
Summarise the key ways you can use and share
information without infringing another’s rights
Students asked to find suitable images for re-
use using Wikimedia Commons.
8 – Presenting and
communicating knowledge
Use language appropriately in your academic
writing
Discuss the importance of writing objectively
in Wikipedia
9 – Synthesising information
and creating new
knowledge
Assess the value of new information objectively in
the context of your work
Students to debate a topic using information
from Wikipedia
10 – Social dimension of
information
Transfer the skills of finding, critically evaluating
and deploying information to the workplace
Ask students to use only freely available
sources from Wikipedia to answer a subject
query, then search using subscription
sources.
some thoughts
• On average... quality is acceptable
• 2005 study: four errors in WP for three in Britannica
• 2011 study (in English, Spanish, Arabic):
“…the Wikipedia articles in this sample scored higher overall
than the comparison articles with respect to accuracy,
references, style/ readability and overall judgment…”
• But millions of articles = millions of problems
• Radically transparent editorial process
• Signs are there for alert readers
looking for the hints
Article tags
Talk pages and histories
Corner icons
- locked (a red flag) - quality ratings (positive)
...and, most basic of all, style
moving onwards
Footnotes
Internal navigation
the projects
• Wikipedia Education Program
– Encouraging teachers to engage with WP
– Content creation, critical assessment, etc.
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal
• Online courses
– “Writing Wikipedia” MOOC (now fourth round)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WIKISOO
• Outreach resources
– Wide range of past projects for different audiences
– Some printed/printable material available
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf
11http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Evaluating_Wikipedia_article_quality_(Bookshelf)
case studies
• Head & Eisenberg (2010): survey of the ways students use
Wikipedia as a resource
• Sormuen & Lehtiö (2011): students wrote Wikipedia articles,
which were examined to study their citing/plagarising habits
• Konieczny (2012): survey of five years of teaching using
Wikipedia in various ways
• Roth, Davis & Carver (2013): examination of student
engagement with Wikipedia-related teaching projects
...and many other examples of university projects
13
Contact details
Nancy Graham, University of Roehampton
Email: nancy.graham@roehampton.ac.uk
Twitter: @msnancygraham
Andrew Gray, British Antarctic Survey
Email: anday@bas.ac.uk
Twitter: @generalising
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Wikipedia and information literacy - LILAC 2014

  • 1. Wikipedia in the library - the elephant in the (reading) room? Nancy Graham, University of Roehampton Andrew Gray, British Antarctic Survey
  • 2. the project • A collaboratively-written encyclopedia • A synthesis of published material • Aiming for neutrality and verifiability ...not editorial authority • Free to use, distribute and reuse
  • 3. the numbers • Thirteen years old • 30,000,000 articles in 280 languages • Growing by 8-10,000 new articles/day • Reaching 500,000,000 readers/month ...or 7% of the world’s population
  • 4. the problem “We have a problem. The kids these days are reading too many encyclopedias.”
  • 5. the opportunity • Users are actively seeking out the resource • “Don’t do that!” is never very effective • This is a perfect teaching moment – how to tell the good from the bad? – thinking critically about online material – engaging with the means of production – what are we actually saying “don’t” to?
  • 6. mapping to ANCIL http://ccfil.pbworks.com/f/ANCIL_final.pdf ANCIL Strand Example learning outcomes from ANCIL Wikipedia related activities 1 – Transition from school to HE Assess your current info-seeking behaviour and compare to experts in your discipline Using a Wikipedia article on your topic, use the references to identify familiar and unfamiliar sources. 3 – Developing academic literacies Identify appropriate terminology, use of language and academic idiom in your discipline Assess and compare the quality of 3 short Wikipedia articles (one poorly written) 4 – Mapping and evaluating the information landscape Develop evaluative criteria for recognizing and selecting trustworthy sources of academic quality in your discipline Compare a Wikipedia page with a traditional encyclopaedia. Compare with excerpts from textbooks and journals. 7 – Ethical dimension of information Summarise the key ways you can use and share information without infringing another’s rights Students asked to find suitable images for re- use using Wikimedia Commons. 8 – Presenting and communicating knowledge Use language appropriately in your academic writing Discuss the importance of writing objectively in Wikipedia 9 – Synthesising information and creating new knowledge Assess the value of new information objectively in the context of your work Students to debate a topic using information from Wikipedia 10 – Social dimension of information Transfer the skills of finding, critically evaluating and deploying information to the workplace Ask students to use only freely available sources from Wikipedia to answer a subject query, then search using subscription sources.
  • 7. some thoughts • On average... quality is acceptable • 2005 study: four errors in WP for three in Britannica • 2011 study (in English, Spanish, Arabic): “…the Wikipedia articles in this sample scored higher overall than the comparison articles with respect to accuracy, references, style/ readability and overall judgment…” • But millions of articles = millions of problems • Radically transparent editorial process • Signs are there for alert readers
  • 8. looking for the hints Article tags Talk pages and histories Corner icons - locked (a red flag) - quality ratings (positive) ...and, most basic of all, style
  • 10. the projects • Wikipedia Education Program – Encouraging teachers to engage with WP – Content creation, critical assessment, etc. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal • Online courses – “Writing Wikipedia” MOOC (now fourth round) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WIKISOO • Outreach resources – Wide range of past projects for different audiences – Some printed/printable material available https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf
  • 12. case studies • Head & Eisenberg (2010): survey of the ways students use Wikipedia as a resource • Sormuen & Lehtiö (2011): students wrote Wikipedia articles, which were examined to study their citing/plagarising habits • Konieczny (2012): survey of five years of teaching using Wikipedia in various ways • Roth, Davis & Carver (2013): examination of student engagement with Wikipedia-related teaching projects ...and many other examples of university projects
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  • 14. Contact details Nancy Graham, University of Roehampton Email: nancy.graham@roehampton.ac.uk Twitter: @msnancygraham Andrew Gray, British Antarctic Survey Email: anday@bas.ac.uk Twitter: @generalising 14