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This is the project page for Wikipedia activities at the Wolfsonian-FIU


Upcoming events

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Ways to Engage With Wikipedia: A Conversation

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Event Details

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Come participate in a lively discussion about engaging with Wikipedia in your role as a curator, registrar, librarian, and/or educator. Topics of discussion will include: Wikipedia as a reference and instructional tool, the Wikipedia community, how scholars and institutions are contributing to Wikipedia, your experiences and/or how you can get involved. The discussion will be led by Derek Merleaux

Presenters:


Topics for Conversation

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The Wikipedia Community
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Intense debates happen behind the scenes, such as when to update entries to reflect changes in current events. Examples, entries on Chelsea Manning and Olympics. Is Wikipedia a producer of knowledge? A reference service? A news source?

What groups are underrepresented as editors? Women, people of color, various international communities.

Wikipedia community expectations are different, and sometimes more stringent than expectations of publishers of "legit" (and often behind a pay wall) reference materials.

Wikipedia and Scholarly Communities
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Some ways that scholars and institutions are contributing to Wikipedia:

  1. Learning for adaptive expertise: the role of new media in making visible the thinking processes intrinsic to the development of expert-like abilities and dispositions in novice learners;
  2. Embodied learning: the impact of new media technologies on the expansion of learning strategies that engage affective as well as cognitive dimensions, renewed forms of creativity and the sensory experience of new media, and the importance of identity and experience as the foundation of intellectual engagement; and
  3. Socially situated learning: the role of social dimensions of new media in creating conditions for authentic engagement and high impact learning.


Wikipedia is "front facing scholarship." It is immediately accessible and public, which mirrors the goals of many digital humanities projects.


Discussion: What will these partnerships mean for Wikipedia's future reputation?

Reference and Instruction
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Wikipedia as a reference tool

  • Helping students evaluate articles.
  • Article Grades
  • Special criteria for medical articles.
  • Editing articles to make them into better resources.

Wikipedia as an instructional tool


Discussion: Knowing that these resources exist, does this change how you feel about Wikipedia? Do you see yourself making use of them?

Your experiences and how you can get involved
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  • What are your experiences with Wikipedia?
  • How you can become more involved.
  • Short Activity.

Resources

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Learning Tools


You can also contribute to Wikipedia by assisting with categories, for example adding new articles to:

Category:Underpopulated_categories Category:Underpopulated_books_categories Category:Underpopulated_novel_categories Category:Florida International University Category:Museums in Miami Beach, Florida Category:Art museums in Florida Category:University museums in Florida Category:Decorative arts museums in the United States Category:Design museums in the United States

Or by improving citation formatting (see examples in our further reading section) on these articles or others:


GLAM / Wikipedia

Project Aims

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  • Creating or enhancing existing biographies of people and organizations whose papers are at the Wolfsonian
  • Creating or enhancing existing biographies of artists/authors.
  • Creating or enhancing existing entries about or related to Radcliffe College history.
  • Providing links to finding aids and digitized primary source material where possible throughout Wikipedia.


Articles to Work On

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  • add links to digitized materials
  • add list of fellows and research projects
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