Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Barn Raising 2014

Bay Area WikiProject Open Barn Raising
	Members of WikiProject Open got together online and in person to improve Wikipedia articles related to openness in education, on a Saturday in July 2014. Wikipedians of all experience levels attended. We started with an hour of instruction and questions, and worked on Wikipedia articles throughout the afternoon.

Event details

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Part of the Barn Raising team, in front of the virtual "barn" we built!

• Event: A Wikipedia "Barn Raising!" We worked to improve Wikipedia articles related to OER and openness in education.
• When & Where: Saturday July 19, 2014, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Pacific Time); Impact Hub, Oakland, and online
• Etherpad page (tool for real-time collaboration): etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OERBARN
• Hashtag for Twitter and social media: #oerbarn
• Join the wikiproject: WikiProject Open team

Progress of our "wiki barn"!

To prepare for the event

We look forward to having you! Please do the following ahead of time, if possible:

• If you do not already have a Wikipedia account, please create one.
• Consider what topics or articles you might want to work on. Review the existing articles, and their talk pages, to determine what kind of work might be needed; and add the article(s) to our list below.
• Reference materials, if you have them: books about education, bookmarks to important online resources, etc.
• If you have any relevant digital photos (that you have taken, or that you know are freely available for use on Wikipedia) that you would like to use on Wikipedia, have them ready for uploading.

If attending in person

• Bring a laptop if you can (we can provide a few if needed)
• Or, if you don't have any of the above, just bring yourself :-)

If participating online

• We welcome online participants from around the world. Our hub for collaboration is etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OERBARN. We also have a video feed.
• Please contact us on (on Pete's User Talk page or by email) if you are unable to participate, but would like to do something like this in the future.

Schedule & Notes

What	When	Video (full playlist)	Notes
Intro: Barn Raising & Writing Wikipedia Articles	11:00am	35 minutes
Lunch	12:15pm
Review who's in what group	12:45pm	8 minutes
First "State of the Barn" Check-in	1:30pm	5 minutes	Joyce created a user account Eugene started a discussion Terese made some minor edits/ grammar fixes to EdX Cable added material to OER Saehrimnir formated references
Second "State of the Barn" Check-in	2:30pm	7 minutes	Jade posted to Creative Commons talk page (weighing in on a bulk removal) and added Outline of open education to Categories:Outlines (thanks to Mike) Randolph has added a substantial amount of text to Open Access and made edits on a variety of articles Joyce added a section linking OER to other educational modes and movements to outline--adult ed, self-directed learning, distance ed, online ed, PLA (Prior Learning Assessment) Joyce renamed Outline of open education to Outline of open educational resources Bob created an OER category Terese added to EdX article in intro paragraph and research paragraph, plus 4 references Eugene fixed some references in EdX and copy-edited the text.
Wrap Up and Third "State of the Barn" Check-in	3:30pm	22 minutes	Rosa made some light edits and working on clarifying what constitutes as a MOOC and doesn't Jade added CC license compatibility chart to WikiCommons This is a license compatibility chart when you want to combine or mix two CC licensed works. Created by Kennisland published under a CC0 license. Added CC license compatibility chart to Creative Commons license#Adaptation -- anyone know off-hand and can format it better? Mike added a video about creating open ed. resources on OER Saehrimnir made category updates on numerous articles OER Africa Eugene implemented ideas on EdX Talk Page Bob got positive feedback from another user not involved in event See painted barn picture for more updates

Further event contribution notes

A few articles edited at the event not captured in the live updates above:

• User sandbox draft that with some more work can replace 20 Million Minds Foundation redirect.

• Mountain Heights Academy (new article)
• Udacity
• Open educational resources policy
• For good measure Tahitian Drumming

Some articles we may work on

This list will be honed by project participants in the run up to the event, with specific articles and sections identified beforehand. Please add your feedback and specific suggestions on the WikiProject talk page.

• Open educational resources (main article)
• Outline of open education
• Open education / open learning
• Open educational practices
• Open content
• Open textbooks
• MOOC
• OpenCourseWare
• Open Access
• Open educational resources policy
• Open license

More specific tasks at etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OERBARN.

Tips for new editors

• The Editing Wikipedia brochure (PDF) is a concise introduction.
• The Wikipedia Cheatsheet is a good reference for wiki markup code.
• Our School of Open "Writing Wikipedia Articles" (WIKISOO) course materials contain helpful information.