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Quality Control in Wikipedia
Event details
Date:Monday, 4 March 2019
Time12-2pm
Where:room 102 below the Rotunda
SlidesQuality Control in Wikipedia
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Truth and Evidence in Academic Research is a University of Virginia Seminar series presented by the Provost office. On Monday 4 March 2019 user:bluerasberry will present "Quality Control in Wikipedia", a lecture and workshop in this series. This is a private event for students in the class and invited guests.

Preparation

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  1. Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
  2. please sign in so that your instructor can find your account name and the article you edited
  3. Bring your device to the event. Wiki's editing interface is best on non-mobile display.

Program

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0:00-0:05 - Welcome
0:05-0:30 - Quality Control in Wikipedia
0:30-0:35 - review of class readings
0:35-0:50 - Discussion, questions
0:50-1:00 - Tutorial on data science, Wikidata, and feminism
1:00-1:30 - editing, everyone edits wiki and becomes a structured data expert
1:30-1:45 - participant show and tell
1:45-2:00 - editing wrap up, open discussion, thx

Wikidata editing exercise

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  1. Do "preparation" above
  2. navigate to a list of people
    1. Albemarle and Charlottesville people
    2. women with a UVA affiliation
    3. African Americans with a UVA affiliation
  3. click the name of a person
  4. "add statement"
  5. Consider adding any of these
    1. Occupation
    2. country of citizenship
    3. Ethnicity (requires citation)
    4. Sexual orientation (requires citation)
    5. Employer
    6. description
    7. Educated at

Required reading

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  • Filipacchi, Amanda (24 April 2013). "Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists". The New York Times.
  • Colón-Aguirre, Mónica; Fleming-May, Rachel A. (November 2012). ""You Just Type in What You Are Looking For": Undergraduates' Use of Library Resources vs. Wikipedia". The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 38 (6): 391–399. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2012.09.013.
  • Nelson, Robert; Jacobs, Heidi (1 August 2017). "History, Play, and the Public: Wikipedia in the University Classroom". The History Teacher. pp. 483–500.

Supplementary wiki reading

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Contact

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  • Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry) for Wiki issues
  • Meridith Wolnick, Director, Teaching & Learning at the University of Virginia Library
  • Bethany Mickel, Librarian, University of Virginia Library
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