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Presentations/Workshops edit

WNYC+Nancy@SXSW - 14 March 2018.

"Teaching with Wikipedia." CTLET Wikipedia Initiative, York College, CUNY. 22 February 2018.

“WP NYC College Educators Nework” - LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. 07 October 2014.

“Teaching About Wikipedia.” Professional Development Day, City College of New York Library. 28 May 2014.

“Crowdsourcing Information Worldwide: The Wikipedia Phenomenon.” Rutgers University Libraries. New Brunswick, NJ. 25 October 2011.

“Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Leveraging Library Expertise and Collections in the Wikipedia Environment.” METRO. 27 September 2011. Workshop overview:

Selected readings:


"Wikipedia in the Classroom" - CUNY IT Conference 2009 - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Dec. 4, 2009

  • Open Education at CUNY
  • What free resources online are not yet being fully explored by educators? How can we can develop new ways of teaching and creating content?
  • Students report a disconnect between classroom practices and integration of educational technology. See recent CDW study: http://newsroom.cdwg.com/features/feature-11-02-09.html
  • Wikipedia & Education - some common goals: free, community-driven, collaboration, citation, engagement, publicity...
  • We need to start thinking about making use of this highly public, freely accessible resource. Some examples:
  • Wikipedia: School and University Projects - Suggested exercises, descriptions of current projects in a range of classes.
  • Wikipedia: WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem - The University of British Columbia's class SPAN312 ("Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation") contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. The goals of this highly successful project were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project's end, they contributed three featured articles and eight good articles. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist.
  • Wikiversity
  • Some general ideas for classroom usage:
  • Analysis of an entry relevant to course content.
  • Supply missing references/citations to a relevant entry.
  • Extra credit ideas: improve a problematic entry or create a needed one.
  • Start conversations on the role of encyclopedias, comparison of information sources, citation issues, print vs. digital, authority, truth...


Wikipedia Demystified: Content, Coverage & Controversies
- LG Opening Sessions - Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - Presentation: slides

How to Edit/Contribute

Ideas for work that needs to be done

Bibliography edit

  • Books
  • Broughton, John . Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. O'Reilly books. Published January 2008. ISBN 978-0596515164. As available online in the form of a set of Wikipedia help pages.
  • Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture. New York: Doubleday/Currency, 2007. ISBN 9780385520812
  • Lih, Andrew. Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion. Published March 2009. ISBN 1401303714
  • Reagle, Joseph M. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010. ISBN 9780262014472 Web edition available.
  • Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 9780060839789
  • Selected Articles
  • Baker, Nicholson. “The Charms of Wikipedia”. Rev. of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, by John Broughton. New York Review of Books 20 Mar. 2008: n. pag. .
  • Black, Erik W. “Wikipedia and Academic Peer Review: Wikipedia as a Recognised Medium for Scholarly Publication?” Online Information Review 32.1 (2008): 73-88. ProQuest Platinum Periodicals.
  • Broidy, Ellen. “Gender and the Politics of Information: Reflections on Bringing the Library into the Classroom.” Library Trends 56.2 (2007): 494-508. ProQuest Platinum Periodicals.
  • Giles, Jim. “Internet Encyclopedias Go Head to Head.” Nature 15 Dec. 2005: 900-901. Web. ProQuest Platinum Periodicals.
  • Rector, Lucy Holman. “Comparison of Wikipedia and Other Encyclopedias for Accuracy, Breadth, and Depth in Historical Articles.” Reference Services Review 36.1 (2008): 7-22. EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service. .
  • Royal, Cindy, and Deepina Kapila. “What’s on Wikipedia, and What’s Not . . . ?: Assessing Completeness of Information.” Social Science Computer Review 27.1 (2009): 138-48. Sage Journals Online. .
  • Runciman, David. “Like Boiling a Frog” Rev. of The Wikipedia Revolution, by Andrew Lih. London Review of Books 28 May 2009: n. pag. .


  • Videos
  • Heavy Metal Umlaut, 10 February 2005, [08:29]. Jon Udell - From a few years ago, but still a great screencast that shows the life of a Wikipedia entry.
  • "Wikis in University Teaching and Learning - Richard Buckland FULT UNSW", 03 February 2009, The University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia [55:17] - Not covering use of Wikipedia specifically, but informative nonetheless. Professor Richard Buckland has been using wikis in his large class (100-500 students) teaching in Engineering and Computer Science since 2000. This video presentation covers these experiences and offers suggestions for other instructors.

More Resources edit

  • Deletionpedia - Archive of deleted entries.
  • WikiDashboard - Social dynamic analysis tool. Tracks editorial activity on individual entries.
  • Wikiscanner - Tracks anonymous edits from well known organizations.
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