From Opportunities to Outcomes: The Wikipedia-Based Writing Assignment

It Takes a Village to Combat a Fake News Army: Wikipedia’s Community and Policies for Information Literacy

“…Researchers have already argued that Wikipedia community-driven practices can be leveraged for educational purposes—especially in terms of critical media literacy (Cummings, 2009; Jiang & Vetter, 2019; Nelson, 2018; Vetter, 2018; Vetter et al, 2019). What we suggest here is that community-driven policies and the procedures following the enactment of those policies need to be better understood and explored beyond traditional models of education.…”

“…Recent research (Dawe & Robinson, 2017; Kamenetz, 2017; Oliver, 2015; Vetter et al, 2019) illustrates that students who engage with Wikipedia and its community are experiencing information literacy in much more effective ways, learning the necessary skills to combat misinformation and recognize valid information sources. While many students expressed having perceived the space as unreliable prior to editing Wikipedia (as they have been told “don’t use it”), their perception shifted through interaction with Wikipedia and the community, showing more trust in the reliability of Wikipedia as an information source.…”

“…Not only does participating in the Wikipedia community assist in learning digital/information literacy, critical research, teamwork, and technology skills, but students also reported pride in their work, spending more time, and more satisfaction with their class assignment than with traditional writing assignments. More than just learning topics and skills, they were motivated by their participation in a self-policing community dedicated to representing valid and verifiable information (Vetter et al, 2019). While such research has primarily focused on applications of Wikipedia-based assignments in formal educational contexts, such opportunities are also available to the broader public as they visit, read, interact with, and edit the encyclopedia.…”

“…As the largest open educational resource in the world, Wikipedia is inherently pedagogical. Research on Wikipedia-based education has already demonstrated that academics can leverage the encyclopedia to teach toward outcomes related to information literacy, research, writing, and digital literacy, among others (Cummings & DiLauro, 2017; Garrison, 2015; Konieczny, 2012; Reilly, 2011; Roth et al, 2013; Vetter et al, 2019). Yet Wikipedia also serves the public beyond the classroom as readers and editors interact with its policies for information analysis and knowledge curation.…”

FactGrid: adatbázis történészeknek

“…Miközben az egyetemi folklór része a Wikipédia-használat tiltottsága, 24 egyre több oktató fedezi fel, hogy az oldal irányelvei valójában igen hasonlóak a tudományos szövegek követelményeihez, sőt a Wikipédia-szerkesztés fejleszti a hallgatók írásés kutatási készségeit. 25 Emiatt számos egyetem kezdte beemelni a tananyagba a Wikipédia-szerkesztést, például szemináriumi feladatok szintjén. 26 Ennek mintájára megfontolandó a FactGrid alkalmazása az egyetemi oktatásban is: használatával a diákok a jövőben elengedhetetlen digitális bölcsészeti szoftvereket tanulhatnak meg kezelni, köztük a Wikipédiát működtető MediaWikit is, és elsajátíthatják a közösségi munkát, illetve azt a szemléletet, amely a tudást és a kultúrát közkincsnek tekinti.…”