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Iolanda Pensa, SUPSI Switzerland - iolanda.pensa@supsi.ch - http://iopensa.itThe role of scholars in contributing to Wikipedia, Paris, ECAS, 09/06/2015
The license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
Do YOU edit Wikipedia?
You should.
Wikimania 2012. Foto Helpameout, 2012, cc by-sa.
Iolanda Pensa, iopensa.I am part of the Wikimedia community. I have been editing Wikipedia as a volunteer since 2006. Professionally I have been scientific director of the project WikiAfrica between 2007 and 2012 and I am now researcher at SUPSI Switzerland. I am currently the lead of Wikimania 2016 Esino Lario, the Wikipedia world gathering in Italy, in a mountain village over Lake Como.
1. Why2. Open licenses3. Wikipedia Primary School
1. Why
Marc Augé’s non-placesAchille Mbembe’s borders
Jean-Loup Amselle’s connectionsHomi K. Bhabha’s location of culture
Arjun Appadurai’s cultural dimensions of globalizationSaskia Sassen’s global city
Yochai Benkler’s networked social production and open collaboration
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams’s Wikinomics
Maja van der Velden’s contact zone on Wikipedia
Mathieu O’Neil’s cyberchiefs
Heather Ford’s missing Wikipedians
Sarat Maharaj’s art and knowledge production
Tirdad Zolghadr’s approach to art and exhibitions
Steven Weber’s open source production
V.Y. Mudimbe’s invention of Africa
Michel Foucault’s power and knowledge
Edward Said’s Orientalism
Mark Graham’s Africa on Wikipedia
Frantz Fanon’s colonial violence and weight
We need to rewrite history Rasheed Araeen
Representations of Africa
Africa in public domain content (-early XX century) uploaded on Wikipedia
Self-representation
Sources
Licenses
Restitution
Sharing knowledge and problematic content which it is not easy to share (art from secret societies, human remains, content not contextualized…)
Dissemination of academic knowledge
Reaching the public
Background knowledgeHistoriography
Oral sourcesAvailability of sources
Access to sourcesAccess to data
Languages
Colonial and post-colonial archives
NichePower Control
Research ethics
Relationships with institutions and governmentsAcademic credits
Intercultural dialogueContemporary society
Geographic dynamics
HistoryGeographyAnthropology
Culture
AuthorshipInternet
Mobile phonesICTConnectivity
© Information Architects, Web Trand Map 2007/V2, 2007.
Wikipedia as a new continent, participating with a growing role in shaping culture and local cultures, and contributing to cultural processes.
Distribution of offline Wikipedia on DVD, USB key and in classrooms. Credits: Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
Wikipedia Zero. Access to Wikipedia on mobile phones for free.
Wikipedia editors. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
2. Open licenses
Creative Commons licenses.
“The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical: it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach and scale of the ideas we invest in…”
The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008
Chimurenga Library, 2007-2008. A project promoted by Chimurenga and supported by lettera27/WikiAfrica, GNU GPL / cc by-sa.
Far usare le licenze a istituzioni
Raccolte Extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco, Milano, 2012, Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.Raccolte civiche Extraeuropee, Castello Sforzesco, Milano. Images and catalogue on Wikimedia Commons while the collection was not online nor exhibited, 2012, cc by-sa.
The National Archives UK, Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge 2006-2012. Status report, 2013, cc by-sa. http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge/Institutions
Event: conference/training/workshop
Research
Archives
Wiki Loves Monuments
Notebooks (Detour, myDetour, WikiAfrica special editions)
Presentations and events
Creative Commons affiliate
Orange and Orange Foundation (free Wikipedia on mobile phones)
Brooklyn MuseumFeed My Starving Children
International Institute for Communication and Development
Sustainable Sanitation AllianceHeinrich-Böll-StiftungAfricaFilms.tv
Western Province Government – Department of museums - 28 museums in Western Cape Province, South Africa, Bartolomeu Dias Museum, Beaufort-West Museum, Caledon Museum, Cango Caves Museum, Cape Medical Museum, CP Nel Museum, Drostdy Museum, Fransie Pienaar Museum, Genadendal Mission Museum, George Museum, Groot-Brakrivier Museum, Hout Bay Museum, Huguenot Memorial Museum, Jan Dankaert Museum, Koopmans De Wet House Museum, Montagu Museum, Old Harbour Museum, Paarl Museum, Robertson Museum, SA Fisheries Museum, Sendinggestig(Missionary)Museum, Shipwreck Museum, Simon's Town Museum, Stellenbosch Museum, Transport Riders Museum, Wellington Museum, Wheat Industry Museum, Worcester Museum
Gambia National Museum
Sungani Zakwathu Cultural Heritage PromotionsPostal Museum, Matengatenga, Malawi
Zanzibar National Museum
Phuthidikabo Museum, Mochudi, BotswanaSeychelles People Defense
Forces Museum (SPDF)
Uganda National Museum
Dataset of administrations in Botswana
The Africa Centre in Cape Town South Africa promoting “WikiAfrica: Increasing the the quality and quantity of African content on Wikipedia”.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School - April 2014
WIKIPEDIA PRIMARY SCHOOLProviding on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in the languages used by the different education systems.
RESEARCH PROBLEMThe research is developed within a Swiss-South African cooperation lead by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and the University of Cape Town, in partnership with Wikimedia Switzerland and the Africa Centre based in Cape Town, and with the support of SNF and the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).!Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator Switzerland), Tobias Schönwetter (principal investigator South Africa), Luca Botturi, Davide Fornari, Giancarlo Gianocca, Isla Haddow-Flood, Erica Litrenta, Giovanni Profeta, Kelsey Wiens.
Wikipedia is meant to be an educational tool and it is currently available online, via mobile phones and offline. Experiences have shown that, once accessible, Wikipedia does not provide information that responds directly to curriculum-based questions. The project relies on Wikipedia as an existing and growing resource, it solves the need for an encyclopedia capable of responding to curriculum-based questions, and it fosters Wikipedia content, quality and outreach.
THE PROJECT RESEARCH TEAMThe research project developed within a Swiss-South African cooperation (2014-2017) focuses on the theoretical frame of Wikipedia Primary School and in developing and evaluating a system to assess Wikipedia articles for primary education and to involve a wide network of scholars and contributors in their production. !More specifically the project aims at:!1. Bridging Wikipedia and primary education. This objective
implies to move the Wikipedia community towards a focus on primary education, and at the same time to strengthen the capacity of the education ecosystem to contribute to Wikipedia, and in general to open collaborative knowledge.
2. Enriching Wikipedia with new content relevant to primary education. This objective implies an assessment of the articles produced.
3. Fostering the development of translations and new content in different Wikipedia linguistic editions. This objective implies the release of existing educational resources (OER in cc by or cc by-sa), the production of datasets and the involvement of the Wikimedia movement.
4. Verifying and evaluating the use of Wikipedia as a source of information for primary education. This objective implies the involvement of stakeholders and data analysis.
Wikipedia Primary School contributes to universal primary education and to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG2: Achieve Universal Primary Education). Even if it is scalable and international, the project is conceived primarily to address African countries and languages.
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1. Edit Wikipedia.2. Use the open license cc by-sa on your content (photos, articles, your bachelor thesis…).3. Review articles related to your expertise and suggest bibliography and improvements.4. Ask your students to contribute to Wikipedia as an assignment.5. Involve scientific journals in creating “Wikipedia sessions”.
Share Your Knowledge
cc by-sa, 2015.Iolanda Pensa, SUPSI Switzerland - iolanda.pensa@supsi.ch - http://iopensa.it
DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
Iolanda Pensa (SUPSI)The role of scholars in contributing to Wikipedia
The role of scholars in contributing directly or indirectly to Wikipedia is extremely important. Scholars can write, share and review content related to Africa with a specific expertise which is not largely available at present among the Wikipedia community. They can suggest how to improve articles, they can involve students in writing and translating content as an assignment (which avoids plagiarism from Wikipedia and teaches students how Wikipedia works), they can produce articles for Wikipedia sessions of scientific journals and releasing content under the open license Creative Commons attribution or Creative Commons attribution share alike. Acknowledging Wikipedia articles as contribution to scientific journals is an increasing approach among academic publications; a well structured and complete article is not an original research, but it is more and more widely recognized as a complex and valuable contribution supporting original research, making it understandable to hundreds of thousands of readers, and facilitating further studies with relevant references; articles on scientific journals (commonly published in a specific journal session) attribute the article to its authors whereas the article on Wikipedia attributes the role to the publication and its reviewers (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Scientific_Journal/References).This presentation is based on the experience of WikiAfrica (http://www.wikiafrica.net), Share Your Knowledge (a project involving 100 institutions in contributing to African content on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects by releasing documentation under open licenses), "Mobile A2K: Culture and Safety in Africa" (with research documentation such as 4000 images of public art in Douala between 1991 and 2013 made available on the Wikimedia projects (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mobile_A2K), of 4 years of teaching experience and Wikipedia assignments at NABA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/NABA) and on the research project Wikipedia Primary School (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_programme).
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glam_Wiki_meeting_at_Museum_of_Lodz_3.jpg
Writing an article on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
Correcting a mistake on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
Adding text to an article on Wikipedia. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
© Chacho Pueble, his great-aunt and photos by his sister Lula, http://www.behance.net/gallery/Grandmother-Tips/2392946.
Spacial distribution of edits for Wikipedia in English. Erik Zachte, May 2011, cc by-sa.
Artwork: © Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2000 in Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora. Commissioned by and courtesy Museum for African Art NY.
Chris Harrison, WikiViz, 2006.
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© Tsesler & Voichenko, Welcome, Minsk, Road sign.
Contemporary African art
Permissions - Wikimedia Commons <permissions-commons@wikimedia.org>
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK [ insert link ].
I agree to publish that work under the free license Creative Commons attribution share-alike 3.0.
I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product, and to modify it according to their needs.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.
I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and I reserve the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc.I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
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The license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
People and institutions do not need to become Wikipedias to contribute.
Chimurenga Library, 2007-2008. A project promoted by Chimurenga and supported by lettera27/WikiAfrica, GNU GPL / cc by-sa.
Raccolte Extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco, Milano, 2012, Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.Raccolte civiche Extraeuropee, Castello Sforzesco, Milano. Images and catalogue on Wikimedia Commons while the collection was not online nor exhibited, 2012, cc by-sa.
The National Archives UK, Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.
“The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical: it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach and scale of the ideas we invest in…”
The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008
Reviews
Mounir Fatmi, Les connexions, 2003-2004, installation
© Tsesler & Voichenko, Welcome, Minsk, Road sign.
© Mounir Fatmi, G8 Les balais, 2004, installation.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Segundo_Editatón_Soumaya_Abierto_-_Dia_dos_-_35.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QRpedia_codes_in_Silesian_Museum_Opava_03.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archeowiki_-_Raccolte_Extraeuropee_01.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QR_Code,_Museum_für_Hamburgische_Geschichte_IMG_1607_original.jpg
L’Herbarium di Neuchâtel e Wikipedia
Jason Grant, conservatore degli erbari, Università di Neuchâtel
DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Cariplo on Wikipedia in Italian, 09/2011, CC BY-SA.
2006 Harvard University
2012 George Washington University
2009 Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires
2015 VasconcelosLibrary, Mexico City
2008 Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
2011 Haifa Auditorium Complex, Israel
2013 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2007 Youth Center Taipei2016 The entire village of Esino Lario, Lake Como area, Italy
2014 Barbican Centre in London
2010 Polish Baltic Philharmonic, Gdańsk
2005 Youth Hostel Frankfurt, Germany
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Esino Lario, un comune montano delle Alpi in Provincia di Lecco, Regione Lombardia, Italia.
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Il raduno mondiale di Wikipedia nel 2016 è a Esino Lario.
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Primary school
Multimedia room museum Bar restaurant 58 Theatre of the Kindergarten Former Hotel Italia
Bar restaurant Oasi
Bar restaurant Centrale
Meeting
Bar restaurant Montanina
Collaborative space
City hall
Montecodeno
Former cinema
Bar La sosta
Sport Hall
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