Wikipedia in Education

John Vandenberg & Chris Woodrich

john.vandenberg@wikimedia.org.auchris_woodrich@hotmail.com

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1.Concepts2.Overview of Wikimedia in education3.Lontar project4.Two detailed case studies5.Q & A

John Vandenberg & Chris Woodrichjohn.vandenberg@wikimedia.org.auchris_woodrich@hotmail.com

This afternoonWe will show you how to contribute:1.English Wikipedia articles2.Photographs3.bahasa Indonesian Wikipedia articles..then..4.How academics should engage the Wikimedia community5. Q & A

John Vandenberg & Chris Woodrichjohn.vandenberg@wikimedia.org.auchris_woodrich@hotmail.com

Movement Values

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Openness & diversityTransparency Communityhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Values

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Community

Volunteers

Community

Wikimedia Foundation Employees

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Community

Chapters39 national non profit user organizations

Projects

Wikipedia

Projects

Wikimedia Commons

Projects

Wiktionary

Projects

Wikisource

Projects

Wikinews

Wikimedia = Free

•Free – libre – Creative Commons Share-alike http://freedomdefined.org/

•Free – no cost to users•Free – anyone can edit, no barrier to entry•Free – citizen run – democratic - anarchy•Free – freeform – no imposed structure

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“The sum of all knowledge, in all languages.”

Wikimedia scope:

12 years later …

10 million edits/month

Source: Wikimedia Monthly Report Card

Languages

Wikipedia in 285 languages

English: 4 million pagesIndonesian projects, with page count•Indonesian – 209,000•Aceh – 2,000•Banjar – 1,500•Banyumasan – 13,000•Bugis – 14,000•Jawa – 43,750•Melayu – 218,000•Minankabau – 5,000•Sunda – 17,500•Tetun - 775

Test projects•Balinese – 29•Batak Toba – 18•Hulontalo – 9•Madura – 38•Selayar – 10

Wikimedia in Education

It is used in primary school, middle school, high school, undergraduate, postgraduate, ...

with … or without … you.

“I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste. Thank you!”

USA

GLAM WIKIGalleries Library And

Museum

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapolis_Welcome_Center.jpg

IT@School: Malayalam articles

India: Anchal

Argostoli Evening High School:The island of Kefalonia

Greece

1.Catalog of all edible species2.Photographs of every village on the island

“European cuisine” workshop

Czech

Each student brought cookies to the event to share, uploaded photographs to Wikimedia Commons, and improved articles about their countries cuisine

“Bebaskan Pengetahuan”:10 Universitas

Indonesia

Wikimedia-Lontar for Indonesian writers

Chris Woodrich

Licensed CC-BY-SA

The Participants

Wikimedia Indonesia

•Wikimedia chapter in Indonesia•Supports Wikipedias in multiple languages

Indonesian Javanese Banyumasan Etc.

Lontar Foundation

•Non-profit•Established in 1987•Focused on preserving, improving recognition of, and spurring developments in Indonesian literature•Extensive work in translation and anthology

Licensed CC-BY-SA

The Project

•Goal: 300 new articles (ID and EN) on Indonesian writers, translators of Indonesian literature, and topics related to Indonesian literature•All article created: minimum 200 words, five references•Articles written by Lontar staff, based on online references and those available in the Lontar library•Seven participants from Lontar

Licensed CC-BY-SA

Training

•Training provided in Indonesian and English by Wikimedia Indonesia and Creative Commons Indonesia over a period of two months•Training included:

Formatting Writing Copyright Community Images

Licensed CC-BY-SA

Training

Licensed CC-BY-SA

Photo: Mulwardi

Differences between communities

•Indonesian Wikipedia =/= English Wikipedia Copyright Deletion Notability Level and intensity of discussion

•Workarounds

Licensed CC-BY-SA

Results•Numerous articles created, some as a result of collaboration between Lontar staff and Wikimedians•Referencing and length in accordance with target•Articles created (EN) include:

Licensed CC-BY-SA

Eka Budianta Iwan Simatupang Arifin C. Noer Agam Wispi Linus Suryadi AG Kwee Tek Hoay

•Siti Rukiah•Djenar Maesa Ayu•Armijn Pane•Indonesian exile literature

Example result

Licensed CC-BY-SA

Example result

Licensed CC-BY-SA

Australia

University of Queensland & AustLit: Research methods

•The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties•Charles Henry Chomley•James Crawford (Playwright)•Pamela Crawford

Australia

University of Queensland & AustLit: Research methods

Australia

University of Sydney : Sociology & social policy students

India:“Throughout the human civilization, India was the manufacturing powerhouse of the world contributing to more than quarter of world manufacturing and GDP till the middle of 18th century. But in the later half of 18th century, India underwent political turmoil and Europeans (mainly British) got an opportunity to become political masters. During their rule, British economic policies were targeted towards weakening of the craft guilds, enforcing pro-British trade policies and banning production of many products & commodities in India. The process of deindustrialization was very rapid in India and within 120 years of British Raj (1750-1870), share of Indian GDP in global GDP reduced to one-eighth of global GDP and further to one-twenty-fifth in next 80 years (1870-1950).”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindustrialization#India

Australia

University of Sydney : Sociology & social policy students

Japan:“A notable event began in the 1990s as the economy of Japan suddenly stagnated after three decades of tremendous economic growth. This could be construed as directly linked to deindustrialization, as this phenomenon began to be recognized in developed countries of the world around this same time. However, Japan had larger economic problems, the effects of which can still be seen in the country's low economic growth today. According to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2008), deindustrialization is occurring in Japan. However, although industrial employment as a percentage of total employment has dropped over the last couple of decades in Japan, total employment has not.[citation needed] Unemployment was fairly low at 3.5% in 2007 (CIA World Factbook 2008) and the economy is relatively stable. Literature (Matsumoto 1996) has stated that the service sector has been expanding and providing jobs for those that have been displaced from industry. Strong union membership has also played a role in keeping employment rates stable. Although outsourcing and industrial decline may contribute to job loss in industry, the shift in modern economies from industry to service may help reduce negative effects..”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindustrialization#Japan

Australia

Peer 2 Peer Universityhttps://p2pu.org/