Submissions:2025/Faculty Experiences Teaching with Wikipedia
This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2025.
Title:
- Faculty Experiences Teaching with Wikipedia
Type of session:
- Edit-a-thons or Workshops (30-120 min)
Session theme(s):
- Credibility, Missing pieces, Future of Wikipedia
Abstract:
Since 2010, Wiki Education has collaborated with hundreds of faculty and thousands of student editors at post secondary institutions across the United States and Canada to edit Wikipedia. To date, this project trains students in Wikipedia policies, potentially recruits new editors, and creates useful, reliable articles, enhancing the encyclopedia's quality.
In this session, we’ll hear from faculty across disciplines on their experiences teaching with the Wikipedia assignment. Brianda Felix, Wikipedia Expert at Wiki Education will moderate the session and provide an overview of the Student Program. Ximena Gallardo C. is a Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College. David Cregar is a Clinical Professor of Expository Writing at New York University. Malavika Shetty is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Boston University. Jennifer Jones is an instructor of Art History at Westchester Community College. Tony Wilson is a Professor of Biology at Brooklyn College.
As budding editors of Wikipedia, students join the ranks of a global community dedicated to open access to high quality knowledge for all. We’ll explore how the Wikipedia assignment teaches students how to engage in collaborative, open-source knowledge production, how it raises their awareness of systemic bias in the knowledge landscape, and how the project can highlight issues of knowledge equity and information access on Wikipedia. We’ll discuss insights on how the assignment enhances the relevancy of Wikipedia to a younger generation and how they develop a sense of digital citizenship as they learn about the global impact their editing has on the largest, most-read reference source in the world.
Author name(s):
Wikimedia username(s):
Affiliated organization(s):
- Wiki Education Foundation
Estimated length of session
- 60 mins
Will you be presenting remotely?
- I will present in-person
Okay to livestream?
- Livestreaming is okay
Previously presented?
Special requests:
- LiAnna Davis received a greenlight from Jamie Flood to submit our panel proposal with a 60 min time slot. Thank you for making this happen!