Dr Martin Poulter, Wikipedia and higher education

Wikipedia is a wiki website that allows any visitor to edit or amend pages using a normal web browser. It has over 25 million pages and over 500 million edits. Studies have found Wikipedia to be as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica for science entries. While controversial topics can attract vandalism, the transparent editing history allows pages to be reverted and balanced discussions of different viewpoints to emerge.

This session presented as a webinar for the Australian School Library Association is an opportunity for educators to learn about how Wikipedia works to realise its position as a ‘neutral compilation of verifiable, established facts.’ Participants will consider what information literacy education looks like in 2015, and how Wikipedia projects provide a way to move from a consumer to creator culture of learning.

The document discusses a wiki called the Boise Wiki, which allows anyone to edit and contribute information about the history and resources of Boise, Idaho. It explains what a wiki is, provides examples like Wikipedia and the Davis Wiki, and encourages readers to edit the Boise Wiki themselves to help share and document local history as a democratic community effort. The document believes everyone should feel empowered to participate in recording and spreading historical knowledge.

Why Wikipedia is Important to the Future of the Arabic Language Internet ArabNet Digital Summit 2012, March 27 - 31. Forum Day II, March 30, "Why Wikipedia is Important to the Future of the Arabic Language Internet"; Barry Newstead, Cheif Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0 license This presentation is available for download and sharing through the following link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barry_Arabnet_Digital_Summit_Beirut-29March2012.pdf

John Cummings is the Wikimedian in Residence for the Science Museum and Natural History Museum. His role is to educate people about Wikimedia projects, teach people how to contribute, help improve articles related to the museums, and find ways for the museum to use open knowledge projects. Wikipedia is a free, web-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit and is written collaboratively under Creative Commons licensing. It has over 16 million freely usable media files and serves around 500 million people per month. The Wikimedia Foundation oversees various Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia.

This document discusses opportunities for cultural heritage institutions like museums, libraries, and archives to partner with Wikipedia. It outlines Wikipedia's uniqueness as the 5th most visited site worldwide that is volunteer-driven and non-profit. Reasons for institutions to partner include meeting information demands, attracting new audiences, and reviewing publicly available information. Challenges include losing control and prestige as well as rights management issues. The document then provides examples of successful partnerships between institutions and Wikipedia through programs like Wikipedians in Residence. It concludes by discussing challenges and the importance of Wikipedia in furthering the open access movement.

This document summarizes key points from Clay Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations". It discusses how Wikipedia is an example of mass collaboration enabled by the internet. Wikipedia started as an experiment but grew rapidly due to its open editing model and spontaneous division of labor among contributors. While most edit only once, dedicated editors form a community and are motivated by various factors. The open model is enabled by real-time peer review that quickly undoes vandalism. Shirky argues wikis thrive on "wiki love" from their community rather than collectivism.

Introduction to Open Education (& OER), including Creative Commons. This presentation was made at a Learning & Teaching Forum focussing on MOOCs at the University of Liverpool

This document discusses guidelines for pharmaceutical companies and their employees editing Wikipedia articles. It advises that individuals rather than companies should make edits, using their own user names. Editors must declare any conflicts of interest relating to their employer. They should not directly edit articles about their own organizations but rather work with the Wikipedia community by suggesting edits on talk pages and requesting that others make changes. The guidelines emphasize transparency, neutrality, and working collaboratively with other editors.

The document discusses how to effectively work with Wikipedia by understanding its core values of being freely accessible, volunteer-written, community-curated knowledge without top-down control. It encourages readers to imagine a world where all of humanity can freely share knowledge and provides information on how to cite Wikipedia, evaluate articles, become an editor, and add references to help contribute to Wikipedia's goal.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia created through collective participation where anyone can edit articles. It aims to provide a summary of all human knowledge to everyone in their own language. It has over 500 million monthly users and is edited by volunteers. The Wikimedia Foundation supports the technology and servers but is not involved in article content. Volunteers discuss and debate articles to ensure reliability and accuracy and enforce policies to maintain a constructive environment.

Wikipedia is a top ten website that provides summaries of the sum of total human knowledge to 500 million monthly users in 286 languages. It is edited by volunteers and aims to allow everyone access to information in their own language through participation. Students can learn by editing pages rather than just reading them. The Wikimedia Foundation supports the technology and servers but is not involved in article content, while volunteers debate reliability and enforce policies through discussion pages and profile walls.

This document discusses Andy Mabbett and his role as a Wikipedian in Residence at various institutions. As a Wikipedian in Residence, his responsibilities include developing strategies to encourage staff training and public engagement to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. He assists with organizing editathons, mass image uploads, and ensuring metadata is included. The goal is to increase access to knowledge by contributing organizations' collections and making them available on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that allows people of all ages and backgrounds to add or edit articles, references, images, and other media. It contains a large amount of information on various topics, with each page including a title, subheadings, pictures, and references to provide context and ensure reliability. Key conventions include hyperlinks to other relevant pages, a sidebar with site navigation and suggestions, and talk pages where users can discuss article content and improvements.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It operates using wiki software, which allows users to freely edit and compose web page content through a web browser. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers worldwide and provides a quick understanding of various topics, though it should only be used as a starting point for research due to the lack of refereeing of articles. The goal of Wikipedia is to have 250,000 articles in every language spoken by at least 1 million people. It is funded through donations and operates on a non-profit basis.

Project Ben-Yehuda is a volunteer-based online library that aims to make Hebrew literature freely available. It was founded in 1999 and contains over 8,000 works by 250 authors. The project seeks to digitize public domain texts as well as some copyrighted texts, all edited by over 200 active volunteers. It receives 500,000 hits per month and supports research, education, and cultural preservation by providing unlimited free access to literature that would otherwise be inaccessible. The project addresses challenges through technology, outreach, and copyright negotiations to continue expanding access to the Hebrew corpus.

This document describes the process of designing a magazine cover and contents page. The author created draft sketches and templates in Photoshop to plan layouts before building the actual pages in InDesign. InDesign proved more useful than Photoshop for the task as it included tools tailored to organizing text and images across a page. Frames, grids, and layers helped the author strategically position all elements, and test cover designs were refined through techniques like blurring images and experimenting with fonts and backgrounds.

Este documento describe las fracturas óseas, incluyendo su definición, causas, signos y síntomas, cuidados de enfermería, tratamientos y procedimientos quirúrgicos. Las fracturas ocurren cuando se aplica demasiada presión a un hueso, rompiéndolo. Pueden ser causadas por caídas, accidentes, golpes directos u osteoporosis. Los signos incluyen deformidad, hinchazón, dolor y limitación de movimiento. El tratamiento implica inmovilización con yeso, férulas o cirug

The document discusses the student's media product, a magazine for their sixth form school. It summarizes the key conventions used, including a masthead, left sidebar, and barcode. The contents page includes varied fonts and pictures linked to article pages. The intended audience is sixth form students, and the magazine represents various social groups within the school. It would likely be distributed through the school or its website. Through constructing the magazine, the student learned Photoshop skills like adding lens flares and how to upload work to websites like Slideshare.

The document is a student attendance list for a Statistics course in the 2013/2014 academic year for the Islamic Education program. It contains the student identification numbers, names, and attendance records for 16 meetings across three semesters (Semester V-A, V-B, and V-C). A total of 59 students are listed along with their attendance marked with 1's for present and 0's for absent. Two additional documents provide the assignment scores and grades for students in Semester V-A.

This document discusses electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and the transition to mandatory eCQM reporting. It notes that the 2016 IPPS rule will require hospitals to submit 4 eCQMs beginning in 2016. Additional programs like Joint Commission and Outpatient Quality Reporting are also moving to require eCQMs. The document reviews the eCQM reporting process and considerations for eCQM selection. It provides an example of eCQM reporting for the VTE-3 measure and submission in the QRDA format. Looking ahead, value-based programs and the transition to consolidated quality programs through MACRA are discussed.

Музей Боевой славы в Макеевском профессиональном горном лицее. Музей создавался на протяжении 50 лет. К 9 мая 2012г. музей реконструировали Тягло Лидия Николаевна и Ердак Александр Прокофьевич.