Wikipedia and Higher Education: beat them or join them? Dr Martin Poulter The Economics Network / DeSTRESS project / TRUE project / METAL project Director.

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Wikipedia and Higher Education: beat them or join them? Dr Martin Poulter The Economics Network / DeSTRESS project / TRUE project / METAL project Director at large Wikimedia UK

“Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”

Wikimedia projects Free content Charitable Volunteer-run Multilingual

“Bronchial anatomy” by Patrick J. Lynch via Wikimedia Commons. CC-BYPatrick J. Lynch via Wikimedia Commons

Some statistics 1,000,000,000 edits so far >400 million visitors per month – Aiming for 1 billion per month by 2015 Nearly 100,000 active registered editors 10 million files (images, audio, video)

Wikipedia >17,000,000 total articles – 3,634,844 articles in English 3,270 are Featured Articles 5 million hits per day on English Wikipedia main page More than 270 Wikipedias Image by user He!ko on Wikimedia CommonsImage by user He!ko on Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA

Featured articles: 5000 pages Art project by Rob Matthews, Brighton

Wikipedia culture Be Bold Revert Discuss

Meanwhile, in HE 2699 words

The Wikipedia legal blurb 983 words, mostly spelling out the CC-BY-SA licence 469 words aimed at contributors 482 words aimed at re-users

The power of the network Cartoon by XKCD, CC-BY-NChttp://xkcd.com/214/ Applies to contribution as well as consumption

UKOER alphabet soup OSIER FETLAR JORUM CORE OTTER UNICYCLE TIGER DeSTRESS PHORUS CETIS XERTE SCORE

Wikipedia behind-the-scenes WP:GLAM WP:CONTRIBUTE WP:FEEDBACK Wikiproject Psychology Wikiproject Medicine Hematology-Oncology Task Force Self and Identity Task Force WP:BACKLOG Wikiproject Novels Wikiproject Military History Wikiproject Somerset Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors

One user interface “Build it and they will come” vs. “Put it where people will look for it”

Our options? Ignore Recognise Learn from Co-operate Partner Beat them Join them

Wikimedia → UKOER: suggestions Make Wikimedia files searchable in cross-search tools Identify Featured Content in Wikiversity/Wikibooks and make it visible in catalogues/ search. Facilitate educational assignments that have open content as output. Tolerate more risk.

UKOER → Wikimedia: suggestions Create Wikiversity views of UKOER content Content partnership: bulk dumps of content into Wikimedia Reviews of Wikiversity content & practice to identify strengths & flaws Set up a Wikiproject within WP or WV?

American Library Association wartime poster remixed by Brian Moore, Brianmooremedia.com Martin infobomb.org