Presentation to instruction librarians at LOEX 2013.

1. Wikipedia
as
an
Authen/c
Learning
Space
Michele
Van
Hoeck
California
State
University
Mari/me
May
3,
LOEX
2013,
Nashville

2. LIB100:
Informa/on
Fluency
in
the
Digital
Age
Cri/cal
Thinking
Compu/ng
Research
Skills

3. Piloted
Spring
2012:
Students
contribute
1000
words
to
a
Wikipedia
ar/cle

4. Authen/c
Audience?
Photo detail from Life Magazine, 1952

5. Authen/c
Audience
• Other
than
teacher
• In
conjunc/on
with
task
that
fills
genuine
need
• Examples
from
our
Faculty
Learning
Community:
– Economics:
Elec/on
debate
– Engineering:
Designing
&
building
solar
charger

6. Fall
2010
Public Policy
Initiative
23 institutions,
40 courses
Spring
2013
2011-2012
22 to 42
institutions per
semester

7. Tramp
trade
(before)
A"er:
hZp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?/tle=Tramp_trade&oldid=488770944

8. Who
Uses
Wikipedia?
• Project
Informa/on
Literacy:
75%
of
college
students
use
Wikipedia
at
least
occasionally
for
school
assignments
(2010)
• Pew
Research
Center:
69%
of
Internet
users
with
a
college
degree
(2011)

9. Wikipedia
Part
Of
The
‘Informa8on
Ecosystem’
Of
Academia
Chronicle
of
Higher
Educa2on
op-­‐ed,
2011

10. Wikipedia
=
Uncreden/aled
Authors
(ogen
anonymous)
Scholarly
Values
Wikipedia

11. WIKI
=
“QUICK”
IN
HAWAIIAN

12. Peer
Review
=
Not
Quick

13. Common
Value:
Reliable,
cited
sources
• Scholarly,
primary
sources
• Cita/ons
Tradi/onal
Scholarship
• Books,
news
(secondary
sources)
• Cita/ons
Wikipedia

14. Common
Value:
Peer
Review
• Creden/aled
reviewers
Tradi/onal
Scholarship
• Amateur
reviewers
Wikipedia

15. Extreme
Transparency

16. Core
Content
Policies
1. Wikipedia:Verifiability
2. Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
3. Wikipedia:No_original_research

17. Wikipedia:Verifiability
Sources
should
be:
• Reliable:
fact
checking,
editorial
oversight
• Third-­‐party:
unaffiliated
with
subject
• Published:
archived
copy
must
exist

18. Third-­‐Party
vs.
Self-­‐published

19. Wikipedia
Under
the
Hood
image from WikiMedia Commons, by Wikipedia User CZmarlin

20. Tour
Summary
• History
=
contributors,
pub
dates
• Talk
page
=
“the
scholarly
conversa/on”
• Categories
=
semi-­‐controlled
vocabulary
• WikiProjects
=
amateur
peer
review
• Ar/cle
Ra/ngs
• User
Page
=
author
CV
• Sandbox
=
personal
workspace

21. Ar/cle
Ra/ngs
• Featured
Ar/cle
(FA)
:
<.1%
• Good
Ar/cle
(GA)
• B
• C
• Start
• Stub
These need the most work

22. WikiProject
“To-­‐Do/Brag”
List
• Found
on
most
WikiProject
pages
• Organizes
ar/cles
by
quality
and
importance
• Follow
number
links
to
find
stub
ar/cles

23. Iden/fying
your
Wikipedia
Project
Stub-­‐
or
Start-­‐
Class
Ar/cles
Good
coverage
in
third-­‐party
reliable
sources

24. Student
Reflec/on:
Original
Perspec/ve
of
Wikipedia
Topic
Wikipedia
General
Informa/on
Search
Terms
Internet
Search

25. New
Perspec/ve
Topic
Wikipedia
General
Informa/on
Search
Terms
Internet
Search
My Brain
Research
Article
Contribution

26. Yacht
racing
Fails Wikipedia’s copyright policy

27. Assessing the 2012 pilot

28. Project Information Literacy
A large-scale study about early adults and their research habits
Day
ager
Gradua/on
Study
(2012)

29. “Going
Deeper”
with
research
Persistence
reflected
by:
– Variety
of
sources
– Itera/ve
process

30. Assessment
Data
for
pilot
• Research
prac/ces
• Cita/on
analysis
• Student
survey

31. Most
Inconvenient
Library
Service?
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32. ILL
requests
per
student
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33. Average
variety
=
3
source
types
per
ar/cle
64%
of
student
sources
for
Wikipedia
ar/cles
were
books

34. Student
Survey
How
did
researching
and
wri/ng
for
public
Wikipedia
audience
impact
the
quality
of
your
work?
Was
researching/wri/ng
for
a
public
audience
enjoyable?
Uncomfortable?
Something
else?

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36. Pisalls/Challenges
• Public
audience
may
be
in/mida/ng
• Finding
a
stub
can
be
frustra/ng
• Encyclopedic
style
typical
college
paper
• Notability
a
tough
requirement
(esp.
for
small
companies,
new
technologies)

37. Edi8ng
on
Wikipedia
ACRL
Informa8on
Literacy
Standard
Iden/fying
ar/cles
that
need
work
1
Loca/ng
reliable
secondary
sources
and
news
2
Dis/nguishing
between
third
party
and
self-­‐published
sources
3
Synthesis
and
summary
of
mul/ple
sources
4
Documen/ng
sources
using
in-­‐line
cita/ons
and
consistent
cita/on
style;
loca/ng
public
domain
and
Crea/ve
Commons-­‐licensed
images
5

38. Smaller
Assignments
• Recommend
and
summarize
poten/al
sources
on
Talk
pages
of
underdeveloped
ar/cles
• Compare
and
evaluate
Wikipedia
ar/cles
with
subject-­‐specific
encyclopedia
• Create
graphics/images
for
Wikimedia
Commons

39. QUESTIONS?

40. Sources
Bruff,
Derek.
“A
Social
Network
Can
Be
a
Learning
Network.”
The
Chronicle
of
Higher
Educa2on
(2011).
Retrieved
from
hZp://chronicle.com/ar/cle/A-­‐Social-­‐Network-­‐Can-­‐
Be-­‐a/129609/
Grathwohl,
Casper.
“Wikipedia
Comes
of
Age.”
Chronicle
of
Higher
Educa2on
57,
no.
20
(2011):
B2.
Head,
Alison.
“How
Today’s
College
Students
Use
Wikipedia
for
Course-­‐related
Research.”
First
Monday
15,
no.
3
(2010),
hZp://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/
ojs/index.php/fm/ar/cle/view/2830/2476.
Head,
Alison
J.
Learning
Curve:
How
College
Students
Solve
Informa2on
Problems
Once
They
Join
the
Workplace.
Sonoma,
CA:
Project
Informa/on
Literacy,
2012,
hZp://
projec/nfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_fall2012_workplaceStudy_FullReport.pdf
Zickuhr,
Kathleen
and
Lee
Rainie.“Wikipedia,
Past
and
Present.”
Pew
Internet
and
American
Life
Project
(2011).
Retrieved
from
hZp://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/
2011/Wikipedia.aspx.