Presentation by Brian Kelly, UKOLN on 25 October 2012 for an Open Access Week event at the University of Exeter 1 Session facilitated by Brian Kelly and Simon Grant, Cetis at the Cetis 2014 conference: Building the Digital Institution Open Knowledge: Wikipedia and Beyond Event hashtag: #cetis14
Slides for a workshop session on "Open Knowledge: Wikipedia and Beyond" facilitated by Brian Kelly and Simon Grant, Cetis at the Cetis 2014 conference at the University of Bolton on 17-18 June 2014.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/cetis-2014-open-knowledge-wikipedia-and-beyond/
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Presentation by Brian Kelly, UKOLN on 25 October 2012 for an Open Access Week event at the University of Exeter
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Session facilitated by Brian Kelly and Simon Grant, Cetis at the Cetis 2014 conference: Building the Digital Institution
• Innovation Advocate, Cetis, University of Bolton
Involvement in Wikipedia and Wikimedia UK:
• Created first article in 2004• Wikipedia training / edit-a-thons since
2013• Accredited Wikipedia trainer• Member of Wikimedia UK• Recent talks & workshops on:
Wikipedia in UK HE at EduWiki Serbia 2014
Wikipedia for librarians, Cilip Wales Wikipedia for researchers, SpotOn 2013
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About the Facilitators (2)
Simon Grant:
• Senior Researcher and Learning Technology Advisor, Cetis, University of Bolton (0.5)
• http://www.simongrant.org/home.html
Involvement, not in Wikipedia, but “beyond”:
• E-portfolio-related since 1995 – book 2009• Standardization (& Cetis) since 2002• Skills (and values) since 2004• InLOC (skill etc. frameworks) 2011 – 2013• Extensive experience of consensus working in
Wikipedia is great resource for open education, but what challenges need to be faced to make it into an even more valuable educational resource? It remains the most significant encyclopaedic reference based in user generated content which seeks to develop an “open commons” based on consensus approaches and use of Wikipedia’s “Five pillars” principles which includes content being provided from a neutral point of view.
Participants with no experience of Wikipedia editing will be invited to create a Wikipedia user profile, and to understand the basics of creating and editing Wikipedia content. Experienced Wikipedia editors will have the option of sharing a lightning talk on what they consider to be its most significant challenges.
The session presenters’ view of the challenges includes a skewed demographic of editors, and a culture that can too easily descend into edit wars, and conflict between “inclusionists” and “deletionists”. Can we envisage changes to make Wikipedia better, or that could seed a better alternative? Could aspiring editors be required to learn and prove their understanding of the governance principles before being allowed to edit? Can consensus process be trained? And would different approaches such as those taken by GitHub, the P2P Foundation, etc. help to improve the culture?
The session will raise awareness of the key issues with Wikipedia, and prepare participants for more effective use of Wikipedia as consumer and author, and perhaps even as reformer.
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About You
In brief:• Give your name, institution and area
of work• Summarise what you’d like to gain
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Anyone interested in giving a brief talk today?
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Draft Timetable Subject to changeTime Session
Wikipedia: Opportunities and Challenges
13.30 Introduction
13.40 About you
14.00 Opportunities provided by Wikipedia
14.30 Identifying and addressing the challenges
15.00 Coffee break
Beyond Wikipedia
15.45 Introduction
16.00 Open knowledge & open governance
16.45 Review
17.00 Session finishes
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About You
Who:• Has a Wikipedia account?• Created a user profile?• Updated an article?• Created an article?
Key Principles for Content (2)Neutral Point of ViewContent should be provided from a neutral point of view:
• If your viewpoint is in the majority, then it should be easy to substantiate it with reference to commonly accepted reference texts;
• If your viewpoint is held by a significant minority, then it should be easy to name prominent adherents;
• If your viewpoint is held by an extremely small minority, then — whether it's true or not, whether you can prove it or not — it doesn't belong in Wikipedia, except perhaps in some ancillary article.
This presentation, “Open Knowledge: Wikipedia and Beyond” by Brian Kelly, Cetis is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 LicenceNote the licence covers most of the text in this presentation. Quotations may have other licence conditions. Images may have other licence conditions. Where possible links are provided to the source of images so that licence conditions can be found.
Slides and further information available athttp://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/cetis-2014-open-knowledge-wikipedia-and-beyond/