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Wikis and Wikipedia

What is a wiki?. Software for collaborative editingGreat for creation of single documents as well as series of documents (pages)Requires only a web browserA very simple language (syntax)Easy to access history of changes (by document or user)Content is instantly published. What wikis can add to Blackboard?.

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Wikis and Wikipedia

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    1. Wikis and Wikipedia Imagine a world in which every single person is given the free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing. How? Nobody knows everything… ...but everyone knows something.

    2. What is a wiki? Software for collaborative editing Great for creation of single documents as well as series of documents (pages) Requires only a web browser A very simple language (syntax) Easy to access history of changes (by document or user) Content is instantly published

    3. What wikis can add to Blackboard? What can wikis offer? What are their uses? Support collaborative contribution to documents Enable students to add content to a shared page Provide a space students can use to publicly display and comment on information

    4. So what can I use the wikis for, exactly? Easily create simple websites Project development with peer review Group authoring Track a group project Data Collection Review classes & teachers Presentations

    5. Can we use those wikis now? Pitt will have it's own wiki soon, but there are many free wikis on the Web that can be used for any project and can be strarted in about 5 minutes: WikiEd, Wikiversity, EditThis.info, PeantutButterWiki, JotSpot, OddWiki, SeedWiki, Socialtext, WikiCities, and Wikispaces Wiki pages can be integrated with Blackboard by adding URL links into Blackboard courses - from the Course Menu or from different sections within the Blackboard course

    7. The most famous wiki: Wikipedia A freely licensed encyclopedia Free in the sense of copyleft: free as in free beer and free as in free speech Available in many languages Written by volunteers Neutrality as a bedrock principle

    8. Wikipedia Growth Wikipedia, founded January 15, 2001 has been growing at an exponential rate Today: over 100,000,000 English articles and gaining over 1,000 articles every day. Database size doubles every 16 weeks Wikipedia is larger than Britannica and Encarta combined, with quality close to Britannica Over 1,000,000 registered editors, over 20,000 active editors (editing every day) In Top 20 most popular sites (Alexa rank), expected to be in Top 10 within a year

    11. Wiki – so you can read it...

    12. Can Wikipedia be trusted? Recent Nature's study found it is almost as accurate as Britannica Same disclaimers as other encyclopaedias It's just a secondary source Use discussion page to ask for citations Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia

    13. Tips'n'tricks Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia Ask questions: Wikipedia:Reference desk - ask about anything Each article has a talk page – ask about the article Print the “Printable version” Cite properly: link to stable versions

    14. Wiki – ... and you can edit it!

    15. Wiki – you can compare changes

    16. Wiki – you can talk

    17. Wikipedia in teaching Why students' work should be wasted? If they write paper on Wiki, it remains useful for them – and for the entire world. We can teach students to contribute to the society and leave a useful legacy. Attract students: writing papers is not fun. Editing a wiki can be fun! Follow the detailed progress of every student – and group. Best collaborative project solution. And it's free!

    18. What can students do with Wiki? Written assignments: expand an existing article or create a new one (of any lenght). Limitation: it's an encyclopedia, so no original research or personal opinions are allowed. Translate articles from (or into) non-English Wikipedias Improve English language of existing articles Look for citations and references to add to articles Receive feedback from other users and comment on their work themselves (a peer review with thousands of contributors)

    19. How to start: Wikipedia:Schools and Universities Projects Wikipedia:School and university projects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SUP List of projects completed and ongoing See what others are doing The Pitt-Societies Project is ready - a specific example with ready to use template that can be adapted to other courses

    20. Wikibooks Think free. Learn free. Wikibooks: Textbooks (started July 2003) – now has over 12,000 textbooks Wikibooks's goal is to create a free reliable instructional resource You can go to http://en.wikibooks.org anytime, browse the free books and chose all useful content for your course Writing or improving a textbook can be a class project, too!

    21. Wikiversity Wikiversity: a wiki project dedicated to teaching, created this September, now taking it's first steps http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity How much time you spend developing content and exercises that others have done before you? Find it at Wikiversity – and share your ideas with others Place to gather all assignments, exercises, tests, exams, lecture notes Upload files: slides collections or multimedia Find and expand lists of links to usable material on the net

    22. Who runs the show? A1: Wikipedia creates its own rules A2: Wikmedia Fundation: An international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.

    23. But really, who pays for this? Individual donations - 79%

    24. Copyrights All Wikimedia content is „free content“ under the GNU Free Documentation License: Contributions remain the intellectual property of their creators (unlike most journal articles, for example) Allows authors to retain attribution Text may be freely distributed and modified Derivative works have to be free content (copyleft)

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