Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Update/12 April 2011

Wikipedia contributions aid professor's tenure

Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Michel Aaij is also a professor -- and as of this spring, he's a tenured professor. A prolific Wikipedia contributor, Michel included his Good Articles and Did You Know articles in the research section of his tenure portfolio because of the peer review process for those articles. Read more about Michel's tenure story.

APS calls on members to edit Wikipedia

The Association for Psychological Science has started a major Wikipedia Initiative to get psychologists to edit Wikipedia. APS's mission in the project is "to represent scientific psychology as fully and as accurately as possible and thereby to promote the free teaching of psychology worldwide." Wikipedia will be featured at their upcoming annual convention in May as well. Learn more about this academic initiative.

Wikipedia club starts at UC Berkeley

Students at UC Berkeley also participated in the Public Policy Initiative in the fall. This photo is of fall 2010 students in the Politics of Piracy class.

Campus Ambassadors Max Klein and Derrick Coetzee are both students at the University of California at Berkeley -- and they're committed to bringing the wiki spirit to the Berkeley campus so much that they've started a student club. The Wikipedia Club at Berkeley envisions activities such as collaborative editing, meetups, new editor assistance, and encouraging more Public Policy Initiative-like uses in the classroom. Read more about the new student club.

Ambassadors explain Wikipedia's page histories

Did you hear the claim by some in the news media that the wrong lyrics to the National Anthem that Christina Aguilera sang at the Superbowl came from Wikipedia? In a recent blog post, Campus Ambassadors Dominic McDevitt-Parks and PJ Tabit use this as a teachable moment to explain how to use Wikipedia's page histories. Dominic and PJ's blog post covers exactly how to read the "view history" tab's information, showing that the edit to the lyrics happened after Aguilera had sung the Anthem. Read the full blog post.