Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Truth and Evidence in Academic Research
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Date: | Monday, 4 March 2019 |
Time | 12-2pm |
Where: | room 102 below the Rotunda |
Slides | Quality Control in Wikipedia |
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Truth and Evidence in Academic Research is a University of Virginia Seminar series presented by the Provost office. On Monday 4 March 2019 user:bluerasberry will present "Quality Control in Wikipedia", a lecture and workshop in this series. This is a private event for students in the class and invited guests.
Preparation
[edit]- Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
- please sign in so that your instructor can find your account name and the article you edited
- Bring your device to the event. Wiki's editing interface is best on non-mobile display.
Program
[edit]- 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
- 0:05-0:30 - Quality Control in Wikipedia
- 0:30-0:35 - review of class readings
- 0:35-0:50 - Discussion, questions
- 0:50-1:00 - Tutorial on data science, Wikidata, and feminism
- 1:00-1:30 - editing, everyone edits wiki and becomes a structured data expert
- 1:30-1:45 - participant show and tell
- 1:45-2:00 - editing wrap up, open discussion, thx
Wikidata editing exercise
[edit]- Do "preparation" above
- navigate to a list of people
- click the name of a person
- "add statement"
- Consider adding any of these
- Occupation
- country of citizenship
- Ethnicity (requires citation)
- Sexual orientation (requires citation)
- Employer
- description
- Educated at
Required reading
[edit]- Filipacchi, Amanda (24 April 2013). "Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists". The New York Times.
- Colón-Aguirre, Mónica; Fleming-May, Rachel A. (November 2012). ""You Just Type in What You Are Looking For": Undergraduates' Use of Library Resources vs. Wikipedia". The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 38 (6): 391–399. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2012.09.013.
- Nelson, Robert; Jacobs, Heidi (1 August 2017). "History, Play, and the Public: Wikipedia in the University Classroom". The History Teacher. pp. 483–500.
Supplementary wiki reading
[edit]- d:Wikidata:WikiProject Data Quality
- d:Wikidata:WikiProject Wikidata for research/Talks/Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata 2019
Contact
[edit]- Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry) for Wiki issues
- Meridith Wolnick, Director, Teaching & Learning at the University of Virginia Library
- Bethany Mickel, Librarian, University of Virginia Library