User:Louis major

Despite using Wiki pretty relentlessly since its launch back in the early-2000s, I am afraid to say that I am only now planning to engage with the Wikipedia community (better later than never I suppose!).

I am primarily interested in education, and particularly the use of digital technology for educational purposes. Through drawing on reliable and robust evidence, I want to contribute to the effort to make Wikipedia the largest encyclopedia in history.

I view Wikipedia, however, as much more than simply a large repository of knowledge. Indeed, due to its free and accessible nature, I believe that Wikipedia can be a driver for change. In fields such as education, established thinking and the latest research knowledge can often not be accessed by many practitioners due to expensive books, journal paywalls and limited time. Well written, reliable and (of course) freely available Wikipedia articles thus have a clear and important role to play in helping to counter such issues.

Where appropriate, I plan to contribute to Wikipedia by drawing on my knowledge of rigorous research (by adding primarily to existing articles as well as occasionally creating new). At present, I would describe my wiki-philosophy as broadly AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTAD (although it will be interesting to see how this changes over time!).