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"Safe wiki": Teaching responsible use of Wikipedia

by Brianna Laugher (blog: http://brianna.modernthings.org/ )


 * ACEC abstract
 * paper (PDF) -CC-BY-3.0
 * [[media:Safe wiki - Teaching responsible use of Wikipedia - Brianna Laugher.pdf|slides]] (PDF) - CC-BY-SA-3.0
 * slidecast (Flash slides + synchronised audio) - CC-BY-SA-3.0
 * audio (mp3, 52 min, 48MB) (note: audio is not from ACEC) - CC-BY-SA-3.0

Analysing article histories

 * Floriade (Canberra)
 * Wikipedia Page History Statistics are linked on every article's history page. This tool gives overall statistics (totals, averages), edits per year/month and edits per user, for a particular article. for Floriade
 * WikiBlame - find out in which revision some particular text was added. WikiBlame lists the revisions and whether or not they have the offending text. e.g. find "After some controversy" for Floriade.
 * Wiki Trust e.g. Jenny Macklin - Jenny Macklin history. diff where last paragraph was added (nb: Wiki Trust runs on an old copy of Wikipedia, now out of date)
 * WikiChanges - plot number of edits of an article over time on a chart. Can also plot two articles on a single chart for comparison. WikiChanges for Sydney vs Melbourne

Resources for educators on Wikipedia itself

 * FAQ/Schools
 * School and university projects
 * A good article from Wikipedia's internal newspaper, the Wikipedia Signpost: Wikipedia classroom assignments on the rise (Dec 2006).
 * WikiProject Classroom coordination - a meeting place for Wikipedians who want to help teachers and educators with Wikipedia-related projects.

This used to be Wikipedia, anyway:
 * http://schools-wikipedia.org/ - 2007 Wikipedia Selection for Schools - 4,600+ hand-selected and quality checked articles with images. also available for download.

What types of projects?

 * Referencing
 * Evaluating articles
 * Improving/creating articles
 * Analysing collaborative authoring

HSC English
Potentially useful pages for investigating the "Global Village":
 * globalize, Category:Articles with limited geographic scope
 * WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias
 * List of controversial issues
 * Naming conflict
 * Naming conventions (geographic names)
 * WP:LAME (for funsies)