I agree, this would be fascinating research. Having used Wikipedia with a number of my classes and conducted research in related areas, this sound fascinating.
Happy to talk more about it or assist if you need anything. ----- With Incredulity toward Metanarratives, Jeffrey Keefer, PhD User:FULBERT fulb...@fulbert.org > On Feb 8, 2019, at 1:07 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Piotr, > > I think this is an excellent topic, FWIW. > > And I bet the Wikipedia Education Program would be interested in the > outcomes of this research. And they might be willing to point you to > potential interview candidates (tho, obviously, they have a strong > US/EnWiki bias, so it wouldn't be the complete picture). > > Best, > J > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:43 AM Juliana Bastos Marques <domusau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I can add something to this, from my own experiences and from what >> colleagues have told me. Here are some negative feedbacks to the experience >> of teaching with Wikipedia. Not in any particular order: >> >> 1. Lack of support from the Wikipedia community (reversions, scaring >> newbies - depends on the specifics of each language community) >> 2. Lack of teacher's experience in editing and dealing with the community >> (leads to poor management fo issues in 1) >> 3. Problems with infrastructure in the university >> 4. Students lacking interest in editing, doing everything in the last >> minute and not caring about the outcome after the end of classes. >> >> Piotr, I'm very interested in following your research. I'd love to hear >> about studies examining these issues, and how they were/can be overcome. >> >> Greetings, >> Juliana >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:04 PM Piotr Konieczny <pio...@post.pl> wrote: >> >>> I am mulling over a new research topic: what researchers think about >>> teaching with Wikipedia type of assignment AFTER having tried it? AFAIK >>> we have a lot of papers on how to teach with Wikipedia, some on effects >>> on students and some about what instructors think about Wikipedia in >>> general, but correct me if I am wrong, nobody has actually asked >>> instructors about their experience with it? And from my personal >>> experience with seeing such projects on Wikipedia, I think there's a lot >>> of people who try it once and don't come back and well, do we know why >>> outside educated guesses? >>> >>> Right now I am just brainstorming this idea, so any thoughts, up to and >>> including suggestions for what questions to ask, etc. are appreciated. >>> >>> Also, I am generally conducting solo research, and all my prior papers >>> on 'teaching with Wikipedia' have been solo authored (and my goal is as >>> always to turn this research into publishable paper), but if someone >>> really, really, really would want to join this project because they love >>> the idea, and would want to be a co-author of the future paper, and/or >>> present the results at a WikiSym or such that I sadly go to every five >>> years or so, feel free to send me a private message. No promises, but I >>> don't bite :) >>> >>> -- >>> Piotr Konieczny, PhD >>> http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny >>> http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >> >> >> -- >> www.domusaurea.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
