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On Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 4:25β―PM Heather Ford via Wiki-research-l < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikimedia Research Community, > > I'm delighted to share All That We Touch: Wikipedia, a six-part > documentary podcast series investigating what shapes the world's biggest > encyclopedia, and how to use it better. > > The series is hosted by me (Heather Ford), Dr Francesca Sidoti, and > journalist and author Richard Cooke, and produced by the award-winning UTS > Impact Studios. It draws on original research from the Australian Research > Council-funded Wikihistories<https://wikihistories.net/> project. > > Episodes: > > 1. Australia and Wikipedia: The bias in the map. A case study using 35,000 > Australian place articles to show how editor demographics and platform > rules produce geographic and colonial bias, and a story about the island of > Kβgari. > > 2. Wikipedia's three big fights: What knowledge counts? English-language > dominance in a 300+ language platform, the politics of oral citation, and > the inclusionist/deletionist wars that decide what gets to exist. > > 2. The 'Last Best Place on the Internet': Will Wikipedia survive AI? > Featuring Richard Cooke and Dr Michael Falk on generative AI, > machine-readable knowledge (Wikidata/Abstract Wikipedia), and whether > Wikipedia's human-edited model can hold. > > Bonus episodes: > > 4. Play along: The Wikipedia quiz. A true/false format unpacking common > misconceptions about how the site actually works: who edits, how it's > funded, and how content changes over time. > > 5. Research and teach with Wikipedia: In the classroom and library. > Practical guidance for teaching Wikipedia literacy, relevant to teachers, > librarians, and university educators. > > 6. Live panel: Working with First Nations and Indigenous content > responsibly. Recorded live at WikiCon Australia, with lessons for editors > working with any marginalised or orally-transmitted knowledge traditions. > > Using it in class: Episode 5 was made specifically with classroom and > library use in mind. It covers lateral reading, checking Talk pages, and > the questions to ask before opening Wikipedia, and links to a full set of > teaching resources in the show notes. All episodes have transcripts, so > they work well as assigned listening or discussion prompts for media > literacy, digital literacy, or information science courses. > > Co-host Richard Cooke's forthcoming book, The Last Best Place on the > Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia, shares its title with episode 2 and > is well worth a read alongside the series. > > Listen: > Apple Podcasts: > https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/all-that-we-touch/id6788245550 > Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1R2aYo0KuEAPnhom9UOzn6 > > We'd love for folks on this list to listen, share with students and > colleagues, and let us know if you end up using any episodes in teaching. > Feedback and classroom stories are always welcome. > > Best wishes, > Heather Ford > Executive Producer and Host, All That We Touch: Wikipedia > Professor, University of Technology Sydney > > UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any > accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are > not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or > copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in > error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any > views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except > where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views > of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, > please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please > consider the environment before printing this email. > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
