This post is adapted from: This Wikimedia UK page and gives some direction to ways people might get (quickly) contributing to Wikimedia projects! It’s also worth having a look at 60 ways to help new editors. Quick tasks (while the…
A question came up in the last few days on the ALT list about citation management in Wikipedia, and converting existing references in Word (using Endnote) to export to Wikipedia. I had a quick look, and except for conversion from…
So, an interesting question around the net neutrality principle. Net neutrality is basically the principle that it should not be legal to differentially charge/discount/throttle/fast-lane for web access dependent on the content being delivered. So in practice, this principle is broken…
While at the OER14 conference, I had an interesting discussion re: an article for deletion case. I’m going to give the specific example here, because it exemplifies a few issues, but I think the things considered have much broader relevance…
A couple of weeks ago I attended OER14 up in Newcastle with Martin Poulter and I going to represent Wikimedia UK (who generously funded us). The conference theme was ‘Building communities of open practice’ and is a well established conference…
I just submitted an idea to the Wikimedia Idea Lab on Using Wikipedia paragraph improvements to teach literacy. The basic idea is to take a paragraph in a Wikipedia article, and use the revision history to extract earlier versions of…
Here’s a fun project for someone: Build a module that can generate the dates of major events that vary year by year (such as Easter). There’s already a module for generating the date of Easter and dates tied to it…
A while ago I wrote a post on accessibility issues on the internet, standards and tools to support accessibility. Talking about this puts me in the embarrassing position of having to acknowledge that I haven’t really thought about it with…
A couple of years ago I wrote a report for Nominet Trust on measuring value in social media projects. That report started with a discussion of the various ways we might mean “value” – monetary, social, personal, towards the charitable…
Two of my four meetings yesterday were with people at the Wikimedia Foundation (the other two were with instagrok, and google). I had a chat with Tilman Bayer about Wikimedia research, and LiAnna Davis about the WMF Education program. With…
I’m keen on using mediawiki as a platform for learning analytics. So projects which can use analytics on Wikipedia (and related mediawiki projects) are interesting because a) they’re hopefully useful to the individual project and b) they provide proof of…
I’ve been a bit quiet recently – preparing for my US trip (on Monday – 5 weeks of it!), and writing first year report, and playing with Wikipedia data to look at link flow to get some idea of collaborative…
Yesterday I spoke in Lincoln at the WikimediaUK Conference on Mediawiki for OER and Learning Analytics – slides (with audio) below, video (I think) available on the conference link some time later this week. I’d met a group of the…
CIS in wiki I’m interested in whether links (internal and external) are added to talk pages, and if so whether they then ‘flow’ into the main-page. I know I park links on talk pages, sometimes because I’m not qualified to…
Well, it was bound to happen at some point – I’ve had my first taste of Wiki-disillusionment. As anyone who follows me on twitter will know, I’ve put quite a lot of time in to editing the Learning Analytics wikipedia…
At #LAK13 I raised this issue again, so I’m just going to publish this blog even though I haven’t actually managed to organise a formal editathon. I’d really encourage academics from all disciplines to look at their subject discipline pages…
One of the things we’ve talked about in SoLAR recently is the potential of established platforms for learning analytics data. Two of the most used platforms are Mediawiki (which Wikipedia is on) and WordPress (which this blog, along with a…
So here’s an interesting question – are exam grades good at (indeed, are they aimed at) establishing the epistemic virtue of the student? Having piqued your interest, I’m afraid I can only offer some thoughts on it here – but…
In a spark of creativity which kept me active for a while over Christmas, I had an idea about using the feedback ratings on the bottom of most Wikipedia pages as a tool to analyse the epistemic judgements on those…
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