Posts Tagged "wikipedia"

Quick Wikipedia Tasks

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…

Citation management on Wikipedia

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…

Net neutrality and OER

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…

Wiki-dates with moving events

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…

Making Mediawiki More Accessible

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…

Measuring value in Wikimedia projects

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…

Badging Wikipedia Contributions

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…

Using R to process Wikipedia link flow data

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…

Wikipedia Learning Analytics editathon

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…

MediaWiki for Learning Analytics?

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…

Exams as assessors of epistemic virtue

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…