Wiki

“ Now given that Wikipedia is a public enterprise open to the entire public for collaboration and contribution, you may be wondering how wikis or the Wikimedia model may be useful to government. First of all, I want to note generally that there are other ways in which a wiki can be set up usefully, including set ups that do not involve opening the wiki to the general public. You can control access, and a wiki might be useful to an agency that wants to facilitate information sharing up and down the hierarchy for increased vertical sharing. ”

“ Basically, the reason that wikis work as well as they do is that people feel free to add content to them. Now, in organizing the English language Wikipedia project, I think we've discovered that a wiki can be guided to satisfy certain basic policy constraints. ”

“ Sister output Currently, we have all sister site outputs as "Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, quotes, news, definition, textbook, course, taxonomy, meta." I feel like the odd ones out are "Wikipedia article, Commons gallery and Commons category," which are wiki-specific. I think that changing this to something like "encyclopedia," or "encyclopedic article' or something, and then "media gallery," and "media category" are more consistent with "quotes, news, definition, textbook, course, taxonomy, meta." ”

“ Blogs provide diverse, alternative sources of information for higher education, as well as providing tools that can be used by academics and students for a wide range of educational purposes. Wikis – a wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively, in a simple mark-up language using a web browser. A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. ”

“ Perhaps because our primary purpose is the collection of source texts, the wiki software is ideal; there are far more texts written throughout human history than there are articles on every Wikipedia combined, and it is difficult enough to collect them all without being limited to a few webmasters and a static web site. With the wiki system, any visitor can instantly post a new text, create a translation, adjust an annotation, change a category, update an index, et cetera. ”

“ Many instructors who design Wikipedia assignments encourage their students to draft their articles away from the public gaze, and to upload them to the encyclopedia's public pages only after they are ready for general scrutiny. ”

“ Wikipedia is a dynamic document that uses sources that are usually stable. This sister provides those, when possible. You are correct that translations are dynamic in a wiki environment. The question of course is whether that is terrible or a wonderful opportunity. If proofreading the only way for Wikisource to be a resource for Wikipedia? So again, if I've understood correctly, the single fundamental point that you are emphasizing is about proper scope within a given sister project. That is a point about which reasonable people can both disagree and hopefully find consensus. ”

“ One of these methods that is very effective is to keep the construct of a book/work, and to have all the components as subparts/subpages.With regard to a listing, I would suggest that we have found that listing the work at a page like Portal:Christianity and the relevant author pages as more effective, than categorisation schemes. That said, when the proposed development of wiki technology to list by subpage name is enacted, I would suggest that the site would be looking to utilise that capability. ”

“ The extent to which Wikipedia is a credible source is one of many conversations about Wikipedia we can enter into with our students — but it is not the most interesting. Such discussions are already a de rigeur part of any research assignment, since we raise the same questions regarding other online sources such as blogs and other self-published websites. The deeper, more interesting conversations we want to foster with our students are about how and by whom knowledge is created and gate-kept. ”

“ Constructing knowledge Students who analyze Wikipedia articles and participate in their development are made aware of the construction of knowledge and the ends towards which it is put. Most students utilize Wikipedia only to find information, and therefore have little understanding of how the articles are developed, who develops them, or the oftentimes extensive discussion and review that goes into making an article. ”

“ When people need to work together to produce some document, the only option in the old days would be to email around a text file or word processing document. The wiki represents a crucial innovation allowing for much greater speed. The most basic idea of a wiki is a website that can be easily edited by the readers, but modern wikis contain simple yet powerful features that allow for the users to control and improve the quality of the work. ”

“ The project had three aims: 1) to improve Wikipedia's coverage of selected articles on Latin American literature, particularly those related to dictator novels; 2) to submit those articles to Wikipedia review processes; 3) to increase the number of featured articles in this area. (Featured articles are considered the best articles of Wikipedia; they are vetted rigorously according to a stringent set of criteria.) ”

“ The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey about your experience with Wikisource and Wikimedia. The purpose of this survey is to learn how well the Foundation is supporting your work on wiki and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation. ”

“ At the same time it allows for simultaneous cooperative work on related source texts and their Wikisource annotations, and the transclusion of source-texts into the annotated edition. In general, the wiki way at its best is to be inclusive and encourage a wide variety of useful contributions. By the logic that "99% of people are not interested" (from the discussion at the talk page) , then we also should have only Wikipedia and not Wikisource, and we should have wikis in only a handful of languages. ”

“ Wikisource, run on the same wiki platform as Wikipedia, has a number of features that make it a great tool for transcribing documents. By the time it is completed, each document’s transcription will have been proofread by one human and then validated by another. ”

“ Nearly 20 years on, it is time to revisit the idea of organizing the world’s knowledge. Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has become the fifth most visited site on the Web, with nearly half a billion visitors per month. ”

“ Wikipedians claimed that most webcomics did not meet internal guidelines for notability, whereas webcomic authors claimed that those guidelines were too stringent for such media. [12] Students benefit from exploring and participating in such debates over what should be covered in an encyclopedia, what constitutes a reliable source on the internet, and examining who makes these decisions and how. ”

“ We three have welcomed Wikipedia into our teaching in structured ways, as have other teachers and academics referenced below. What we all share is the belief that incorporating Wikipedia into our teaching is a form of hacking the academy, giving those who contribute to Wikipedia—Wikipedians—a mechanism by which to bypass the typical, hierarchical routes of knowledge construction and to become knowledge-makers themselves. ”

“ One might very well consider Wikipedia and Nupedia together to be important as the first example of a usable encyclopedia that is built collaboratively by the public. Some maintain the Web itself is, for all intents and purposes, a giant encyclopedia built of course by the public (who else?) . So if you consider the Web as an encyclopedia, then of course Wikipedia is, as just a very small part of the Web, not at all significant as an example of a publicly-built reference source. ”

“ Most of us find it a very convenient resource. Above all, students use Wikipedia, openly or otherwise; over half of US undergraduates use it "always" or "frequently" in their research. [3] However, these students do so without necessarily knowing how the information is written and revised. They are often told not to use Wikipedia because it is "bad"—but they are not told why.
We do not want to debate whether or not Wikipedia is a reliable source for research. We agree that it is not. [4] However, many academics use Wikipedia as a first source on a topic with which they are unfamiliar. ”

“ Whereas most assignments in a university setting are written solely for the instructor, on Wikipedia they are written for a global audience. Wikipedia editors must struggle with making their language accessible to the entire community of English speakers, many of whom will write back to them. Students are engaging in a real-world project on Wikipedia, with tangible and public dialogue. ”

“ Such contributions are often deleted because they do not follow Wikipedia's guidelines. More importantly, we feel that this approach misses one of the greatest benefits of a Wikipedia assignment: engaging with a community of writers and readers. Having students edit Wikipedia in real time teaches them how to negotiate with an entire community of fellow readers and editors. ”

“ In addition to disputes over article content, meta-discussions about articles in Wikipedia can allow students to see that editors may reasonably, if passionately, disagree how to represent and structure knowledge throughout the encyclopedia. ”

“ Based on the work of thousands of experts around the globe, the multimedia encyclopedia will gather texts, photos, maps, sound and videos, with a webpage for each species. It will provide a single portal for millions of documents scattered online and offline. As a teaching and learning tool for a better understanding of our planet, the encyclopedia will reach everyone: researchers, teachers, students, pupils, media, policy makers, and the general public, who will be able to contribute in a wiki-style environment, with contributions checked by experts. ”

“ Although Wikipedia boasts thousands of detailed, well-researched, well-referenced articles on scholarly subjects, such as its Featured Articles, entries on fictional locations such as Middle-earth may be much more detailed than entries on real locations, such as countries in Africa. ”

“ I love wiki-links but they are not at all obvious to a newbie, especially one who may be at our project for the unimaginable - reading; they are particularly hard to find in the header. Although I don't care much for the ugliness created by the big info boxes on de.ws, they at least put the information out front where it belongs. We should at least have the same information available about the work that one can find on a reasonably complete {{book}} on Commons. Preferably a lot more. And we shouldn't hide it on the talk page either.--Doug. ”

“ It's​ ​said​ ​that​ ​"discovery​ ​happens​ ​elsewhere."​19 ​Less​ ​often​ ​said​ ​is​ ​that​ ​elsewhere​ ​is​ ​increasingly Wikipedia.​ ​As​ ​a​ ​top-5​ ​website,​ ​Wikipedia​ ​is​ ​the​ ​sixth​ ​highest​ ​referrer​ ​to​ ​all​ ​DOIs​ ​online.​ ​With this​ ​position,​ ​The​ ​Wikipedia​ ​Library​ ​tackles​ ​the​ ​biggest​ ​challenges​ ​facing​ ​information professionals​ ​today:​ ​ ​discovery,​ ​access,​ ​literacy,​ ​and​ ​participation. ”

“ In this course, editing and talking about Wikipedia intersected with several course themes, and so it made sense to develop this into a semester-long project. Students selected an existing article relevant to the course to contribute to or identified a topic/person relevant to the course in which to create a new Wikipedia article. is longer project also made it easier to check students’ progress week by week and allowed time for students to review their peers’ drafted contributions in the WikiEdu sandbox (along with instructor feedback) before moving their edits to “Live” Wikipedia. ”

“ Our avowed purpose is to create an encyclopedia, and it is not to do a lot of other things that would detract from this purpose. For example, among the things Wikipedia isn't doing is creating a dictionary and providing a discussion forum for political issues. The reason Wikipedia exists is to create an encyclopedia. ”

“ If you care how information moves – and whether your grandchildren get an Internet that welcomes their active, creative engagement – you may already know that Wikipedia is the only top website that shares that passion, front and center, ahead of anything like a quarterly earnings report or a buyout by a Fortune 500 company. ”

“ Following this final meeting, students have time to finalize their Wikipedia book review and add it to their personal sandbox. A Wikimedia volunteer gives feedback via the talk pages. Detailed information about this course is centrally structured in a dedicated Wikipedia project page (FPN Historical Book Review, 2020) . Students are graded on two outputs: the presentation of the results of the deep reading exercise and the Wikipedia book review. ”

“ The first scholarly book devoted to Wikipedia, unfortunately but not surprisingly, follows the established pattern: it explores Wikipedia from one specialized disciplinary perspective but does little to improve our broader understanding of the project. ”

“ Someone might feel inspired to start a project that has considerable intrinsic merit in itself, and might nicely complement an encyclopedia--but for a variety of reasons it would overly complicate work on the encyclopedia, and distract our attention. If Wikipedia were entirely anarchic, we would permit such projects to be started, no questions asked. But the focus on writing an encyclopedia is the higher priority, so we avoid such projects, as a rule. ”

“ What do you mean by "on a work"? - Presidentman (talk) 00:02, 13 October 2011 (UTC) "Work" is Wikisource-speak for "Article"; changing the categories on an article/work just involves editing the page (or using the HotCat gadget, if you have enabled it) —just like Wikipedia. "Editing" the name of a category is also the same as Wikipedia: creating a new category, moving everything to this category and deleting the original category. We don't have a "Categories for Deletion" but you can raise something at Wikisource:Proposed deletions. ”