[CITASA] Wikipedia Expertise

Piotr Konieczny piokon at post.pl
Mon Nov 24 20:35:52 EST 2008


Judd Antin wrote:

 > Hello! As part of a class I'm helping to teach this semester, I'm
 > looking at what specific knowledge is part of 'expertise' on Wikipedia.
 > For pedagogical purposes, I'm creating a kind of 'Wikipedia Quiz' that
 > contains simple true/false or multiple choice questions about things
 > that more experienced users on Wikipedia might know.
 > Anyway, I thought there are many knowledgeable CITASA folks out there
 > who might share their thoughts, brainstorm a bit on other nuggets,
 > nuts-and-bolts type pieces of information that one might learn through
 > experience with Wikipedia.

You may be interested in a course on Wikipedia that's being developed on 
Wikiversity:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikipedia

It includes quizzes:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Quizzes

I'd like to invite all people interesting in teaching such a course to 
take part in its development on Wikiversity - I've just recently learned 
about it and I think it's a great idea!

-- 
Piotr Konieczny

"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in 
theory."



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