Hello,

This is awesome. I'm currently in the process of creating a Wikipedia committee at my institution. The purpose of the committee would be to advocate for Wikipedia use as a tertiary source, dispel myths about Wikipedia for the campus environment, create ambassador scholars that actively edit Wikipedia to increase accuracy, and to make Wikipedia apart of the learning and research process. 

It would be nice to have committes like this at all academic institutions. I have been trying to collaborate with "the Wikipedia library." 

I doubt if any staff at my institution is using Wikipedia. It's a huge no no. Every faculty member has convinced students that it is horrible. 

Making Wikipedia apart of the syllabus is an excellent idea. Not only just to edit articles but also to teach it as a research method to prepare for database searching through keyword mining knowledge (term) mining. I know many databases are improving their Wikipedia integration and are even improving their metadata to help with this. 

I will share this with my colleagues! Thanks for the info. 

Thanks,

Cornel Darden Jr.  
MSLIS
Library Department Chair
South Suburban College
7087052945

"Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong learning."

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> On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Stuart Yeates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Some of you may know of teaching staff using, or looking to use,  wikipedia in their courses; if you do, I implore you to forward them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program Wikipedia has active assistance that can be provided in such cases, but assistance is less useful once egg has connected with face.
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> Alternatively, to see whether we're already providing assistance to courses at your institution, you can go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Courses
> 
> cheers
> stuart
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