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=== In-Class Presentation Thurs. Jan 21, 2009 === | |||
Revision as of 19:59, 12 January 2010
Potential Problems to be Explored
Newbies? Editing Interface
Demographics
Gender Issues
The View of Wikipedia in the Institution/Institutions?
- Fleshing out references to bolster things?
Not using all of its potential?
The Quality Issue?
- Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia
- Using Mechanical Turks for editing
- gate keeper
Online harassment or defamation problem in Wikipedia?
- Star wars kid
- ReputationDefender
- Maybe this is not a problem of Wikipedia, this is a problem in the internet generally
Solutions Looking for Problems
Getting Educational Institutions to Explicitly Participate
- Partnership Program w/ Schools-Teachers?
- Getting students to flag hotspots (see flagging proposal)
- Getting students to learn about how projects like Wikipedia work
- Clarifying how not to use Wikipedia
- Addressing institutions' views on sources, primary and secondary
- Addressing Wikipedian's concerns on newbies
Flagging for Engagement, Second Look
Zittrain's highlighting proposal
- Firefox Add-on like DisputeFinder?
Meta!Meta! Time Frame
HW due Jan. 13, 2009
- Go get your hands dirty in Wikipedia