In this online session, open to any course leaders interested in learning more about Wikipedia Education assignments, this practical workshop will demo best practice from working with over ten course programmes at the University of Edinburgh over the last 4.5 years along with exemplars from other universities shown in our new booklet of Case Studies of Wikimedia in UK Education: https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/

You will need to create a Wikipedia account in advance of the workshop in order to take part.

This workshop will consist of 3 practical exercises:

1. Setting up a dashboard page to manage a Wikipedia assignment.
2. Editing practical (citations, images, editing in sandbox & live space).
3. Creating a worklist of articles to create & edit.

Participants are welcome to stay beyond the 1pm finish to ask questions from 1-2pm and undertake the How to edit Wikipedia workshop from 2pm-3pm.

Demystifying the process behind such assignments, attendees will have the opportunity to find out more about how assignments can be conducted in their own field. Too often Wikipedia is framed as something to be avoided, to be "consumed at your peril". At the University of Edinburgh we flip this on its head, and see Wikipedia as learning technology, reimagining it away from something passively consumed to something our staff and students can positively contribute to, to improve global understanding on the most public of digital platforms as active engaged digital citizens, and gain a lot from the teaching & learning experience as a result.

In a recent survey 97% of instructors have said they would teach with Wikipedia again while Wiki Education assignments have also been shown to improve student writing and the learning & teaching within the curriculum.  Importantly, students are motivated to communicate their scholarship in a real-world application of teaching & learning for an audience of not just one, their tutor, but a worldwide audience of millions. Sharing knowledge, building understanding. For the common good.

Main Programme:

• 11.45am-12.00 Housekeeping and Welcome.
• 12.00-12.20 Setting up a dashboard page to manage assignments.
• 12.20-12.40 Editing practical - adding citations, images, editing in live article space and the sandbox (draft) space.
• 12.40-1.00 Identifying and creating a worklist of articles to create/edit.

There will be a break for lunch/questions in the chat window from 1pm to 2pm. This will be followed by:

How to edit Wikipedia workshop (optional)

• 2.00 -3.00 How to edit Wikipedia workshop

This will show how new editors can be supported to create their accounts, their Wikipedia userpages, and learn about the main guidance & editing/formatting skills when getting started. Wiki Basics site.

Participants can then stay online to practise editing & create pages if they so wish with Q&A available in the chat from 3pm-5pm when the event will draw to a close.

This event is open to all and participants are welcome to stay as long or as little as they wish. The main workshop is from 12pm-1pm with optional extra 'How to edit' workshop 2-3pm and Q&A support available until 5pm in the chat window.

Contact Ewan McAndrew (Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk)