Wikipedia is a living and growing encyclopaedia with over 300 language editions. As such, the content naturally varies from rich and well-developed articles to areas that need input. This provides opportunities for student tasks and projects which have the power to contribute to the public understanding of a topic, the global commons and open education.

Come along to:

Improve your understanding and navigation of Wikipedia

Find out more about its articles/pages, e.g. how they are rated A, B, C, etc.

Explore what goes on just beneath the surface on the history and talk for each article

Learn how you and your students can start to contribute from finding missing links and sources… to adding articles or even diagrams and illustrations.

Hear about the Leeds Wikimedia Champions project that brought together nine PGRs from four faculties. They developed a wide range of skills in the process!

Try it out for yourself…

This sesssion is designed for all colleagues in mind. There should be something for everyone in this session.

Explore all our festival events via the University of Leeds website.

Please note: this event is open to University of Leeds staff only.

Facilitators: This session will be facilitated by Dr Joanna Brown from the Digital Education Service (DES), and Dr Lucy Hinnie and Nick Sheppard from the Library.

The Wonders of Wikipedia