Wikipedia Workshop

Black Lunch Table's Wikipedia Editathon for We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 at the Brooklyn Museum
By Blacklunchtable - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60878028

Today's Tasks

1. Responding to St. Pete's students via FlipGrid video 
2. Joining the WikiEdu class 
1. https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/  
2. https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/LaGuardia_Community_College_-_St._Peter's_Polytechnic_University/ENG-A_101_English_Composition_(COIL)_(Fall_2019)?enroll=gzjfcqoe
3. Creating your Wikipedia userpage
4. Evaluating the article for Woodside, Queens by
1. looking at other similar articles
2. comparing with other sources on Woodside on the Surface Web and on the Deep Web (and learning about the LaGuardia databases in the process)

For Next Class

Write a paragraph arguing what to edit and create related to the Woodside article. Identify 1-3 tasks you could/want to do as part of the project.

ENA section
We will practice editing by adding information on the new Hunters Point Community Library to the Long Island City article using these sources:

• https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-hunters-point-library-is-a-gorgeous-addition-to-the-queens-waterfront-092419
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/arts/design/hunters-point-community-library.html
• https://www.queenslibrary.org/about-us/locations/hunters-point?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=carousel&utm_campaign=hunterspointopening

9/24: Knowledge Production and the Hacker Ethic

Class

Essential questions: How is knowledge produced? Whose knowledge is disseminated? Who benefits from this system? What is your place in the knowledge society? 

A. Answering the questions for the FlipGrid Icebreaker:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QARu8CiFtmO7hobQh0AYrq_ZL66GxqcvuT5XYPV2o/edit?usp=sharing

B. Consider: Information Society versus Knowledge Society    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_society

C. Consider: The Production of Knowledge
 http://camellia.shc.edu/literacy/tablesversion/lessons/lesson1/production.htm

D. Consider: Information Privilege

Aaron Swartz speaking at a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act
Source: Wikipedia

1. What information resources do you have access to by virtue of your institutional affiliation to LaGuardia/CUNY that others do not? 

2. What are the potential effects of the “information divide” for those who find themselves on either side of it? See, for instance http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/26/nearly-one-in-five-teens-cant-always-finish-their-homework-because-of-the-digital-divide/ 

3. What are the structures that perpetuate this system, and what can challenge these structures? 

4. What responsibilities (if any) do you think are associated with privileged access to information?

E. Consider: How does hacker ethic revise our understanding of knowledge production?
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YujAD3gm3rS54aY__DeS9-oiE-SNAhTlJvRw8HjqF_c/edit?usp=sharing

F. Introduction to Wikipedia. Reports on Wales

G. Introduction to our project:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside,_Queens
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_LGBT_Network

Further reading

• Remembering Aaron Swartz: https://creativecommons.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz/
• Introduction to Creative Commons: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jgv-Rf_k5xqSy5VVZzbhhWICyFhE046BMbnd8Z3r2Gs/edit?usp=sharing

For next class

• Get a Wikipedia account. Choose you username carefully!!
• Read about the elements of quality articles on Wikipedia: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/evaluating-articles/elements-of-quality-articles 
• Read about the signs of not-so-good articles: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/evaluating-articles/elements-of-not-so-great-articles