Wikiversity Node Cambridge/Introduction

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Wikimedia Projects

Wikipedia - Wikiversity - Commons - Data - Source

Some of the interlinked wikis:

Wikipedia

Daniel Murray

Wiki + Encyclopedia?

Encyclopedias and decolonising knowledge

Daniel Murray (1852-1925) pioneered the use an encyclopedia to as an educational resource to combat racism and create an independent Africana curriculum in the nineteenth century. He worked with W. E. B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway in creating The Exhibit of American Negroes at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

External link: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Making of the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-1963 by Henry Louis Gates

Wikimedia Commons

"Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the project scope pages." From: Commons:Welcome

Wikiversity

Wikiversity is another linked Wikimedia project: "Wikiversity is for learning. It is a place where you'll find free learning materials and learning projects. Everyone can participate. There is no cost, no advertising, and no credentials are required. No degrees are awarded — just learning." It uses the same Mediawiki Mark up Code, but with different community goals, forms of self-organisation.

Other Wikimedia projects

• Wikisource – Wikisource:Community portal: an online library of free-content texts.
• Wikidata – Wikidata Main Page: a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.
• Wikibooks – Wikibooks:Welcome: a Wikimedia project for collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone, including you, can edit right now by clicking on the edit link that appears near the top of each Wikibooks page.

Practice

Wikiversity

• open account
• set up user page on wikiversity
• leave a comment on this page's talk page (click on discuss , above)
• leave comments on user talk pages

Overview

Introduce Portal:Decolonise Knowledge

Student campaigns - RMF, Goldsmiths etc

Research - reading lists, art, science etc

Intersections: intersection with Free education

Practice

• set up a page for the campaign - they need to decide where that goes

Wikimedia Commons

• set up user page on commons
• uploading to commons