{"id":536,"date":"2018-04-18T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/module13.ca\/?p=536"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:41:49","slug":"oer18-the-edtech-wikipedia-edit-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/oer18-the-edtech-wikipedia-edit-a-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"OER18 The EdTech Wikipedia edit-a-thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to check out the EdTech Wikipedia edit-a-thon session facilitated by Ewan McAndrew. Having been involved with OpenEd for a handful of years now, the topic of editing Wikipedia often comes up, but I&#8217;ve never actually tried my hand at it yet, so I thought this would be a good start. As soon as the session started, I spotted a SPLOT!<\/p>\n<p>Ewan graciously provided two key web resources for us to get started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/edtech-editathon\/\">OER18 EDTECH EDITATHON<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/edtech-editathon\/wikipedia-essentials\/\">WIKIPEDIA ESSENTIALS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once we got an introduction to what we were going to do, we signed-up for Wikipedia accounts, selected a topic (a list was provided) and got to work. Ewan took us through how to start sandboxes, or make edits to existing pages. Can you believe &#8220;e-learning&#8221; does not have it&#8217;s own Wikipedia page? We should work on that.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to selecting an image he mentioned that we need to use images from Wikimedia commons. Not too much to ask, after all that&#8217;s where I send many instructors who are looking to add images to their course material anyway. One thing that did come up was the use of CC licensed Flickr images. There is a quick tool you can use to bring CC images from Flickr into the Wikimedia commons so there&#8217;s no issue there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tools.wmflabs.org\/flickr2commons\/#\/\">Flickr to Commons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During the session we had music provided by <em>Hatnore Listen to the Commons<\/em> which is a site where everytime there is an edit on wikipedia a note is played. It was pretty zen. And hey! There&#8217;s our Moodle edit!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-532 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_5117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_5117.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_5117-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_5117-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_5117-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/files\/2018\/04\/IMG_5117-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to check out the EdTech Wikipedia edit-a-thon session facilitated by Ewan McAndrew. Having been involved with OpenEd for a handful of years now, the topic of editing Wikipedia often comes up, but I&#8217;ve never actually tried my hand at it yet, so I thought this would be a good start. 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