Wikipedia in university program: meta-analysing the typology of courses in the lusophone page

Pestana, Filomena; Cardoso, Teresa Margarida Loureiro

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Pestana, Filomena

Cardoso, Teresa Margarida Loureiro

Abstract(s)

Due to the potential to foster the so-called digital capital, when pedagogically integrated in the curriculum, the Wikimedia Ecosystem allows to promote a broad set of skills, which we assume, in the scope of the WEIWER® International Academic Network, under the umbrella concept of Wikiliteracy. The Wikipedia in University Program is a part of that ecosystem to which we have been dedicating research, namely the projects that have been developed within that program. Hence, we considered to be important to meta-analyse the Portuguese page of the Wikipedia Program at the University specifically between the years 2011 to 2018. The study thus designed was inspired by the following central question: What do the courses of the Wikipedia University Program that are registered on the Wikipedia Lusophone platform tell us? In this text, we take a part of that research, aiming particularly to answer to the specific question: What formats/typologies are used to provide courses in those contexts? Methodologically, in the exploratory study, of a descriptive, meta-analytical and mixed nature, the MAECC®, Meta-model for Analysis and Exploration of Scientific Knowledge®, was adopted. Considering only the data from the Methodologies (macro) and Format/Typology (meso) categories, we can conclude that, of the 92 meta-analysed courses/projects, only 61 had the active link at the date of the data collection. Of these, only 58 included information applicable to our research purpose. Therefore, 4 formats/typologies were identified: “Edit-a-Thon (5); “Dashboard” (1); Project page (19); Project page segmented into pages – “Main”, “Discussion”, “Resources”, “Help” (33). The typology of courses that emerges from the meta-analysis that we undertook in the online encyclopedia’s Lusophone page allows us to further illustrate, in a direct reference to the Wikimedia Foundation motto, that “Wikipedia belongs to education”.

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Recurso de apoio à apresentação de trabalho, realizado no âmbito de investigação de pós-doutoramento, acolhida pelo DEED e pela Rede WEIWER®, LE@D, na 4.ª ICETOL, no dia 15 de maio de 2024.