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Wikipedia in university program: meta-analysing the typology of courses in the lusophone page
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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: “Edita-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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Formação Avançada LE@D – comunicação integrada no Pós-Doc acolhido pelo Laboratório de Educação a Distância e eLearning e Departamento de Educação e Ensino a Distância, Universidade Aberta com o nº UID4372/FCT-FA-PPhD2019-03.
Keywords
Wikipedia at university program Lusophone community Open higher education Knowledge mapping and systematization MAECC®
Citation
Pestana, F. & Cardoso, T.M.L. (2024). Wikipedia in University Program: Meta-analysing the Typology of Courses in the Lusophone Page. 4th International Conference on Educational Technology and Online Learning – ICETOL 2024 Full Paper Proceedings, pp. 52-57. Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Türkiye
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Anadolu University