LIS Course: “Wikipedia and Knowledge Management.”
A geographical, sociological and chronological overview of knowledge management beginning with the printed encyclopedia.
How Wikipedia came about and how a virtual army of volunteers crowd-sourced a user-built encyclopedia of
over 4 million articles.
Class activities will include editing, writing and organizing knowledge to be included in Wikipedia.[1]
Biographical contributions
Out of the gate one student added a new entry on The Librarian (Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s painting).
The Librarian (Giuseppe Arcimboldo)
Another student observed: “Wikipedia’s list of librarians was looking male dominated and Eurocentric so I added some notable female and international librarians. While I was glad to see that so many had Wikipedia pages, I thought it was important they be included in an overall view.” By including a few examples of this student’s work taken from the “history” tab of each page we
can see how this was accomplished (see endnote 17).[2]
For the human rights class a new entry was written for Clara Breed, a librarian in San Diego, California, remembered chiefly for her support for Japanese American children during World War II. This entry was featured in
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- ↑ Kathleen de la Peña McCook. Course description for “Wikipedia and Knowledge Management” taught Fall semester, 2013 at University of South Florida, School of Information. http://si.usf.edu/ Accessed May 27, 2014.
- ↑ The history tab allows readers to view the editors of the article and the changes that have been made. Listed here are a few of the changes made to include women and librarians from a more diverse set of backgrounds to the “list of librarians.”
User:Mcgowanlianna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcgowanlianna Accessed May 26, 2014.
18:04, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) List of librarians (Margaret Scoggin) (current)
18:01, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+27) . . List of librarians (Frances Clarke Sayers)
17:54, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . List of librarians (Effie Louise Power)
17:53, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . List of librarians (Mary Wright Plummer)
17:49, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+23) . . List of librarians (Allie Beth Martin)
17:48, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+92) . . List of librarians (Virginia Lacy Jones)
17:40, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+21) . . List of librarians (Helen Haines)
17:39, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . List of librarians (Virginia Gaver)
17:37, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+89) . . List of librarians (El Sayed Mahmoud El Sheniti)
17:33, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+23) . . List of librarians (Theresa Elmendorf)
17:31, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+30) . . List of librarians (Karl Dziatzko)
17:23, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . List of librarians (Shen Zhurong)
17:21, 6 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . List of librarians (Eliza Atkins Gleason)
