https://wikimedia.org.uk/2014/09/ally-crockford-national-library-of-scotland/ Open access to knowledge Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://wikimedia.org.uk/2014/09/ally-crockford-national-library-of-scotland/#comment-464 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:05:23 +0000 https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/?p=2668#comment-464 […] Ally Crockford, Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland, spoke about the hugely successful Women, Science and Scottish History editathon recently held at the university. However she noted that as members of the university we are in a privileged position in that enables us to use non-open resources (books, journal articles, databases, artefacts) to create open knowledge. Furthermore, with Wikpedia’s push to cite published references, there is a danger of replicating existing knowledge hierarchies. Ally reminded us that as part of the educated elite, we have a responsibility to open our mindsets to all modes of knowledge creation. Publishing in Wikipedia also provides an opportunity to reimagine feedback in teaching and learning. Feedback should be an open participatory process, and what better way for students to learn this than from editing Wikipedia. […]

]]> https://wikimedia.org.uk/2014/09/ally-crockford-national-library-of-scotland/#comment-463 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:55:44 +0000 https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/?p=2668#comment-463 […] Ally Crockford, Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland, spoke about the hugely successful Women, Science and Scottish History editathon recently held at the university. However she noted that as members of the university we are in a privileged position in that enables us to use non-open resources (books, journal articles, databases, artefacts) to create open knowledge. Furthermore, with Wikpedia’s push to cite published references, there is a danger of replicating existing knowledge hierarchies. Ally reminded us that as part of the educated elite, we have a responsibility to open our mindsets to all modes of knowledge creation. Publishing in Wikipedia also provides an opportunity to reimagine feedback in teaching and learning. Feedback should be an open participatory process, and what better way for students to learn this than from editing Wikipedia. […]

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