Dear Education listers,
As a historian of science in higher education, I have been developping a
course focusing on Wikipedia in recent years, and some may have heard of
the WikiMOOC I presented at Wikimania MOntreal (though I only played a
modest role in the WikiMOOC saga)
My course is pedagocally relying on anecdotes that say much about
Wikipedia principles, Wikipedia comunity and how Wikipedia is regarded.
I am today very happy that my first anecdote in English has been
published. It's about OLivia Colman's birthdate and how the press likes
to ridicule Wikipedia, yet fact checking is actually done by Wikipedians
instead of journalists, so I can't resist to self promote it here:
https://theconversation.com/no-wikipedia-didnt-get-actress-olivia-colmans-b…
Comments welcome
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Alexandre Hocquet
Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré
Alexandre.Hocquet(a)univ-lorraine.fr
http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
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