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''This post was written by Dr Humphrey Southall, Reader in Geography, University of Portsmouth, written with Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc's Wikimedia Ambassador and was [http://wikiambassador.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2014/01/21/rural-england-wikipedia/#more-57 originally published here]''
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In November, at the [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/11/eduwiki-conference-2013-convenes-in-cardiff/ EduWiki Conference 2013], academics and Wikimedians spent two days discussing a range of issues of common concern. David White of the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education delivered a keynote exploring the ways in which students use Wikipedia, and I contributed a presentation of my own, describing a Wikipedia-based assignment I give to first-year students in Applied Human Geography and also looking at how academics can inform the widest public about their subject, and raise awareness of the reliable sources used in research.
You can also sign up to the <span class="plainlinks">[https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l email discussion list]</span> for the Wikimedia community in the UK.


For the past two decades, I've been part of a team building the site [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ A Vision of Britain] with funding from Jisc, the National Lottery and research bodies. I have also been involved in [http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page421399 international discussions about ‘gazetteers’], during which I've come to regard Wikipedia as one of the world’s most widely used gazetteers. In the course of creating links between A Vision of Britain and Wikipedia it grew clear how many stub articles existed about villages and that gave me an idea that developed into an engaging, challenging assignment for my first-year students.
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In one module, I want students to get substantial experience of using census data, and of proper referencing – to understand the numbers associated with a place and be able to interpret what those mean for the people who live there. The new assignment idea was to get students to deliver their work into Wikipedia. Each one was allocated a Wikipedia article about a village in northern England, and expected to look after it over a period of months, making gradual improvements by adding reliably sourced information.
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