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[[File:Martin_Poulter,_WMUK_board_meeting,_August_2011.jpg|right|200px|Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia ambassador]]


''This post was written by Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador''
''[http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform39/TenWaysEducatorsCanUseWikipedia.html#.Uxm7JfnV_Mo This post was initially published on the Jisc Inform website here]''


To influence education institutions, we need to speak their language and we need to put information in the places where they are looking for it.
Wikipedia is meant to be a starting point, not a final source of knowledge. It is permanently incomplete and evolving, with continuous formal and informal review. Delving into that process, learners can explore critical reading, digital literacy and deep questions of knowledge. Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia ambassador, gives us his top ten tips for educators using Wikipedia…


The Jisc infoKits are online booklets for management, technologists and other staff in Higher and Further Education. This is where such people come for advice about Programme Management, Learning Spaces, Cloud Computing and many other topics. Today there is a new infoKit that I’ve written as part of the Jisc/Wikimedia UK partnership. “Crowdsourcing: the wiki way of working” shows how professionals and volunteers can collaborate to produce reference materials for education and research.
'''1. Discuss and review'''


Like all infoKits, “Crowdsourcing” can be read from beginning to end or dipped into for short, self-contained examples and case studies. It culminates in a discussion of how collections of photographs and other digital media can benefit from sharing on Wikimedia Commons. Each section ends with a succinct summary of the lesson learned.
Discussion is central to Wikipedia. Click on “Talk” at the top of an article to see discussions, sometimes very extensive, about the article’s problems and how it could be improved. This link will also show the quality rating that Wikipedians have given the article. These formal and informal reviews are an opportunity to promote critical reading: get learners in the habit of reading these discussions and weighing in with their own comments.


At around ten thousand words’ length, it is still only a skim over an enormous topic. No one has a sure recipe for success in crowdsourcing, but there are general and specific lessons to be learned from the most visibly successful crowdsourced projects: Wikipedia its sister sites.
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