Gender gap in Wikipedia: an easy way to check it
By Ester Bonet
DISCLOSURE
Session 13: Last meeting of the working group
Last Tuesday, June 23, we had the last session of the working group of this 2014-2015 academic year. We were reviewing the processes of all these months and thinking about how to approach the working group for September. This time has passed very quickly and we have reflected and worked together on collaborative editing through pads and documentation in wiki format. I feel (and I hope it is a shared feeling) that we have learned a lot from each other, as well as from the process of collective analysis and production itself. If you want to review the sessions of...continue reading →
Session 12: The satisfaction of uploading an article prepared by all
In this session of the group we were giving the last touches to the biography of Gaby Brimmer and we managed to create without problems (at least, for the moment) the article in Wikipedia in Spanish. Although this proposal began at the March editionathon on the occasion of Women's Day, it had not been completed. So, in the same work pad we were maturing the entrance, modeling the structure like other similar biographies and looking for references that were something solid to avoid being knocked down with that reason. > Biography wiki The...continue reading →
Session 11: University projects experiencing collaborative development
In the last session of the working group we had the opportunity to speak with Carmen Haro (@dessdoblada), journalist, researcher and professor at the University of Valladolid (@UVa_es). This year, Carmen taught "Participatory journalism in the network" with third-year students of Journalism, and wanted to give a return to the approach of the optional subject. What Carmen did was to involve the 40 students of the class in the process of developing the subject. First he asked them to think about a project individually based on the parameters that are used...continue reading →
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