Wikimedia Education SAARC conference/Submissions/Challenges of growing communities : Make Wikipedia trustworthy to the educators
- Submission no.
- Title of the submission
- Challenges of growing communities : Make Wikipedia trustworthy to the educators
- Author(s) of the submission
Ibrahim Husain Meraj and Afifa Afrin
- E-mail address
meraj73
gmail.com, afifawikimedia.org.bd
- City of origin
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Wikimedia Bangladesh
- Main theme
Free knowledge for the world
- Type of session
Presentations
- Scope
Teachers, learners, editors from growing and small wikimedia communities
- Length of session
20 min + 10 min q&a
- Do you want to submit a paper for peer-reviewing?
- No
- Abstract
Bangla Wikipedia started its journey in 2006. Since then, we have 951 active Wikipedians [1] who are dedicated to enriching the content in Bangla to reach the educators and students. Bangla Wikipedia is ranked 127th by speakers per article which is 3063 [2]; again the contents of these articles are still not good enough to satisfy the educators.
With a small survey and few in-depth interviews, we wanted to grab the opinion of teachers and students about Bangla Wikipedia regarding education purpose. The objective of the study is to find out “in what extent the educators are using Bangla Wikipedia and if it is trustworthy to educators”. The result showed, some of them did not know about Bangla Wikipedia, some said they follow English Wikipedia as the content is not good enough in Bangla; again, most of the teacher did not use Bangla Wikipedia as education material as they found limited/wrong information and hence felt not trustworthy.
- How does your proposal add knowledge to the international community in Wikimedia and education
Clearly the study findings are giving us another picture to think deeper and show some challenges of uses of Wikipedia in education; we will also have a way forward discussion with the audience. So that, we are sure the study findings and way forwards discussion will be guiding the communities who are having same challenges.
- Who is the intended ideal audience for the topic?
The strategy makers and contributors of growing Wikipedia communities are the intended audience for our presentation. We hope the policy makers will see the challenges of growing communities to make Wikipedia reliable to educators.
- Slides or further information
- The survey questionnaire is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWZRdqGI5WsOnAB4j2O2iGUXb-4YES90rwwfF9j6e3S9_kZg/viewform
- Previously the paper was presented in Wikimedia+Education Conference 2019 in Donostia-San Sebastian
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