Wikipedia: Leveraging the global collaborative encyclopedia to support education and knowledge-sharing around the world

Presented by Anne Clin
N2 Conference 2023
University of California, Berkeley

Over the past 20 years, Wikipedia has become a major information resource on the internet. It is the only online encyclopedia whose content is created and managed entirely by an enormous volunteer workforce from every continent, developing content in over 300 languages. Under the umbrella of the Wikimedia Foundation, its many sister projects also provide media repositories, databases, dictionaries, and reference materials in hundreds of languages from around the world. The information developed by our hundreds of thousands of volunteers is used for everything from quick responses to common questions to educational tools for students from around the world. The sharing of knowledge is a critical thread in the fabric of the noosphere. Wikipedia’s core objective is that every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. In this presentation, we will discuss the growing use of Wikipedia content in education at all levels from primary school to postgraduate work, both online and offline. We will examine how educators are using Wikipedia in their classes to inculcate online literacy, research skills, communication skills, and knowledge sharing through collaboration and consensus.

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