Category Archives: Wikipedia

Women and Wikipedia

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Joan E. Strassmann

Perhaps you have seen that Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Donna Strickland did not have a Wikipedia page until just now. She was deemed by the moderator not to be worthy back in March 2018. See the discussion on the Wikipedia … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia is worth writing for and teaching with

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Joan E. Strassmann

A guest blog post I wrote on teaching with Wikipedia just cam out. Check it out! https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/02/22/secrets-of-teaching-with-wikipedia/

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Is Wikipedia anti-intellectual? Compare athletes to academics and the answer is yes.

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Joan E. Strassmann

Recently some of my students have been writing biographies of scientists for Wikipedia. They wrote one for a research scientist who made a discovery so major she was on the phone with reporters for a week. The discovery was that … Continue reading →

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An easy way to get your photos into Wikimedia

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Joan E. Strassmann

We need photos of all the living things! Even if you make your living on photographs it will not kill you to put one image per species out there for people to use when they volunteer their time to write … Continue reading →

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