Different people have different favoured learning styles. Some will copy others, some will ask others, and some actually go and read the instructions. Presumably some pay attention to lectures.
In order to make Wikipedia open to all goodfaith editors it is helpful to support all learning styles. That means encouraging use of meaningful edit summaries to make it easier to learn by copying others, running wiki surgeries and informal meetups so people can ask each other how to fix things, making the help pages clear comprehensive and up to date, and yes having lectures available to attend or watch on the internet. Those of us who favour some learning styles over others would do well to try and remember that others may favour different learning styles. And when I fall asleep in a lecture it is probably time for a live example, or a nudge from my neighbour. Jonathan Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Kerry Raymond <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 2:20 am To: 'Research into Wikimedia content and communities' Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] What instructors think about teaching with Wikipedia AFTER having tried it? Young people in particular don't tend to look for Help or Instructions. They tend to just jump in. They are more likely to want "live chat" help when they are in the midst of their problem. Kerry -----Original Message----- From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jesús Tramullas Sent: Saturday, 9 February 2019 8:39 PM To: wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] What instructors think about teaching with Wikipedia AFTER having tried it? Dear colleagues: I work with Wikipedia in classroom since 2015-2016 (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/WikiDoc,_Universidad_de_Zaragoza). Of course, I agree with the common problems about this kind of approach... ..but now I'm working on a specific area, asking the students: As new editor, What do you think about the help pages in Wikipedia? Have you used them? Are they helpful? Are they readable? Are they understandable? So, my approach is to analyze the "technical documentation", identify problems and propose improvements. Cheers, Jesús -- "Investigación básica es lo que hago cuando no sé lo que estoy haciendo." "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." Wernher von Braun (1957) --#------------------------------------------------------------ Ph.D. Jesús Tramullas http://tramullas.com Dept. Ciencias Documentación // Dept. of Information Studies Universidad de Zaragoza 50009 Zaragoza (España) ------------------------------------------------------------#-- _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
