Dear Wikimedia Research Community, I'm delighted to share All That We Touch: Wikipedia, a six-part documentary podcast series investigating what shapes the world's biggest encyclopedia, and how to use it better.
The series is hosted by me (Heather Ford), Dr Francesca Sidoti, and journalist and author Richard Cooke, and produced by the award-winning UTS Impact Studios. It draws on original research from the Australian Research Council-funded Wikihistories<https://wikihistories.net/> project. Episodes: 1. Australia and Wikipedia: The bias in the map. A case study using 35,000 Australian place articles to show how editor demographics and platform rules produce geographic and colonial bias, and a story about the island of K’gari. 2. Wikipedia's three big fights: What knowledge counts? English-language dominance in a 300+ language platform, the politics of oral citation, and the inclusionist/deletionist wars that decide what gets to exist. 2. The 'Last Best Place on the Internet': Will Wikipedia survive AI? Featuring Richard Cooke and Dr Michael Falk on generative AI, machine-readable knowledge (Wikidata/Abstract Wikipedia), and whether Wikipedia's human-edited model can hold. Bonus episodes: 4. Play along: The Wikipedia quiz. A true/false format unpacking common misconceptions about how the site actually works: who edits, how it's funded, and how content changes over time. 5. Research and teach with Wikipedia: In the classroom and library. Practical guidance for teaching Wikipedia literacy, relevant to teachers, librarians, and university educators. 6. Live panel: Working with First Nations and Indigenous content responsibly. Recorded live at WikiCon Australia, with lessons for editors working with any marginalised or orally-transmitted knowledge traditions. Using it in class: Episode 5 was made specifically with classroom and library use in mind. It covers lateral reading, checking Talk pages, and the questions to ask before opening Wikipedia, and links to a full set of teaching resources in the show notes. All episodes have transcripts, so they work well as assigned listening or discussion prompts for media literacy, digital literacy, or information science courses. Co-host Richard Cooke's forthcoming book, The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia, shares its title with episode 2 and is well worth a read alongside the series. Listen: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/all-that-we-touch/id6788245550 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1R2aYo0KuEAPnhom9UOzn6 We'd love for folks on this list to listen, share with students and colleagues, and let us know if you end up using any episodes in teaching. Feedback and classroom stories are always welcome. Best wishes, Heather Ford Executive Producer and Host, All That We Touch: Wikipedia Professor, University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
