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DISCLAIMER: I am a founding administrator of Wikimedia Community Malta, a voluntary organization that aims to promote Wikimedia projects in Malta. I am also an administrator on the Maltese-language Wikipedia. This page is my personal profile as a volunteer contributor rather than as a WCM board member or mt.wikipedia administrator. All the views expressed through this user account reflect my own personal opinions and should not be construed as coming from Wikimedia Community Malta or a local language Wikipedia administrator.
Background
I am the Director of the Digital Curation Lab at the
In October 2010 I had some of my students explore the mechanics of contributing and/or editing entries on Wikipedia. I've outlined this work on the page about School and University Projects on Wikipedia. This work received national attention in the UK through an article in The Guardian on 29 March 2011. [1]
Through support from WMUK, I was invited to speak about my experience with Embracing Wikipedia as a Learning & Teaching Resource in Higher Education at the Wiki Conference in India which took place at Mumbai University on 18-20 November 2011. At this conference, I was particularly impressed by the work of the Wikipedia India Education Programme. [2]
In July 2012 I also attended WikiMania 2012 at George Washington University in Washington D.C. through support from the University of Hull's Innovation in Student Learning Award, and the School of Arts and New Media. This conference was particularly useful as a networking exercise and to get a better understanding of the inner workings of the Wikimedia Foundation.
In September 2012 I attended EduWiki 2012 at the University of Leicester and GLAMcamp 2012 at the British Library in London. I gave a presentation about the work I was doing at the University of Hull's Scarborough Campus at the EduWiki conference [3], and engaged with others interested in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums during GLAMcamp 2012, particularly towards gauging interest in the MediaWiki extension to import data from Facebook, which I've been working on co-developing since April 2012.
Details about the courses, classes, workshops, students, pages, etc. I ran at the University of Hull between 2010 and 2014 can be found on this sub-page. I also created a simplified help page for my students. This is where I direct anyone who tells me they're overwhelmed with how to edit Wikipedia...so, it's not just for my students.
As of late 2015 I became a founding member of Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM). With WCM I am heavily involved in the Malta editions of Wiki Loves Monuments and various GLAM activities in Malta, frequently running Wikipedia Editing Workshops and leading or assisting others at edit-a-thons.
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