English subtitles for clip: File:The Impact of Wikipedia Adrianne Wadewitz.webm

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So one semester, I had a student who was writing a report on the novel ''Frankenstein'', 

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and I have contributed to the article on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley Mary Shelley], and to the article on ''Frankenstein''.

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And whole swaths of the paper were plagiarized from the article I wrote on Mary Shelley.

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So, I got to write in the margin, I know this is plagiarized from Wikipedia, [whispers] because I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Shelley&dir=prev&offset=20080316005635&limit=500&action=history wrote it on Wikipedia]. 

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My name is Adrianne Wadewitz.

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When I was a little kid, like seven or eight years old, 

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I started reading big, long nineteenth-century novels, and I fell in love with them.

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I wrote my dissertation on eighteenth-century British children's literature 

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and I wanted to share what I had the opportunity to learn about with the world.

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When someone goes to see a film like ''Becoming Jane'', which is a film about Jane Austen,

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you know – "I want to know more about Jane Austen," 

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and then they type it in to Google, and they get the Wikipedia article, 

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that they actually know what really happened to Jane Austen's life versus 

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this fictionalization that happened in the film, because that film was a total fiction.

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One reason that I try to recruit professors 

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to have them have students write actual articles in the classroom is 

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we want to show students how to use Wikipedia productively, 

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so one of the things I did was develop a Wikipedia writing assignment, 

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so that you weren't writing your essays for me, the professor, and I was the only person who was going to see them.

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The world was going to see what you wrote and it mattered what you wrote and how you wrote it, 

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because millions of people were going to see what you wrote. 

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So, whenever I have students put together an article or add material to an article, 

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I have them think about what does it mean to construct an article out of a variety of sources, 

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and what kinds of sources are being used, and what does that mean for our understanding of that topic?

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How is knowledge being constructed in this particular area?

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I've come across very informed amateurs on Wikipedia – that is what is so great,

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that people who are hobbyists who love a particular topic, and then they start adding information,

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and that is what makes Wikipedia so great: 

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it brings together both professionals and amateurs who have a love for a particular topic.

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