World Soil Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – December 5, 2017
To celebrate World Soil Day on December 5th, UBC will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focused on adding more content to Wikipedia about soils and soil science. Editing Wikipedia is a way for faculty, students and staff to engage in open collaboration, and contribute to public knowledge.
ENGL470D CanLit Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
UBC’s English 470D (Canadian Studies), focuses on the intersection of Canadian Literature and Web 2.0…
Land and Food Systems 350 Wiki Project
This course uses UBC Wiki to host all of the course content. Students also work in groups to develop open articles about different topics in food science…
Linguistics 300 Wikipedia Editing Project
In Linguistics 300 (2014) as a project students collaboratively develop a Wikipedia entry in one of the following four themes…
Biology 345 – Human Ecology Projects
For this third year undergraduate biology course the Students research and uploaded an ignite talk to YouTube on a topic of their choice, created or improved a Wikipedia article…
Spanish 312: Murder, Madness, and Mayhem
The UBC SPAN312 class (“Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation”), taught by Jon Beasley-Murray contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008..
HIST 396: North American Environmental History
A UBC History course taught by Tina Loo that was part of the WikiMedia Foundation Canada Education Program, which is aimed at enlisting university faculty and students in the task of grounding Wikipedia articles in the existing scholarly literature…
