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I am an associate professor in Latin American Studies at the University of British Columbia. Previously, I worked in the UK (where I am from), and I have a Ph.D from Duke University.

I first came here when I realized that there was a Wikipedia article on Posthegemony. And then I stayed.

On Wikipedia I am mostly interested in improving the coverage of Latin American literature and culture. I'm not terribly active these days, though this varies.

Views on Wikipedia

I believe that academics should be involved in Wikipedia, and that Wikipedia has a place in higher education. This does not mean, however, that I endorse everything about the encyclopedia. Indeed, I believe that almost all the criticisms you hear about Wikipedia are almost entirely correct; but that this is precisely why we should be involved.

I have given various talks about Wikipedia, social media, and education. For instance, at UBC I was part of a panel on [http://www.archive.org/details/Blamb-AcademicAdventuresInWikipedia628-2 "Academic Adventures in Wikipedia"]. And here I am [http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6780848 at Northern Voice, 2010]. At Southampton University in the UK I gave a presentation on [http://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=fb5e5699-c707-495c-a5a1-bc281fc653b4 "Knowledge 3.0: E-Learning, Social Media, and the Neoliberal University"] And at Canada's ACCESS2011 conference, I gave a related presentation entitled [http://posthegemony.blogspot.com/2011/10/interactivity.html "From Access to Interactivity"].

And you can see me on YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt7336SWIHM On Teaching with Wikipedia] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flcZufXRE-w the subsequent Q&A].

Lots of people seem to have liked my essay "Was Introducing Wikipedia to the Classroom an Act of Madness Leading Only to Mayhem if not Murder?" In Barcelona, they even [http://enlloc.net/sopadepedres/index.php/Repositori_PliegOS turned it into a leaflet].

And along with Awadewit and AEG_English4994 (who did most of the work), I helped write an essay on "Opening Up the Academy with Wikipedia" for the open-source book [http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/ Hacking the Academy]

Views on the Wikipedia Education Program

A while ago I wrote down some of my views on the education program. For broader thoughts on the relationship between Wikipedia and Higher Education (and beyond the talks linked above), see the paper I presented at Wikimania 2015: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Solitudes_Wikipedia_and_Higher_Education.pdf "Two Solitudes: Wikipedia and Higher Education"].

Wiki philosophy

I try to edit in line with the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle. And in response to other people's edits, I hold dear the maxim that "when someone makes an edit you consider biased or inaccurate, improve the edit if you can, rather than reverting it." A good faith edit, even when it itself is wrong, almost always indicates a problem with the original text, which should therefore be improved somehow.

This is therefore an attempt to keep to a zero revert rule. I admit that I'm not always successful, and that I take short cuts when I feel pressed for time.

Following a Request for adminship in May 2008, I am an administrator on the English Wikipedia. This means that if you have difficulties, I can help out or, more likely, point you in the right direction. If you don't like what I'm doing, I am open to recall in line with the default process, although in my case only three editors are required to trigger the recall.

You can see my administrative actions here: {{admin|jbmurray}}.

Murder, Madness, and Mayhem

In Spring 2008, I coordinated the educational project Murder, Madness, and Mayhem. In one semester we promoted three articles to Featured Article status, eight to Good Article status, and one to B-Class status. More details are available on our project page.

See also: "Was Introducing Wikipedia to the Classroom an Act of Madness Leading Only to Mayhem if not Murder?"

I have been working on a further essay, "Advice on Using Wikipedia in Colleges and Universities." Do tell me what you think.

North of the Río Grande

In Fall 2008, I coordinated the educational project North of the Río Grande. This was not quite the success of Murder, Madness, and Mayhem, but we managed to improve a number of articles about Latino and Chicano literature to Good Article status. More details are available on our project page.

Magical Realism Reconsidered

In Spring, 2010 I coordinated the educational project Magical Realism Reconsidered, which contributed a couple of good articles, but which also for the first time involved contributing to the Spanish Wikipedia.

Other projects

Over the past couple of years, my educational projects have concentrated [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Jbmurray on the Spanish Wikipedia], and have included contributions to articles about Latin American Cultural Studies and about the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, as well as a project on [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Jbmurray/EEFF Latin American Women Writers].

Resources

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  • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Jbmurray&site=en.wikipedia.org my edits summarized]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?name=jbmurray&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia my edits summarized, again]
  • [http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=Jbmurray&l=all my edits summarized, yet again]
  • [http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ article stats]
  • [http://stats.grok.se/ article traffic]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/blame/ article blamer]
  • [http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php WikiBlame]

Stuff

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IP addresses

I believe that this is probably me, as is this. There are no doubt other occasions when I have edited without being logged in, though I try to avoid the practice.

Funny

  • On one football player's [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goal_celebration&diff=367805994&oldid=367780720 trademark goal celebrations].
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_House_on_Mango_Street&diff=prev&oldid=551864077 Fair enough]

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