Wikiversity#WikiJournals

Wikiversity's data phase officially began on August 15, 2006, with the English language Wikiversity.

The idea of Wikiversity began with the initial development of the Wikiversity community within the Wikibooks project. However, when it was nominated for deletion from Wikibooks, soon there was a proposal to make Wikiversity an independent Wikimedia project,{{cite web |author=Reswik |url=http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:History_of_Wikiversity |title=Wikiversity:History of Wikiversity |website=Wikiversity |date=2006-08-22 |access-date=2014-01-17 |archive-date=2021-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426201859/https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:History_of_Wikiversity |url-status=live }} with the fundamental goal to broaden the scope of activities within the Wikimedia community to include additional types of learning resources in addition to textbooks.

Two proposals were made. The first project proposal was not approved (2005) and the second, modified proposal, was approved (2006).{{cite web |url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Resolution:Wikiversity&oldid=90552 |title=Resolution Wikiversity |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation |author=Invadinado~foundationwiki |date=2013-03-25 |access-date=2014-01-17 |archive-date=2014-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913193120/http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Resolution:Wikiversity&oldid=90552 |url-status=live }} The launch of Wikiversity was announced at Wikimania 2006 as an idea to "host learning communities, so people who are actually trying to learn".{{cite web |url=http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opening_Plenary_(transcript)&oldid=11012#Wikiversity_.2826:35.29 |title=Opening Plenary (transcript) |publisher=Wikimania |date=2007-02-17 |access-date=2014-01-17 |archive-date=2018-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119222802/https://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opening_Plenary_(transcript)&oldid=11012#Wikiversity_.2826:35.29 |url-status=live

Wikiversity is a center for the creation of and use of free learning materials, and the provision of learning activities.{{cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135533-pg,1/article.html|title=Wikiversity Gains Momentum|last=Nystedt|first=Dan|date=2007-08-04|website=PC World|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225175440/https://www.pcworld.com/article/135533/article.html|archive-date=2016-12-25|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121601t.htm|title=Wikipedia, the Free Online Encyclopedia, Ponders a New Entity: Wikiversity|last=Foster|first=Andrea L.|date=2005-12-16|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051227071518/http://chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121601t.htm|archive-date=27 December 2005|url-status=dead}} Wikiversity is one of many wikis used in educational contexts,{{cite journal |url=http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_07/Jan_07.pdf#page=19 |journal=International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning |title=Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool |first1=Konieczny|last1=Piotr |volume=4 |number=1 |pages=19 |issn=1550-6908 |date=January 2007 |access-date=2008-03-19 |archive-date=2008-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528064408/http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_07/Jan_07.pdf#page=19 |url-status=live }} as well as many initiatives that are creating free and open educational resources.

The primary priorities and goals for Wikiversity are to:

• Create and host a range of free-content, multilingual learning materials/resources, for all age groups in all languages.
• Host scholarly/learning projects and communities that support these materials.{{cite web |url=http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Wikiversity_project_proposal |title=Approved Wikiversity project proposal |author= |website=Wikiversity |access-date=2007-02-14 |archive-date=2009-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819055624/http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Wikiversity_project_proposal |url-status=live }}

The Wikiversity e-Learning model places emphasis on "learning groups" and "learning by doing". Wikiversity's motto and slogan is "set learning free",{{cite web |url=http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Learning |title=Wikiversity:Learning |website=Wikiversity |access-date=2007-02-14 |archive-date=2009-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727171203/http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Learning |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Education/Wikiversity_model |title=Wikiversity learning model |website=Wikiversity |access-date=2007-02-14 |archive-date=2009-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724063750/http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Education/Wikiversity_model |url-status=live }} indicating that groups/communities of Wikiversity participants will engage in learning projects. Learning is facilitated through collaboration on projects that are detailed, outlined, summarized or results reported by editing Wikiversity pages. Wikiversity learning projects include collections of wiki webpages concerned with the exploration of a particular topic.[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Learning_Projects Wikiversity learning projects portal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803045406/http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Learning_Projects |date=2009-08-03 }}, Wikiversity Wikiversity participants are encouraged to express their learning goals, and the Wikiversity community collaborates to develop learning activities and projects to accommodate those goals.{{Cite journal|last1=Friesen|first1=Norm|last2=Hopkins|first2=Janet|date=2008-09-27|title=Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation|journal=First Monday|volume=13|issue=10|doi=10.5210/fm.v13i10.2234|doi-access= free}} The Wikiversity e-Learning activities give learners the opportunity to build knowledge.{{Cite journal|last=Singh|first=Satendra|date=March 2013|title=Use of Wikiversity and role play to increase student engagement during student-led physiology seminars|journal=Advances in Physiology Education|volume=37|issue=1|pages=106–107|doi=10.1152/advan.00096.2012|issn=1043-4046|pmid=23471258|s2cid=12294204}}{{Cite journal|last1=Hladnik|first1=Miran|last2=Polajnar|first2=Jernej|date=2016-12-21|title=Wikiji v izobraževanju - Po desetih letih izkušenj|journal=Andragoška Spoznanja|language=en|volume=22|issue=4|pages=73|doi=10.4312/as.22.4.73-83|issn=2350-4188|doi-access=free}} Students have to be language-aware in order to be able to correct their classmates. By doing this, students develop their reflection skills. Secondly, they enable students to be autonomous deciding what to write or edit, also when and how to do it. Students are able to free resort to any mean of support. At the same time, it fosters cognitive development, engaging students to collaborate.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}

Learning resources are developed by an individual or groups, either on their own initiative, or as part of a learning project.{{cite book |url=http://www.editlib.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reader.ViewAbstract&paper_id=24981 |title=One Laptop Per Teacher: Content and Curriculum for (in-service) Teacher Training |first1=Ian |last1=Kennedy |first2=Delia |last2=Pass |first3=Roxan |last3=Cadir |website=Ed/ITLib Digital Library |date=26 March 2007 |pages=2564–2569 |isbn=9781880094617 |access-date=18 December 2007 |archive-date=19 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719040720/http://www.editlib.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reader.ViewAbstract&paper_id=24981 |url-status=live }} Wikiversity resources include teaching aids, lesson plans, curricula, links to off-site resources, course notes, example and problem sets, computer simulations, reading lists, and other as devised by participants – but do not include final polished textbooks. Texts useful to others are hosted at Wikibooks for update and maintenance.{{cite web |url=http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:What_Wikiversity_is_not |title=Wikiversity:What Wikiversity is not |website=Wikiversity |access-date=2007-02-14 |archive-date=2009-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806031957/http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:What_Wikiversity_is_not |url-status=live }} Learning groups with interests in each subject area create a web of resources that form the basis of discussions and activities at Wikiversity. Learning resources can be used by educators outside of Wikiversity for their own purposes, under the terms of the GFDL and a Creative Commons license (like Wikipedia).

Wikiversity "administrators" are metaphorically referred to as "custodians".{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Project:Custodians|title = Wikiversity:Custodianship - Wikiversity}}

Wikiversity also allows original research (in contrast to Wikipedia which does not).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAf4FhXWS0kC&pg=PA95|title=Cyberscience 2.0: Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks, Volume 11 of Interaktiva, Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Medien und Interaktivität, Gießen|last1=Nentwich|first1=Michael|last2=König|first2=René|publisher=Campus Verlag|year=2012|isbn=9783593395180|series=Interaktiva Series|pages=95}} Such research content may lack any peer review.

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Several {{visible anchor|WikiJournal}}s operate with an academic journal format on the Wikiversity website (under the WikiJournal User Group). Submitted articles are subjected to peer review by external experts before publication of an indexed, citable, stable version in the journal, and an editable version in Wikipedia. They are wholly free, offering open access to readers and charging no publication fee to authors (diamond open access).{{Cite journal |last=Shafee |first=Thomas |date=2017-11-24 |title=Wikipedia-integrated publishing: a comparison of successful models |url=https://www.hlinc.org.au/content/online-early/item/wikipedia-integrated-publishing-a-comparison-of-successful-models?category_id=12 |journal=Health Inform |volume=26 |issue=2 |access-date=2018-10-23 |archive-date=2018-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106143540/https://www.hlinc.org.au/content/online-early/item/wikipedia-integrated-publishing-a-comparison-of-successful-models?category_id=12 |url-status=dead }} Some articles are written from scratch, and others are adapted from Wikipedia articles. They therefore aim to encourage experts to contribute content creation and improvement (as authors and peer reviewers), and provide an additional quality control mechanism for existing Wikipedia content.{{Cite journal |last1=Shafee |first1=Thomas |last2=Das |first2=Diptanshu |last3=Masukume |first3=Gwinyai |last4=Häggström |first4=Mikael |date=2017-01-15 |title=WikiJournal of Medicine, the first Wikipedia-integrated academic journal |journal=WikiJournal of Medicine |volume=4 |issue=1 |doi=10.15347/wjm/2017.001 |issn=2002-4436|doi-access=free }} This activity started with WikiJournal of Medicine in 2014.{{cite web |url=http://theconversation.com/why-getting-medical-information-from-wikipedia-isnt-always-a-bad-idea-59708 |title=Why getting medical information from Wikipedia isn't always a bad idea |last1=Masukume |first1=Gwinyai |last2=Heilman |first2=James |date=24 May 2016 |website=The Conversation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525015412/https://theconversation.com/why-getting-medical-information-from-wikipedia-isnt-always-a-bad-idea-59708 |archive-date=2016-05-25 |url-status=live |access-date=2016-05-26 |last3=Häggström |first3=Mikael}} The sister journals WikiJournal of Science and WikiJournal of Humanities both began publishing in 2018.{{Cite journal |last=Editorial Board |date=2018-06-01 |title=The aims and scope of WikiJournal of Science |journal=WikiJournal of Science |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1 |doi=10.15347/wjs/2018.001 |issn=2470-6345 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Miles |first1=Dudley |display-authors=etal |title=Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians |journal=WikiJournal of Humanities |date=2018 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1 |doi=10.15347/wjh/2018.001 |issn=2639-5347 |doi-access=free }} The WikiJournal User Group received an open publishing award in November 2019.{{Cite web |url=https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/the-wikijournal-user-group/ |title=Open publishing awards in category open publishing models |website=openpublishingawards.org |access-date=2019-11-13 |archive-date=2019-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220172541/https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/the-wikijournal-user-group/ |url-status=dead }}

WikiDebates on Wikiversity allow compiling arguments of both sides on controversial topics such as the legality of cannabis, to create an overview. For fairness, users are encouraged to add arguments of their opposing view too.{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikidebate|title=Wikidebate - Wikiversity|website=en.wikiversity.org|access-date=2021-07-07|archive-date=2021-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190053/https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikidebate|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikidebate/Guidelines|title=Wikidebate/Guidelines - Wikiversity|access-date=2021-07-07|archive-date=2021-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190050/https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikidebate/Guidelines|url-status=live}}

There are currently seventeen different Wikiversities: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish (locked since 17 June 2021); Wikiversity projects in other languages are being developed at the "beta" multilingual hub.{{Cite web|url=https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page|title=Wikiversity|website=beta.wikiversity.org|access-date=2022-02-07|archive-date=2015-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919073920/https://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page|url-status=live}}

For newly established specific language Wikiversities to move out of the initial exploratory "beta" phase, the new Wikiversity community must establish policies governing research activities. Wikiversity may act as a repository of research carried out by the Wikimedia Research Network, or others who are involved in wiki-based, or other research. Wikiversity hosts original research in addition to secondary research, unless a specific language group decides upon no research. It is expected that researchers will respect and update guidelines for appropriate research through a community consensus process.{{cite web |url=http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Scope_of_research/Policy/En |title=Scope of research on Wikiversity (in development) |website=Multingual Wikiversity hub |access-date=2007-02-14 |archive-date=2009-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815022807/http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Scope_of_research/Policy/En |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Research_guidelines/En |title=Wikiversity research guidelines (in development) |website=Multilingual Wikiversity hub |access-date=2007-02-14 |archive-date=2009-09-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907073523/http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Research_guidelines/En |url-status=live }} Currently the English Wikiversity hosts more than 376 research pages.{{cite web |url=https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:Research |title=Category:Research |website=Wikiversity |access-date=2013-08-31 |archive-date=2013-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002020249/http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:Research |url-status=live }}

As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are wikiversity sites for {{NUMBEROF|languages|wikiversity}} languages of which {{NUMBEROF|active|wikiversity}} are active and {{NUMBEROF|closed|wikiversity}} are closed. The active sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalactive.wikiversity|N}} articles, There are {{NUMBEROF|users|totalactive.wikiversity|N}} registered users of which {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|totalactive.wikiversity|N}} are recently active.

The top ten Wikiversity language projects by mainspace article count:

For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics: {{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity#Statistics|title=Wikiversity Statistics|work=Meta.Wikimedia.org|access-date=11 September 2020|archive-date=4 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904101056/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity#Statistics|url-status=live}}

PCWorld reported the Wikiversity project in 2007, when the most popular course was on film-making. It compared the project to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's "MIT OpenCourseWare", noting however that while free, MIT's offering was "not free enough for Wikiversity".{{cite magazine |last=Nystedt |first=Dan |title=Wikiversity Gains Momentum |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/135533/article.html |magazine=PCWorld |date=4 August 2007 |access-date=5 June 2019 |archive-date=20 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920090738/https://www.pcworld.com/article/135533/article.html |url-status=dead }}

In their 2008 book on Empowering Online Learning, Curtis Bonk and Ke Zhang noted that if "the Wikimedia Foundation can nurture credible resources and communities within Wikiversity, it will send serious shock waves throughout higher education."{{cite book |last1=Bonk |first1=Curtis J. |last2=Zhang |first2=Ke |title=Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZriODwAAQBAJ&pg=PA192 |year=2008 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-7879-8804-3 |page=192}} Steven Hoffman, in his 2010 book on teaching humanities, wrote that Wikiversity could do for higher education what Wikipedia had done "for the traditional encyclopedia". Hoffman noted that Wikiversity courses could look much like traditional online university courses, except that they were open in every sense. He did not expect Wikiversity to replace traditional universities, but could supplement them for "retiring baby boomers" spending time and energy on "education as leisure".{{cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Steven J. |title=Teaching the Humanities Online: A Practical Guide to the Virtual Classroom: A Practical Guide to the Virtual Classroom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AMzfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT170 |year=2010 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-45898-2 |page=170}}

The Association for Psychological Science noted in 2018 that Wikipedia, often "Internet users' first source of information", is constantly changing in search of accuracy, accompanied in this by Wikiversity, its "lesser-known sister site".{{cite journal |title=Students Learn Science Communication Through Wikiversity |journal=Aps Observer |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/students-learn-science-communication-through-wikiversity |publisher=Association for Psychological Science |date=29 August 2018 |volume=31 |issue=7 |access-date=18 November 2019 |archive-date=10 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810204541/https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/students-learn-science-communication-through-wikiversity |url-status=live }}

J. Rapp et al., writing in 2019, commented that Wikiversity allowed readers to become active contributors; writing materials "can be regarded as a learning task for advanced Wikiversity authors in general." They noted that the Wikijournals differed from conventional journals in being transparent about reviewers' backgrounds, possibly facilitating interdisciplinary discussion, and in revealing the stages in the development of an article (by versioning).{{cite book |last=Froehlich |first=Annette |title=Embedding Space in African Society: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Supported by Space Applications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fhObDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA249|year=2019 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-06040-4 |pages=248–249}}

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• OpenStax
• OpenLearn
• WikiEducator
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Schools
• WikiJournal User Group

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• Wikipedia:List of Wikiversities
• [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wikiversity.org Wikiversity annual activity]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://en.wikiversity.org English Wikiversity annual activity]
• The [http://www.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversity multilingual portal] – with links to all Wikiversity sites.
• The English language Wikiversity (in beta phase)
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070909210531/http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00006622/01/6622.pdf "Beyond Difference: Reconfiguring Education for the User-Led Age"] by Axel Bruns; Proceedings ICE 3: Ideas, Cyberspace, Education.
• [http://wiki-riki.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/AERA "The Challenges and Successes of Wikibookian Experts and Wikibook Novices: Classroom and Community Collaborative Experiences"]{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}by Suthiporn Sajjapanroj, Curt Bonk, Mimi Lee and Meng-Fen Grace Lin.
• {{cite journal|last=Marieke Guy|title=Wiki or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis|journal=Ariadne|date=October 2006|issue=49|url=http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/guy/|access-date=2007-12-18|archive-date=2009-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911051645/http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/guy/|url-status=dead}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511202934/http://molodiez.org/artjournal_05.pdf "New-Media Art Education and Its Discontents"] by Trebor Scholz.
• [http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2234/2031 "Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation"] by Norm Friesen, Janet Hopkins.
• [https://beta.wikiversity.org Beta Wikiversity]

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