Note: This session will be offered in person only. Did you know that only 15% of contributors to Wikipedia are women? And did you know that around 20% of biographies on English-language Wikipedia are on women (there are over 1.5 million published biographies so only around 300,000 biographies are on women). In addition, did you know that Wikipedia is one of the top 10 visited websites in the world?
While students reference Wikipedia as a tool in their research, Wikipedia has increasingly been used to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. If the information on Wikipedia is being used as training data, how might we address the known biases on Wikipedia by inviting our students to become editors?
Editing Wikipedia pages employs different modes of learning including critical analytical writing and research of secondary sources. In partnership with Georgetown University Library, there have been more efforts to educate students to become editors of content on Wikipedia — from classroom experiential learning opportunities to the annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon hosted during Women’s History Month.
During this session, participants will learn about how editing Wikipedia pages in the classroom can make a broader contribution beyond the learning in the classroom. In addition, participants will discuss how students can understand how their contributions connect to accessible public information online that is increasingly used in AI training models.
Graduate Student (MPP ’14, M.A. in Engaged and Public Humanities ’26), Georgetown University
Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman is a Washington, DC educator, activist artist, and researcher. A FY25 grantee of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Fellowship Program, Anjelika is an artist-in-residence at the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program at MedStar Georgetown... Read More →
Faculty in Writing & Disability Studies Programs, Department of English, Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Medical Humanities Initiative, Georgetown University, Georgetown University
Theodora Danylevich teaches in Disability Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies, Writing, and the Medical Humanities at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on feminist and disability critical methodologies and liberatory aesthetics. Her current book project conceptualizes “[sic]k... Read More →
