Communicating Science — Entidade

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Earth Day, Every Day: Preserving Biodiversity on Wikipedia

Earth Day may come just once per year, but the work to better understand, protect, and celebrate biodiversity by contributing to Wikipedia never stops. When information about a genus of fig wasp exist

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Change Is Uncomfortable: How the Wikipedia Assignment Moves Students from Knowledge Receivers to Knowledge Producers

Jennifer Bernstein, PhD Editor-in-Chief, Case Studies in the Environment Faculty, Texas Tech University In an eight-week, online introductory environmental science course, I assigned the Wikipedia ass

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UW senior creates new Wikipedia article on oil spill in Nigeria

Marketing and Information Systems major Tim Qian is a senior at the University of Washington. As part of his Wikipedia assignment, Tim created the new Wikipedia article on the 2008 Shell Bodo Oil Spil

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A Family-Inspired Contribution: Student creates new article on gut microbiome

Diego Fleury Mendible may have been the one to create Wikipedia’s new article on the estrobolome, a part of the human gut microbiome, but he’s quick to give credit to his inspiration for the project.

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Bad houseguests in ant nests: the social parasitism of Microdon mutabilis

Picture a parasite. The animal you picture probably isn’t the same as what someone else does, it probably fits E.O. Wilson’s description: “predators that eat prey in units of less than one”. But the

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“Persistence pays off”: Biology student transforms Wikipedia’s coverage of marine scientist

To say that biology student Christina Le reworked Wikipedia’s article about scientist Diane S. Littler last term would be quite the understatement. A few months ago, the online encyclopedia offered j

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Chemistry professor reflects on first Wikipedia assignment

David Minh is the Robert E. Frey, Jr. Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Illinois Institute of Technology and the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Biagon Inc. Introduction This semester was the

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Putting our energy into Wikipedia as climate action

What if your power in this fight lies not in what you can do as an individual but in your ability to be part of a collective? You can’t solve the climate crisis alone, but it’s even mor…