Introduction

A Wiki Dialogue is an online format for digital, dialogue-oriented learning, where Wikipedians discuss various topics related to Wikipedia and its sister projects and work on topics together. These topics go beyond writing Wikipedia articles to focus more on overarching aspects of working together within Wikipedia and on diversity within the Wikipedia community.

The Wiki Dialogue concept took its inspiration from cMOOCs (connectivist Massive Open Online Courses), an open, digital format that enables participatory and self-guided learning in “communities of practice” (Wenger, 1998) cMOOCs foreground exchange on a particular topic and thus shared learning within a social, practice-oriented community. As cMOOCs, Wiki Dialogues follow the connectivist principles of collaborative production of knowledge through networked learning (connectivism).

In contrast to the conventional, primarily asynchronous Wikipedia discussions, Wiki Dialogues aim for direct, and when possible synchronous exchange and collaborative creation of artifacts or knowledge products that serve as support, inspiration, templates and/or recommendations for working together within Wikipedia, such as

Quality criteria for Wikipedia articles
Profile of requirements for the granting of awards
Event preparation

About the Project

The project “Wiki-Dialogues” was developed in 2014 by Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Österreich in cooperation with Beuth University of Applied sciences in Berlin as a consequence of the “Wikipedia Diversity” project, which had defined digital exchanges and learning opportunities as meaningful supplements to the work already being done in Wikipedia communities.

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