Cultural heritage and wikipedia
- A.A. 2025/2026
- CFU 2, 2, 4(m)
- Ore 20, 20, 40(m)
- Classe di laurea LM-49 R, LM-49(m)
The co-teaching will be held by professors Giuseppe Capriotti and Pierluigi Feliciati.
Good digital skills and experience in web browsing and searching.
The previous attendance of some courses taught by the two teachers is not mandatory but recommended.
- practising the analysis of a historic building and its decorative apparatus
- collection and analysis of available primary and secondary sources and their synthesis
- collaborative writing and documentation activity
- practising scientific writing for the general public
- practising collaborative content editing online
- raising awareness about open licenses
- Focus on a subject of cultural heritage
- Analysis of related bibliographic and archival sources
- On-site assessment and digital image production/collection
- Collaborative design of an encyclopedic article on Wikipedia
- Collaborative writing and re-reading of texts, planning of the image/text balance, preparation of bibliography, notes and references
- Final on-site verification of the correctness of the content, correction, enrichment and final publication
Feliciati, P. (2020). Progettare insieme alle comunità la narrazione del patrimonio colpito dal terremoto: le potenzialità dell’ecosistema Wikimedia nel contesto universitario / Developing cultural heritage storytelling together with communities: the potentiality of Wikimedia ecosystem at university. Il Capitale Culturale. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, (22), 35–50. https://doi.org/10.13138/2039-2362/2423
Scientific reference texts on the building under study will be distributed during the laboratory.
Furthermore, the open-access support resources and tutorials - essential for working on Wikipedia - will be made available.
Further information / additional materials
The bibliographic materials distributed and suggested are intended to support the Lab activities, not texts to be studied for the final evaluation.
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- The laboratory will be a seminar, with the teachers introducing the characteristics and problems relating to the noble residence being studied, the methodologies for collecting sources and their online synthesis, and finally, a guide to aware editing on the Wikipedia platform and uploading multimedia objects in Wikimedia Commons.
- In particular, the Lab will start with a guided tour of the building under study, which will be documented photographically (4 hours), followed by 12 hours of laboratory activity in the Department's media labs. The workshop will end with a new visit to the palace (4 hours) to verify the correctness of what was written, its possible correction and integration and its publication on Wikipedia.
- Active participation in carrying out individual and group tasks will be essential. The teachers will evaluate whether the students have carefully followed the lessons and actively participated in the practical activities.
- The instructors will monitor and evaluate the students' active participation in the lessons and laboratory activities, which is mandatory for 70% of the classes (a minimum of 14 of the scheduled 20 hours).
- During the Lab, individual and group activities (50% for evaluation) are essential in preparation for the final goal. Together with each student's concentration and effective contribution (50% for evaluation), this will form material for the final assessment, expressed in 30.
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