LibrarianBTeam

Hello! I'm a research, reference and subject librarian in Boston, Massachusetts. My interests include pop culture, women's history, journalism and media studies, Oxford commas, and the kinds of things you find on the List of Unusual Articles. I frequently work with university undergraduate classes who edit and produce Wikipedia articles as part of a class assignment.

Swag

This user is a librarian.

This user believes all assertions need
citations from reliable sources.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue)

This user is a member of
WikiProject Libraries.

This user is a member of the WikiProject Unreferenced articles.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Massachusetts.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Boston.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Wisconsin.

This user is a native of the U.S. State of Wisconsin.

Resources for students (and other beginners)

See a list of classes I've worked with here.

Start Here!

Getting Started: Wikipedia's official welcome page.

The Five Pillars of Wikipedia: Fundamental principles of Wikipedia.

Contributing to Wikipedia: learn the basics of making an account, creating and editing articles, adding citations, and more.

The Perfect Article: is it a myth?

Your First Article and Wikipedia tutorial

Do Good Work

Citation Hunt via Wikimedia Toolforge: a great way to practice finding and adding citations to Wikipedia articles. Make a difference, one citation at a time!

The Wiki Game: you're given a random article to start with and another random article where you have to end up, just by following links on Wikipedia pages. How many clicks will it take you?

Markup Cheatsheet: how to make things look okay in wiki markup.

What counts as a reliable source?

Cite Your Sources! (Not just because your teacher says you have to.)

Ten Rules for Creating Women's Bibliographies via Women in Red

Beyond Google: doing research for Wikipedia (coming soon)

Choosing a topic to work on

Here's a link to my colleague AmandaRR123's list of topics involving underrepresented groups and activism in the history of Boston.

WikiProjects generally have to-do lists that can be useful if you're looking for an existing article to improve, a stub-class article to develop further or a requested article to create. I belong to WikiProject Libraries, Women in Red and WikiProject Unreferenced Articles and have done work for WikiProject Africa and Art + Feminism, among others. Students in ENGW3307 might be interested in WikiProject Medicine or WikiProject Science.