Wikipedia:Benelux Education Program/Maastricht University/MSP January 2019

At the Maastricht University a course was organised in January 2019, in the scope of the Wikipedia Education Program, as part of the project Opening up old books: investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht.

• Photos of course

Programme

A session during the course

• Monday 7 January 2019 - Start course
• Tuesday 8 January 2019 - Introduction in Wikipedia
• 15 January 2019 12:00 - First deadline
• 16 January 2019 9:00 - Session
• 29 January 2019 12:00 - Final deadline for report + Wikipedia article

Handy links

• Tutorial
• Cheatsheet with basic wikisyntax
• Annotated article
• Sandbox - generic page where you can test and try
• Your personal sandbox
• File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf

Guidelines

The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:

• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the content that you add must fit in an encyclopedia.
• Write in a neutral point of view.
• All content added must be free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. (copyrights)
• Use references to source facts in your article. Every paragraph and every two/three sentences should have a reference. You can use a reference more than once. Without references an article can't be published.

Further:

• Sign your messages in talk pages with ~~~~.

12 points to keep in mind:

• add only knowledge that belongs in an encyclopedia
• add only material that is available under a free license or express it in your own words
• describe this knowledge from a neutral position
• add references and sources for the added information
• do not write about your organisation, yourself, a family member, or your boss
• do not describe new theories, new insights or thoughts and no opinions
• see articles about similar topics as an example
• use headings to structurise an article
• use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia)
• do not add links to other sites in the body text, add those only at the bottom of the article
• use no qualifications (best, most, etc)
• write timeless (not: "the last century", "next month", "recent", yes: "on 27 September 2016")

Contact info

• Romaine

Participants

A Textbook of General Botany (Koningsberger)

Merged here: sandbox

• Litt.wiki (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• Leontiena (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:05, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• Evaadevries (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• Okonob (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

A Textbook of General Botany (Smith)

Merged here: sandbox

• I6159107 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• Maastricht Period3 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:04, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• Tapinquercus (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• Plantbook97 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Elements of the Philosophy of Plants (Sprengel)

Merged here: sandbox

• Bale jasmine (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• Betula Fagales (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• Sendovani (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• RosieJR (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
• CJM9 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)