"Be Bold": Knowledge Sharing on Wikipedia is part of the "Sharing Culture" module in the Master Media Culture at Maastricht University. During this skills training, students will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia. Two groups of Maastricht University MA students will work on or create articles in Wikipedia which are related to sharing practices. The course takes place from October to December 2015.

Programme

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  • Monday, 2 November - first deadline: Students have emailed suggestions for which articles they want to work on and why
  • Friday, 6 November - meeting 1: Introduction and concept discussion
  • Tuesday, 10 November - wikicafé
  • Friday, 13 November - meeting 2: Discussing "Editing Wikipedia" and starting to write
  • Tuesday, 17 November - wikicafé
  • Friday, 27 November - meeting 3: Presentation and discussion of students' work so far
  • Friday, 4 December - wikicafé
  • Wednesday, 16 December - final deadline!

The wikicafés are on the three days between 13:00-17:00 at the Tapijn Learning Spaces, Tapijn Kazerne 3, room 0.003 (50°50′33.09″N 5°41′17.57″E / 50.8425250°N 5.6882139°E / 50.8425250; 5.6882139). There you can work on the article under guidance of experienced Wikipedia editors or just walk in to ask some questions.

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Guidelines

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

Further:

  • Use references to source facts in your article.
  • Sign your messages in talk pages with ~~~~.

Other

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the first group of students

Staff

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Groups

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Group 1

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the second group of students

Group 2

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Notes

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References

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Using a reference once

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Use the code below and replace "RefSource" by the actual source.

<ref>RefSource</ref>

Using a reference twice or more

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Use the code below and replace "RefSource" by the actual source and replace "RefCode" by a short code for the source. This code is used for internal purposes only and not shown when viewing the article. (Advice: use the name of the author/publisher and the year/date of the publication, like: JohnDoe2015.)
The first time you use a source as reference you use:

<ref name="RefCode">RefSource</ref>

The second time you use the same source as reference you only use:

<ref name="RefCode" />

Using a book/paper/etc multiple times, but with referring to different pages

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If you use a source with multiple pages (book/paper/etc), and you refer multiple times to it, but multiple times with referring to a different page of the publication, you add the publication itself under a header "Literature", and in the references you use the author name and year (or date) of the publication.

In the example below the page 101 reference is used for multiple sections, and uses the system described in the previous section.

Text bla bla.<ref>Doe, John. 2015. p.56</ref>

Text bleh bleh.<ref name="JohnDoe2015-101">Doe, John. 2015. p.101</ref>

Text blub blub.<ref name="JohnDoe2015-101" />

== Literature ==
* Doe, John. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Acme Publisher. 2015. ISBN ...

== References ==
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