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Before you arrive: register your username

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Note: If you are an event organizer, either have people register before the event (send an email to those who have RSVP'd) or make sure that you have account creator status in case the IP address gets blocked because too many accounts are created in the same place.

  • Decide if you want to have an anonymous identity on Wikipedia, or something more traceable. There are benefits to both, but this is up to you.
  • Usernames are case sensitive
  • Register on Wikipedia.
  • Confirm that you are signed in. Your Username should appear in the upper right hand corner.

"Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page: "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and "View History"

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Notes: Organizer will walk attendees through each of the tabs on Wikipedia. Attendees can watch but don't need to follow along on their personal devices. Some points to make.
View History

  • Every page edit is publicly visible.
  • Every page edit you make is traceable to your user account.
  • Both the article itself and the talk page have a view history tab.

Talk Pages

  • Talk pages are Wikipedia's version of peer review.
  • How to talk to other Users

Edit Page

  • Quick Demo: Instructor will use a demo article of their chose to make a simple edit. Please follow along. Attendees do not need to edit a page at this time.

Userpages

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  • Userpages express your identity to other users. They do not have to communicate your real name, location, or personal information. Userpages often include lists of areas of content within Wikipedia that you want to contribute to, and lists of articles that you've created or worked on, sort of like a Wiki-specific resume.
  • Click on the "Edit" tab of the article.
  • Write your name and a little bit about yourself.
  • Press "save" at the bottom of the page --> the first time you press save you will 'create' this page.
  • Try out making text bold, creating interwiki links, and external links and pressing save. Use the Cheatsheet for reference.

Signing an Edit

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  • Have attendees open up another tab and go to the day's event page on Wikipedia.
  • Multiple people can't edit the same page as once, so tell people to leave that tab open, and, starting at the front, have attendees "pass the baton", taking turns to put their name down as a participant of today's event.
  • Create a time-stamped signature of your username by entering in four tildes in a row (~).

Working in the Sandbox

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  • Use the Cheatsheet for reference.
  • Work through step-by-step markup for bold, italics, inter-wiki-linking, external linking, and section headings.

Putting in Citations

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  1. Insert a reference for the book Tom Sawyer using the Worldcat entry for this book: Twain, Mark, and Paul Geiger. 1985. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association.
  2. Insert a reference using a citation template for this magazine article: Li, Shirley. "Roger Ebert's Wikipedia [Citation Needed]." The Atlantic. October 9, 2014. article link,

Putting in Citations: Next Steps

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  • Demo: Instructor uses an article to demo adding in a reference to a live article. Note: Instructor should have the article and the first simple edit chosen beforehand.
  • Your turn: Find a page in your area of expertise that needs a citation and find a source text which will be added as a reference.

Additional Ways to contribute

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Adding to existing pages: Demos:

  • References
  • External links
  • Categories
  • Quotes and excerpts
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Basic Rules

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See also: A reference guide for today.

  1. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view---> conflicts of interest—if you think you have a COI, don’t create the article, post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.
  2. Wikipedia:Verifiability and WP:No original research
  3. Wikipedia:Notability
  • What constitutes an authoritative source?

Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

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Intermediate Lesson Plan: Train-the-Trainers

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Potential Activities:

  • Images and Wikipedia, Image licenses and options
  • Creating a page, naming, list articles and other article formats, labelling it as a stub
  • What to do when an article is nominated for deletion
  • What happens if the page is flagged, responding to flags, removing flags once changes made
  • Talk pages / signatures
  • Wikiprojects and locating communities on Wikipedia
  • Infoboxes
  • Categories and other librarian fetishes
  • Creating an event page for your event
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