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Wikipedia as a tool for information and education
- Encyclopedia that everyone can edit (and correct!)
- Wiki = editable website, pedia = encyclopedia
- Non-commercial, depends on donations
- Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Community with democratic rules, election of moderators, discussions about articles
- Authority of contributors is established through the quality of their contributions
- Be kind
- Text, images, sound and video are contributed under free licence, meaning that
- The pleasure of offering your expertise
- Wikipedia is a good channel for information as it is widely used, so through Wikipedia you can correct, e.g., widespread misunderstandings
- Your (corrections to) Wikipedia articles can supplement your lectures for students
- It’s cool and modern
- Outreach, if you contribute substantially to Wikipedia articles you can mention them on your academic publication list
- We can use the counter http://stats.grok.se/ to monitor the number of page views
- Article Ghana October 2013
- Article Djibouti October 2013
- Article Côte d'Ivoire October 2013
- Please register as a user under a (nick)name. Click the Register button in the topmost right button bar on any Wikipedia page. If you like, you can provide your email address. No, you will not be spammed!
- You get a user page, a try-out page(Sandbox) and a discussion page
- Try the editor in your Sandbox
- Click Edit-button
- Try a change
- Click Preview
- Fill in an explanation of your correction/addition
- Save
- Mark-up: easy subdivisions using = signs – see w:en:Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
- Start, e.g., with small corrections
- Learn by imitation if you find a Wikipedia page you like: click Edit – inspect code of a page – leave page without changing (saving) it
- See previous contributions to an article: click on “View history” button near the upper right of an article page
- Discussions about the contents of an article can be found pressing the “Talk” button near the upper left of an article page
- Preparation: please give your photo file an appropriate distinguishing descriptive name, so not PIC001 and the like but rather, e.g., Fountain_in_Akibu_city_centre_2013
- Preparation: determine the category on Wikimedia Commons your photo would fit in
- If none exists, think of a new photo category to create automatically
- Go on the internet to en.wikipedia.org (homepage)
- Click in left menu column on Tools – Upload file
- Follow the guidelines
- Fill in the data forms and supply the category name – might be a new one, but check first
- Your photo appears in the chosen category
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