Wikipedia:Meetup/BHQFU Edit-a-Thon/training

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Why Use Wikipedia?

• Demands for information met at the places where people are seeking it.
• Use Wiki to enhance publicly accessible information on topics you care about
• Wikipedia External Links Search - SEO Search engine optimization, increase traffic to resources and information.
• Journalists consistently use Wikipedia for timelines, contextualization, and facts so adding information can be a way to influence the news.

Training

1. Principles of Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines: “common sense model” “principles not rules”
• Wikipedia: Copyrights
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Core content policies

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
3. Wikipedia:Notability

Expressing Affiliation - User pages, Project Pages, Talk Pages

2. Style

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies

3. User Pages

• Used to express your institutional, personal affiliations, and to connect.
• Creating a user account is necessary to edit.
• User pages: Example 1 / Example 2 express affiliation and list articles you've edited or added.
• One person per account rule
• Your Talk Page is place where other users express concerns with edits you make, where users can have conversations, and where bots sometimes post to make sure you are using the proper Wiki conventions.

4. Editing

• Help:Cheatsheet Markup cheatsheet
• Cheatsheet x2
• First search to make sure the article doesn’t already exist by another name.
• Stubs - articles with incomplete encyclopedic information, but acceptable as articles.

• Stubs can be created so that others fill them in at a later date

• Create an article by making a red link in your sandbox, and then clicking on your link
• Userspace drafts
• More help on creating articles
• Article wizard

5. Starting Out

• Getting Started
• Help Pages
• Editing: Editsource, Editbeta (not advised)
• Viewhistory--->revision history, revision history stats, contributors, user edits, number of watchers, page view statistics.
• Links
• Categories
• Naming conventions
• Infoboxes -useful for GLAMs
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/ListsLists
• Tables / other templates
• WikiProject pages
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Adding ISSN numbers

6. Standards in ALL articles

• 1st word bolded
• References, and a reference section.
• Headings (logical structure is key)
• Internal-Wiki links (blue links)

Optional activities:

• Add See Also:
• Add categories
• Add Wikimedia Commons Photos to articles

On the talk page, list your affiliations and reasons for editing

7. Uploading Images to Wikipedia via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/

• Wikipedia pages draw image content via interwiki linking to Wikimedia Commons, a sister site.
• Commons User Accounts are the same for wiki, but you must log on again.
• Upload Wizard to upload photos.
• Commons Licensing is generally: CC0 ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but you have options when you upload.

Batch Uploading large volumes of photographs onto Commons

• Use Case: Walter’s Museum - uploaded 19,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons

8. More Resources

• Wikipedia:Copyrights
• Citation Templates
• Evaluating your Edit-a-Thon Table
• QRpedia

Stats Tools on Wikipedia

• Wikipedia Article traffic statistics
• Wikipedia External Links Search - SEO Search engine optimization
• Measuring events: Wiki Metrics

9. Possible Projects and Events

Edit-a-Thons

• Edit-a-Thons
• Edit-a-Thon Example: Archives of American Art Backstage Pass Backstage Pass Events
• NYT. “Museum Welcomes Wikipedia Editors.” July, 2013.
• http://editathon.org/ Training tool
• Ten Ideas for Library Editing
• See Wiki LibGuide for more examples.