Wikipedia:Middlesex University MED3040

MED3040 Publishing Cultures is an undergraduate module (level 6) at Middlesex University. This project is part of the Eduwiki project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The project encourages students from higher education in the UK to participate in the editing process of Wikipedia articles in order to ensure credibility across the website as students have access to quality sources like journals and scholarly articles.

Universities engaging in the process include:

• Middlesex University
• Imperial College London

Trainers

• Jerome (talk) 17:54, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Edwardx (talk) 14:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• ChamilR (talk) 14:49, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Participants 2014-15

• PD428 (talk) 14:18, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• GeorgiaBrk (talk)
• Mowiki2905 (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Monikamdx 14:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Kirsteintherese (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Awreade (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Yasigol (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Jt651 (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Camne89 (talk) 14:15, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Gretabagd (talk) 14:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Jiapingcai (talk) 14:18, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• MZ2k15 (talk)
• Becsnasc22 (talk) 14:22, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Bashbee (talk)
• Anamaria2605 (talk) 13:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Sifakaradeniz (talk) 13:31, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Ashlove05 (talk) 13:36, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Bewarwick (talk) 13:36, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Heysams (talk) 13:37, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Akwikiright (talk) 13:40, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• JR746 (talk) 13:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
• Thuhangtrinh (talk) 14:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Participants 2015-16

• Beatricezacco (talk) 09:54, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
• Azaliskama (talk) 09:56, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
• NR470 (talk) 09:58, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
• SonalVaghela15 (talk) 10:00, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
• Thissmileyface (talk) 13:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
• Sour109 (talk) 10:09, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
• Ana Edge (talk) 10:12, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
• Crisstian1 (talk) 10:14, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
• Pamela888 (talk) 10:15, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
• Jenashmad (talk) 13:16, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• MrsPoe (talk) 09:38, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Participants 2016-17

• M00504772 (talk) 11:58, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
• Abbytrails (talk) 11:59, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
• PBCMDX (talk) 11:32, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
• Riannehall1 (talk) 10:43, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
• Behlulofficial (talk) 10:49, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
• Inesferreira1 (talk) 10:44, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
• Dc839 (talk) 10:48, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
• Sb2219 (talk) 10:52, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Session 1

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style
• The Help desk (a help forum run by the community) and the New contributors' help page (for users that are new to Wikipedia)

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!

Session 2

Added to the Kilkerran Castle article on 17 February. Turned out to be the wrong Kilkerran Castle, but you'd have to check the geolocation closely to spot that

Photo removed: Edit summary, Photo is of Bush Hill Gardens in EN2, not Winchmore Hill which is N21

• Image adding exercise
• How to build up a 100+ word Wikipedia expansion

Session 3

• Quick review of training to date
• Wikipedia:Training
• Wikipedia:Training/Newcomers
• Wikipedia:Training/For students

Session 4

• Brief overview of what we've done in weeks 1-3
• Wikipedia:Training/For students The four modules should take about one hour to complete. We might look at a few today; please try the others at home.
• User:Edwardx/sandbox/MED3040 Copy this into your sandbox. We will try to fix these article introductions.
• User:Tony1/How to improve your writing Plenty of great advice from a professional editor.
• Redundancy exercises We will try a few.
• Spot the ambiguity Some are ambiguous, some are not - we will try a few.
• Advanced editing exercises We will try a few.

Session 5

Edit-a-thon

A few useful tools

• Monthly page views for any Wikipedia article
• Reftag - copy and paste a Google Books URL to generate a Wikipedia citation

Further modules at Middlesex University using Wikimedia projects

Women of Bletchley Park Edit-a-thon on Ada Lovelace Day

Trainer

• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 11:44, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Participants 2017-18

• Surfmaxrock (talk) 11:20, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• Fmstone (talk) 11:24, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• shanellek (talk) 12:11 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• Abdulhamid Ahmed (talk) 11:22, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• OG999 (talk) 11:23, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• EvangalineThompson (talk) 11:24, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• ReneAustin (talk) 11:27, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• MDXstudent (talk) 11:28, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• GabeLDN (talk) 11:30, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• Littleisis (talk) 11:32, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• Samuel.eastwood (talk) 11:32, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• JFrench98 (talk) 11:55, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• Miriam.Eidesen (talk) 15:59, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

MED2010 Media and Participation

Trainer

• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 15:53, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
• Adea Beiqi (talk) 15:22, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Participants 2017-18

• Rowan 596 (talk) 15:54, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
• Naila 98 (talk) 15:56, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
• Daniella.Aleixo (talk) 15:58, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
• Noarroyo (talk) 15:58, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
• Miriam.Eidesen (talk) 15:59, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
• Hkhanom1998 (talk) 17:05, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
• Marwa lilo (talk) 17:08, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
• Najma Jama (talk) 17:13, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Participants 2018-19

• Hkl644 (talk) 12:35, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
• Saraxnilsson (talk) 12:39, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
• Krushika Puttaswamy Gowda (talk) 12:28, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
• Naznikita (talk) 12:37, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
• Dianapaola95 (talk) 13:33, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
• Naomi Sita (Talk) 18:19, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Miriam.Eidesen (talk) 12:19, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
• Louisa Jade R (talk)
• Odalapa (talk) 12:40, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
• Mitalad (talk) 12:40, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
• AmberJadeOj (talk)

Pages needing attention

• Known-plaintext attack, see Talk:Known-plaintext attack re problems. Leutha (talk) 10:57, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

PUB2200 Digital Culture

Trainer

• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 17:09, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Participants 2016-17

• Mxria (talk) 17:09, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
• Sakalyte (talk) 17:10, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
• TashaRuss (talk) 17:11, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
• Olxxn (talk) 17:14, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
• LCesarani (talk) 11:22, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

MED3000 Independent Project

Trainer

• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 17:09, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Participants 2016-17

• Adrianna420 (talk) 21:31, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

DME1001 Network Cultures

Trainer

• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 16:42, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Miriam.Eidesen (talk) 16:44, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
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Participants 2018-19

• Manejer (talk) 16:50, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• GabeLDN (talk) 16:51, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• BrunafiIipa (talk) 16:51, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• JamillHakeem (talk) 16:51, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Igawysocka (talk) 16:53, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• DarthRevan77 (talk) 16:54, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• PMQ10 (talk) 16:53, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Sajadmdx (talk) 16:53, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Abdirazak Ahmed (talk) 16:54, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Katiesimova (talk) 16:55, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• JR894 (talk) 16:55, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Šarlota Toužimská (talk) 16:56, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Anass26 (talk) 16:57, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Laurie2018 (talk) 16:58, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• ML492 (talk) 16:59, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Tahani 28 (talk) 17:00, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• TeresaMMagalhaes (talk) 17:01, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Mingazu (talk) 17:01, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Desichick123 (talk) 17:03, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• Varsha Madapatha (Varsha Madapatha) 17:04, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
• sama54545(talk)18:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

DME2200/GAM2004 Digital Cultures

Trainers 2018-19

• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 10:10, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Dmx1212 (talk) 10:19, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Participants 2018-19

• Eriks Kisko (talk) 10:11, 02 February 2019 (UTC)
• Coshta (talk) 10:14, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Edona98 (talk) 10:17, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Mm3166 (talk) 10:12, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Pfmariana99 (talk) 10:16, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Ibraheemhafiz99 (talk) 10:16, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Dgreen12221 (talk) 13:13, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Serwa27 (talk) 13:19, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Aleksandrs Kastaljans (talk) 13:21, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Toby0153 (talk) 13:23, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Gulled1234 (talk) 13:26, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• RandomAsianMan(talk)13:27, 5 Feburary 2019 (UTC)
• BenH1998 (talk) 13:33, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Misiek MDX (talk) 04:50, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
• Saneela24 (talk) 11:05, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

ALT-C Conference

Participants

• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 10:27, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• Sdmdx (talk) 10:30, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• Jk mdx (talk) 10:29, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• Pedagogy learning (talk) 10:29, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• Masim30 (talk) 10:30, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• LoanLamb (talk) 10:31, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• LCheck (talk) 10:31, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• Anneisfit (talk) 10:33, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• Bookmonkey81 (talk) 10:38, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
• JIona (talk) 10:41, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

1Lib1Ref Challenge

Trainers

• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 13:16, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Hannah Evans (WMUK) (talk)
• Flycatchr 13:27, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Participants

• Vladmorariu (talk) 13:21, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Johniona (talk) 13:23, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Bookmonkey81 (talk) 13:23, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Swdwrd (talk) 13:24, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Pewterthomas (talk) 13:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Klouk2018 (talk) 13:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• JWilson1301 (talk) 13:28, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Zoehendon (talk) 13:28, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• LuizaDantas1 (talk) 13:29, 30 May 2018 (UTC
• Suejn (talk) 13:30, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• ALW2 (talk) 13:30, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Johniona1981 (talk) 13:31, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Bcshicks11 (talk) 13:31, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Stratoparky (talk) 13:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
• Kathymcg (talk) 13:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Interesting pages on Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Top 25 Report - 25 most viewed articles on English language Wikipedia in the last week
• Wikipedia:Statistics - a huge range of statistics about Wikipedia

More numbers

• Top 1000 articles 2008-2014, and by year (Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga have all "peaked")

Amusing pages

• List of unusual deaths - Entertaining?
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions - more of the same

External links

• Collaborative Text exercise
• Middlesex University

Image adding exercise

• Image adding exercise instructions

If you've not tried this yet, here are some Wikipedia pages without images where we have suitable images on Wikimdeia Commons.

Normal

• Kaimes
• Kennethmont
• Kenton Road
• Kerridge
• Keskadale Beck

Infobox

• Kenardington
• Kenchester
• Kennards House
• Kensal Town
• Kensworth
• Kentisbeare
• Kentra
• Kents Cavern

Resources

Encyclopedism for Development

Publishing Wikipedia pages

• For guidance see: Help:Books
• For example: see User:LoopZilla/Books/Three Mills Loop 2.0