IA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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Noreen Y. Whysel, COO, Decision Fishnwhysel@gmail.comWikipedia User:nwhysel

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• Wikipedia Login — Sign In or create an accountwww.wikipedia.org

• IA and Wikipedia Editathon — Event Dashboardbit.ly/ias17wikidash passcode: IAWikipedia

• Wikipedia:Meetup - List of Diversity Groupsbit.ly/ias17meetups

• 2017 IAS Wikipedia Trainingbit.ly/IA-WikipediaTraining

IA Wikipedia Editathon - Get Started

• Introduction: Cybersecurity on Wikipedia

• Creating an Account• Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page: "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and

"View History“• Making Simple Edits• Userpages• Working in the Sandbox• Putting in Citations

• Additional Ways to Contribute• Copyright and Wikipedia• Basic Rules• Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

http://bit.ly/IA-WikipediaTraining

Training Guides

TRAINING OUTLINE: LINKS TO KEEP OPENTraining: Helpful LinksGuide to Contributing to Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia

Wiki Markup Cheat Sheet:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf

WikiProject: Information Architecturehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture

IA Ongoing Tasks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture#Ongoing_Tasks

• Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.

• Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) .

Copyright and Wikipedia

Wikipedia Conduct Policies⬜ Civility

⬜ Clean start

⬜ Consensus

⬜ Dispute resolution

⬜ Edit warring

⬜ Editing policy

⬜ Harassment

⬜ No personal attacks

⬜ Ownership of articles

⬜ Sock puppetry

⬜ Username policy

⬜ Vandalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct

Neutral point of view – All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias.

Basic Rules: Core Content Policies

Verifiability – Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that information comes from a reliable source.

Basic Rules: Core Content Policies

No original research – Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources.

BASIC RULES: CORE CONTENT POLICIESBasic Rules: Core Content Policies

If you think you have a Conflict Of Interest (COI), don’t create the article, post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.

Basic Rules: Conflict of Interest

If available, academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources.

Other reliable sources include:• university-level textbooks• books published by respected publishing

houses• magazines• journals• mainstream newspapers

More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#What_counts_as_a_reliable_source

Basic Rules: Reliable Source

BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY

What if notability guidelines reproduce structural sexism and racism? How can we address and amend this?

Basic Rules: Notability

BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY

Content Guidelines

⬜Cite sources

⬜Do not create hoaxes

⬜No full text of primary sources

⬜ Identify reliable sources

⬜No plagiarism

⬜No patent nonsense

• Post a question on the talk page of another Wikipedia User's talk page.

• Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question board.

• Resolving disputes; Wikipedia:Dispute resolution, Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot.

• Email info@art.plusfeminism.org with specific Wikipedia editing questions if you can't find what you need on Wikipedia

Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

THANK YOU! // What Now?⬜ Join WikiProject Information Architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture

⬜ Find an article in need of improvement and add it to WikiProject Information Architecture or pick one from the project list.

⬜ Tag the Talk page of an article with the WikiProject Information Architecture category.[[Category:WikiProject_Information_Architecture]]

⬜ Research citations on a person or topic that interests you.

⬜ Suggest citations or content on the Talk page of an article.

⬜ Fix typos and grammatical errors on existing articles.

⬜ If you are feeling bold, create a new article.

⬜ Ask for help if you need it!

⬜ Are You Hooked? Find a Wikipedia Meetup near you at:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup