User:MontOther/Training

A page of step by step guidelines is here: User:MontOther/Practice

Using

1. Search box
2. Links
3. Navigation
   • Categories and navboxes
4. How to evaluate a WP article, enlarge at [1]
5. Evaluating Wikipedia (brochure)
6. Wikipedia's best articles:
   • Featured articles: History, Law
   • Good articles: History, Law
   • Today's Featured Article
7. Other features of wikipedia:
   • Article history: "View history" tab
   • Article talk pages: "Talk" tab
8. "Sister" projects:
   • Wikimedia Commons for images and video
   • Wikisource
   • Other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation at the bottom of the main page
   • Other languages: List of all 288 wikipedias in all languages
9. GLAM

Introduction to Editing

1. Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
2. Wikipedia policies and guidelines
3. Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
4. Editing Wikipedia (brochure)

Account creation

1. Editing Anonymously: has drawbacks.
   • Cannot create articles, cannot edit protected articles
   • Your IP address is visible
     • Why this is generally not a great idea: harmless edit but oops!
2. Creating an account with a username is a better approach
   • Hides your IP address, increased privacy if you need it
   • Increases your credibility
   • Allows broader ability to create, edit and move articles
   • More tools are at your disposal
3. Conflict of interest basics:
   • Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
   • Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations

1. Advice from Andy: [2]

Basic editing

1. Overview video
2. History page: You can undo anything!
3. Help:Cheatsheet
4. Your first edits:
   • Typographical errors, common misspellings, fixing duplicate words ("the the")
   • Use your sandbox to play with the editing toolbar and manual markup
5. Citing Sources: Help:Referencing_for_beginners:
   • Videos on referencing: part 1 (ref tags) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2HFdEtYDyc
   • part 2 (cite button) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2HFdEtYDyc
6. Neutrality, verifiability and originality:
   • Neutral point of view
   • Everything should be verifiable with a citation from a reliable source
   • Do not plagiarize or copy and paste
   • Wikipedia is not the place for original research or editorializing

Article creation

1. Sandboxing
2. Create at redlink
3. Moving to mainspace
4. Articles for creation—backlogged!

1. New bio prep tool: http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php
2. Writing history articles: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_articles_on_History.pdf

More on GLAM

• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAM
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US

Commons

Licensing tutorial handout enlarge

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:How_to_take_pictures_for_Wikimedia_Commons
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Introduction_to_free_licenses_2010-11-27_%28web%29.pdf
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/PlagiarismHandout.pdf

Videos

• Wikimedia foundation videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgIIsBhcseFH1Kghmo0ULbA
• Basic markup: Bold and links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxjrtot1M8&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVjAVQo8Qv_ohNP5r7JuzhRo
• editing and uploading images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAy_kBBqs0U&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVjAVQo8Qv_ohNP5r7JuzhRo
• Plagiarism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbI1rqRVq7c&list=UUgIIsBhcseFH1Kghmo0ULbA
• Sandboxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7EEn1zTNkU&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVjAVQo8Qv_ohNP5r7JuzhRo

• GLAM: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Share_Your_Knowledge_1_Why_glamwiki.ogv

Training tools

• How Wikipedia Works (2008) 400+ page comprehensive manual.
• WP:EXPERTS
• http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2015/feb/06/academic-approval-encyclopedic-website-no-longer-seen-even-educators-den-info-iniquity/286784/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students
• User:WereSpielChequers/image adding

• File:User contributions detail.png
• Tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table/Introduction_to_tables

Editing in the gender gap

• http://anitaborg.org/news/blog/how-to-edit-wikipedia-lessons-from-a-female-contributor/

News

• WP on 60 minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
• Vandal segment: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/wiki-vandals-policing-bias-and-false-information
• BLP: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/george-w-bushs-wikipedia-page
• COI: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/wikipedia-as-pr-tool

Policies on paid editing and COI disclosure

• https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#4._Refraining_from_Certain_Activities
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_contributions_without_disclosure
• Don't do this
• https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/16/change-terms-of-use-requirements-for-disclosure/
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_contributions_without_disclosure
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/17/wikipedia-is-acting-against-its-secret-lobbyists/
• http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/wikipedia-sockpuppet-investigation-largest-network-history-wiki-pr/

Samples and examples

From sandbox draft to mainspace article: Nelson Story

Resources

• http://www.hathitrust.org
• http://scholar.google.com

Training tools

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Relationships_with_academic_editors
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Randy_in_Boise
• https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/For_trainers/Sample_sessions
• https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/For_trainers
• https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Training
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Creating_new_articles
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:New_user_article
• User:Fuzheado#Experiences
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Acroterion/Dealing_with_the_young
• https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Basic_Wikipedia_training
• https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Basic_Commons_training
• https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_joint_workshop

https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_partnership_workshop

User contributions page

Education programs

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Student_assignments
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program/Educators
• http://www.mtmemory.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p103401coll12
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Instructional_videos
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Resources
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Starting_an_education_program
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Program_plans

Gadgets, templates and handy stuff

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Request_edit

Continuing education

• Class blurb
• Wikipedia:Student assignments
• Wikipedia:Education program
• Wikipedia:Wikipedians
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Getting_started

Slides

• File:Campus Wikipedia Essentials slides.pdf

Shortcuts

• WP:SBK
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_Scientists_Workshop_Development
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemic_bias_workshop_kit.pdf
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemic_bias_workshop_kit_appendix.pdf

Notes

• EMILY!
• https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/