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Art+Feminism

3/1/19 Fordham University

Welcome!

Make yourself comfortable.

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Acknowledgements

Wikipedia for Educators planning group

Anibal Pella-Woo

Wikimedia New York City�

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Code of Conduct

We are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, ability, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), preferred intellectual property license, technical ability or technology choices.

We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

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4:00-4:10 PM Introductions and overview

4:10-4:30 PM Presentation on editing Wikipedia�5:00-7:30 PM Editing time!

7:30-7:35 PM Group photo time�7:35-7:50 PM Discussion, let's take a look at and share what we did today

7:50-8:00 PM Wrap up time

Agenda

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Introduction: Kristen Treglia

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What Does a Senior Instructional Technologist Do?

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About our Group

fordham.edu/wikipedia

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Don’t forget!

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Don’t forget!

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Some ideas on editing...

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Let’s Get Editing!

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Wikipedia: Requested Articles

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WikiProject Cleanup Listings

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Citation Hunt

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WikiProject

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WikiCite

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WikiData

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Wikimedia Commons�

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Womeninred by occupation by country

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The Visible Wiki Women Challenge

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Wikipedia: Wikiproject African diaspora

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AfroCROWD task list

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Wikiproject cleanup: Articles that need to be cleaned up! For example click on “alphabetic” under featured articles for a list of issues that need to be worked on

Citation hunt: a tool that will show you snippets in wikipedia that need a citation, you go and find it, then add it!

Wikiproject: The pages of a WikiProject are the central place for editor collaboration on a particular topic area. They typically are areas of interest or expertise and can be used for collaboration, coordination, competitions, outreach, decision-making, integration and mutual assistance.

WikiCite: develop a database of open citations and linked bibliographic data

WikiData: free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world.

Wikimedia Commons: free usable media files

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Before we jump in...

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And to sign in to the �Event Dashboard!

Don’t Forget!

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TRAINING SLIDES

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Wikipedia Guidelines

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Wikipedia’s Guidelines

Wikipedia outlines their rules for editing in both the Five Pillars and their Core Content Policies.

We’ve based this guide on the policies outlined there, but we’ve broken it down into seven basic rules you need to follow while editing!

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1. Stay neutral (this time)

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Pro Tips for staying neutral:

Avoid stating opinions as facts, and stating facts as opinions
Use non-judgemental language
indicate the relative prominence of opposing views

All Wikipedia articles must be written from a neutral point of view. They should represent significant views fairly and without bias.

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2. Maintain verifiability

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Pro Tip:

Practice by adding references and citations to existing articles instead of starting new ones. This way, you’ll get comfortable with including verified material that comes from reliable sources.

In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that any information comes from a reliable source. Make sure to attribute your content to a reliable published source.

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3. No originality, please

Wikipedia does not publish original thought or original research: all material must be linked to a reliable published source. This isn’t journalism, criticism or scholarship… it’s an encyclopedia!

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REAL Life Example:

Let’s say you’re writing a paper that is not yet published about how Nashville is the most feminist television show. If you can’t support this thesis with published articles or books, you can’t include it in the Wikipedia page for Nashville.

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4. Don’t promo your pals

It might be tempting to work with a topic you’re directly involved in. But if you think you might have a Conflict Of Interest (COI), don’t create an article. Editors should never write articles about themselves or where they work.

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REAL Life Example:

Let’s say you work for Art+Feminism and notice problems with its Wikipedia page. Since there’s a possible COI, you wouldn’t edit the page. Instead, you might suggest changes on its talk page.

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5. Use reliable sources

Your sources should be published secondary or tertiary sources, as unpublished materials and interviews are not considered reliable. Your best bet is to use academic and peer-reviewed publications.

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Other Reliable Sources you can use on Wikipedia:

University-level textbooks

Books published by respected publishing houses

Magazines and journals

Mainstream newspapers

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6. Test Notability

Article topics need to be verified by reliable sources. They should meet Wikipedia’s notability guidelines, which state that topics must have “received significant coverage” or they should meet these specific guidelines for artists.

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CAUTION:

Just because something doesn’t pass these guidelines, doesn’t mean it’s not important. These guidelines reinforce structural racism and sexism. The histories of black and brown people, queer and trans folk, etc. have often not received significant coverage.

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

According to Wikipedia’s guidelines, "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material.^[1]

So let’s unpack that a little bit:

We just talk about what "Reliable" means. You might want to note that for the purposes of establishing notability, sources may encompass published works in all forms and media, and in any language. Availability of secondary sources covering the subject is a good test for notability.

"Sources"^[2] should be secondary sources, as those provide the most objective evidence of notability. Sources do not have to be available online and do not have to be in English. Multiple publications from the same author or organization are usually regarded as a single source for the purposes of establishing notability.

"Independent of the subject" excludes works produced by the article's subject or someone affiliated with it. For example, advertising, press releases, autobiographies, and the subject's website are not considered independent.^[4]

"Presumed" means that significant coverage in reliable sources creates an assumption, not a guarantee, that a subject should be included. A more in-depth discussion might conclude that the topic actually should not have a stand-alone article—perhaps because it violates what Wikipedia is not, particularly the rule that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.^[5]

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Know your stub...

A stub is an article that, while providing some useful information, is too short to provide full view of a subject. If a stub has little verifiable information, or if its subject doesn’t have notability, it may be deleted or merged into another article.

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Pro Tip:

Editors follow different rules to identify stub articles. Some say that an article with less than ten sentences or less than 1500 words isn’t long enough to be an article and will deem it a stub.

This is a lot of information! So where can you get help? You can ask questions directly of Wikipedians and experienced editors you know, by posing them on that user’s talk page.

You can also consult the Teahouse. The Teahouse is a Wikimedia foundation project that is a user-friendly welcome center/help space that organizes experienced editors to actively reach out to new users in a many-to-many setting and provides on-wiki encouragement and peer support to promising new editors to promote increased engagement and retention.

There are many methods on Wikipedia for resolving disputes. Most methods are not formal processes and do not involve third-party intervention. Respond to all disputes or grievances, in the first instance, by approaching the editor or editors concerned and explaining which of their edits you object to and why you object. Use the article talk page or their user talk page to do so; be civil, polite, and always assume good faith.

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Navigating Wikipedia

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Orienting yourself on a Wikipedia Page

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Once you’re logged in, open a Wikipedia article like this one.

You’ll see three tabs at the top right corner of your screen: Read, Edit, and View History.

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The View History Page

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You can click the View history tab to see a complete “revision history” of every edit that has been made on that page since it was created.

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Getting to the Visual Editor

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The first time you click here, you’ll be given the option to go to the visual editor. Go ahead and click Switch to visual editor.

Click on the Edit Source tab.

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Getting back to the Visual Editor...

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If you ever find yourself in edit source mode (where content is written in a markup language called Wikitext markup), fear not! You can always click the pencil icon and then select Visual editing.

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The Edit page: Visual Editor

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Welcome to the edit page — your main editor workspace! You’ll see that you can type directly on the content of the page. The top toolbar is your friend. It will provide additional tools for editing and publishing your edits. Let’s see what it has to offer!

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The Toolbar: Text Formatting

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Use these buttons for text formatting (like adding headers, and making text bold or italic)

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The Toolbar: Links and Citations

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Use this button to add hyperlinks

Use this button to add citations, either manually or with the automatic citations creator

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The Talk page

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Click the Talk tab at the top left corner to access a given article’s Talk Page. This page provides a space for editors to discuss changes that have been made to an article

Once you’re on a Talk Page, you can click Edit source or New section to make changes to it. You can also View history to see the talk page’s history

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Adding Citations

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Citations on Wikipedia

You’ll see lots of citations in any given Wikipedia article. When sources of a text have been cited, you’ll see a footnote in the sentence.

Adding citations is super important. Making sure that articles are well-cited helps prevent them from getting deleted.

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The Reference list

When you click a footnote number, you’ll find the corresponding source in the reference list

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Add a reference list to your sandbox

Open your Sandbox to start practicing! You’ll need to first create a References List section by clicking Insert and selecting References List from the dropdown.

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Add a citation to your sandbox

To add a citation, click the cite button. You can simply enter the URL or the ISBN of your source and it will generate a citation for you.

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Manual citations

Click Manual to use a template and enter your source manually. This is useful when the citation doesn’t appear how you’d like it to with the standard “automatic” option.

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Practice citing!

1. Insert a citation in your sandbox for this book:

Taylor, Astra. The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014. Use the ISBN from its corresponding Worldcat entry to add it to your references: 9780805093568 0805093567

2. Insert a citation for this news article:

Cohen, Noam (2011-01-30). "Define Gender Gap? Look up Wikipedia’s Contributor List". The New York Times. You can use its corresponding article link to add it to your references: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html

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Practice citing even more!

3. Now that you’ve gotten some practice, add a citation to your sandbox that relates to your area of interest!

4. And finally … go forth into the world of public-facing articles! Find an existing article in your area of interest that needs a citation and find a source text to add as a reference.

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User Pages and the Sandbox

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Step 1: Find your user page

You can find your user page from the top of any Wikipedia page. You may see that your username link is red. In Wikipedia, red links mean that a page doesn’t exist.

To create your user page, just click on the red link and you will be prompted to create it.

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Create your user page

To create your user page, click on Start the User:*YourUserName*page

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The notices window

Your notices window might pop up when you open this page (and other pages). These alerts are reminding you that you shouldn't draft articles on your user page. After reading them, you can click the window’s x or click outside of it to close it.

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Welcome to your very own user page...

It’s a place to write about yourself and your editing activities.

Only add information about yourself if you wish. Remember that creating an anonymous username can help ensure privacy when sharing info about yourself on this page.

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Let’s edit your user page!

Not sure what to write? You can start with this!

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Publish your edits

Click Publish page in the top right corner to publish!

Add a simple summary like "Creating user page" and click Publish page

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Creating user page

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Find your sandbox

Click Sandbox in the very top menu to get to your sandbox.

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Welcome to your sandbox!

Your sandbox is like a giant blank space just for you, where you can practice editing.

Think of it as a sandbox that a child plays in. It’s a great place for you to experiment and learn, without the pressure of working on a public page!

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Edit in your sandbox

Use your trusty toolbar to add headers and change text formatting

Click and type in this area add text

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Practice editing

You can go to a Wikipedia page like this one and then select and copy content from it

Paste the content into your sandbox. You can play with this text (or text from any article!) to experiment with formatting and headings.

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Help!

You can always consult the Help section as you’re getting used to making edits! Click the question mark icon in your toolbar to find relevant links.

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Don’t forget...

Make sure to click the Publish button to save and publish your changes

Use these tabs to move between the Read and Edit views of your sandbox.

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