Afrocrowd @ Black Lunch Table

5/17/15

Wikipedia

• Crowdsourced encyclopedia
• Anyone can edit but there are several admin layers
• 470 million unique searches a month
• One of the largest reference sites globally
• 4 million articles in English
• 285 languages

Standards

• Notability

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• Conflict of Interest

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• Every action is stored

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Access Examples

• English
• www.en.wikipedia.org
• Spanish
• www.es.wikipedia.org
• Yoruba
• www.yo.wikipedia.org
• Garifuna Incubator
• https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cab

Articles lists

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• Afrocrowd articles list
• Afrofuturism Articles list

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Editing Wikipedia

• User Profile
• Sandbox
• Creating article
• Article Wizard
• Model article
• Stub
• Val Jeanty

Citing

Template widget

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Sandbox exercise to show how to edit/cite

Best practices

• Turn notifications on

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• Change preferences

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• Practice more with the Wikipedia Adventure

Evaluation/optin Form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bjkuKF-nYGQ4velBKzU5Mngw-sa73--a80brx-gIhbA/viewform