User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox

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Other sandboxes[edit]

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox/dumping ground for moving used materials to for checking

Sandbox clearing: before closing - move used material to subpage sandbox/dumping ground to clear up

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox2 RETAIN as blog on being a wiki-editor

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox3 sample wording for Hunger Strike Medal recipients

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox4 some links for possible FRSE women (WiR)

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox5 some links for SWH people or locations

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox6 drafting Jeannie MacLeod

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox7 drafting Aoife Nolan

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox8 re I Macphail SWH

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox9

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox10 table of suggestions for WIR humanities 26-11-21

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox11

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox12 - list from Rayomaunt for SWH

User:Kaybeesquared/sandbox13

Sandboxes (named) - to be cleared after publication and final review

New WiR targets perhaps[edit]

Suffragettes and WiR editathon follow-ups[edit]

Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Women in Red (see sandbox4)

Consider Cat and Mouse Act, Divisions in Prison, 1911 Census evaders, Elizabeth Finlayson Gould in collaboration with IanTheArchivist

and updates to Nora Wattie and others completed in the last year.

Now looking at the doctors and nurses at the Scottish Women's Hospital.

Witch Montrose Maggie Cowan and plans to build a dyke in Montrose bay in 1600s

Grand Tours of Scotland's Rivers BBC - episode River of South Esk by Paul Martin.

Sandbox2 retain[edit]

original draft of story about being a wikimedia editor

Articles and guidance[edit]

https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/s4655j732?locale=en#/6/48[Ch13]!/4[bodymatter]/2/2[_16034-0039_ch013]/2/1:0

https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/

help page[edit]

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia/wikipedia/making-an-article

Request for image - wording[edit]

I am working with a project based at the University of Edinburgh library (part of WikiProject: Women in Red) increasing the global information on notable women made available for public use, by creating a new Wikipedia page about .....

And so I am wondering if we can have permission to use the photos of her picture [....and e.g. medal ] on the ......[webpage/book] as the illustrated pages on Wikipedia are, at least, 20-30% more likely to be read.

Wikimedia Commons only hosts pictures that are open-licensed i.e. Public Domain, CC-0 licensed, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. (see: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing)

The default license is CC-BY-SA and this is the strictest we can apply on Commons. If this is okay then please can let me know that you are willing to openly release an image.

If so, you can either:

a) Upload the image at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard to Wikimedia Commons yourself

or

b) I can upload the image and you can confirm the release is okay by using the same questions within the Wizard in email to me.

It takes 2 minutes and asserts that you agree that Commons can host the image on a CC-BY-SA licence so keeps everything above board. Let me know if this is/is not okay. You can read more about https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:FAQ

We would of course provide attribution as to where the image came from.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Finding images that are creative commons:

https://search.creativecommons.org/search

Making an image that is fair use - see the boxes to use

File:Blanche Blackwell died 2017.jpg

Instructions and templates to usehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Implementation
Templates for non-free use are 'Non-free use rationale' and Non-free use rationale 2' with curly brackets instead of '

Editing Tips[edit]

dash to use is –
quotes to use is " unless quote within quote when you use ' but don't italicise either.
to get a two column list curly brackets refbegin|2 curly brackets at start and curly brackets refend curly brackets at end

infobox guidelines

Template:Infobox officeholder

Tips for citation via googlebooks http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521349931^[1]

The citation expander gadget looks like the easiest way to check not out of date or other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Citation_bot/use#via_the_citation_expander_gadget

for different kinds of references citations - WP:CITEVAR

general re women biogs

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Essays/Primer for creating women's biographies

Disambiguation

For adding hatnote for articles of similar name use template 2 curly brackets About other People

e.g. to get text without disambiguation page e.g. if only one other article of same/similar name

curly brackets Template:about |TOPIC |TOPIC 2|ARTICLE (2)}} you can write text for topic - need correct pagename for Article(2)

to produce: This page is about TOPIC. For TOPIC 2, see ARTICLE (2).
for adding hatnote for multiple similar names

This page is about NNN. For other people named NNN, see NNN (disambiguation)

MUST create the disambig. page first using template within 2 curly brackets not in bold disambiguation | human name
Use bullet list with link to article name, dates, short description + add to the surname list page if there is one already there
to find all your sandboxes Special:PrefixIndex/User:Kaybeesquared/

for academic biographies

Google Scholar? You can set up alerts for particular individuals so, as they publish works, you receive a notification.
A Altmetrics is also a great place to monitor citations, especially from non-traditional sources

If you wikilink to a Disambiguation page

Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

Wiki Library card for ODNB https://www.oxforddnb.com/

The Wikipedia Library has new, free, collections available through Library Card platform (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/):

Al Manhal (Arabic journals and ebooks): https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/101/
Ancestry.com (Genealogical and historical records): https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/102/
RILM (Music encyclopedias): https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/100/

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed at <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/>

re temporary pausing (7 days) helps stop others from speedy delete use curly brackets ..... under construction

Video for moving pages

https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Moving+a+drafted+article+into+Wikipedia%27s+live+space./1_avxlpfzc

Categories for women

look here Category:Women

Category:People categories by type

To redirect an article (eg if name has variation) create a new article in the one you want to point to your article.

#REDIRECT [[Target]]

Help on getting page rated

consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Beeblebrox (talk)

Adding to a Talk page: User:BrandonXLF/HotDefaultSort

Or just add template

https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/ link their items

Don't forget to add template {{authority control}} after Reflist

Templates for Commons etc

{{commonscat-inline}}
{{wikisource author-inline}}
{{Internet Archive author |sname=Ethel Snowden}}

Re uploading image already in Commons: Ewan's training

https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wiki-basics/mastering-the-visual-editor-images-and-infoboxes/

Click Edit to access the Visual Editor once more.
Place the cursor where you want the image to appear on the page.
Click the Insert dropdown menu and select Media from the list of options.Then

Type the keyword of ‘Mary Blair’. [ not in italics or quotes]
Select an image you like [i.e. one of her and Muggins] and click Use this image.
Type a caption [ don't need to call it same as it is named on Commons] in the next screen (along with adding the same to the Alternative text box.)
Click Insert.
Drag the bottom left corner of the image until you are happy with its size.
Click ‘Save Changes’ with an edit summary of ‘Added an image’.

NB: This automatically puts it in where your curser was on the R side of text. If you want it on the L then after typing the caption, you Click on the Advanced tab and choose the Left icon at top,

PS you can use that tab to size it instead - i.e. in the size box choose Custom instead of Default and the first box below that set the size mm you want, the other moves to be pro-rata. Then Click Insert etc.

For finding other links to a new page

https://edwardbetts.com/find_link/... add the name you are looking for

Re Wiki markup Help:Cheatsheet

to ping a user {{u| WIkiname}}

may find Help:Wikitext helpful.

And Template:Reply to, or use Template:u.

You also might find Help:Show preview useful.

you should read WP:LEAD and what needs to be there versus in the article below lead para

How to move (copy paste) from Excel to wiki table https://excel2wiki.toolforge.org/

How to make a Navbox

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates

re WikiData

from Sara T : query service is a really powerful tool, and gives a whole new dimension to Wikidata....

https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/

There's an interview with the person who led the project, Dr Keren Shatzman, here: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/10/19/the-query-service-tutorial-for-wikidata-an-interview-with-dr-keren-shatzman-from-wikimedia-israel/

Images from MSWord

https://www.wikihow.com/Change-a-Word-Document-to-JPEG-Format#On-Mac

http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/ to edit out personal details from file name

From Tcr25 bring the image into a photo-editing program (Gimp, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, even MS Paint might work) and then cropped it so that the excess whitespace caused during scanning was removed. With the Corbett image I had to upload it as a new file since the original was a PDF, not JPG

creating an archive

Help:Archiving a source

for wikidata to page

https://magnustools.toolforge.org/prepbio.php

for checking sources are reliable

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources

for other Tools and gadgets

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Gadgets_and_Tools_for_Wikipedia_and_Wikicommons_-_Wellington_WikiCon_2023.pdf

for Scot writing training

https://www.scotslanguage.com/pages/view/id/8

https://www.scotslanguage.com/scots-warks