Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/TrainingLessonPlan

Welcome[edit]

Welcome to the ArtandFeminism Wikipedia Editing Training Lesson plan.

This is a resource for trainers to use to help facilitate Edit-a-thons.
This lesson plan is suitable for beginning Wikipedia editors and Edit-a-thon facilitators.
Use this Wikipedia Beginners Training Lesson Plan with its reference guide for more links to Wikipedia guidelines and procedures: Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Trainer guide
This training should take about 1.5-2 hours to complete, and may be followed by additional hours scheduled for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon or impromptu Wikipedia editing.

Note to organizers: Wikipedia has a limit on the number of accounts that can be created in a day by one person. Encourage your event participants to register an account on Wikipedia prior before they come. You can also request permission to create accounts on Wikipedia so that you can do it the day of. To request account creator status, add your username to this page. Confused about this? Email us at infoartandfeminism.org.
If attendees have not registered this beforehand, they will do this immediately upon arrival at the workshop.
In the top right corner of any Wikipedia page there is a link to register an account.
Confirm that you are signed in --> Your Username should appear in the upper right hand corner.
Note to attendees: Decide if you want to have an anonymous identity on Wikipedia, or something more traceable. There are benefits to both, but this is up to you.
Note to attendees: Usernames are case sensitive.

What is the Gender bias on Wikipedia?
What are the current statistics? Surveys have indicated that a distinct minority—depending on which study you look at, between approximately 8.5 and 16 percent—of Wikipedia editors are women.^[1]^[2]
What is Wikipedia 'culture' and how do we confront systematic bias on Wikipedia while being sensitive to the current, active, communities on Wikipedia?

Walk through the "Talk", "Read", "Edit", "Edit Source," and "View History" sections of a Wikipedia page.
Note in the "Talk" tab: Talk pages are Wikipedia's version of peer review. More information: Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages
Note in the "View History" tab: Every page edit is publicly visible.
Note in the "View History" tab: Every page edit you make is traceable to your user account.

Using a demo article, make a simple textual edit or addition. Ask participants to follow along on your screen projection.

Click on the "Edit" tab of the article.
Write your name and a little bit about yourself.
Press "save" at the bottom of the page --> the first time you press save you will 'create' this page.
Try out making text bold, creating interwiki links, and external links and pressing save. Enable and use the Visual Editor for making your edits.

Share the link of your event's Dashboard Page with your attendees and ask them to register. To learn more about how to create your Dashboard Program, visit this link.

Wikipedia citations are done in-line with the text, and are automatically aggregated as footnotes at the bottom of pages.
Citation templates are an easy way for beginners to begin inserting citations.

In your sandbox, insert a reference for this book using the ISBN from the Worldcat entry: Taylor, Astra. The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014.
Insert a reference using the hyperlink for this news article: Filipacchi, Amanda (2013-04-24). "Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists". The New York Times. article link,

Demo: Instructor uses a Wikipedia article to demo adding in a reference to a live article.
All Participants: Find a page in your area of expertise that needs a citation and find a source text which will be added as a reference.

Adding to existing pages:

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) .
Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view---> conflicts of interest—if you think you have a COI, don’t create the article, post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.
Wikipedia:Verifiability and WP:No original research
Wikipedia:Notability

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 <infoartandfeminism.org> with specific Wikipedia editing questions if you can't find what you need on Wikipedia.

Find an Advanced Training Lesson Plan Here.
Images and Wikipedia, Image licenses and options
Creating a page, naming, list articles and other article formats, labelling it as a stub
What to do when an article is nominated for deletion
What happens if the page is flagged, responding to flags, removing flags once changes made
Talk pages / signatures
Wikiprojects and locating communities on Wikipedia
Infoboxes
Categories and other librarian fetishes
Creating an event page for your event

^ Statistics based on Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editor surveys 2011 (Nov. 2010-April 2011) and November 2011 (April - October 2011)
^ Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron; Sánchez, Angel (26 June 2013). "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation". PLOS ONE. 8 (6): e65782. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...865782H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782. PMC 3694126. PMID 23840366.