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Highland and Poughkeepsie Walkabout 3

Welcome

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Resources for Today

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Case Studies: Wikipedia and Institutions

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Wikipedia and Access to Public Services

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Other Resources

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Participants

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Lesson Plan Tuesday February 3, 2015

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Registering New User Accounts

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  • 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.

Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page

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  • Walk through the "Talk", "Read", "Edit", 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.

Demo: Making a simple edit to a Live Page

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

Userpages

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  • 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. Use the Cheatsheet for reference.

Put your name down as a participant of today's event

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  • Create a time-stamped signature of your username by entering in four tildes in a row (~).
  • Ask participants to go to your Wikipedia event page for today's event and sign in under the "Participants" section.

Working in the Sandbox

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  • Titles/ section headings--> Use the Cheatsheet for reference.

Putting in Citations

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  • 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.
  1. Insert a reference for the book Tom Sawyer using the Worldcat entry for this book: Twain, Mark, and Paul Geiger. 1985. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association.
  2. Insert a reference using a citation template for this magazine article: Li, Shirley. "Roger Ebert's Wikipedia [Citation Needed]." The Atlantic. October 9, 2014. article link,

Putting in Citations: Next Steps

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  • 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.

Additional Ways to contribute

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Adding to existing pages:

  • References
  • Content
  • External links
  • Categories
  • And so many more!
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Basic Rules

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See also: A reference guide for today.

  1. 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.
  2. Wikipedia:Verifiability and WP:No original research
  3. Wikipedia:Notability
  • What constitutes an authoritative source?

Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

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Intermediate Lessons

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  • 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

Additional Pages

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