Presentation by Brian Kelly, UKOLN on 25 October 2012 for an Open Access Week event at the University of Exeter 1 Talk by Brian Kelly, Cetis on 15 May 2014 at the CILIP Wales conference Editing Wikipedia: Why You Should and How You Can Support Your Users Event hashtag: #cilipw14
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Editing Wikipedia: Why You Should and How You Can Support Your Users
Slides for a talk on "Editing Wikipedia: Why You Should and How You Can Support Your Users" to be given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis at the CILIP Wales 2014 conference in Cardiff on 15 May 2014.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/cilip-wales-2014-editing-wikipedia/ and http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/top-wikipedia-tips-for-librarians/
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Presentation by Brian Kelly, UKOLN on 25 October 2012 for an Open Access Week event at the University of Exeter
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Talk by Brian Kelly, Cetis on 15 May 2014 at the CILIP Wales conference
Editing Wikipedia: Why You Should and How You Can Support
• Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of Bolton
• Was UK Web Focus at UKOLN, University of Bath• Prolific blogger (1,250+ posts since Nov 2006)• User of various devices to support professional
activities (Open Educational Practices)Involvement in Wikipedia and Wikimedia UK:
• Created first article in 2004• Involved in Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thons
since 2013• Accredited Wikipedia trainer• Regard Wikipedia as an example of an Open
Educational Practice
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Be Ethical! Quality of Wikipedia articles is provided by volunteer effortPlease do not:
• Introduce errors to see how soon they are corrected
[[Swansea city centre|central Swansea]]
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Outreach work by Uni of Birmingham Library
• Demonstrate information literacy approaches to school pupils
• Surprise that Wikipedia was shown
Discussion: “Live edit a Wikipedia entry – highlight how quickly edits are corrected”But should pages be ‘vandalised’ in order to demonstrate how the community fixes such vandalism?Highlighted need to address best practices for those who teach use of Wikipedia.
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Top Tips
No. 7: Be ethical
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Content Can Change!Changes to the Jalalpur, Bihar arty=icle
Minor edit made
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Content Can Change!Changes to the Jalalpur, Bihar arty=icle
This article was proposed for deletion by Lfstevens on 2 May 2014 with the comment:unnotable, uncited stubIt was contested by Necrothesp on 7 May 2014 with the comment:deprod; all settlements are considered to be notable; cleaned up
Key Principles for Content (2)Neutral Point of ViewContent should be provided from a neutral point of view:
• If your viewpoint is in the majority, then it should be easy to substantiate it with reference to commonly accepted reference texts;
• If your viewpoint is held by a significant minority, then it should be easy to name prominent adherents;
• If your viewpoint is held by an extremely small minority, then — whether it's true or not, whether you can prove it or not — it doesn't belong in Wikipedia, except perhaps in some ancillary article.
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No. 9: Understand the Wikipedia principles
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Supporting Others
About a training course – see http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/lilac-2014-getting-to-grips-with-wikipedia/
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Supporting OthersApproaches to the following aspects:
• Registration• Creating a Wikipedia profile• Editing existing articles• Creating new articles• What can go wrong?• Conforming with Wikipedia principles• Useful resources• Question time and discussion
Structure of a one-hour hands-on session
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Structure of WorkshopStructure of hour-long session:
• About the session• Creating an account: 1 slide.
Now login and do it! (not needed for some, so some moved on to next part, creating or editing user profile based on existing profiles)
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Basic editing
Change examples to relevant profiles (e.g. for sessions for librarians)
See http://www.slideshare.net/lisbk/wikipedia-training-the-trainer-34540111
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Structure of WorkshopStructure of hour-long session:
• About the session • Creating an account• Creating a user profile: 4 slides
Now create a profile using plain text
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See http://www.slideshare.net/lisbk/wikipedia-training-the-trainer-34540111
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Structure of WorkshopStructure of hour-long session
• About the session • Creating an account• Creating a user profile• Wikimedia syntax
(formatting, headings and links): 1 slideNow improve your profile; feel free to reuse ideas for profiles we’ve shown. Slide left on screen during exercise.
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Basic editing
See http://www.slideshare.net/lisbk/wikipedia-training-the-trainer-34540111
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Structure of WorkshopStructure of hour-long session
• About the session • Creating an account• Creating a user profile• Wikimedia syntax (formatting,
headings and links)• Next steps (adding metadata and
finding pages to be improved): 4 slides
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See http://www.slideshare.net/lisbk/wikipedia-training-the-trainer-34540111
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No. 10: Support others (and feel free to reuse existing materials)
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Don’t Forget WicipediaDon’t Forget Wicipedia Cymraeg (the Welsh Wicipedia): http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defnyddiwr:Llywelyn2000
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Learning from OthersExample of contributors to Wikipedia Wales
Conclusions 1. Understand why Wikipedia is important to
librarians2. Understand how Wikipedia is being used3. Gain a better understanding of the Wikipedia
service4. Be willing to update Wikipedia articles5. Create a Wikipedia account6. Create a Wikipedia profile7. Be ethical8. Be prepared for your contributions to be changed9. Understand the Wikipedia principles10.Support others (and feel free to reuse existing
Continue the discussion: blog post about this presentation linked in http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/cilip-wales-2014-editing-wikipedia/
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