A hands-on session at Spoton 2013 facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis and Toni Sant, Wikimedia UK / Hull University Twitter hashtag: #solo13wiki Slides Wikipedia Editing : A Hands-on Workshop at SpotOn 2013 SpotOn 2013 , etc. available at http://bit.ly/solo13wiki
Slides for an hour-long workshop on Wikipedia Editing facilitated by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of Bolton and Toni Sant at the SpotOn 2013 conference from 14.30-15.30 on Saturday 9 November 2013.
See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/spoton-2013-wikipedia-editing-workshop/ or http://www.nature.com/spoton/event/spoton-london-2013-wikipedia-editing-workshop/
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A hands-on session at Spoton 2013 facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis and Toni Sant, Wikimedia UK / Hull University
Twitter hashtag: #solo13wiki
Slides available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) licence
Wikipedia Editing : A Hands-on Workshop at SpotOn 2013
SpotOn 2013
Slides, etc. available at http://bit.ly/solo13wiki
Wikipedia provides an ideal tool for making information about science more readily accessible to a wide community, ranging from school children, the general public with an interest in science and policy makers as well as other scientists.
This session will provide an opportunity for those who may be new to Wikipedia to create a Wikipedia profile and even update existing Wikipedia articles.
In this workshop participants will edit and perhaps even create Wikipedia pages. Please bring a laptop or wifi enabled device.
wikipedia.org (or http://tinyurl.com/SpotOnWiki) and click on Register link
• Complete registration details
You then have the option to:• Fix spelling mistakes & grammatical errors• Improve the clarity of a page• Add links to pages• Other tasks, such as create your user profile
NB: You’ll need to make > 9 edits before you can
create a new article.
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Click on your username
Creating Your User Profile
The user profile page doesn’t exist so create it
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==Brief Intro==I am the '''Innovation Advocate''' at [[CETIS]], the ''Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards'' based at the [[University of Bolton]]. I started this new role on 28 October 2013.
===About The UKWebFocus Username===From 1996-July 2013 I worked at UKOLN and my job title was '''UK Web Focus'''. I have used that name for a number of social media accounts.
==Engaging with the Wikimedia community==I created my first [[Wikipedia]] article, on [[Rapper Sword]] dancing, in 2004. I have created and edited a number of other articles since then including articles on [[Amplified conference]]s and [[Microattribution]]. I have written a number of [http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/category/wikipedia-2/ blog posts about Wikipedia] on my [http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ UK Web Focus blog].
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Link to Web site
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Basic Wikipedia Edit Syntax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ukwebfocus
NB: There is also a WYSIWYG interface for editing
Link to Wikipedia article
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Userbox {{userboxtop|}}{{Template:User time zone|UTC+1|watch}}{{User United Kingdom}}{{User Wikipedian For|year=2013|month=11|day=06}}{{userboxbottom}}
==Brief Intro==I am the '''Innovation Advocate''' at [[CETIS]], the ''Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards'' based at the [[University of Bolton]]. I started this new role on 28 October 2013.
===About The UKWebFocus Username===From 1996-July 2013 I worked at UKOLN and my job title was '''UK Web Focus'''. I have used that name for a number of social media accounts.
You should now have a Wikipedia account and user profile page
Feel free to continue editing
Some optional topics which can be addressed: • Strategies for creating a new article • Key principles for content• The five pillars of Wikipedia• About Wikipedia• About the Wikimedia Foundation• About Wikimedia Projects• References in Wikipedia Articles
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Strategies for Creating New Articles (1)
When creating or editing Wikipedia articles you can:
• Engage with this new community with care
• Check proposed changes carefully with your peers & Wikipedia experts
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Strategies for Creating New Articles (2)
Alternatively when creating or editing Wikipedia articles you can:
• Be bold!• Make changes – and see if they stick• Engage in discussions with others, but
be prepared to argue your corner (though in a graceful and non-confrontational manner)
Such approaches are welcomed by the Wikipedia community
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Key Principles for Content (1)
No original research
All research must come from published sources e.g.
• Peer-reviewed journals • Peer-reviewed books• University-level textbooks• Magazines, journals and books published
by respected publishing houses• Mainstream newspapers
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Key Principles for Content (2)
Neutral Point of View
Content 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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The Five Pillars
Fundamental principles by which the Wikimedia community operates...
Wikipedia:1. is an encyclopedia
2. is written from a neutral point of view
3. is free content that anyone can edit / use/ modify / share
4. editors should respect each other
5. does not have any firm rules
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About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation:• Is a nonprofit charitable organization
dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.
• Operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.
See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page
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About Wikipedia
Wikipedia is:• Available in 140 languages.• Attracting 470 million unique visitors monthly as
of February 2012.• Based on five pillars which describe its
fundamental principles.
Wikipedia had (on 5 Nov 2013):• A total of 4,368,077 content articles and
31,452,622 pages.• Seen 661,985,355 edits by 20,034,424 registered
users.
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About Wikimedia Projects (1)
Wikimedia projects include:• Wikipedia, a project to build free encyclopedias
in all languages. • Wiktionary, a project to create a multilingual free
content dictionary in every language.• Wikiquote, a repository of quotations from
famous people, books, speeches, films, …• Wikibooks, which aims to build a collection of
free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, …
• Wikisource, a multilingual project to archive a collection of free and open content texts.
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About Wikimedia Projects (2)
Wikimedia projects include:• Wikinews project has the mission to report the news
on a wide variety of subjects. • Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials
and learning communities, as well as research.• Wikimedia Commons provides a central repository for
free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects.
• MediaWiki is an open source community which maintains several software projects including the MediWiki engine used by all Wikimedia projects.
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About Wikimedia Projects (3)
Wikimedia projects include:• Wikispecies, an open, wiki-based
project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy.
• Wikidata, launched in October 2012, aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.
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References in Wikipedia Articles
References for the Microattribution Article
<ref>{{cite web|title=On microattribution| url=http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2011/08/28/on-microattribution/ |publisher=[[Gobbledygook]]|accessdate=3 October 2011}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|title=What is the Human Variome Project?| url=http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v39/n4/full/ng0407-423.html| publisher=[[Nature Genetics]]|accessdate=26 October 2011}}</ref>
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to create references