Advanced Wikipedia Editing Workshop at METRO 11/21/13

1. ADVANCED
EDITING
IKIPEDIA

2. Today
1 hr
• Templates, references and citations
• Tables, categories, other useful tools
•
Break
1 hr
• •Data Tools
Break
1 hr
• •Talk and communication with other editors
• •Wikimedia Foundation and WikiProjects

3. Wikipedia is becoming increasingly:
sophisticated
user friendly
data- oriented

4. Before we get started:
Open a few Wikipedia article pages to use
as references during our DEMOs
Emphasison WikiProjects and
navigation

5. References and Citations

6. First Off… User Preferences
• Apperance, Gadgets, etc.
• Enable Twinkle Templates- article maintenance

7. Templates
• What is a template?
• Finding Templates in Directories, Categories, Portals
Sources for Citation Templates
•WikiprojectBibliographies
•Wikiproject Fact and Reference Check
•Wikiproject References
•Wikiproject Unreferenced Biographies of Living
Persons

8. Demos: Citation Templates
• {{cite book}}
• [[Don’t just say it,
prove it]]
• {{cite web}}
• {{cite journal}}
• {{cite news}}
• {{OCLC:5647325048}}
• Fill in as much as
possible
•WikiprojectBibliographi
es#Using citation
templates

9. Other Languages in Wikipedia
•Differences in source citations across different language
Wikipedias

10. Tables, Templates, Categories

11. Tables and Boxes
•When are tables are appropriate?
•Finding Table and box templates
{| class="wikitable"
|- ! Header text !! Header text !! Header text
|| Example || Example || Example
|| Example || Example || Example
|| Example || Example || Example
|}

12. Hands on Table Editing
• [[Help:Table]]
• [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables]]

13. Lists
• Different Types
of Bullets
<br>
• List Articles
• [[WikiProject:
Lists]]
• [[Wikipedia:
Manual of
Style/Lists]]

14. Columns
Go to [[Template:Columns-list]]
Option 1:
{{columns-list|number of columns|
*text
*(usually a list)
}}
Option 2:
{{columns-list|colwidth=width|
*text
*(usually a list)
}}

15. Interwiki Links and Invisible Links
HANDS-ON
• Sandbox Task:
Make a link to the
article for “US
History/Age of
Invention and Gilded
Age” that is in
Wikibooks

16. DEMO: Re-directs
• To create a basic redirect manually, set #REDIRECT
[[target page name here]] as the only body text of the
page.
• For instance, if you were redirecting from "UK" to “United
Kingdom”, this would be the entire body of the “UK” page.
#REDIRECT [[United Kingdom]]

17. Categorization
• Creating categories
• Adding pages to categories
• Creating subcategories
• [[WikiProject Categories]]
• [[Wikipedia:Categories for Discussion]] = deleting,
merging, renaming categories

18. Infoboxes: Structured Data
[[WikiProject: Infoboxes]]

19. Coordinates and Maps in Infoboxes
Hands On: Add coordinates and location maps into Infoboxes
1. Search for map template
2. Map templates with coordinates will put bullet spots on maps
when you enter in a location’s coordinates
• [[Template:Location map]]
• EX: [[Template:Locationmap United
StatesManhattan]]
• [[Category:Location map
templates]]
• [[WikiProject Maps]]

20. Hands On: Adding
information to infoboxes
Edit the Infoboxfor your institution or for the
president or founder of your institution

21. Break

22. Data Tools

23. PERSONDATA
• A hidden template used to store biographical information
as metadata
• Wouldn’t you know it there’s a WikiProject: Persondata
• To view Persondata, you must tinker with your
account settings
…

24. PERSONDATA CONTD:
• Go to [[Special:Mypage/skin.css]] (this will bring up the
custom CSS page for whichever skin you are using.)
• Copy-paste the following into your skin.css:
table.persondata {display:table !important;}. If you are
using Internet Explorer 7 or earlier, copy and paste this
variation instead:
table.persondata {display:block;}.
• Save the page and bypass your browser's cache. This
can be achieved in Internet Explorer by pressing Ctrl+F5.

25. Authority Control
• Automation- do I need to participate or will the bots do the
work?
• 300,000 linkstoVIAFfromWikipedia.
• Talk of adding Authority Control into Infoboxes to make it
more structured within WikiData
• [[WikiProject: Unique Identifiers]]
DEMO
• {{Authority control|
GND=118813250|LCCN=n/79/63767|VIAF=97113511}}

26. Brand New: RAMP Editor
University of Miami Libraries,
October, 2013

27. RAMP Editor DEMO
http://rampeditor.info/

28. DBPedia
•Extracts structured information from Wikipedia
•Different utility packages offering different classes of
extraction
•Modify the dump according to your needs…
languages etc.
Applications:
•Faceted Wikipedia Search
•Geo-temporal article searches, visualizations
•Graph-based interfaces to explore

29. DBPedia Demo:
Creating a
Query

30. Wikimetrics
•Generate data on editing activities of groups “cohorts”
•Use for Edit-a-Thons, trainings, events to measure tangible results
•Available data: Edits made, articles added, bytes added
•Can run for desired time frame, long term, short term

31. WikimetricsDemo
https://metrics.wmflabs.org/

32. WikiDatawww.wikidata.org
•Managing and adding
interlanguage links into
a central
database(semiautomated)
•Migrating infobox
information to interlanguage articles
•Possible incorporation
of Authority Control,
other UIDs

33. Break

34. Talk and Communication

35. Edit Wars vs. Discussion
• Not every edit revert is an edit-war
• Wikipedia is not about winning
• Improve rather than delete
• Take a long term view
• Three-revert rule (3RR)
• Next Steps: Dispute Resolution Requests
• Request for comment, special noticeboards, request third opinion,
formal mediation, arbitration.

36. Talk, Article Improvement
• Writing within discourse communities.
• Check the relevant Wikiprojects for style guides.
Drive-by-tagging Practices
• IE: “Citation Needed” {{fact}}
• WP:NPOV {{npov}}
• Clean-up tags {{stub}}
HANDS-ON

37. Cite policy as much as possible:
• WP:BIO (Biography, Notability)
• WP:CORP (organizations and companies, Notability)
• WP:POV and
• WP:NPOV (Point of View, Neutral point of view)

38. Talk pages
• New sections
• Cascading text
• Signatures
• Move conversation if it would be more relevant on another
page
• Watch talk pages
DEMO

39. Article Vandalism
• Patroll recent changes
• Check the edit history to make sure you're reverting to a
"clean" version of the page.
• Check vandal user’s other edits

40. Deletion Process :AfD (Articles for
Deletion)
• Variety of maintenance templates
[[Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates]]
• Etiquette
• Afd Deletion discussions usually occur for 7 days until an
action is made based on consensus

41. Organized Efforts and Big Picture

42. What is a Wikiproject?
• Topic coordination, larger conversations about coverage
of topics on Wikipedia
• Setting goals about improving article class, article review
and assessment
• Gather advice about how to apply Wikipedia's policies,
guidelines, and essays to their specific subject area
• Wikiprojects Vs. GLAM-Wiki

43. WikiProjectBannering
• DEMO: banneringrelated article talk pages
• {{WikiProject New York|class=|importance=}}
• Article Classes:
• FA, A, GA, B, C,
Start, Stub,

44. Creating a WikiProject
• [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory]]
• Propose a Wikiproject through the WikiProject Council

45. Wikisource and WikiBooks
• Release documents/texts
• Wikisource- upload to Wikimedia Commons as PDF or
SVG, then upload from Commons to Wikisource.
DEMO
• Downsides:Wikisource does not accept annotations,
translations.

46. Wikisource EX: HP Lovecraft

47. Wikipedia Illustrated
Representations
of “Doppelganger
in different
language
Wikipedia articles

48. Big Picture

49. Recent challenges
• GLAM-Wiki is still not incorporated into Wikimedia Foundation-
lack of funding, but also problems with paid editing
• MIT study- there has been a recent drop in editors and retainment
• Widely dispersed learning resources for beginners
• Visual Editor Debate
• Articles are Western focused

50. Gender Gap in Wikipedia
• Emphasizing social impact of editing
• WikiProject Women’s History
• WikiWomen’s Collaborative
• Wikipedia Teahouse
• FOSS Outreach Program for Women