Wikipedia Hands-on Workshop at SpotOn 2013

Wikipedia Editing : A Hands-on
Workshop at SpotOn 2013
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
Slides, etc. available at http://bit.ly/solo13wiki

SpotOn 2013

About This Session
Abstract
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.
Session hashtag: #solo13wiki

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Motivation

Let’s accept these
arguments and
focus on how to
create or edit
Wikipedia articles
https://wiki.wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach

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About the Facilitators
Brian Kelly:
• Innovation Advocate at Cetis, Bolton University
• Was UK Web Focus at UKOLN from 1996-2013
• Contact details:
• Email: ukwebfocus@gmail.com
• Twitter: @briankelly
Wikipedia: User:Lisbk

Toni Sant:
• Director of Research, University of Hull's School
of Arts and New Media in Scarborough
• Education Organiser for Wikimedia UK
• Contact details:
• Email: toni.sant@wikimedia.org.uk
• Twitter: @tonisant
Wikipedia: User:ToniSant

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About You
Who has:
• Little or no experience of Wikipedia?
• Created or made significant edits to
Wikipedia articles?
• Not yet registered for a Wikipedia Let’s multitask
– login and
begin tasks
account?
while we talk

In less than one hour you will attempt to:
A. Create a Wikipedia account and create inform
about yourself and your interests
B. Identify pages to improve and make improvements
C. Identify gaps and create stub articles

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Creating an Account
A: New users

You will:
• Create a Wikipedia account (go to
http://tinyurl.com/SpotOnWiki and register!)
• Create a user profile & add personal details
(e.g. name, organisation, interests, …)
• Add hyperlinks to (a) external Web sites
(e.g. your organisation) and (b) Wikipedia
articles (e.g. areas of interest)
• Add simple formatting

See the following user profile examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ToniSant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ukwebfocus

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Templated content
Formatted
text

Automatically-generated
table of contents

Links to Web site
Heading

Body text
Links to Wikipedia articles


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ukwebfocus
Metadata (based on
controlled vocabulary) …

Bulleted list

References defined using
<ref>citation info</ref>
References displayed
using {{<reflist>}}

can be processed


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Creating Your User Profile
Getting started:

NB: You’ll need to make
> 9 edits before you can
create a new article.

• Go to home page at
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

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Creating Your User Profile
Click on your username

The user profile page doesn’t exist
so create it


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Basic Wikipedia Edit Syntax
Heading

Sub-heading

Formatted text (bold)

Formatted text (italicised)

==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.
NB: There is also a WYSIWYG
interface for editing

===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.

Link to Wikipedia article

==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].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ukwebfocus

Link to Web site
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Further Wikipedia Edit Syntax
User’s timezone
Userbox

User’s country

{{userboxtop|}}
{{Template:User time zone|UTC+1|watch}}
Date joined Wikipedia
{{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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ukwebfocus4

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Ukwebfocus profile Page


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Improving Pages (1 of 2)
B: Novice
users

For novice users:
• Go to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Special:GettingStarted
• Select option to fix typos or
improve clarity


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Improving Pages (2 of 2)
B: Novice
users

Click here to edit page

Improving pages


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Creating (Stub) Articles
C: Experienced
users

First ensure page doesn’t exist
Then:
•
•
•
•
•

Make at least 10 edits to pages
Create it (live or in sandbox)
Provide links to it
See if it persists
See if it develops


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Life of the Microattributions
Article
I created after the
SOLO 2011 conference


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Life of the Microattributions
Article


The article on 6 Nov 2013

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Life of the Microattribution Article
The article:
• Created after Microattribution
panel session at SOLO 2011
on 2 Sept 2011
• Mike Peel encouraged
creation of article and gave
some suggestions
• Initial page created on 6 Sept
• Has changed significantly
since launch
• ~10 contributors
• Significant content from Jan
Velterop and Jodi.a.schneider
• 460 views in past 90 days


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Further Information
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 nonconfrontational 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 wikibased 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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• 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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• 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

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Questions

Any questions, comments, …?


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