Newcastle 6 November
editTimes
edit10:00am - 4:00pm
Venue
edit- Newcastle Library Theatrette, Leman Street, Newcastle
Course leaders
edit- Whiteghost.ink
- Ariconte aka Richard Ames
Workshop objectives
editThis introductory workshop aims to help participants to learn Wikipedia editing skills by giving them as much opportunity as possible to practise. It is not a presentation and its focus is editing, rather than creating text. By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- edit the text and format of Wikipedia articles to improve them;
- link articles to others;
- add appropriate references and images;
- engage with the Wikipedia community in discussions about article quality and content;
- find supporting pages about policy and style.
Pre-workshop
editBefore the workshop, participants should:
- Choose a user name and create a user account
- Consider articles and topics to work on and suggest them below
- Prepare a few paragraphs (on paper or an electronic notepad) about an article or topic to work with during the workshop
- Add user name to the participant list.
Session plan
edit| Time | Topic | Activities and objectives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 - 11.00 | Welcome to Wikipedia | What, why, getting around; notability; choosing an article for creation and improvement; sandbox | |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | MORNING TEA | ||
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Editing | Creating and improving articles, summary style | |
| 11.45 - 12.30 | References | Adding your sources | |
| 12.30 - 1.00 | Layout and organisation | Structure; Content; Categories | |
| 1.00 - 1.45 | LUNCH | ||
| 1.45 - 2.15 | Images | Copyright; Uploading images to Commons; Categories | |
| 2.15 - 3.00 | Fixing things | Publishing; disambiguation, redirects, broken links, pipes | |
| 3.00 - 3.15 | The Community | Help and discussions - talk pages, Wikiprojects; the Teahouse | |
| 3.15 - 3.30 | AFTERNOON TEA | ||
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Questions | Answers to questions arising; what to do next? | |
| 4.00 | CLOSE | ||
Topics (_target articles for creation or improvement)
editNotes:
- Search Wikipedia first to see what already exists on your topic (Enter key words in Wikipedia's "Search" bar)
- Choose a topic on which there are reliable third party sources (see WP:Notability). The hard nosed test is at Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Further explanation is at Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia.
Put the topics you are interested in working on here
| Article | Username | Work needed/Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Campbell (Australian political activist) | |||
| James Ramsay (Australian governor) | |||
| Alfred Brian Palmer | Hunter valley connection? Father a horse vet? | ||
| Category:Suburbs of Newcastle, New South Wales | See also: List of suburbs in Greater Newcastle, New South Wales | ||
| War Memorial Cultural Centre, Newcastle, New South Wales | sfr23 | ||
| Ploddy the dinosaur | Gosford118 | see Australian Reptile Park for para needing development... | |
| Davistown, New South Wales | |||
| James Webb (Pioneer of Gosford District) | see Woy Woy, New South Wales for linking.... | ||
| Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter | |||
| Maitland Park | Apples | ||
| Category:Suburbs of City of Cessnock | |||
| Worimi people | Tomaree | ||
| Memorial Grove Newcastle | kantremember | ||
| Marthaville Historic House | Apowellcessnock |
Key:
article created or substantially updated by a trainee participant.
in progress
Participants
editPost-workshop
edit- Continue to improve your article/s and discuss it/them on the article talk pages
- Discuss articles with other Wikipedians via their user pages
Resources
edit- Browsers from Wikipedia:VisualEditor/FAQ
As of 14 August 2013, the supported ("whitelisted") browsers are Firefox 15 and up; Iceweasel 10 and up; Safari 5 and up; and Chrome 19 and up. The unsupported ("blacklisted") browsers are all versions of Internet Explorer; Android 2 and below; Firefox 14 and below; Opera 11 and below; and all versions of BlackBerry.
- The Wikipedia Training Manual developed by the Wikipedia:GLAM/SLQ to help participants continue to use their Wikipedia editing skills in their own time.
- Wikipedia:GLAM/BeginnersGuide with video
- Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- Wikipedia's Manual of Style
- Model of copyright licences
- A Wikipedian's essay on "The Citation Habit"
| User Name | Nice people | Edit button | Nice feeling |
|---|---|---|---|
| This video shows some of Wikipedia's contributors, explaining their user names. | This video focuses on the motivations and passion of Wikipedians, and ends with a comment by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what makes the project special. | This video is a direct invitation by Wikipedians to "click that [edit] button and see what happens". | In this video, Wikipedians talk about the joy of being part of a global community of editors. |
- The Impact of Wikipedia A series of powerful videos of people from around the world explaining how Wikipedia has impacted them
- Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet (YouTube) – a humorous presentation by Wikipedian Steven Walling about the culture of Wikipedia and its editors.
- Wikipedia Vision – an animated map that highlights live edits from users around the world as they happen, demonstrating the global nature of the project.
- wikistream – a visualization showing a stream of edits to the most popular Wikipedia projects.
- Wikipedia article traffic statistics – a tool for charting how many hits any given article gets, great for comparing different kinds of articles at different times, e.g., Genetics (in the school year) vs. (in the summer), or YouTube (with weekend spikes) and Simpsons (with spikes when new episodes come out). See how many people are reading your articles.
- Manypedia – a tool for comparing a specific Wikipedia page from a language edition Wikipedia (for example, English) with its equivalent page on another language edition Wikipedia (for example, Arabic), exploiting automatic translation and additional statistics about both pages such as number of edits and editors.
- WikiTrip – a tool for visualizing the animated evolution in time of two kinds of information about the Wikipedians who edited the selected page: their location in the world and their gender.
| Welcome to Wikipedia | Ten Simple Rules | Introduction to free licenses | Evaluating Wikipedia article quality | The Wikipedia Cheatsheet |
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| This 17-page guide covers creating a user account, editing basics, communication, and how articles evolve and are evaluated, and includes a quick reference to help you to remember frequently used wiki markup. | This editorial from PLoS Computation Biology focuses on how to contribute effectively as an expert. | This brochure helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". | This reference guide covers specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. | This one-page quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands. |