Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/LessonPlan/Oct2014

Intergenerational support at the 2014 Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon at Eyebeam in New York City

Before you arrive: register your username

• Decide if you want to have an anonymous identity on Wikipedia, or something more traceable. There are benefits to both, but this is up to you.
• Usernames are case sensitive
• Register.
• Confirm that you are signed in. Your Username should appear in the upper right hand corner.
• If you have not done this beforehand, you will do this immediately upon arrival at the workshop

Introductory Lesson Plan: Train-the-Trainers October 27, 2014

• For: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism Training Oct2014
• To be used with this reference guide: Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Trainer guide

Introduction: The Gender Gap: Review of the stats and theory

• What is the Gender bias on Wikipedia?
• What are the current statistics? Surveys have indicated that a distinct minority—depending on which study you look at, between approximately 8.5 and 16 percent—of Wikipedia editors are women.
• What is Wikipedia 'culture' and how do we confront systematic bias on Wikipedia while being sensitive to the current, active, communities on Wikipedia?

"Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page: "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and "View History"

• Every page edit is publicly visible.
• Every page edit you make is traceable to your user account.
• Talk pages are Wikipedia's version of peer review.
• A lot of extra information is available in the "Show History" tab.

Demo: Making a simple edit to a Live Page

• We will use a demo article: artist Cynthia Maughan, to make a simple edit. Please follow along.

Userpages

• Click on the "Edit" tab of the article.
• Write your name and a little bit about yourself.
• Press "save" at the bottom of the page --> the first time you press save you will 'create' this page.
• Try out making text bold, creating interwiki links, and external links and pressing save. Use the Cheatsheet for reference.

Put your name down as a participant of today's event

• Create a time-stamped signature of your username by entering in four tildes in a row (~).
• Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism Training Oct2014

Working in the Sandbox

• The sandbox is located in the top right corner of Wikipedia when you are signed in. This is a draft page that is "live" but not indexed by Wikipedia's search. It is a good place for you to learn and practice editing.
• Titles/ section headings--> Use the Cheatsheet for reference.

Putting in Citations

• References + Citation templates.

1. Insert a reference for the book Tom Sawyer using the Worldcat entry for this book: Twain, Mark, and Paul Geiger. 1985. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association.
2. Insert a reference using a citation template for this magazine article: Li, Shirley. "Roger Ebert's Wikipedia [Citation Needed]." The Atlantic. October 9, 2014. article link,

Putting in Citations: Next Steps

• Demo: Instructor uses an article for the artist Cynthia Maughan, to demo adding in a reference to a live article.
• Your turn: Find a page in your area of expertise that needs a citation and find a source text which will be added as a reference.

Additional Ways to contribute

Adding to existing pages:

• References
• Content
• External links
• Categories
• And so many more!

Copyright and Wikipedia

• Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.
• Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) .
• Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Basic Rules

See also: A reference guide for today.

• Wikipedia:Core content policies

1. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view---> conflicts of interest—if you think you have a COI, don’t create the article, post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.
2. Wikipedia:Verifiability and WP:No original research
3. Wikipedia:Notability

• What constitutes an authoritative source?

Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

• Post a question on the talk page of another Wikipedia User's talk page.
• Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question board.
• Resolving disputes; Wikipedia:Dispute resolution, Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot.
• Email <artandfeminismwikigmail.com> with specific Wikipedia editing questions if you can't find what you need on Wikipedia.

Intermediate Lesson Plan: Train-the-Trainers

• Images and Wikipedia, Image licenses and options
• Creating a page, naming, list articles and other article formats, labelling it as a stub
• What to do when an article is nominated for deletion
• What happens if the page is flagged, responding to flags, removing flags once changes made
• Talk pages / signatures
• Wikiprojects and locating communities on Wikipedia
• Infoboxes
• Categories and other librarian fetishes
• Creating an event page for your event