advanced wikipedia editing workshop

ADVANCED IKIPEDIA

EDITING

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

Wikipedia is becoming increasingly:

sophisticated

user friendly

data- oriented

Open a few Wikipedia article pages to use

as references during our DEMOs

Emphasison WikiProjects and

navigation

Before we get started:

References and Citations

First Off… User Preferences

• Apperance, Gadgets, etc.

• Enable Twinkle Templates- article maintenance

Templates

• What is a template?

• Finding Templates in Directories, Categories, Portals

•WikiprojectBibliographies

•Wikiproject Fact and Reference Check

•Wikiproject References

•Wikiproject Unreferenced Biographies of Living

Persons

Sources for Citation Templates

Demos: Citation Templates

• {{cite book}}

• {{cite web}}

• {{cite journal}}

• {{cite news}}

• {{OCLC:5647325048}}

• [[Don’t just say it,

prove it]]

• Fill in as much as

possible

•WikiprojectBibliographi

es#Using citation

templates

Other Languages in Wikipedia

•Differences in source citations across different language

Wikipedias

Tables, Templates, Categories

Tables and Boxes

{| class="wikitable"

|- ! Header text !! Header text !! Header text

|-

| Example || Example || Example

|-

| Example || Example || Example

|-

| Example || Example || Example

|}

•When are tables are appropriate?

•Finding Table and box templates

Hands on Table Editing

• [[Help:Table]]

• [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables]]

Lists

• Different Types of Bullets

<br>

• List Articles

• [[WikiProject: Lists]]

• [[Wikipedia: Manual of Style/Lists]]

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)

}}

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

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]]

Categorization

• Creating categories

• Adding pages to categories

• Creating subcategories

• [[WikiProject Categories]]

• [[Wikipedia:Categories for Discussion]] = deleting,

merging, renaming categories

Infoboxes: Structured Data

[[WikiProject: Infoboxes]]

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]]

Hands On: Adding

information to infoboxes

Edit the Infoboxfor your institution or for the president or founder of your institution

Break

Data Tools

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…

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.

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}}

Brand New: RAMP Editor

University of Miami Libraries,

October, 2013

RAMP Editor DEMO

http://rampeditor.info/

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

DBPedia Demo:

Creating a

Query

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

WikimetricsDemo

https://metrics.wmflabs.org/

WikiDatawww.wikidata.org

•Managing and adding

interlanguage links into

a central

database(semi-

automated)

•Migrating infobox

information to inter-

language articles

•Possible incorporation

of Authority Control,

other UIDs

Break

Talk and Communication

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.

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

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)

Talk pages

• New sections

• Cascading text

• Signatures

• Move conversation if it would be more relevant on another

page

• Watch talk pages

DEMO

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

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

Organized Efforts and Big Picture

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

WikiProjectBannering• DEMO: banneringrelated article talk pages

• {{WikiProject New York|class=|importance=}}

• Article Classes:

• FA, A, GA, B, C,

Start, Stub,

Creating a WikiProject

• [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory]]

• Propose a Wikiproject through the WikiProject Council

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.

Wikisource EX: HP Lovecraft

Wikipedia Illustrated

Representations

of “Doppelganger

in different

language

Wikipedia articles

Big Picture

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

Gender Gap in Wikipedia

• Emphasizing social impact of editing

• WikiProject Women’s History

• WikiWomen’s Collaborative

• Wikipedia Teahouse

• FOSS Outreach Program for Women