User:BYrover/Heritage studies and ICT 2020-2021

Summary of my Wiki experience.
In general, it was an interesting experience to have a close look on how Wiki world is working and to take part in it. More details about my contribution is described below into two main sections - compulsary and optional. I would highlight only some positive and negative aspects:

+ it was interesting to discover that Wikipedia has several layers of different data and platforms to work with. This enables everyone of us to find the best way to contribute to it according to his/her talents and strong skills. From my side, I will continue to work with Wikimedia Commons to enrich the articles with colourfull photos of good quality.

- Being a newcomer, it was quite difficult sometimes to understand how to edit articles with visual editor as the majority of instructions and videos are descibing how to edit with wikitext markup only, which is not so easy from the very first steps. Even if you find that it is faster and more convenient to use wikitext markup then, lack of guides with visual editor may be discouraging for the freshers for the very start of their contribution.

Compulsory information:

 * Link to the Wikipedia article about Minsk city centre:

The article "Trinity Suburb" was extremeply poor and it did not cite any sources. There was an alert warning at the bottom of the EN article, while its versions in RU and BY languages had a sign of being a starred article - this got my attention and I decide to take its EN version for our project. General information paragraph contained out-of-dated information which was changed and additional facts added. Each addition was followed by a clear and detailed comment about what has been changed. A separate paragraph about etymology of the place was written. References and external links were created from the scratch. Before translation was done, all the Belarusian and Russian sources were double-checked and data verified. Old photo with poor quality was changed to a good one, two more photos were inserted from Wikimedia Commons.


 * Link to the Wikimedia article about heritage ( Art Gallery of Contemporary Art in Minsk):

Some grammar mistakes in EN version were corrected in the article, and photo already existing in RU version was transferred to EN version as well as there were no images of the gallery itself, only logo photo.


 * On the discussion page of the article "Trinity Suburb" description of the contribution was provided with the future changes desired for this project, compared with its starred versions in RU and BY) - Talk:Trinity Suburb.


 * Citation and use of sources: References and external links were created from the scratch to the article of "Trinity Suburb".

Optional:
Being a photographer I became much interested in Wikimedia Commons project. Actually it became a surprise for me that a lot of articles have photos of extremely bad quality or do not have anything at all.


 * Thus, I uploaded some of my own photoes to the following articles:

-         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mera_(Lake_Como)

-         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquafraggia


 * And some of the photos to Wikimedia Commons for the future use of other users:

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 * Contribution to OpenStreetMap, username and description of the contribution - registered under the name BYrover, added some user information into the user account page, translated from Russian into English the names of several main heritage sights in Minsk, e.g. the Trinity Suburb, the Island of Tears.
 * Cooperation with other people, groups - contribution was added into the group of "Heritage studies and ICT project" into 'Questions and Answers' section.
 * Practical relevance and fallouts of the assignment:

There are heritage sights in Minsk, Belarus that are important and well-known not only inside the country, but outside as well (like "Trinity Hill"). But the majority of them do not have English version while the same articles are signed as the best ones in Russian and especially Belarussian languages. It is important to enlarge the English version list of such sights to make it available to the readers of the other countries as well. Having a common history with many neighboreign countries (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, etc.) this will definately enrich the EN cross-historical/cultural articles for them as well and results in win-win cooperation.