User:DGG/talks/Charleston

All about Wikipedia - Guide by and for librarians
Based on a presentation at the XXVII Annual Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition held at Charleston, SC, Friday, November 9, 2007, and revised for Science Technology Medical Librarians SIG at METRO , Friday, February 8, 2008, and subsequently for CUNY in 2009.

Introduction

 * Statistics
 * Comparisons


 * Unregistered Logon
 * Edit an article, Look at its history., Look at its talk page
 * Registration


 * new page: example: Masayasu Nomura, from List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Biochemistry)) Contributing to Wikipedia, WP:FIRST, WP:MARKUP, Manual of Style, WP:CITE
 * Search, WP:SEARCH
 * Userpages: for example, User:LaraLove. User:GlassCobra, .. WP:USER
 * User Contributions, All Logs, Watchlist
 * Preferences

Rules

 * WP:SIMPLE, WP:NPOV, WP:V, WP:N, WP:RS, WP:NOT, WP:COI
 * WP:COPYRIGHT
 * WP:GLOSSARY

Organization

 * Category:Books. WP:CATEGORY,  List of biology topics, WP:LIST
 * WP:REDIRECT
 * WP:WIKIPROJECT, WP:LIBRARIANS
 * WP:PORTAL, for example, Portal:Narnia, Portal:China

Quality

 * WP:DEL, WP:CSD,
 * (Administrator Login WP:ADMIN)
 * Category:CSD, WP:PRODSUM, WP:AFD, WP:DELREV
 * Becoming an administrator WP:AFD,
 * Further Layers WP:Bureaucrat, WP:CHECKUSER, WP:OVERSIGHT,WP:ARBCOM, WP:STEWARDS, WP:WMF, WP:JIMBO


 * WP:DISPUTE, WP:ANI, WP:BLOCK, WP:PROTECT
 * Enforcement: User messages
 * Policies: WP:NPA, WP:BOLD, WP:IAR
 * Special WP:NEWPAGES,WP:New pages patrol WP:New pages patrol/patrolled pages-- All Pages, Users, Recent Changes
 * Top edits
 * WP:BFAQ (guide to corporate contributors) and Conflict of interest/Noticeboard and WT:SPAM
 * Wayback Machine archive

Good things

 * WikiProject Classroom coordination
 * WikiProject Resource Exchange
 * Reference Desk
 * Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
 * Category:Wikipedia Wikipediology

What librarians can do at Wikipedia

 * Librarians wikiproject: WP:LIBRARIANS

Helping people find and cite references

 * WikiProject Resource Exchange
 * Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers


 * WP:CITE
 * WP:RS (Reliable sources)
 * WP:Copyright


 * Key non-free Library Resources for Wikipedians
 * Web of Science
 * Scopus
 * Ulrich's

Reference work

 * Reference Desk
 * individual articles
 * individuals when they ask, cf. User Talk:DGG

Helping teachers

 * WikiProject Classroom coordination
 * WP:BFAQ (guide to corporate contributors), WP:COI, WP:Copyright

Writing Articles

 * Writing Contributing to Wikipedia, WP:FIRST, WP:MARKUP, Manual of Style,
 * Needed topics:
 * Libraries, see List of Libraries, for example Michigan State University Libraries,
 * Biographies, see List of librarians
 * Reference books, eg. Biological Abstracts
 * WikiProject Academic Journals
 * WikiProject Books

Editing as you see problems

 * WP:Cleanup

Other Projects

 * Wiktionary
 * Wikipedias in other Languages
 * Veropedia
 * Citizendium