User:Hilke Arijs/sandbox

SOIMA 2017 SOIMA 2017 takes places from 9 July until 23 July 2017 at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. During the course 2 90 min. sessions are dedicated to online access of audiovisual collections through Wikimedia platforms.

Session Overview

 * Digitization of photographic materials
 * Introduction to Wikimedia and the Wikimedia platforms: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiki Data
 * Advantages for GLAM institutions in collaborating with Wikimedia
 * Hands-on
 * Wrap-up

Handy links

 * Tutorial
 * Cheatsheet with basic wikisyntax
 * Annotated article
 * Sandbox - generic page where you can test and try
 * Your personal sandbox
 * File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf

Guidelines
The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the content that you add must fit in an encyclopedia.
 * Write in a neutral point of view.
 * All content added must be free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. (copyrights)

Further:
 * Use references to source facts in your article.
 * Sign your messages in talk pages with.

Organisation

 * Judith Opoku-Boateng - Institute of African Studies
 * Hilke Arijs - WMBE
 * Aparna Tandon - ICCROM