User:Phoebe/gslis

Notes for the Oct 2009 GSLIS lecture

Links
Links about topics I discuss:

Introduction

 * Size of Wikipedia: see stats.wikimedia.org
 * Wikipedias in many languages: Wikipedia.org is the portal to all 260 languages
 * Researching with Wikipedia, a quick overview of doing research with Wikipedia, for students

Editing

 * Tutorial is a good overview if you're a new editor
 * Help:Contents is the main index of help pages
 * the Five Pillars is an overview of the major principles behind Wikipedia content and community
 * Policies and guidelines is about all of the policies
 * the Wikipedia Manual of Style
 * How Wikipedia Works -- how to read a page history
 * How Wikipedia Works -- basic editing techniques
 * How Wikipedia Works -- how cleanup projects work

WikiProjects

 * the Reference Desk
 * the Wikipedia Signpost, an easy way to keep up with news about Wikipedia
 * WikiProject, all about WikiProjects
 * WikiProject Oregon -- WikiProject Oregon

Offline Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia Takes Manhattan and Wikipedia Takes The City
 * Wikipedia Meetups
 * Wikimania, the annual international conference
 * Bundesarchiv donation
 * Cultural institutions and Wikimedia issues
 * strategy.wikimedia.org, the strategic planning process for the Wikimedia Foundation

Learning more
Wikipedia and Wikimedia is a huge and complicated place. If you need help or want to learn more, people are generally friendly and will happily answer questions. Good places to go are:


 * Help desk, for any technical questions about Wikipedia. John Brougton's amazing index is a good way to find something if you already know what you're looking for.
 * the Village Pump, for general discussion and making proposals
 * the talk page for the specific topic (Wikipedia: namespace page) or article you are interested in
 * the Mailing lists and IRC are also used, but I advise trying the first three methods first as both the lists & chat tend to be very noisy channels.


 * for learning more about the Wikimedia Foundation and other Wikimedia projects: try the Foundation wiki and Meta, the inter-project coordination wiki


 * There are two books currently about Wikipedia: How Wikipedia Works and Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. Both are slightly out of date at this point (though the basics are the same), and both are free online as well as available in print (support your local wikiauthors!) Charles Matthews and I are the authors of the former, and John Broughton is the author of the latter. Contact us with any questions.


 * For keeping up with news, changes and goings-on at Wikipedia: there are two regularly updated community newsletters in English: the Signpost and Wikizine. Both have RSS updates and a team of community journalists that bring together a wide variety of sources. Planet Wikimedia, a blog aggregator, may also be of interest. Those who like podcasts may want to check out the breezy Wikipedia Weekly. And for those who want to keep up with the mailing lists without really trying, the List Summary Service project irregularly summarizes the foundation-l mailing list.


 * if you're interested in Wikipedia as a field of academic study, there are a ton of potentially very interesting research projects possible -- and a lot that has already been done. See Wikipedia in academic studies for an incomplete list of papers about Wikipedia and links to other lists. See also the Wikimania and WikiSym conference proceedings. Finally, there's a mailing list for researchers: wiki-research-l.


 * If you're teaching students about Wikipedia, the School_and_university_projects page and resources can be very helpful -- PLEASE get the help of experienced editors before taking on a classroom editing project!


 * Know something about LIS? consider joining WikiProject Librarians


 * Want to help plan the future of Wikimedia? the Strategy project is looking for help with task forces and more; volunteer here.


 * even more questions? Contact me, and I can probably point you in the right direction :) Happy editing!

Contact me

 * on my talk page
 * by email