Wikipedia:Benelux Education Program/Maastricht University/What is Research 2020 FaSOS

At Maastricht University a Wikipedia introduction assignment was organised in January 2020, in the scope of the Wikipedia Education Program, as part of the course What is Research? at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FaSOS). The course was held for 1st year students in the 3rd period.

Programme

 * Monday 20 January 2020 - Introduction to Wikipedia

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)
 * Use references to source facts in your article. Every paragraph and every two/three sentences should have a reference. You can use a reference more than once. Without references an article can't be published.

Further:
 * Sign your messages in talk pages with.

12 points to keep in mind:
 * add only knowledge that belongs in an encyclopedia
 * add only material that is available under a free license or express it in your own words
 * describe this knowledge from a neutral position
 * add references and sources for the added information
 * do not write about your organisation, yourself, a family member, or your boss
 * do not describe new theories, new insights or thoughts and no opinions
 * see articles about similar topics as an example
 * use headings to structurise an article
 * use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia)
 * do not add links to other sites in the body text, add those only at the bottom of the article
 * use no qualifications (best, most, etc)
 * write timeless (not: "the last century", "next month", "recent", yes: "on 27 September 2016")

Checklist

 * All the information you add needs to be sourced. Has about every two or three sentences you added an inline reference that says where it comes from?
 * Please note: another Wikipedia article cannot be used as source.
 * Have some internal links been added to pages in the English Wikipedia?
 * Please note: usually we link in an article only once to a certain other topic, unless the article has some length.
 * Have headers been used to structurize the article?
 * Please note: in English usually only the first letter is capitalised, unless it is a proper name.

Contact info

 * Romaine

Participants

 * Erykahandamelie (contributions | talk) 08:40, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Group3ds (contributions | talk) 08:40, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * FlorisvanHarten (contributions | talk) 08:40, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Whatisresearchmaas (contributions | talk) 08:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Um2020 (contributions | talk) 08:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * UMGroupProjectDS (contributions | talk) 08:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Datadivas (contributions | talk) 08:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Louisapennartz (contributions | talk) 08:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Clrole (contributions | talk) 08:43, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * SV1998 (contributions | talk) 08:44, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * DigSoc (contributions | talk) 08:44, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Lidwien1974 (contributions | talk) 08:46, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Giutal7 (contributions | talk) 08:47, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Dswirls (contributions | talk) 08:47, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Group4whatisresearch (contributions | talk) 08:48, 20 January 2020 (UTC)