Wikipedia:GLAM/SLNSW/Newcastle

Times
10:00am - 4:00pm

Venue

 * Newcastle Library Theatrette, Leman Street, Newcastle

Course leaders

 * Whiteghost.ink
 * Ariconte aka Richard Ames

Workshop objectives
This introductory workshop aims to help participants to learn Wikipedia editing skills by giving them as much opportunity as possible to practise. It is not a presentation and its focus is editing, rather than creating text. By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:


 * edit the text and format of Wikipedia articles to improve them;
 * link articles to others;
 * add appropriate references and images;
 * engage with the Wikipedia community in discussions about article quality and content;
 * find supporting pages about policy and style.

Pre-workshop
Before the workshop, participants should:
 * Choose a user name and create a user account
 * Consider articles and topics to work on and suggest them below
 * Prepare a few paragraphs (on paper or an electronic notepad) about an article or topic to work with during the workshop
 * Add user name to the participant list.

Topics (target articles for creation or improvement)
Notes:
 * Search Wikipedia first to see what already exists on your topic (Enter key words in Wikipedia's "Search" bar)
 * Choose a topic on which there are reliable third party sources (see WP:Notability). The hard nosed test is at Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Further explanation is at Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia.

Put the topics you are interested in working on here


 * ✅ article created or substantially updated by a trainee participant.
 * Wikipedia progress icon.svg in progress

Participants

 * sfr23


 * Gosford118


 * niftygizmo


 * apowellcessnock


 * Donnison92


 * Apples


 * Tomaree


 * kantremember

Post-workshop

 * Continue to improve your article/s and discuss it/them on the article talk pages
 * Discuss articles with other Wikipedians via their user pages

Resources
"As of 14 August 2013, the supported ('whitelisted') browsers are Firefox 15 and up; Iceweasel 10 and up; Safari 5 and up; and Chrome 19 and up. The unsupported ('blacklisted') browsers are all versions of Internet Explorer; Android 2 and below; Firefox 14 and below; Opera 11 and below; and all versions of BlackBerry."
 * Browsers from VisualEditor/FAQ
 * The Wikipedia Training Manual developed by the GLAM/SLQ to help participants continue to use their Wikipedia editing skills in their own time.
 * GLAM/BeginnersGuide with video
 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
 * Wikipedia's Manual of Style
 * Model of copyright licences
 * A Wikipedian's essay on "The Citation Habit"


 * The Impact of Wikipedia A series of powerful videos of people from around the world explaining how Wikipedia has impacted them
 * Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet (YouTube) – a humorous presentation by Wikipedian Steven Walling about the culture of Wikipedia and its editors.
 * Wikipedia Vision – an animated map that highlights live edits from users around the world as they happen, demonstrating the global nature of the project.
 * wikistream – a visualization showing a stream of edits to the most popular Wikipedia projects.
 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics – a tool for charting how many hits any given article gets, great for comparing different kinds of articles at different times, e.g., Genetics (in the school year) vs. (in the summer), or YouTube (with weekend spikes) and Simpsons (with spikes when new episodes come out). See how many people are reading your articles.
 * Manypedia – a tool for comparing a specific Wikipedia page from a language edition Wikipedia (for example, English) with its equivalent page on another language edition Wikipedia (for example, Arabic), exploiting automatic translation and additional statistics about both pages such as number of edits and editors.
 * WikiTrip – a tool for visualizing the animated evolution in time of two kinds of information about the Wikipedians who edited the selected page: their location in the world and their gender.

Useful related projects

 * Wikimedia Commons
 * The Simple English version of Wikipedia