Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD/Visual and Material Culture in Medieval Europe 2023-2024

In the course of Visual and Material Culture in Medieval Europe, academic year 2023-2024, held by professor Zuleika Murat, the students can create or improve Wikipedia articles about specific disciplinary content.

This project is a part of it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università we are leading in the Wikipedia in Italian, fully supported by the community. The same university had other courses running with Wikipedia (in English, in Italian).

See the page in Italian.

26th of March 2024 introduction
Introduction of wikipedia. First steps.

Workshop
During this workshop, we introduce Wikipedia as a learning tool and its essential guidelines.


 * Presentation of the project and of the specific activity;
 * How to respect the copyright for all contents (text and images)
 * 5 pillars
 * How to cite cite sources (Help:Footnotes and Help:Find sources)
 * How to edit a Wikipedia page:
 * How to use the test page (Sandbox)
 * How to structure an article (Help:Section)

Basic guidelines: Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines/1

Hint: VisualEditor

To enable Visual Editor:
 * 1) login with your username on Wikipedia in English
 * 2) go to your preferences Special:Preferences
 * 3) unckeck the option "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta"
 * 4) in the "editing mode" menu, choose "Show me both editor tabs".
 * 5) press "Save" button and the bottom of the page.
 * 6) reload page(s).

Final review
Public review and publishing.

Tutor

 * Marco Chemello (Unipd) (msg) (Wikimedian in residence at Unipd, he leads two live workshops)

Resources for students

 * The project "Learning with Wikipedia"
 * The translation tool

Participants
Students are invited to register an individual account and add their own signature using only the wikisyntax (Help:Signature) below.

It is also necessary to create your userpage writing essential information on your activities during this course, and adding a link to this page.

(Add you signature here, one per row):
 * 1) --Alban Hilaire (talk) 14:01, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 2) --Aurorapadova (talk) 14:01, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 3) --MonicaL79 (talk) 14:01, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 4) --Artolive01 (talk) 14:02, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 5) --Eva Dorothea R (talk) 14:02, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 6) --Sarppuli (talk) 14:05, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 7) --Funkyboogiedisco (talk) 15:12, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 8) --LIUJIAYUE33 (talk) 13:08, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * 9) --CeciliaMrc (talk) 15:34, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 10) --Ainhize Ortega (talk) 08:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 11) --Thomas Gonnet (talk) 11:30, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 12) --Gabi visual (talk) 21:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Dashboard

 * Outreach dashboard

Articles
Articles worked in small groups need to be developed collectively in the sandbox of one of the members ("group leader") before publishing it into Wikipedia. All participants should contribute individually to the contents (all edits are recorded in the page history).

Group sandboxes will be listed above. For a user named "Johndoe22", his sandbox is )

Please note: if you want to expand an existing article, please copy first the source (wiki code) of the article into your sandbox, then work on it safely.

List of articles to be created or improved in the English Wikipedia:


 * 1) Piviale dei Pappagalli ✅ - Sandbox: User:Eva Dorothea R/sandbox - Group: Eva Dorothea R, MonicaL79
 * 2) Sword and Spurs of Giampietro Proti ✅ - Sandbox: User:Thomas Gonnet/sandbox - Group: Thomas Gonnet, Alban Hilaire, Gabija Zukauskaite
 * 3) Reliquary of Saint Daniel ✅ - Sandbox: User:CeciliaMrc/sandbox - Group: --CeciliaMrc,--Ainhize Ortega (talk) 08:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC) (talk) 13:05, 4 June 2024 (UTC), -- LIUJIAYUE33 (talk) 17:43, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 4) Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Semitecolo) ✅ - Sandbox: User:Artolive01/sandbox
 * 5) Madonna de Surdis ✅ - Sandbox: User:Funkyboogiedisco/sandbox

Further information
Please start reading these pages:
 * Copyrights (how to avoid copyright infringments)
 * Notability (what to put into Wikipedia and what not, and how to choose the right topics for your article)
 * Tutorial (how to learn to contribute to Wikipedia)
 * VisualEditor - how to enable and use visual editor mode (easiest way to edit a page, and for inserting footnotes with sources)
 * Help:Wikitext and Manual of Style (correct format and conventions to be used)
 * Finding images tutorial (not all images are allowed!)
 * Content translation tool (may help)
 * GLAM (how cultural institutions can collaborate with Wikipedia)
 * GLAM/UNIPD and it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università/UNIPD (Italian) - other courses using Wikipedia of the same university

Questions?
If you have questions you can use the talk page (clicking on "new discussion" and putting your signature at the end.

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