Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence 2013-2014/IHS

Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)

 * Organisation: The IHS at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam provides academic courses and does research on urban development and management worldwide. Its library contains more than 58,000 titles - refer to the Catalogue.
 * Address: Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, T Building (south side of the campus), 14th floor, 3062 PA Rotterdam, tel 031 - (0)10 - 408 98 25 (ask for librarian).

Specializations

 * managing and financing urban infrastructure
 * integrated planning and strategies
 * urban housing and livelihoods
 * urban land development
 * urban environmental management and climate change
 * urban competitiveness and resilience

Why Wikipedia at IHS?
In recent years this editable internet encyclopedia in many language versions has been widely used as a reference. Especially so by international students as at the IHS. For example, the articles on City and Urban planning have been consulted 46921 and 35036 times respectively during last May. For researchers and students wishing to share their expertise the public at large, Wikipedia is an appropriate medium. However, editors of Wikipedia need to understand the special working principles of this medium. In the short course Introducing Wikipedia & IHS we discuss these topics. How should we use Wikipedia, is it reliable? How can we improve Wikipedia by corrections and additions? And by writing new articles, uploading photographs, longer texts and other files?

You want to start right away? Please register as an editor (user) of Wikipedia by clicking the Register button in the topmost right corner of any English Wikipedia page. Most users choose a nickname as username. If you like, you can provide your email address. Of course you remain free to contribute or not and you won't be spammed. Extensive information can be found at, e.g.,
 * Introduction
 * Help:Contents
 * Community portal

Hansmuller (talk) 12:40, 7 July 2014 (UTC) In house Wikipedian IHS June - July 2014 (IHS Wikipedian in special residence), Hansmuller (talk).

I am temporarily with the IHS to help with a donation of a collection of slides to Wikipedia and to stimulate experts and students to write about urban development themes on Wikipedia.

Introduction to Wikipedia & IHS, June 4, 2014

 * 00.30 - 1.30 PM, 25 participants, Wikipedia Presentation at IHS, June 4, 2014

Hands-On Wikipedia Writing session, June 13, 2014

 * 09.00-11.30 AM, 6 participants, introductory slides, mainly uploads of images, e.g.,

Hands-On Wikipedia Writing session 2, July 10, 2014

 * 10.00 - 11.00 AM, 8 participants, including 5 starters
 * course teachers: Hans Muller and Nigel Browne, IHS
 * worked on IHS articles on the Dutch, English, Bulgarian, Philippine, Chinese etc. Wikipedia's, (Institute_for_Housing_and_Urban_Development_Studies_%28IHS%29, Institute_for_Housing_and_Urban_Development_Studies_%28IHS%29, ,Institute_for_Housing_and_Urban_Development_Studies_%28IHS%29, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, %E8%8D%B7%E5%85%B0%E4%BD%8F%E6%88%BF%E4%B8%8E%E5%9F%8E%E5%B8%82%E5%8F%91%E5%B1%95%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E5%AD%A6%E9%99%A2%EF%BC%88IHS%EF%BC%89)

Donated images to Wikimedia Commons

 * images donated by individuals at the Instute
 * old slides by lecturers showing slums in Third World countries were uploaded to w:commons:Category:Images from the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies.

Further information
can be found at, e.g.,
 * Tutorial
 * Wikipedia Help overview
 * Help:Cheatsheet (discussed at the session)

Wikipedia articles on urban development
What is there already? List compiled by Nigel Browne (Information Manager, IHS)


 * WikiProject Urban studies and planning
 * WikiProject Cities
 * City
 * List of cities in the Netherlands by province
 * Talk:World%27s largest cities
 * Global city
 * Water management in Dhaka
 * Urban resilience
 * Strategic urban planning
 * Urbanization by country
 * Urbanization in China
 * Urban planning in China
 * Urbanisation in India
 * Housing in India
 * Manual scavenging
 * Waste picker
 * Bezwada Wilson
 * Orangi Pilot Project
 * Integrated urban water management in Medell%C3%ADn, Colombia
 * Urban water management in Bogot%C3%A1, Colombia
 * Public housing
 * Environment & Urbanization (Journal)
 * Images of slums

Wikipedia articles corrected or created in this project
E.g.,
 * 1 El Salvador, List of slums, Ahmedabad, Samvedana,  History of Kolkata,  Pilkhana, Kolkata,  Bucaramanga, Vadodara, Slum, Institute_for_Housing_and_Urban_Development_Studies_%28IHS%29,
 * 11 Institute_for_Housing_and_Urban_Development_Studies_%28IHS%29, Institute_for_Housing_and_Urban_Development_Studies_%28IHS%29, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, %E8%8D%B7%E5%85%B0%E4%BD%8F%E6%88%BF%E4%B8%8E%E5%9F%8E%E5%B8%82%E5%8F%91%E5%B1%95%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E5%AD%A6%E9%99%A2%EF%BC%88IHS%EF%BC%89, Urban competitiveness not yet,

Invitation to contribute images and texts
We would like to extend an invitation also to IHS alumni to join this project by contributing your photographs relevant to urban studies or your improvements to Wikipedia-articles. Perhaps you like to share for instance images from your city or town based on the following general themes covering each city or town:
 * 1) Living in the city
 * 2) Urban land
 * 3) The Urban Economy
 * 4) Urban Infrastructure
 * 5) City Planning and Development and
 * 6) Cities and Climate Change which  more or less correspond to the six specializations mentioned above.

Join and upload photographs

 * If you want to join, it is important that you register on Wikipedia and become a "user" (editor). Just click at the button "Create account" in the upper right of any English Wikipedia-page. Registering does not oblige you to anything. Most users choose a nickname as username. If you like, you can provide your email address. Then Wikimedia can send you a notice when some one wants to contact you on yout Talk page (button in bar at the top right after registering) on Wikipedia. No, you will not be spammed!
 * If you subsequently want to upload your photograph - if it is not a duplicate - to Wikipedia, you can click “Upload file” under Tools in the left column menu on each Wikipedia page. Your image will be added to Wikipedia's image database called Wikimedia Commons. In the upload procedure you will be asked in what category your image should be put, e.g., Illuminated buildings in Bangalore etc.. You can search beforehand in Wikimedia Commons to find out whether your image adds information and in what category it belongs. Please give your photo a descriptive distinguishing filename on Wikimedia Commons.
 * But alternatively you can put your photograph in the category Images from the Institute for Housing and Development Studies if this is easier to you. Then we shall subsequently sort your image in appropriate categories.

We are curious what IHS alumni and others have to contribute in terms of urban images….

Nigel Browne (Information Manager) and Hans Muller (IHS Wikipedian in Special Residence, June-July 2014)

Further information
can be found at:


 * Wikipedia Crash course and links therein
 * Wikipedia Help overview
 * Presentation slides, IHS, 4 June 2014

Technical links

 * Removing bad tags from IHS Wikipedia article?