Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/LessonPlan/Oct2014

Before you arrive: register your username

 * Decide if you want to have an anonymous identity on Wikipedia, or something more traceable. There are benefits to both, but this is up to you.
 * Usernames are case sensitive
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 * If you have not done this beforehand, you will do this immediately upon arrival at the workshop

Introductory Lesson Plan: Train-the-Trainers October 27, 2014

 * For: Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism Training Oct2014
 * To be used with this reference guide: Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Trainer guide

Introduction: The Gender Gap: Review of the stats and theory

 * What is the Gender bias on Wikipedia?
 * What are the current statistics? Surveys have indicated that a distinct minority—depending on which study you look at, between approximately 8.5 and 16 percent—of Wikipedia editors are women.
 * What is Wikipedia 'culture' and how do we confront systematic bias on Wikipedia while being sensitive to the current, active, communities on Wikipedia?

"Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page: "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and "View History"

 * Every page edit is publicly visible.
 * Every page edit you make is traceable to your user account.
 * Talk pages are Wikipedia's version of peer review.
 * A lot of extra information is available in the "Show History" tab.

Demo: Making a simple edit to a Live Page

 * We will use a demo article: artist Cynthia Maughan, to make a simple edit. Please follow along.

Userpages

 * Click on the "Edit" tab of the article.
 * Write your name and a little bit about yourself.
 * Press "save" at the bottom of the page --> the first time you press save you will 'create' this page.
 * Try out making text bold, creating interwiki links, and external links and pressing save. Use the Cheatsheet for reference.

Put your name down as a participant of today's event

 * Create a time-stamped signature of your username by entering in four tildes in a row (~).
 * Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism Training Oct2014

Working in the Sandbox

 * The sandbox is located in the top right corner of Wikipedia when you are signed in. This is a draft page that is "live" but not indexed by Wikipedia's search. It is a good place for you to learn and practice editing.
 * Titles/ section headings--> Use the Cheatsheet for reference.

Putting in Citations

 * References + Citation templates.
 * 1) Insert a reference for the book Tom Sawyer using the Worldcat entry for this book: Twain, Mark, and Paul Geiger. 1985. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association.
 * 2) Insert a reference using a citation template for this magazine article: Li, Shirley. "Roger Ebert's Wikipedia [Citation Needed]." The Atlantic. October 9, 2014. article link,

Putting in Citations: Next Steps

 * Demo: Instructor uses an article for the artist Cynthia Maughan, to demo adding in a reference to a live article.
 * Your turn: Find a page in your area of expertise that needs a citation and find a source text which will be added as a reference.

Additional Ways to contribute
Adding to existing pages:
 * References
 * Content
 * External links
 * Categories
 * And so many more!

Copyright and Wikipedia

 * Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.
 * Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
 * Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Basic Rules
See also: A reference guide for today.
 * Core content policies
 * 1) Neutral point of view---> conflicts of interest—if you think you have a COI, don’t create the article, post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.
 * 2) Verifiability and WP:No original research
 * 3) Notability
 * What constitutes an authoritative source?

Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

 * Post a question on the talk page of another Wikipedia User's talk page.
 * Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question board.
 * Resolving disputes; Dispute resolution, Etiquette, Staying cool when the editing gets hot.
 * Email  with specific Wikipedia editing questions if you can't find what you need on Wikipedia.

Intermediate Lesson Plan: Train-the-Trainers

 * Images and Wikipedia, Image licenses and options
 * Creating a page, naming, list articles and other article formats, labelling it as a stub
 * What to do when an article is nominated for deletion
 * What happens if the page is flagged, responding to flags, removing flags once changes made
 * Talk pages / signatures
 * Wikiprojects and locating communities on Wikipedia
 * Infoboxes
 * Categories and other librarian fetishes
 * Creating an event page for your event