Wikipedia:Meetup/Guggenheim Museum/2014/guide

Getting Started

 * Create a User Account (top right corner of any Wikipedia page). Tip: you should always be signed in to edit so that your contributions can be recorded and linked to your Username.
 * Every account has a Userpage.
 * Userpages are used to express your institutional, personal affiliations, and to connect.
 * EX: User pages: Example 1 / Example 2 express affiliation and list articles you've edited or added.
 * * There is a person per account rule. Do not create an account for multiple people or an institution to share.
 * * Your Talk Page is place where other users express concerns with edits you make, where users can have conversations, and where bots sometimes post to make sure you are using the proper Wiki conventions. You will receive a notification when someone writes on your talk page.


 * Familiarize yourself with Wikipedia markup using: Help:Cheatsheet. Practice some of the markup in the Wikipedia Sandbox, a draft space located in the upper right corner of each page, when you sign in.
 * Familiarize yourself with Core content policies
 * Take at least 10 minutes to flip through the GLAM-Wiki info booklet. This packet offers a fairly comprehensive description of the fundamental aspects of editing Wikipedia.
 * Go to the 'Edit' tab of any article– this is where you can make changes
 * Go to the 'View History' tab. This is where you can see a timestamped, revision history of the article. This page also links individual edits and edit reverts to individual Usernames. Every time you edit a page, a record will be made here.
 * Go back to the 'Edit' tab of any article and make a few cosmetic changes. Click 'save' and the results will immediately appear.
 * You are now ready to begin adding content and references!

Standards in ALL articles

 * Name of subject bolded on first use
 * General topic sentence stating the historical importance of the article's topic.
 * References, and a reference section with at least 3 reliable references from publications considered notable in the field or subject area of the article.
 * General Topic Headings – go to Wikipedia articles about similar topics to get a sense of topic heading standards for a particular type of Wikipedia article.
 * Internal-Wiki links (blue links) linking to other Wikipedia pages.
 * Categories (bottom of the page)

Wikipedia Guidelines
Expressing Affiliation - User pages, Project Pages, Talk Pages
 * Policies and guidelines: “common sense model” “principles not rules”
 * Copyrights
 * Identifying reliable sources
 * 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

Manual of Style

 * Manual of Style
 * Manual of Style/Visual arts
 * Manual of Style/Biographies

Areas

 * Getting Started
 * Help Pages
 * Links
 * Categories
 * Infoboxes - useful for GLAMs; some articles do not need infoboxes
 * Manual of Style/Lists - Lists
 * Tables / other templates
 * WikiProject pages
 * Adding ISSN numbers
 * Stubs - articles with incomplete encyclopedic information, but acceptable as articles.
 * Copyrights
 * Citation Templates, or simply use ref tags and include bibliographic information within them, as follows:
 * Example: See WP:CITE.

Creating a New Article
It is better to work on some existing articles over a number of sessions to learn your way around Wikipedia before creating your first article. When you are ready to start your first article:
 * First search in Google and in Wikipedia to make sure the article doesn’t already exist by another name.
 * Create an article by making a red link in your sandbox, and then clicking on your link
 * More help on creating articles
 * Article wizard
 * Naming conventions

Images and Wikipedia

 * Wikimedia Commons is the image site for Wikipedia
 * Commons User Accounts are the same for wiki, but you must log on again.
 * Upload Wizard to upload photos.
 * Commons Licensing is generally: CC0 ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but you have options when you upload.
 * Batch Uploading large volumes of photographs onto Commons


 * If you would like to consult a Wikipedian about uploading large quantities of photos, let me know!
 * Use Case: Walter’s Museum - uploaded 19,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons

Suggestions: Adding Institutional Materials to Wikipedia
Table of Possible Tasks for GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) Editing Tasks
 * See: Wikipedia Loves Libraries Editing Ideas
 * See: WP:SPAM