Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism/Interference Archive 2016/Resources

This page contains resources to help you learn to edit Wikipedia as well as information about the site and issues related to its gender gap. Certain recommended resources are presented in bold.

If you cannot find the answer you're looking for or have other questions, just ask one of the experienced Wikipedians in attendance at the event.

General introductions and core policies

 * Welcome to Wikipedia
 * Questions
 * Introduction
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Neutral Point of View
 * Verifiability
 * No original research
 * Identifying reliable sources
 * What Wikipedia is NOT
 * GLAM/BeginnersGuide - Beginners' guide designed for new GLAM editors

Visual Editor
Visual Editor is a rich-text editor that allows users to contribute without having to learn wikimarkup. It's a relatively new tool that has some limitations, but new users may want to try it out.

At the top of a page, you should see two links "Edit" and "Edit source". "Edit" will open the Visual Editor while "Edit source" will open the standard editing window. If you don't see both options and want to use Visual Editor, make sure you're logged in and go to Special:Preferences. Under the "Editing" tab there is an option "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta". Make sure that is not checked and then click "save". If you still don't see it after you go to an article and refresh the page, ask one of the Wikipedians at the event for assistance.

Some of the major drawbacks to the Visual Editor are:
 * Most importantly: It doesn't work on talk pages
 * Templates still require using wikimarkup
 * Some browsers are unsupported
 * There are a few citation template bugs

The VisualEditor User guide is comprehensive documentation for the Visual Editor

Training programs
These can be very useful, but take a little time. Most of the training modules were designed with students and instructors in mind, but can be just as helpful to other new editors.
 * Wiki Education Foundation's student training was just updated for Spring 2016. It includes three modules: Wikipedia Essentials, Editing Basics, and Evaluating Articles and Sources. For our purposes, Editing Basics is the most immediately useful, but you may also benefit from Wikipedia Essentials.
 * Training/Newcomers - Wikipedia training for newcomers in general. Does a good job with the basics, but doesn't include Visual Editor and hasn't been updated very recently.
 * Tutorial - Similar to the Newcomers training, but formatted to be more of a broad overview in fewer steps

Basic information about editing

 * Editing Wikipedia brochure
 * Cheatsheet - a quick reference guide to the basics of wikimarkup
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Writing your first article
 * Citing your sources classroom handout
 * Wikipedia page about citing sources
 * Citation templates
 * classroom handout about choosing an article to write (remember to also see the Tasks tab if you're looking for ideas)
 * Using talk pages classroom handout
 * Signatures - remember to sign talk page comments using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date.
 * Art+Feminism training videos

Beyond the basics

 * Category:Infobox templates - The boxes with basic information in the top-right of many articles are called infoboxes. There are basic templates like Template:Infobox person, but more specialized versions can be found in the category.
 * How to write a great article
 * brochure for women's studies classes working on Wikipedia
 * brochure about working on biographies
 * Illustrating Wikipedia brochure if there are images you would like to contribute

Learn more about the Wikipedia community

 * Wikipedia Signpost (the community's weekly news publication)
 * What is a "Wikipedian"?

About Wikipedia's systemic gender bias

 * Wikipedia/Wikimedia resources
 * Gender gap on Wikipedia - the Wikipedia article about its gender gap
 * Gender gap information on the Wikimedia Meta site


 * Newspapers/magazines/blogs
 * James Gleick, “Wikipedia’s Women Problem,” The New York Review of Books (4/29/13)
 * Amanda Filipacchi, “Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists,” New York Times Opinion (4/24/13)
 * Sue Gardner, “New York Times prompts a flurry of coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap,” Sue Gardner’s Blog (1/31/11)
 * Noam Cohen, “Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List,” The New York Times (1/30/11)
 * “The struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning,” (with Phoebe Ayers)(9/3/13)
 * “Looking at the five pillars of Wikipedia as a feminist, part 1″ (8/26/13) & part 2 (11/13/13)
 * “Wikipedia’s gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias,” (7/26/13)


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