Wikipedia:School and university projects/PlaMatSu University of Fribourg+WMCH

This workshop will take place on September 25th and 26th, 2018 in collaboration between Wikimedia CH (or WMCH), Swiss chapter of Wikimedia, represented by Flor Méchain, and doctoral students of the program | the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ETN “Plant-inspired materials and surfaces (PlaMatSu)”. The training will be carried out by Alexmar983, Totodu74, and Flor Méchain.

The ETN PlaMatSu brings together chemists, physicists and biologists for research and training in the field of bio-inspired materials. This research area is not yet well-covered in Wikipedia, but walks in the steps of other, similar programs around the world (mostly in the field of cellular biology). During this two-day workshop, the students will learn how to create and edit relevant Wikipedia entries. This will then be followed by assignments (in collaboration with their Principal investigators) in which the students will have to edit Wikipedia to improve content and/or to create entirely new articles.



=Outline= The outline of the workshop is as follows:

Tuesday, September 25th
How to write an article, with a correct structure, and references, and with accurate templates, and how to use Wikimedia Commons to illustrate an article. With very minimal exercises
 * 09.15 - 12.30: Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (Auditorium)


 * 12.30-13.30: lunch break


 * 13:30-16.00: editing with tutors (Rooms: A320, B416, B425)

The day concludes with an activity organized by the Adolphe Merkle Institute,


 * 16:00-17:00: AMI Seminar : ‘3D Printing of Adaptive Structured Liquids’, Prof Tom Russell (Auditorium)
 * not included in the wiki activities, it could be an occasion to take images for the rest of the workshop.

Wednesday, September 26th

 * 9.15-10.15/45 (depending on demand): technical Q and A (Room A320)
 * until 12.30: editing with tutors (Rooms: A320, B416, B425)


 * 12.30-13.30: lunch break


 * 13.30-16.00: editing in groups (Rooms: A320, B416, B425)


 * 16.00-17.00: groups present the articles they created (A320)

=How to edit Wikipedia=

The basics
Here is a link to tutorials that can help you edit Wikipedia: Tutorial.


 * Each assertion you type needs to be verifiable. Make sure that you add references to back up statements.


 * Your references need to be secondary sources: original research is not accepted as a reference.


 * Avoid plagiarism. This may includes your own work, unless it is published under a free license allowing for commercial and noncommercial use. Plagiarism amounts to a breach of copyright, which violates Wikipedia policy. If you need to use work you have published under a copyright license, please, reformulate.


 * Neutral point of view. Articles should be written from a neutral point of view. You should represent fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources.

A few more useful links

 * Cheatsheet
 * Simplified ruleset
 * WikiProject_Biophysics
 * WikiProject_Biophysics/Assessment

=Useful templates= To be put both directly and between nowiki brackets in order to show the code.

Infoboxes
Some articles require infoboxes. Infoboxes always appear on the right hand side of articles, and have to be placed before the rest of the article's text.

Two examples
Here is the example for human hemoglobin, a protein, on the right hand side is the final result, beneath is the wikicode.

Here is the example for King-Wai Yau, a scientist: final result on the right, wikicode beneath this sentence.

List of science-related infoboxes
For biology :

List_of_infoboxes

For other topics:

List_of_infoboxes

How to cite references
An assertion needs to be backed with a citation. To introduce it in a Wikipedia article, you can rely on the visual editor for most cases (books, websites, articles). In certain cases, you will need to know the wikicode (for citing a thesis, for example). Below is an example of wikicode concerning an article, and further below, the links to the pages explaining how to cite books, websites, and thesis.

Journal articles
To achieve the following note, you can both rely on the visual editor, or use the following wikicode:

Useful external tool:
 * DOI Wikipedia reference generator

How to cite books, webpages, or audiovisual media
Book template here

Website template here

Audiovisual media template here

Biophysics Project
Please post this on the talk pages of biophysics-related articles. WikiProject Biophysics

Feel free to place this on your user page after joining the project. User WikiProject Biophysics

Other projects
For a full list, see here.
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Materials
 * WikiProject_Organismal_Biomechanics
 * WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cell_Biology
 * WikiProject_Chemical_and_Bio_Engineering
 * WikiProject_Fungi

=Editors willing to help= Students: To contact a helper, here is the link to their talk page:


 * User_talk:Alexmar983
 * User_talk:Flor WMCH
 * User_talk:Totodu74
 * User_talk:Evolution_and_evolvability

=Groups and assignments: Results of the workshop=
 * Group A: Bioinspiration (definition etc.) and editing of Biomimetics definition Room A320
 * Bioinspiration (improve article, basically creating)
 * Adolphe Merkle Institute (creation)


 * Group B: Bioinspired Materials Room A320
 * Biomimetics (improve article)
 * Dewetting (improve article) and organized a category in Commons about dewetting


 * Group C: Bioinspired sensors Room B416
 * Bioinspired sensor (creation)
 * Improving article on Distributed Bragg reflector
 * Upload of photographs to illustrate the Adolphe Merkle Institute
 * Adolphe Merkle (creation) (is it group C?)


 * Group D: Bioinspired Photonics Room B425
 * Ipomoea tricolor (improve article)
 * (improved Wikidata item)
 * (creation)
 * Bioinspired photonics (creation)
 * Biomimetic material (improve article)

Commons categories:
 * Category:Thomas P. Russell
 * Category:Nico Bruns
 * Adolphe Merkle Institute
 * Commons:Category:WMCH_training_at_PlaMatSu_(University_of_Fribourg)

=Participants= Please sign in beneath with your username and on the | dashboard. The password is PlaMatSu.
 * User:Jbb91
 * User:Yapadaryko
 * User:HaNeulChae
 * User:CoviCadroni
 * User:Mirela647351
 * User:Venk biome
 * User:Phulzar
 * User:Chemicus73
 * User:AntonioG AMI
 * User:Gea123
 * User:Masterofdewetting
 * User:Jordanferria

=Further reading =
 * Wikipedia Editing for Academicians - by Dr. Thomas Shafee
 * Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia - A beginners guide published by PLOS Comp Biol
 * Introduction to editing - a series of 5-10 minute tutorials
 * Getting started - A collection of useful links for new editors

=References=