Wikipedia:WikiProject Cyberlaw 2010 Berkeley

Note: This page is now here for archival purposes only. The current Cyberlaw WikiProject is at WikiProject Cyberlaw.

Introduction
Students in the University of California Berkeley's Spring 2010 Cyberlaw course seek to improve Wikipedia pages related to Cyberlaw topics. (It's also an assignment. )

They've identified the following pages that they may work on:

Some Wiki Resources From Your Fellow Classmates
I found the following page to be a good starting point for figuring out wikipedia law articles: WikiProject Law

I also found this page where featured law articles are listed: Featured Article Something else that I am using is changedetection.com, which lets you watch web pages so that you know when they change.

You can get a more full-featured editor by installing a Greasemonkey script called wikEd.

Content Guidelines
General Overview

Five pillars

List of guidelines

Manual of Style (legal)

Wikipedia's Three Core Content Policies:

Neutral point of view

Verifiability

No original research

Technical Guidelines
If you are creating a page about a case that does not currently have a Wikipedia entry, then you might want to use the outline structure that the WikiProject on US Supreme Court cases uses.

Citations

References Generally: Learn how to do references

For example, here is a good citation to Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99 (1879).

I made that reference with the following text:

By naming the reference, if I use it again in the same article I only need to type.

Cases: To the extent possible, provide links to publicly-available versions of all court opinions mentioned. A good source of Federal opinions is http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/

Statutes: How to cite to the United States Code (U.S.C.)

Wikilinks: In general, provide links to other articles of relevance within Wikipedia.

Choose a Category/Categories for the page you edit

One of the following categories might fit the page you edit:

Category:Internet privacy

Category:Privacy law

Category:Internet censorship

Category:Network neutrality

Category:United States internet case law

Category:United States copyright case law

Category:United States federal intellectual property legislation

Category:Obscenity law

Category:United States Supreme Court cases

Category:United States Court of Appeals cases

Category:United States district court cases

Category:California state case law

or look for a better category in the Category tree.

Don't let the page you edit be an orphan

Click the "What links here" link in the toolbox on the left-hand margin of the page you edit and make sure it has at least three incoming links (from pages other than this one) and think about what other pages in Wikipedia ought to link to the page you edit and then add such links.

Infobox Templates Some articles, particularly case summaries, have an Infobox on the right-hand side, providing key details of the case. If you would like to use such an Infobox, here are some that may be of use:


 * Template:Infobox SCOTUS case Infobox for Supreme Court of the United States cases.
 * Template:Infobox Court Case Infobox for Federal Circuit Court of Appeals cases and international cases. This template should automatically choose the correct image of the Court's seal from Template:Infobox Court Case/images. You can also use this template for state court cases but you won't get an image unless you add it.
 * Template:Infobox United States District Court Case Template to create an Infobox for U.S. District court cases. This template should automatically choose the correct image of the Court's seal from Template:Infobox United States District Court Case/images.
 * Template:Infobox California Supreme Court case Infobox for California Supreme Court cases.


 * Other Infoboxes are topical rather than court-specific. You can see a list of some of these at the WikiProject Law page.

Previous Cyberlaw Wikiprojects:

 * WikiProject Cyberlaw 2009 Berkeley
 * Wikiproject Cyberlaw 2006 Harvard