Wikipedia:WikiProject Women Wikipedia Design/Resources

WikiD Guides to Editing Wikipedia
As part of WikiD we have developed five brief guides to help beginners write and edit entries on women in architecture and the built environment. These guides draw on the vast amount of information already out there and link to many other detailed resources.

* Download the Wikid Guides from Parlour: women, equity, architecture.

Other architecture-specific material includes:


 * The Guide to writing a Wikipedia entry developed for the first WikiD session on March 8, 2015, is here: Wikibomb instructions
 * Unforgetting Women Architects Excellent essay by Despina Stratigakos about why editing Wikipedia matters
 * How to be Notable Tania Davidge reflects on the Wikipedia 'notability' criteria and what it means in the context of architecture.

For suggested topics, research resources and sources refer to the "Subjects" tab.

Other Useful Editor Resources
There are already many other excellent resources available. Many of the materials below have been developed by Art + Feminism.

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for Students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources

Art+Feminism Video tutorials

 * Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 1- Making Simple edits on Wikipedia
 * Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 2 - Using your sandbox and adding citations
 * Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 3 - Best practices and Wikipedia policies
 * Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Creating New Pages on Wikipedia
 * Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Talk Pages on Wikipedia
 * Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
 * Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles
 * Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikipedia Articles

Conflict of Interest Editing

 * FAQ on Conflict of Interest Editing
 * FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure

Journal Access

 * You can use Worldcat free to get citations in MLA, Chicago, and other bibliographic formats.
 * The Wikipedia Library Journals Project works to grant Wikipedians access to databases to help with their Wikipedia work, and reference work, and for general knowledge. You can request an account on the project pages but must do so in advance. Some journals, such as JSTOR, require editors to have at least 1 year and 1000 edits worth of experience.

Images
The following advice is designed to help you understand which images can and cannot be uploaded to your Wikipedia entry.

We encourage you to upload images from your events to Wikimedia Commons so all the language Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects can use them.

Uploading to Wikimedia Commons

 * Images for this year's events will go into the Commons category: commons:Category:Women Wikipedia Design on Wikimedia Commons.
 * How to upload images to Wikimedia Commons Video.

Each event should also have its own subcategory on Commons. If your event does not yet have a subcategory on Commons, create one before uploading images to Commons. You can create a category by typing in the Search Bar: "Category:Women Wikipedia Design/YOUR EVENT LOCATION" Then type in a few words in the page to describe it, and press save. Once you've created the subcategory, you can use it to tag images you upload. You can also put your subcategory into the category: Commons:Category:Women Wikipedia Design by adding: at the bottom of the page.

Using images in Wikipedia articles
Steps
 * Wikimedia Commons is a “sister-project of Wikipedia.” Once you are logged in to Wikipedia, you are logged into all sister project websites.
 * Images on Wikipedia must be uploaded and hosted at Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org).
 * Seek out an image you would like to use for your Wikipedia article on Wikimedia Commons.
 * When you click on an image, you will be directed to that image's “image description” page.
 * At the top, you should see an option that says “use this file” and has a Wikipedia logo.
 * Click on “use this file” copy the wikimarkup listed for “Thumbnail” and paste this wikimarkup into the "Edit" Tab of the Wikipedia article markup where you want the image to go.
 * Press “save” and the image should appear as a thumbnail, with the default right-hand side location.
 * Extras: You can make image galleries on Wikipedia pages. Template:Gallery
 * Extras: Template:Commons category

Images from our events

 * More images from the 2015 events: commons:Category:Women Wikipedia Design

Related Wikipedia Projects

 * WikiProject Women artists
 * WikiProject Women writers
 * WikiProject Women's History
 * WikiProject Feminism
 * WikiProject Women in Red
 * WikiProject Women
 * WikiProject Architecture
 * Wikipedia and Open Access LibGuide and Directory of GLAM-wiki and editing resources
 * Wikipedia for Libraries Archives Museums learning resources, training tools, guide for galleries, libraries, archives, museums
 * GLAM/US GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) U.S. Consortium

Organizer Resources
The following are from Art + Feminism's excellent range of resources.

Meetup organizer materials

 * Organizer's Kit - A downloadable kit with suggested workflow, event plan, and training and promotional materials.
 * Etherpads: Consider making an Etherpad, with the links you will be using for the day, and providing the link to the Etherpad to all participants. EX: An Etherpad from a previous training.
 * Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design/Event template

Lesson Plans and Tutorials for in person Trainings

 * Art + Feminism Training Video Series - Organizers can watch this video tutorial and then use the slides to help lead or structure their own Wikipedia trainings
 * ArtandFeminism Training Lesson Plan - Organizers may use this to help lead or structure Beginner Wikipedia trainings
 * Art + Feminism Training Slides - Organizers may use these slides to help lead or structure Beginner Wikipedia trainings
 * Wikipedia markup cheatsheet- Always nice to have a few copies of the cheatsheet printed out!
 * Advanced Wikimedia Training curricula - Includes "Adding Images," "Adding Infoboxes," "Notability Guidelines for Artists," "New Page Creation," "What do I do if my article is flagged for deletion?" and "Articles for Deletion."
 * Art + Feminism Intermediate Training Slides - Organizers may use these slides to help lead or structure Intermediate Wikipedia trainings