Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Washington/LIS 584 - Knowledge Management (Spring 2019)

This course is designed to provide students with an intellectual context for understanding organizational, managerial, and technical issues surrounding the practice of knowledge management in information-intensive organizations in addition to knowledge management systems, and knowledge management models. Particular emphasis is given to the role of organizational contexts in knowledge management.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline, a guide to help you learn how to improve Wikipedia. This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones, including online trainings that will teach you how to contribute to Wikipedia.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your User talk page on Wikipedia for their notes and recommendations. You can reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page if you run into problems.


 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.)
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. This week, you should complete the first set of online trainings, which are required for your assignment. Be sure to check back and complete new trainings each week.
 * When you finish the trainings, please review the following handouts:
 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2
Your assignment is to open the link for the theme below and review the related UNESCO publications.

'''STOP

'''Before you select your publication, please read this thoroughly.

You are free to use text from any publication that carries the CC-BY-SA logo on their description page e.g. Atlas of the World Languages in Danger.  Please check at the start of the document for the license it is available under, some publications carry a Non Derivative (ND) or Non Derivative (ND) requirements, these are not ''compatible with Wikimedia projects, please do not use text from these documents. The description page for the publication carries the correct license, some documents have been released under an open license after their publication so will not include the correct license within the document. Please do not upload images from UNESCO publications to Wikimedia Commons, not all are available under an open license. Work is being done to upload media used in publications in high resolution.''

Here's our theme for the quarter:


 * Building Knowledge Societies

Next, click the link and explore the publications. Then, select one publication you want to work with for the rest of the assignment. Again, make sure it the the CC-BY-SA logo on the description page.

In your sandbox, create a section called &quot;source evaluation&quot; and provide notes about your findings. While you read the source, reflect on the following questions:


 * who is the publication directed to?
 * what main topics or themes does the publication cover?

At the end of this assignment you should have reviewed at least one UNESCO publication.

By now, everyone should have begun reading at least one UNESCO publication.

Week 3

 * Review page 6 of Editing Wikipedia and the &quot;Finding your Article&quot; training.
 * Look up 3–5 potential topics on Wikipedia related to your source that you might be able to improve. Review the content of the Wikipedia article, and check the Talk page to see if other Wikipedians are discussing the content.
 * Identify one or two sections from each Wikipedia article that you could improve using what you learned from the UNESCO publications.
 * Finally, select one Wikipedia article that you're excited to tackle for the assignment. On the Students tab, assign yourself the Wikipedia article. Ensure another student has not already selected the same Wikipedia article to edit this term.

It's time to think critically about your Wikipedia article.


 * Complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).
 * Create a section in your sandbox titled &quot;Article evaluation&quot; where you'll leave notes about your observations and learnings.
 * As you read your selected Wikipedia article, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these):
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * What did I read about in my UNESCO publication that is missing from this topic?
 * What information here is missing proper citations that I could provide using my source?
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?

Week 4
You've picked a topic and reviewed your source. Now it's time to start writing. Before you begin, take the &quot;Sandboxes and Mainspace&quot; training.

You've already identified what's missing from the Wikipedia article you selected for this project. Identify content from the UNESCO publication that is missing but belongs in the Wikipedia article. Use your sandbox to start drafting your ideas.

Subject matter experts from different UNESCO sectors have suggested text from publications that can be added to Wikipedia. Take a look at these notes and see if your publication is mentioned. If so, you can use these tips to determine what to add to Wikipedia.

| Education publications  A list of publications from the Education Sector.

| Science publications  A list of publications from the Science Sector.

| General History of Africa Eight volumes which highlight the shared heritage of the peoples of Africa.

Other Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9

Week 5
The UNESCO publication is unique in that its open license allows you to copy text directly into a Wikipedia article, but you must add a citation for attribution. For help with citations, review the &quot;Sources and Citations&quot; training. What parts of your source can you copy and paste directly? What parts of your source do you need to adapt to fit into the existing content of the Wikipedia article?

Start copy and pasting and adapting your source material in your sandbox. Remember to add citations as you go. Follow these steps to add open license text to Wikipedia:

| Copy: Add the text from the open license source into Wikipedia. Your draft should still be in your Sandbox at this point. To move that draft, make sure you are in &quot;edit&quot; or &quot;edit source&quot; mode on both your Sandbox and the live article you want to update. Copy and paste small sections at a time from your Sandbox into the live article, saving often.

| Edit: Correct any formatting issues with the text, add headings and subheadings, change any wording not suitable for Wikipedia, and add links to other articles. You can read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Try to link to 3–5 articles, and link to your article from 2–3 other articles.

| Adapt the style: You may need to adapt the layout, style, and tone of writing of the source text to fit Wikipedia's standards. If you've started a brand new article, the first sentence should be a definition of the subject (the Wikipedia article title). For guidance, find another Wikipedia article, and mimic its style. When integrating other sources, you should distinguish opinions and interpretations made by the original author from verifiable, neutral facts. To do this, you may have to refocus the text on surveying the topic, removing interpretations, and attributing points of view within the work. Attributing points of view can be done by adding citations to either the source text or its references, and by adding in-text attribution of these opinions e.g &quot;According to [ORIGINAL AUTHOR], &quot;[QUOTE]&quot;.

| Add attribution: Attribute the text using the 'Free-content attribution' template in the 'Sources' section, as explained below.

| Cite: Add the original source of the text as a reference at the end of every paragraph or more if required. If the text has references add them as citations in the article. If you are creating a new article add additional references from other reliable sources to establish the notability of the subject.

| Publish: Save the changes to the existing article or publish the new article. Add a note in the 'edit summary' box about the changes you made.

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6
If you've been working in your sandbox  to draft your work, now is the time to move it live into your article!

'''Editing an existing article?

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 * NEVER copy and paste your draft of an article over the entire article. Instead, edit small sections at a time.
 * Copy your edits into the article. Make many small edits, saving each time, and leaving an edit summary. Never replace more than one to two sentences without saving!
 * Be sure to copy text from your sandbox while the sandbox page is in 'Edit' mode. This ensures that the formatting is transferred correctly.

'''Creating a new article?

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 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 13, and follow those steps to move your article from your Sandbox to Mainspace.
 * You can also review the Sandboxes and Mainspace online training.

'''Sources: attributing open license text from UNESCO

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 * 1) Copy and paste the open license text into a Wikipedia article.
 * 2) Create a section called Sources above the References section and click Insert on the editing toolbar and select Template.
 * 3) Paste Free-content attribution into the box, click the first option and then click add template.
 * 4) Add the relevant information into the Title, Author, Publisher, Source, URL, License statement URL (if not stated within the document) fields and License (e.g. CC-BY-SA).
 * 5) Click Save Page and add added open license text, see the Sources section for more information to the edit summary.

More about Open Licensing

What is Open Licensing?


 * Open licensing exists to explain how you can use content (documents, images, music, etc.) created by other people. Specifically, it describes how you can remix, distribute, and sell while still giving attribution to the contents owner or creator.
 * Creative Commons provides a set of licensing tools built around open licensing that are easy to understand and use

How can open licensing can help spread information?


 * 1) These distinctions work to make licensing and sharing clearer, simpler, and easier. All of these elements have a symbol that corresponds to their meaning which is easy to read and include on creations.
 * 2) Attribution - You must cite the creator of the content
 * 3) Commercial Use - Determines whether you can sell what you create from someone else’s work
 * 4) No Derivatives - Determines if you can remix or recreate someone else’s work
 * 5) Share alike - If you make something with someone else’s work, the work you create must have the same open licensing as the work you used

Where can I go to easily find Creative Commons-Licensed content?


 * Search.creativecommons.org, Flickr, Wikipedia, WikiMedia Commons

Here is a link to a brief video that describes how Creative Commons works.

To find out more, go to https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/

Week 7
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
 * Here are a few additional ways you can improve your work:

| Add media: If the UNESCO source has media (graphs, photos, etc.) with an open license, upload them to Wikimedia Commons. Review the &quot;Contributing Images and Media Files&quot; training for help on how to do this. You can also add in tables to the article; if the table is in a pdf, Tabula may be helpful.

| Link: Create links to the article from other Wikipedia articles. Use the find link tool to identify and create links to the article.

Week 8
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.