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(Redirected from User:DGG/NYPL)Introduction to Wikipedia , This page will be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:DGG/NYPL this version, July 7, 2009
Reading and using Wikipedia
[edit]- Wikipedia and other sources
- What is distinctive about Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Five pillars, Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset)
- A free encyclopedia, free to read and to use, free of copyright (except for some Fair Use material)
- A comprehensive modern encyclopedia, with world-wide coverage, and at least some information about almost anything a person might look for in an encyclopedia; larger than print encyclopedias; extensively hyperlinked and categorized; lists; images & other media; watchlists and other software tools
- Verifiable, with references for the information, to check for accuracy and to find more material
- Open content: anyone can contribute – widest range of interests and knowledge; numerous contributors; Wikiprojects encourage collaboration
- Neutral and factual: all major points of view are covered in proportion, with sources for them (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)
- Uncensored: with respect to sex, politics, and other difficult topics
- Open community: self-governing, with minimal structure; everyone is a volunteer
- Comparison with Other free web sources
- ask.com for quick basic information
- IMDb.com for detailed information on movies
- WorldCat for comprehensive information about books
- Google News Search: for current events and Google News Archive for earlier ones.
- Wikia for details on games and hobbies
- PubMed+ for medical information from the National Library of Medicine
- Comparison with Library web sources (NYPL, available remotely with a Library card
- Biography Resource Center, Literature Reference Center
- Newspapers: National Newspaper Index, New York State Newspapers, Newspaper Source, Custom Newspapers (Gale)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/English_Wikipedia_contributors_by_country.png/300px-English_Wikipedia_contributors_by_country.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Size_of_English_Wikipedia_August_2007_by_subject.png/500px-Size_of_English_Wikipedia_August_2007_by_subject.png)
- Wikipedia's coverage
- What are the problems?:
- Accuracy; updating; stability; edit wars/WP:OWNership
- Fairness; WP:COI
- Poorly covered areas
- Uneven depth in even fairly well covered areas
- Spam
- Where is it strong:
- Popular culture: TV, movies, games
- Computers; Medicine; Sports; Politics
- United States, Great Britain
- WP:Featured Topics, WP:Featured Articles, WP:Good Articles
- Where it is weak or erratic (Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias)
- Classic literature and drama
- History and Religion
- Africa, most of Asia, Latin America
- Where it is too difficult for most people?:
- Mathematics, Linguistics, ...
- How to use Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia)
- Searching
- Wikipedia Search box
- Google and other search engines
- Browsing Portal:Contents
- Wikipedia Portals of broad subjects Portal:Contents/Portals
- Wikipedia Categories & Complete A-Z list of categories, Outlines, and Lists; Timelines,Complete A-Z Index
- Links in articles
- Evaluating an article
- Sourcing (Wikipedia:Verifiability; WP:RS); External links (WP:EL)
- Article history (sometimes an old version contains useful information that has been dropped)
- Talk page - Wikiprojects rate their own articles; discussion of article improvement
- Quality and priority designations (Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment)
- Problem designations: Cleanup, PovCheck, Unreferenced, Tone, Advert, Disputed, Update
- Examples:
- The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009 film) (and at IMDB). Compare H.M.S. Pinafore (19th century topic easier to illustrate) and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- Malcolm X compared with Bill Clinton
- Fairy tale
- Macintosh
- Metal umlaut (video on article evolution)
- Other parts of the system than articles
- Commons: Pictures and media Files
- Wikitionary; WikiSource (& related projects elsewhere, such as Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive)
- other language Wikipedias
- Getting started (Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia)
Writing for Wikipedia
[edit]- 1. Finding an article; disambiguation pages; finding stubs
- 2. Registering an account; usernames
- 3. Copy editing (common typo: "occured" instead of "occurred"); grammar changes: WP:MOS; click "minor" edits?; edit summary
- 4. Content editing: Category:New York City stubs, Recent deaths
- A. Look over article before editing - The information may already be there
- B. Look at recent discussions on Talk page
- C. Get research information and bibliographic reference to source; WP:V; WP:RS; WP:NOR. See, e.g., Newsday? Google?
- D. Edit this page tab; Editing sections; Write using your own words - (copyright/plagiarism)
- E. Formatting your citation; WP:CITE; Reflist
- F. Provide an edit summary; describe purpose of change on Talk page (sign with four tildes: ~~~~ ); WP:NPOV; WP:CIVIL; WP:CONSENSUS; try commenting about University Village, New York at Wikipedia:Peer review/University Village, New York/archive1
- G. Show preview; when satisfied, save page. SELECT ALL and copy before saving in case of software problem
- H. Wikify; pipes; Wikipedia:Tutorial; Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
- I. History tab - see record of previous edits
- J. Categories; External links; See also
- K. Assessment - Stub; GA; FA - Look to Featured articles for good examples; Wikipedia:Article development
- L. Examples
Recent deaths list:
- Anna Karen Morrow
- Béla Király
- Bill Kelso
- Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye
- Charles N. Brown
- Christopher Nolan (author)
- Dorothy Layton
- Hortensia Bussi
- Hui Ki On
- James F. McNulty, Jr.
- Molly Bee
- Robert W. Scott
- Si Frumkin
- Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
- Victor Smorgon
- A. Wikipedia:Naming conventions; Make sure that article does not already exist under different name (Use search)
- B. WP:Notability; WP:COI; WP:NOT
- C. Redirects
- D. Searching and bluelinking your article's name in existing articles
- E. Wikipedia:Layout
- 6. Uploading images
- 7. Wikipedia:Five pillars
- 8. Wikipedia:WikiProject - Discussion page will show you what projects cover your article. You can join. from:Ssilvers (talk) 19:12, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Example Stubs to add to
[edit]- Recent deaths list (see above)
- Category:New York City stubs
Places to look for possible article topics
[edit]Places to look for information for articles
[edit]Getting Help
[edit]- Reader’s Guide to Wikipedia from The Missing Manual by John Broughton.
- How Wikipedia Works by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates
- Wikipedia:Glossary -- our own jargon; Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
Follow-up
[edit]- For the results of the Recent deaths articles experiment, see User talk:DGG/NYPL.
- All participants are invited to Wiki-Conference New York on the weekend of July 25-26 at NYU.
- The teachers of the class can be contacted at User talk:DGG, User talk:Pharos and User talk:Ssilvers, and will be glad to answer your questions.