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An approach to Wikipedia
[edit]Based on a presentation at CCNY, Sept 13, 2011 for
Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/English Composition (Amrita Dhawan)
in theWikipedia:United States Education Program
Introduction
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How reliable is Wikipedia as a source?
[edit]- recognized (within limits)
- reputation
- credentials of authors
- Controls for quality
- Format and medium: online, print, etc.
- Technical quality
- Degree of detail
- Freedom from bias
- Currency of information
- Confirmation by other known reliable sources
- Sources given for information
- Reliability of sources
- Appropriateness of sources
- Currency of sources
positive factors affecting reliability
[edit]- Large number of contributors
- Varied background of contributors
- Education
- Interest
- Geography
- Language knowledge
- Specialist contributors
- WikiProjects and Workgroups
- Screening of contributions
- Recent Changes
- Edit filters
- New Pages
- Patrolled pages for Biography of Living people (forthcoming)
- Quality ratings: featured articles,...
- Blocking
- Policy on sourcing
- Policy: Not Censored
- Edit histories
- OTRS
Negative factors affecting reliability
[edit]- Concentration of editors on popular topics
- Anonymity
- Impermanence
- Pressure groups & cabals
- Cultural bias
- Recentist
- Anglocentric
- Political inclinations
- Philosophical inclinations
- Taboos
Getting Started
[edit]- First Step: Find an article, Look at its history., Look at its talk page.
- Second Step: Edit an article, such as JoAnne Stubbe
- Third step: Start an article: for example, from List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Biochemistry))
- Contributing to Wikipedia, WP:FIRST, WP:MARKUP, Manual of Style, WP:CITE
- Search, WP:SEARCH
- Userpages: for example, User:LaraLove. User:GlassCobra, .. WP:USER
- User Contributions, All Logs, Watchlist
- Preferences
Rules
[edit]Organization
[edit]- Category:Books. WP:CATEGORY, List of engineering topics, WP:LIST
- WP:REDIRECT
- WP:WIKIPROJECT,
- WP:PORTAL, for example, Portal:Narnia, Portal:China
Quality
[edit]- WP:DEL, WP:CSD,
- (Administrator Login WP:ADMIN)
- Category:CSD, WP:PRODSUM, WP:AFD, WP:DELREV
- Becoming an administrator WP:AFD,
- Further Layers WP:Bureaucrat, WP:CHECKUSER, WP:OVERSIGHT,WP:ARBCOM, WP:STEWARDS, WP:WMF, WP:JIMBO
- WP:DISPUTE, WP:ANI, WP:BLOCK , WP:PROTECT
- Enforcement: [|User messages]
- Policies: WP:NPA, WP:BOLD, WP:IAR
- Special WP:NEWPAGES,WP:New pages patrol WP:New pages patrol/patrolled pages-- All Pages, Users, Recent Changes
- Top edits
- WP:BFAQ (guide to corporate contributors) and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard and WT:SPAM
- Wayback Machine archive
Good things
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
- Wikipedia:Reference Desk
- Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
- Category:Wikipedia Wikipediology
citinge references
[edit]- WP:CITE
- WP:RS (Reliable sources)
- WP:Copyright
- Key Free resources for Wikipedia
- Google, Google News Archive, Google Scholar, Google Books
- WorldCat
- PubMed
- Key non-free Library Resources for Wikipedians
- JSTOR
- Project MUSE
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- Ulrich's
- Readers' Guide and other Wilson indexes (or Ebsco or [[|Gale (publisher)|Gale]], or Proquest, etc.
Writing Articles
[edit]- Writing Contributing to Wikipedia, WP:FIRST, WP:MARKUP, Manual of Style,
- Needed topics:
Editing as you see problems
[edit]Further Reading
[edit]- WP:FAQ
- WP:HELP (comprehensive)
- WP:GLOSSARY
- History of Wikipedia
- Mediawiki
key resources
[edit]- the free online version of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton (also available in print)
- books about Wikipedia
- WP:Wikipedia Signpost, Tutorial series
- Virtual Classroom
- Wikipedia:Ambassadors
- NYC chapter next meeting not yet scheduled.
Other Projects
[edit]- Wiktionary
- Wikipedias in other Languages
- Veropedia
- Citizendium
Notes
[edit]- WP as a prefix means in the part of Wikipedia devoted to discussing the project, rather than the actual articles
- WT as a prefix means the talk pages for WP: pages
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