User:DGG/talks/Charleston

All about Wikipedia - Guide by and for librarians

Based on a presentation at the XXVII Annual Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition held at Charleston, SC, Friday , November 9, 2007, and revised for Science Technology Medical Librarians SIG at METRO [1], Friday, February 8, 2008, and subsequently for CUNY in 2009.

Introduction

• Statistics
• Comparisons

• Unregistered Logon
• Edit an article, Look at its history., Look at its talk page
• Registration

• new page: example: Masayasu Nomura, 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

• WP:SIMPLE, WP:NPOV, WP:V, WP:N, WP:RS, WP:NOT, WP:COI
• WP:COPYRIGHT
• WP:GLOSSARY

Organization

• Category:Books. WP:CATEGORY, List of biology topics, WP:LIST
• WP:REDIRECT
• WP:WIKIPROJECT, WP:LIBRARIANS
• WP:PORTAL, for example, Portal:Narnia, Portal:China

Quality

• 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

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
• Wikipedia:Reference Desk
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
• Category:Wikipedia Wikipediology

What librarians can do at Wikipedia

• Librarians wikiproject: WP:LIBRARIANS

Helping people find and cite references

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers

• WP:CITE
• WP:RS (Reliable sources)
• WP:Copyright

• Key non-free Library Resources for Wikipedians
  • Web of Science
  • Scopus
  • Ulrich's

Reference work

• Wikipedia:Reference Desk
• individual articles
• individuals when they ask, cf. User Talk:DGG

Helping teachers

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination
• WP:BFAQ (guide to corporate contributors), WP:COI, WP:Copyright

Writing Articles

• Writing Contributing to Wikipedia, WP:FIRST, WP:MARKUP, Manual of Style,
• Needed topics:
  • Libraries , see List of Libraries, for example Michigan State University Libraries,
  • Biographies, see List of librarians
  • Reference books, eg. Biological Abstracts
  • WikiProject Academic Journals
  • WikiProject Books

Editing as you see problems

• WP:Cleanup

Further Reading

• WP:FAQ
• WP:HELP (comprehensive)
• WP:GLOSSARY
• History of Wikipedia
• Mediawiki

• books about Wikipedia
• Wikipedia: the Missing Manual at Amazon; [2] at O'Reilly

see also User:Phoebe/book for a book in progress

• WP:Wikipedia Signpost, Tutorial series
• Virtual Classroom

and

• WP:Meetup/NYC next on Sunday March 16, 2008 at Columbia University

Other Projects

• Wiktionary
• Wikipedias in other Languages
• Veropedia
• Citizendium

Notes

1. WP as a prefix means in the part of Wikipedia devoted to discussing the project, rather than the actual articles
2. WT as a prefix means the talk pages for WP: pages

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