Trainer: Let's look at a page about a former student and fellow of this college. Using Wikipedia's search box, go the article for "Audrey Richards". Now, can anyone see what this article is missing? Raise your hands.
Pupils: An image?
Trainer: Yes, and images are important for an encyclopedia. We'll come to them later.
Pupils (with any luck): Footnotes?
Trainer: Exactly. We'll get on, shortly, to how we can add footnotes. But first, let's at least note that they are missing. We can use a template for this. Can I have a volunteer to do that?
Pupil A: Me!
Trainer: OK, [training assistant] will come over to you in case of any difficulties. I'll follow along on the computer connected to the projector, but you will be the one who actually saves your edit. On your laptop, click the "Edit" link near the top of the page.
Pupil A: Done.
Trainer: Now, at the top of the text field, create a new line and type
{{morefootnotes}}
into it, then preview the page to check that it is working. You should see a template like this.
Pupil A: Done.
Trainer: Great, now add an edit summary describing the edit, and then save the page.
Pupil A: Done.
Trainer: Excellent. I'll back out from my edit so as not to clash with yours. Now when the rest of us refresh Audrey's page, here's how it looks. This means other Wikipedians will be alerted for the need to add more footnotes to this article. Luckily, we've got a whole room full of Wikipedians! We also have, here, photocopies of the three scholarly articles published about Audrey after she died, as referenced in the page. Plus, because you are using the University of Cambridge Wi-Fi, you have access to an online reference mentioned in the page: the UK edition of Who Was Who. We also have a couple of copies of a book - recently published by Cambridge University Press, just up the road - that contains a chapter-length biography of Audrey but that hasn't yet been used as a source for the article. Finally, there are several other books with sections or chapters about Audrey that are available through Google Books or Google Scholar. Let's assign a table to each of these sources, and see if we can add some footnotes to the article:
Raymond Firth's obituary of her from the journal that used to be called Man but is now called the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
J. S. La Fontaine, (1985) "Audrey Isabel Richards 1899-1984" Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute, 201-206.
Jo Gladstone, (1986) "Significant Sister: autonomy and obligation in Audrey Richards' early fieldwork" American Ethnologist, 13(2):338-362.
Who Was Who.
The new book Pioneers of the Field. We have a couple of copies of this, so two tables.
Google Books. There's more than one suitable book in Google Books, so let's give Google Books to the remaining two tables. Remember that you are looking for books about Audrey, not books by Audrey. [First table], look for African Anthropologies published by Zed Books. [Second table], Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies.
Great! OK, so we have eight tables and four trainers: one trainer to help each pair of tables.
Your task is to see which claims are made in the article for which you can provide a citation. What we mean by that is a footnote that references a reliable source.
You can do that like this, in the Visual Editor: put your cursor where you want to add the citation, then click the "Cite" button. If the source is online, you can paste the URL into it. If it's a paper source, then select the "Manual" tab in the citation dialogue box, and choose appropriately.
It's OK to have more than one footnote per claim, and if you find that your source disagrees with cited material already in the article, make a small edit to the article to note that there are conflicting claims. The trainers will help you with this if needs be.
If you see any claims in your source that aren't yet in the article but that you think you can summarise in an encyclopaedic style, then add a suitable sentence or two to the article, and provide a citation for it just as you would for existing claims.
