Information Architecture Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Training Guide
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
3 likes•1,269 views
IA in Wikipedia Presentation at 2015 IA Summit, Minneapolis, MN, April 25, 2015.
Recommended
More Related Content
Similar to Information Architecture Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Training Guide
Similar to Information Architecture Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Training Guide (20)
More from Noreen Whysel
More from Noreen Whysel (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Information Architecture Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Training Guide
- 1. IA in Wikipedia Join WikiProjects Information Architecture and Help Make IA Discoverable Noreen Y. Whysel OWASP Community Manager Wikipedia User:nwhysel nwhysel@gmail.com @nwhysel
- 2. • Introduction: Cybersecurity on Wikipedia • Information Architecture in Wikipedia • Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page: "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and "View History“ • Making Simple Edits • Userpages • Working in the Sandbox • Putting in Citations • Additional Ways to Contribute • Copyright and Wikipedia • Basic Rules • Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes Training Outline SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 3. TRAINING OUTLINE: LINKS TO KEEP OPEN IA Wikipedia Information: https://bit.ly/ias-wikipedia WikiProject: Information Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architect ure Guide to Contributing to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia Wiki Markup Cheat Sheet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf Help on Creating Biographies of Living Persons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons Article Wizard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard Training Outline: Helpful Links SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 4. Information Architecture in Wikipedia SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 5. • 273 Wikipedia articles • 45 files (mostly diagrams) • 2 Templates included on IA Article: • Information Science template • Semantic Web template • 3 WikiProjects: • Human Computer Interaction • Information Architecture (NEW!) • Usability Information Architecture Article SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 6. • 399 Wikipedia pages link to the Information Architecture article • Quality: Start-Class • Importance: Mid-Importance • How can we improve Quality and Importance of Information Architecture related information on Wikipedia? Information Architecture Article SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 7. EDITING WIKIPEDIA PAGES SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 8. Every page edit is publicly visible. Every page edit you make is traceable to your user account or IP. Talk pages are Wikipedia's version of peer review. A lot of extra information is available in the View History tab. Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 9. Anatomy of a Wikipedia Talk Page – Peer Review SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 10. Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – View History SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 11. Select Edit to view wikitext markup Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page - Editing SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 12. You can enter an explanation of your changes in the Edit summary box, which you'll find below the edit window. If the change you have made to a page is minor, check the box "This is a minor edit." Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – Edit Summary SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 13. You should always use the Show preview button. After you've entered a change in the edit box for the sandbox, click the Show preview. This lets you see what the page will look like after your edit, before you actually save. Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – Show Preview SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 14. USER PAGES Your Turn! Create your User Account SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 15. • Click on Create account to sign up for a Wikipedia editor account. • Use your real name or a pseudonym. User Pages SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 16. • Usernames are governed by Wikipedia policy. • Anonymity is preferred. • If you are not sure which username to create, click help me choose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Username_policy User Pages SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 17. User Pages • Click on your Username in the top left to view your User Page. • Select Edit to make edits to your User Page. • Using this Cheatsheet, write something about yourself. SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 18. PLEASE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO MAKE SOME EDITS TO YOUR USER PAGE... SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 19. To experiment, you can use the shared Sandbox or your personal sandbox. Your Sandbox is a good place to start a new article. Editing the Sandbox SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 20. For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags (i.e. <ref>citation</ref>). …or highlight your whole citation and then click the markup icon to automatically enclose your citation in ref tags. References and Citations –Footnotes SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 21. References and Citations - Footnote On a new page, you may need to create a section usually named "Notes" or "References" near the end of the page: == Notes == <references /> or... == Notes == {{Reflist}} Example of a complete footnote: <ref>Name of author, [http://www.nytimes.com/article_name.html "Title of article"], ''The New York Times'', date</ref> SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 22. When you’re ready, add a citation to a page in your area of expertise! 1. In your sandbox, insert a reference for a book using the Worldcat entry for this book: Alexander, Christopher (1979). The Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press. 2. Insert a reference using a citation template for this magazine article: Boiano, R. (Fall 2011). Ethnotelling for User-generated Experiences. Journal of Information Architecture, Vol. 3, No. 2. Article link References and Citations – Your Turn! SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 23. • Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary. • Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) . Copyright and Wikipedia SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 24. Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used. Copyright – Wikimedia Commons SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 25. Copyright – Wikimedia Commons SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 26. POLICIES AND GUIDELINES SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies
- 27. Wikipedia – 5 Pillars Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia Neutral Point of View Free Content: Anyone can see, use and edit Editors should treat each other with Respect and Civility Wikipedia has No Firm Rules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 28. Wikipedia Conduct Policies Civility Clean start Consensus Dispute resolution Edit warring Editing policy Harassment No personal attacks Ownership of articles Sock puppetry Username policy Vandalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 29. Neutral point of view – All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias. Basic Rules: Core Content Policies SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
- 30. If you think you have a Conflict Of Interest (COI), don’t or edit create the article. Ask someone else. Find a related article and use the Talk page to request the article. This includes Person pages, Companies you work for, Books you wrote, etc. Basic Rules: Conflict of Interest SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 31. Verifiability – Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that information comes from a reliable source. Basic Rules: Core Content Policies SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
- 32. If available, academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources. Other reliable sources include: • university-level textbooks • books published by respected publishing houses • magazines • journals • mainstream newspapers More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#W hat_counts_as_a_reliable_source Basic Rules: Reliable Source SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 33. No original research – Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources. BASIC RULES: CORE CONTENT POLICIESBasic Rules: Core Content Policies SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
- 34. BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY What if notability guidelines reproduce structural sexism and racism? How can we address and amend this? Who are we leaving out? Basic Rules: Notability SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 35. BASIC RULES: NOTABILITYContent Guidelines Cite sources Do not create hoaxes No full text of primary sources Identify reliable sources No plagiarism No patent nonsense SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 36. • Post a question on a Wikipedia User’s Talk page. • Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question board. • Resolving disputes; Wikipedia:Dispute resolution, Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot. Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 37. Over the next few weeks, add some well-cited sentences and paragraphs to articles in your area of expertise. In the following slides, we’ll offer some guidelines and helpful tips about editing Wikipedia articles. WHAT NOW? BE BOLD! SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 38. WHAT NOW? Start Editing! Join WikiProject Information Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture Find an article in need of improvement and add it to WikiProject Information Architecture or pick one from the project list. Tag the Talk page of an article with the WikiProject Information Architecture category. Insert: [[Category:WikiProject_Information_Architecture]] Research citations on a person or topic that interests you. Suggest citations or content on the Talk page of an article. Fix typos and grammatical errors on existing articles. If you are feeling bold, create a new article. Try out your Sandbox! Ask for help if you need it! Are You Hooked? Find a Wikipedia Meetup near you at: https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 39. WikiData and DBpedia SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 40. • Wikidata is a free knowledgebase that anyone can edit • Wikidata acts as a central storage for the structured data of its sister sites: Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wikisource, etc. • Wikidata items link to external database through identifier properties • Wikidata supports FRBR and other ontologies https://www.wikidata.org Wikidata SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 41. • Tools http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#/search/ wikidata • Gadgets https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Ga dgets • User Scripts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Use r_script https://www.wikidata.org Wikidata Tools SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 42. DBpedia DBpedia is the major hub (largest repository of LOD) Information derived from Wikipedia Connected with other Linked datasets by over 50 million RDF links. Most widely used linking predicates: owl:sameAs http://dbpedia.org/ SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 43. Linked Open Data Cloud SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931 Source: http://lod-cloud.net/
- 44. DBpedia DBPedia Semantics 4.58 million “things 583 million “facts” SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 45. Dbpedia “Things” Each thing in the DBpedia dataset is identified by a URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Name “Name” is derived from the URL of the source Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name Examples http://dbpedia.org/resource/Billie_Holiday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 46. Dbpedia “Facts” “Facts” as RDF Triples A “has name” B Subject → Predicate → Object S http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richard_Saul_Wurman P http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name” O Richard Saul Wurman S http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richard_Saul_Wurman P <http://dbpedia-owl:occupation> O <http://dbpedia-owl:Architect> SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 47. Extracting DBPedia Components Core of DBpedia consists of an infobox An Infobox is a summary of article metadata Infobox template: {{Infobox person |name = Name |image = person.jpg |caption = “This is a person” ... |website = http://www.person.com }} SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 48. Extracting DBPedia Components Raw: creates triples directly from infobox data Generic Algorithm based Retains property names used in infobox Properties identified by ??? Mapping Based: maps against the DBpedia Ontology mapping data to community-curated DBpedia Ontology has ontology dbpedia-owl reference SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
- 49. Extracting DBPedia Components Extraction tools DBpedia Information Extraction Framework http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Documentation DBpedia Applications http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Applications DBpedia Mappings http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Main_Page Sourceforge: DBpedia - Wikipedia Data Extraction http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbpedia/ SpeakerRate: http://spkr8.com/t/53931
Editor's Notes
- Today we’re going to learn how to make a simple edit to a live page on Wikipedia. First, we’ll talk a little bit about the gender gap on Wikipedia and why we’re doing what we’re doing today. Then, we’ll learn about User pages and how to use your Sandbox to make future edits. We’re also going to learn how to put citations into articles on Wikipedia. Finally, we’ll leave you with some best practices as you go forward editing Wikipedia. After today’s lesson, you should have the toolkit to get started editing articles on Wikipedia. The journey doesn’t end here, though. There’s a wealth of resources on Wikipedia that will help you broaden your skills as you begin editing.
- Throughout the training presentation today, you’ll want to keep the following tabs open in your browser. We will refer to these links throughout the lesson today, so please take a moment to open these links and remember to keep them open. Sometimes links on Wikipedia will open in the same browser tab as the page you’re on, if you want to open a link in a new tab, please remember to right click (or control click on a Mac) and select “open link in new tab.”
- So before the break I spoke about some interesting things that people are doing with WikiData. We can use WikiData to do some cool analysis of Wikipedia pages and the relationships between articles and concepts. We can also take advantage of Dbpedia, which is a database of Linked Open Data in Wikipedia that drives some features you may recognize from other websites.
- There are 273 Wikipedia articles and 45 files that mention Information Architecture. This may sound like a lot of articles, but if you saw my poster session last night you may recall that my Abridged IA Bibliography contained 1043 resources (books, articles, proceedings). That is enough to support many more Wikipedia articles. And 45 diagrams? IAs tend to be a very visual crowd. I am sure between all of us we have made thousands. There are two templates included on the Information Architecture article which is good, because it means that people are tying it to significant fields of research.
- 399 Wikipedia pages link to the IA article. These include Talk pages and Userpages, as well as a number of pages in the HCI portal. The Information Architecture article despite having many links to it from other articles is only categorized as a Start-Class article of Mid-Importance. (I think when I started this project, it was Low-Importance so we are already getting there.)
- Now I’m going to briefly demo making a simple edit to a Wikipedia page. Please follow along. Afterwards, you’ll start making edits on your own user page. Note: Go to a Wikipedia page and make a simple edit. If you can, show red links, blue links and external links.
- Let’s get started by orienting ourselves on a Wikipedia page. While most of you have probably seen a Wikipedia page before, let’s take a closer look. At the top of you screen, you’ll see three tabs you can select: Read, Edit, and View History. We’re open to the Read page right now, which is how most of you have probably accessed Wikipedia articles in the past. At the top left, you’ll notice two tabs: Article and Talk. Read bullet points. Elaborate on Talk pages and Show History.
- At the top left, you’ll notice two tabs: Article and Talk. Read bullet points. Elaborate on Talk pages and Show History.
- The View history page will give you a complete history of every edit that has been made on that page since it was created. These are open and visible to the public, so why don’t we navigate to a Wikipedia page you’re interested in right now (remember to open a new tab) and take a look at the history. You can see the types of edits made on the page and all the users who made those edits.
- So, now that we’ve looked at past edits, let’s talk about making your own edits. If you click Edit at the top right of your screen it will open the edit page. What you’re looking at now is wikitext markup. Like HTML, wikitext markup is a markup language but it’s simpler than HTML and today we’ll learn some of the basics. On the lesson plan and in the handout distributed, there are resources for learning how to write in wikitext markup.
- Once you’ve created an edit, it’s good etiquette to add a summary of your edits. This could be as simple as entering “added citation.” This summary will appear on the history of the page for other users to easily assess. If you have made a minor change (like fixing a spelling or grammatical error), you can check the box “This is a minor edit.”
- When you’re entering your edits, it is also best practice to use the “Show Preview” button. This will allow you to see how your edits will appear on the page before you actually save them. This is particularly helpful when you’re still learning about wiki markup.
- Your user page is a way to describe your background and discuss what types of pages you are interested in working on. It also contains a Talk page and a Sandbox for testing out page edits and draft pages. Your Talk page may also be used as a way to communicate with you. If you belong to any wikiprojects or task forces, you may get messages here.
- Let’s start by making some simple edits to your Userpage. Your userpage is there to give basic information, if you wish, about yourself or your Wikimedia-related activities. If you haven’t already, at this point, you should select “Log-in” at the top right of your page. If you haven’t yet created a Wikipedia account, please raise your hand and someone will come around and help you out.
- Wikipedia’s username policy is a detailed document with information on selecting a username that complies with policy. Some usernames may not be allowed, so check here to be sure that your username is acceptable.
- Once you’ve logged in, you can click on your Username in the top left to view your User Page. As with any other page, you’ll select “Edit” to make changes to your userpage. On the screen right now, you’ll see my rather sparse user page as an example.
- I’m going to open up my page right now and make an edit along with you. You can use the cheatsheet on the lesson plan or the hand-out we passed around earlier to write something about yourself. Experiment with using bold and italics. If you have any questions, please raise your hand and someone will come around and help you.
- Your sandbox is like a giant blank space in which you can practice editing. The link to your sandbox appears at the top of your screen, next to your Talk page. You can select edit here. Over the next few weeks, as you familiarize yourself with Wikipedia, I suggest copying and pasting mark-up from other pages and adding it here so you can practice using wiki markup. For example, today we’re going to use your sandboxes to practice adding references and citations. But first let’s learn a little bit more about references and citations.
- Adding citations is one of the simplest ways that you can contribute to Wikipedia. Working to make sure that articles are well-cited ensures that they don’t get deleted, and also offers further avenues for research for the Wikipedia user. For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags (i.e. <ref>citation</ref>). OR highlight your whole citation and then click the markup icon to automatically enclose your citation in ref tags.
- On a new page, you may need to create a section usually named "Notes" or "References" near the end of the page: == Notes == <references /> OR == Notes == {{Reflist}}
- Now let’s take a few minutes to add two references to your Sandbox. The first entry you’ll see above is a book and you can find the link to its World Cat entry on the Lesson plan for today. I’m going to open up my Sandbox and edit along with you, so feel free to take a look as you add your own citation. Now, let’s try to insert a reference using a citation template for this magazine article. Again, I will edit along with you. So, let’s start by navigating to the Lesson Plan again where we’ll find a link to the citation templates as well as a link to the article. Now that we’ve added two citations to our sandbox, take a moment to think about a page in your area of expertise that might benefit from having a reference. I’m going to go to Pipilotti Rist’s page as I know there’s a section where references are needed…
- For many of you this may seem like a no-brainer but I do think it’s important to reiterate that you should not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary when editing Wikipedia articles. Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) .
- Every image in Wikimedia Commons has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released, or if it is not feely usable, the rationale under which it can be used. If you select “Use this file” it will open up a dialog box that will help you use the file on Wikipedia or on the open web.
- If you select “use this file on the web,” you can download the file and also properly cite it. All of the images I’ve used in this presentation are downloaded from Wikimedia Commons.
- While you’re taking about five to ten minutes to add a citation to a page in your area of expertise, facilitators will walk around and help you. If you have a question or you get stuck, please feel free to raise your hand so that we can be sure we address your questions. At this point, if you are new to editing Wikipedia you may want to work in your sandbox or stick to simple typo and grammar edits on a page for now. If you are comfortable you may wish to add some citations to WikiProject Information Architecture next to an article name. You or another editor can use this collection of citations later on to improve an existing site or add to a new one. Over the next several slides, we’ll introduce you to some guidelines and helpful tips about editing Wikipedia articles. We’ll touch on conflict of interest, notability, copyright, and image use in editing.
- Wikipedia Conduct policies govern how editors behave within the Wikipedia Community. Be Excellent to Each Other. And other rules you learned in Kindergarten.
- Wikipedia Conduct policies govern how editors behave within the Wikipedia Community. Be Excellent to Each Other. And other rules you learned in Kindergarten.
- Now let’s take a moment to talk about some of the basic rules of Wikipedia editing. We’ll start by discussing the three main core content policies. The first main rule is that you should write all articles with a neutral point of view. Of course all editors will have their own point of view. But, we should all should strive in good faith to provide complete information, and not to promote one particular point of view over another. Avoid stating opinions as facts. Avoid stating seriously contested assertions as facts. Avoid stating facts as opinions. Prefer nonjudgmental language. Indicate the relative prominence of opposing views.
- One of the other important guidelines you should keep in mind is that you should not edit pages that represent a conflict of interest. COI editing involves contributing to Wikipedia to promote your own interests, including your business or financial interests, or those of your external relationships, such as with family, friends or employers. So, for example, even though I might notice a number of problem’s with OWASP’s Wikipedia page, because I work there, I would not edit the page. Instead, I might suggest changes on the talk page.
- All content must be verifiable. According to Wikipedia’s guidelines, the burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing a citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution. This is why we started today’s lesson with some instruction on adding references and citations to Wikipedia. It is one of the most important tools in your toolkit. As you create articles on Wikipedia, verifying the information you add will help ensure your articles don’t get challenged or, worse, deleted.
- Source material must have been published, the definition of which for our purposes is "made available to the public in some form.“ Unpublished materials are not considered reliable. Editors should also use sources that directly support the material presented in an article and are appropriate to the claims made. Note: Read some of the reliable sources on-screen.
- To demonstrate that you are not adding Original Research, you must be able to cite reliable, published sources that are directly related to the topic of the article, and directly support the material being presented. So, let’s just say I’m an academic and I’m working on a paper that is not yet published about how Nashville is the most feminist show on television. Without being able to support this thesis with published essays, articles, or books, I cannot enter this into the Wikipedia page for Nashville.
- According to Wikipedia’s guidelines, "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material.[1] So let’s unpack that a little bit: "Reliable" means sources need editorial integrity to allow verifiable evaluation of notability, per the reliable source guideline. Sources may encompass published works in all forms and media, and in any language. Availability of secondary sources covering the subject is a good test for notability. "Sources"[2] should be secondary sources, as those provide the most objective evidence of notability. There is no fixed number of sources required since sources vary in quality and depth of coverage, but multiple sources are generally expected.[3] Sources do not have to be available online and do not have to be in English. Multiple publications from the same author or organization are usually regarded as a single source for the purposes of establishing notability. "Independent of the subject" excludes works produced by the article's subject or someone affiliated with it. For example, advertising, press releases, autobiographies, and the subject's website are not considered independent.[4] "Presumed" means that significant coverage in reliable sources creates an assumption, not a guarantee, that a subject should be included. A more in-depth discussion might conclude that the topic actually should not have a stand-alone article—perhaps because it violates what Wikipedia is not, particularly the rule that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.[5]
- Wikipedia also has a set of common-sense content guidelines. Wikipedia guidelines are somewhat more flexible than policy, but following these guidelines will ensure that your pages will be acceptable and not recommended for deletion due to lack of notability, reliable citation, etc.
- You can ask questions directly of Wikipedians and experienced editors you know, by posing them on that user’s Talk page. You can also consult the Teahouse. The Teahouse is a Wikimedia foundation project that is a user-friendly welcome center/help space that organizes experienced editors to actively reach out to new users in a many-to-many setting and provides on-wiki encouragement and peer support to promising new editors to promote increased engagement and retention. There are many methods on Wikipedia for resolving disputes. Most methods are not formal processes and do not involve third-party intervention. Respond to all disputes or grievances, in the first instance, by approaching the editor or editors concerned and explaining which of their edits you object to and why you object. Use the article talk page or their user talk page to do so; be civil, polite, and always assume good faith.
- We are going to take a break now and when we come back I’d like to show you some interesting things that people are doing with WikiData. We can use WikiData to do some cool analysis of Wikipedia pages and the relationships between articles and concepts. We can also take advantage of Dbpedia, which is a database of Linked Open Data in Wikipedia that drives some features you may recognize from other websites. You can continue to work on your articles. Facilitators will be walking around helping and if you feel up to it, do help others if they have questions. After the break, if you are interested I have a few more slides on WikiData and DBpedia, two features of Wikipedia that help you get statistics on topics in Wikipedia and extract data for use in other applications. I also have proposed a flex session on WikiData and Dbpedia so be sure to check that out (if my proposal is accepted, of course).
- You can ask questions directly of Wikipedians and experienced editors you know, by posing them on that user’s Talk page. You can also consult the Teahouse. The Teahouse is a Wikimedia foundation project that is a user-friendly welcome center/help space that organizes experienced editors to actively reach out to new users in a many-to-many setting and provides on-wiki encouragement and peer support to promising new editors to promote increased engagement and retention. There are many methods on Wikipedia for resolving disputes. Most methods are not formal processes and do not involve third-party intervention. Respond to all disputes or grievances, in the first instance, by approaching the editor or editors concerned and explaining which of their edits you object to and why you object. Use the article talk page or their user talk page to do so; be civil, polite, and always assume good faith.
- Each bubble represents LOD repositories from a number of domains: Life science government geographic library cultural heritage
- Raw Pros: complete coverage of infobox attributes, not all have been mapped yet Cons: lower data quality, synonyms not resolved, high error rate to determine data type of attribute value Mapping Pros: Data is cleaner (typing resources, merging name variants, assigning specific data types) → normalization of variant names Cons: not full coverage
- Raw Pros: complete coverage of infobox attributes, not all have been mapped yet Cons: lower data quality, synonyms not resolved, high error rate to determine data type of attribute value Mapping Pros: Data is cleaner (typing resources, merging name variants, assigning specific data types) → normalization of variant names Cons: not full coverage