Writing for wikipedia
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Writing for Wikipedia can address concerns about article quality and authorship while following principles of neutral point of view, avoiding original research, and verifiability. The document discusses a presentation on writing for Wikipedia given at a symposium, highlighting concerns about the online encyclopedia and key principles writers should follow, and shares one presenter's personal journey contributing to Wikipedia.
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Writing for wikipedia
- 1. Writing for Wikipedia Writing & Well-Being Symposium National University of Ireland, Galway April 5 & 6, 2019 Dr Sharon Flynn Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching @sharonlflynn Wikimedia Community Ireland User:Sharonlflynn Dr Ananya Gupta Lecturer in Physiology @Ananya_GR8 User:Ananya-8GR8
- 3. Concerns about Wikipedia • Article quality • Authorship
- 4. Concerns about Wikipedia • Article quality • Authorship
- 5. By User:Xvlun [CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons Neutral point of view (NPOV) No original research (NOR) Verifiability
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- Cover slide – Writing & Well-Being Include twitter & wiki username
- Wikipedia image – ask who knows what Wikipedia is? Who uses? Who edits? Who supports students to edit?
- Three core principles. Sum of all human knowledge – whose knowledge? Verifiability draws from citation practices. Wikipedia editors are positioned as merely passive aggregators of information already published by external sources. In situations where knowledge is not verifiable, or not easily verifiable, it remains outside the corpus.
- Layer above editing – Wikipedia is governed by lists & lists of policies. Argument is that these are inherently gendered. Navigating the policies requires a level of expertise associated with long standing editors – mostly male. These policies can be used against new editors – who aren’t aware of the norms. This can result in speedy deletions etc. New editors aren’t fluent enough with the policies in order to defend their work. Change is resisted by experienced editors.
- Be bold!