Wikipedia:Benelux Education Program/Maastricht University/Autumn 2016

"Be Bold": Knowledge Sharing on Wikipedia is part of the "Sharing Culture" module in the Master Media Culture at Maastricht University. During this skills training, students will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia. Maastricht University MA students will work on or create articles in Wikipedia which are related to sharing practices. The course takes place in November 2016.

Programme

11 November 2016 - introduction and start writing
30 November 2016 - evaluation of the written articles

Handy links

Tutorial
Cheatsheet with basic wikisyntax
Annotated article
Sandbox - generic page where you can test and try
Your personal sandbox
File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf
Stroopwafels

Guidelines

The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the content that you add must fit in an encyclopedia.
Write in a neutral point of view.
All content added must be free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. (copyrights)

Further:

Use references to source facts in your article.
Sign your messages in talk pages with ~~~~.

How to start quickly in Wikipedia?

add only knowledge that belongs in an encyclopedia
add only material that is available under a free license or express it in your own words
describe this knowledge from a neutral position
add references and sources for the added information
do not write about your organisation, yourself, a family member, or your boss
do not describe new theories, new insights or thoughts and no opinions
see articles about similar topics as an example
use headings to structurise an article
use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia)
do not add links to other sites in the body text, add those only at the bottom of the article
use no qualifications (best, most, etc)
write timeless (not: "the last century", "next month", yes: "on 27 September 2016")

Other

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Notes

References

Using a reference once

Use the code below and replace "RefSource" by the actual source.

<ref>RefSource</ref>

Using a reference twice or more

Use the code below and replace "RefSource" by the actual source and replace "RefCode" by a short code for the source. This code is used for internal purposes only and not shown when viewing the article. (Advice: use the name of the author/publisher and the year/date of the publication, like: JohnDoe2015.)
The first time you use a source as reference you use:

<ref name="RefCode">RefSource</ref>

The second time you use the same source as reference you only use:

<ref name="RefCode" />

Using a book/paper/etc multiple times, but with referring to different pages

If you use a source with multiple pages (book/paper/etc), and you refer multiple times to it, but multiple times with referring to a different page of the publication, you add the publication itself under a header "Literature", and in the references you use the author name and year (or date) of the publication.

In the example below the page 101 reference is used for multiple sections, and uses the system described in the previous section.

Text bla bla.<ref>Doe, John. 2015. p.56</ref>

Text bleh bleh.<ref name="JohnDoe2015-101">Doe, John. 2015. p.101</ref>

Text blub blub.<ref name="JohnDoe2015-101" />

== Literature ==
* Doe, John. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Acme Publisher. 2015. ISBN ...

== References ==
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