Editing Wikipedia

A brown-bag talk I gave about editing Wikipedia.

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1. Fixing the Free Encyclopaedia Editing Wikipedia Gaurav Vaidya! www.ggvaidya.com
2. Look for articles to fix Any topic, species, person or research area in your field.! http://bit.ly/wikipedia-boulder-todo
3. Building a better encyclopaedia What is Wikipedia? ❖ A free encyclopaedia that everyone can read and anyone can edit.
4. Building a better encyclopaedia What is Wikipedia? ❖ A project to build:! ❖ A free encyclopaedia that everyone can read and anyone can edit.
5. Building a better encyclopaedia What is Wikipedia? ❖ A community to build:! ❖ A free encyclopaedia that everyone can read and anyone can edit.
11. Part of the open-access community
12. Part of the open-access community
21. Building a better encyclopaedia Editing Wikipedia ❖ Fix small mistakes.! ❖ Rewrite articles.! ❖ Write articles from scratch.! ! ❖ Contribute media files.
22. http://bit.ly/wikipedia-boulder-todo
30. Link to another website [http://loc.gov Library of Congress website] Library of Congress website Insert a citation Display citation footnotes Page text. <ref>[http://example.org Example.org], more text.</ref> <references /> Italic ''italic text'' italic text Page text.[1] Internal link with different text [[Denis Diderot|Diderot]] Diderot Bulleted list * Wikipedia * Encyclopédie ‡ Wikipedia ‡ Encyclopédie Numbered list # A - Azymites # B - Cézimbra 1. A - Azymites 2. B - Cézimbra 1. ^ Example.org, more text. Signature and timestamp (for Talk pages) ˜˜˜˜ Username (talk) 19:50, 11 December 2013 (UTC) Bold '''bold text''' bold text Link to another Wikipedia page (Internal link) [[Denis Diderot]] Denis Diderot Description What you type What you get Section headers ==Heading text== ===Heading text=== ====Heading text==== Heading text Heading text Heading text Image with caption [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Caption text]] Caption text R G B These examples cover the formatting needed most often when editing Wikipedia articles with wiki markup. For more help, see | shortcut H:MARKUP . To make a citation What you type What you get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet
31. Building a better encyclopaedia What’s next? ❖ We need more photographs, videos, figures and drawings.
32. Building a better encyclopaedia What’s next? ❖ We need more photographs, videos, figures and drawings. ❖ We need more and diverse editors.
36. How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!)
37. How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!) ❖ Join Wikipedia:
38. How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!) ❖ Join Wikipedia: ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started
39. How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!) ❖ Join Wikipedia: ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial
40. How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!) ❖ Join Wikipedia: ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse
41. How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!) ❖ Join Wikipedia: ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse ❖ Come and meet Wikipedians: http://bit.ly/wpboulder
42. How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!) ❖ Join Wikipedia: ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse ❖ Come and meet Wikipedians: http://bit.ly/wpboulder ❖ Ask me anything!
43. Thank you! Any questions?
44. Images ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg ! ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Wikimedia_Foundation_RGB_logo_with_text.svg ! ❖ https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2014_group_photo.jpeg ! ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Nupedia,_the_open_content_encyclopedia_2000-08-15.png ! ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Wikipedia.png ! ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WMFstratplanSurvey1.png! ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EnwikipediagrowthGom.PNG ! ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:10_sharing_book_cover_background.jpg ! ❖ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ActiveWikipedians.PNG