Tweet
Tweet

Slide 1

Slide 1 text

Fixing the Free Encyclopaedia Editing Wikipedia Gaurav Vaidya! www.ggvaidya.com

Slide 2

Slide 2 text

Look for articles to fix Any topic, species, person or research area in your field.! http://bit.ly/wikipedia-boulder-todo

Slide 3

Slide 3 text

Building a better encyclopaedia What is Wikipedia? ❖ A free encyclopaedia that everyone can read and anyone can edit.

Slide 4

Slide 4 text

Building a better encyclopaedia What is Wikipedia? ❖ A project to build:! ❖ A free encyclopaedia that everyone can read and anyone can edit.

Slide 5

Slide 5 text

Building a better encyclopaedia What is Wikipedia? ❖ A community to build:! ❖ A free encyclopaedia that everyone can read and anyone can edit.

Slide 6

Slide 6 text

No content

Slide 7

Slide 7 text

No content

Slide 8

Slide 8 text

No content

Slide 9

Slide 9 text

No content

Slide 10

Slide 10 text

No content

Slide 11

Slide 11 text

Part of the open-access community

Slide 12

Slide 12 text

Part of the open-access community

Slide 13

Slide 13 text

No content

Slide 14

Slide 14 text

No content

Slide 15

Slide 15 text

No content

Slide 16

Slide 16 text

No content

Slide 17

Slide 17 text

No content

Slide 18

Slide 18 text

No content

Slide 19

Slide 19 text

No content

Slide 20

Slide 20 text

No content

Slide 21

Slide 21 text

Building a better encyclopaedia Editing Wikipedia ❖ Fix small mistakes.! ❖ Rewrite articles.! ❖ Write articles from scratch.! ! ❖ Contribute media files.

Slide 22

Slide 22 text

http://bit.ly/wikipedia-boulder-todo

Slide 23

Slide 23 text

No content

Slide 24

Slide 24 text

No content

Slide 25

Slide 25 text

No content

Slide 26

Slide 26 text

No content

Slide 27

Slide 27 text

No content

Slide 28

Slide 28 text

No content

Slide 29

Slide 29 text

No content

Slide 30

Slide 30 text

Link to another website [http://loc.gov Library of Congress website] Library of Congress website Insert a citation Display citation footnotes Page text. [http://example.org Example.org], more text. 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

Slide 31

Slide 31 text

Building a better encyclopaedia What’s next? ❖ We need more photographs, videos, figures and drawings.

Slide 32

Slide 32 text

Building a better encyclopaedia What’s next? ❖ We need more photographs, videos, figures and drawings. ❖ We need more and diverse editors.

Slide 33

Slide 33 text

No content

Slide 34

Slide 34 text

No content

Slide 35

Slide 35 text

No content

Slide 36

Slide 36 text

How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!)

Slide 37

Slide 37 text

How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!) ❖ Join Wikipedia:

Slide 38

Slide 38 text

How you can help ❖ Go forth and edit (be bold!) ❖ Join Wikipedia: ❖ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started

Slide 39

Slide 39 text

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

Slide 40

Slide 40 text

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

Slide 41

Slide 41 text

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

Slide 42

Slide 42 text

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!

Slide 43

Slide 43 text

Thank you! Any questions?

Slide 44

Slide 44 text

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