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Teahouse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse
WikiWomen collaborative
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomens_Collaborative
Guide to creating an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NCHP
TO DO LIST for Women History Month!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month/To-do_list
What you see is not what you will get
- the joys of wiki mark-up
“Imagine a world in which every
single human being can freely
share in the sum of all
knowledge.”
Wikipedia is freely available licensed content that anyone can edit, use, modify, and distribute
nobody has to pay to use Wikipedia
as in free beer
Wikipedia is free
as in free speech
Wikipedia content is published under a liberal copyright license
Since all your contributions are freely licensed to the public, no editor owns any article; all of your contributions can and will be edited and redistributed...
This Prezi by Daria Cybulska
based on a Prezi by Piotr Konieczny
licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Everything on Wikipedia has been written by people like
35 million registered accounts
1000s of changes per hour - over 10 million each month
What Wikipedia is not!
- Wikipedia is not a dictionary.
- Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought.
- Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion.
- Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links,
images, or media files.
- Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social network, or memorial site.
Significant coverage
Secondary sources - no original research
Multiple reliable and verifiable sources
Notability
For a topic to have its own Wikipedia article it should be notable - that has gained significant attention by the world at large
Space for women to interact and support each other while taking on Wikipedia.
Social media helps to connect!
Reliable Sources Unreliable Sources
- Academic Publications - Social networking sites
- Books & Magazines - User generated sites – Craigslist
- Newspaper - Personal or Group Blogs, & Journal articles
www.oxforddnb.com - Personal websites
- Research papers
- Self published books
Information on Wikipedia should have citations, also known as references or sources
To validate what you’re writing
To identify reliable sources based on which article is written
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