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Who writes on Wikipedia?

  • Wikipedia lacks coverage of topics that women may have interest in
  • Biographical articles about women are severely lacking!
  • Discussions about certain topics (feminism amongs others) can be dominated by males

Please take the leaflet!

HELP

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

What is Wikipedia?

Online Encyclopedia

the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. 12 years old!

6th most visited

website in the world

500 million unique monthly readers worldwide

7% of the world’s population

reads Wikipedia each month

20% of Internet users use Wikipedia each month

280+ languages

Introduction to Wikipedia

- We can [EDIT] !

the vision of Wikipedia

“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

How do you feel about that?

Everything on Wikipedia has been written by people like

So how about women??

You & Me!

35 million registered accounts

about 130,000 active editors (5+ edits / month)

WHY???

1000s of changes per hour - over 10 million each month

9500 articles added each day

What’s in it for you?

AND HAVE FUN!

Don't just read, give back "good karma"

Improve the coverage of key topics

Improve your critical thinking

Provides you a global audience

Experience online collaboration

What do we write in Wikipedia?

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!

Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, modify and distribute

Wikipedia does not have firm rules besides the 5 general principles presented here.

Editors should interact in a respectful and civil manner.

Wikipedia has a neutral point of view.

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

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

So where do I start???

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

Register an account

You will now have a user page!

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