Wikipedia Editing Workshop Notes, Sept. 26

Edited on 9/25 to have this serve as my class notes.
I (and hopefully Julian Chambliss, if he can make it!) will be doing a Wikipedia editing workshop in Maggie Galvan’s class on Tuesday, Sept. 26. With the fantastic Collaborating Across the Divide: Digital Humanities and the Caribbean Symposium, Sept. 21-22, 2017, I am very late in preparing for this.
Agenda Overall:

• Larger context for online presence and security
  • http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2014/11/07/the-fembot-toolkit/
  • https://datasociety.net/pubs/res/Best_Practices_for_Conducting_Risky_Research-Oct-2016.pdf
  • https://onlinesafety.feministfrequency.com/en/
  • http://www.crashoverridenetwork.com/coach.html
• Account
  • Creating an account on Wikipedia
    • Name considerations
  • User Talk page and messages
  • Preferences
• Review list of entries on course site: https://americanwomenincomics.wordpress.com/lists-of-american-female-comics-creators/​
• Editing an existing Wikipedia entry
  • Learning syntax by viewing prior and editing
  • View https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibram_X._Kendi
• Creating a new Wikipedia entry
  • Julian Chambliss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=julian+chambliss&go=Go&searchToken=2h3uz0egbuow079a9cykffaz4
    • Sources: http://www.aaihs.org/author/jchamblissrollins-edu/
    • http://www.aaihs.org/tag/comicsandrace/
    • https://artbornemagazine.com/julian-chambliss/
    • http://agesofheroeserasofmen.blogspot.com/p/for-educators.html
    • http://www.rollins.edu/history/faculty-staff-listing/index.html
    • http://blacksuperherodoc.com/?p=394
    • https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Black-Comics-Sheena-Howard/dp/1682751015
    • https://360.rollins.edu/academics-and-research/the-ballad-of-oscar-mack
    • https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/julian-c-chambliss-draining-swamp
    • http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/mosaic-hurston/
    • http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/advocaterecovered/
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gag9ZYxWM4
• Linking
  • Importance of linking within and to any entries
  • Example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_C._Russell (edits over time)

Thanks to the Colored Conventions Project for sharing their Wikipedia workshop notes:
Wikipedia Links

• Special:UserLogin/signup Create an account (Why create an account?)
• Be Bold
• How to add citations

Editing Wikipedia Resources

• Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
• Tutorial
• How to Edit a Page
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
• Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger
• Article Development
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf (additional “getting started” resources)