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
- Account
- Creating an account on Wikipedia
- Name considerations
- User Talk page and messages
- Preferences
- Creating an account on Wikipedia
- 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
- Julian Chambliss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=julian+chambliss&go=Go&searchToken=2h3uz0egbuow079a9cykffaz4
- 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
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)