Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD/English Global Language 2020

In the course English as a Global Language, academic year 2020-2021, held by professor Francesca Helm, the students can create or improve Wikipedia articles about specific disciplinary content.

This project is a part of it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università we are leading in the Wikipedia in Italian, fully supported by the community. The same university had other courses running with Wikipedia (in English, in Italian).

See also the previous edition of this seminar (2018-2019)

What we do

23th of November 2020 workshop

During this workshop, we introduce Wikipedia as a learning tool and its essential guidelines.

• Presentation of the project and of the specific activity;
• How to respect the copyright for all contents (text and images)
• 5 pillars
• How to cite cite sources (Help:Footnotes and Help:Find sources)
• How to edit a Wikipedia page:
  • How to use the test page (Sandbox)
  • How to structure an article (Help:Section)

Basic guidelines: Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines/1

Hint: Wikipedia:VisualEditor

To enable Visual Editor:

1. login with your username on Wikipedia in English
2. go to your preferences Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
3. unckeck the option "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta"
4. in the "editing mode" menu, choose "Show me both editor tabs".
5. press "Save" button and the bottom of the page.
6. reload page(s).

Tutor

• Marco Chemello (WMIT) (msg) (Wikimedia Italia trainer, he leads two live workshops)
• Cinzia Ferranti --Cferranti (msg)

Resources for students

• The project "Learning with Wikipedia"
• The translation tool

Participants

Students are invited to register an individual account and add their own signature using only the wikisyntax (Help:Signature) below.

It is also necessary to create your userpage writing essential information on your activities during this course, and adding a link to this page.

(Add you signature here, one per row):

1. --Calfux22 (talk) 12:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
2. --Cferranti (talk) 13:47, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
3. --Alexandrrosso (talk) 13:47, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
4. --Chiaralte (talk) 13:50, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
5. --Turkisdelight (talk) 13:51, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
6. --Yultori (talk) 13:47, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
7. --Waleedelsharkawy91 (talk) 13:57, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
8. --HappyWikiContributor (talk) 14:10, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
9. --Ticorsu (talk) 14:35, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
10. --Juliocortazar97 (talk) 14:38, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
11. --Noha Sokar (talk) 14:45, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
12. --Toal98 (talk) 19:10, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
13. --Hamidalv (talk) 09:18, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
14. --Blacksheepsmirne (talk) 15:23, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
15. --Hanna_KRO (talk) 16:30, 06 December 2020 (UTC)
16. --AlviseSagg95 (talk) 14:13, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
17. --Frankiepit (talk) 15:47, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Articles

Articles worked in small groups need to be developed collectively in the sandbox of one of the members (group leader) before publishing it into Wikipedia. All participants should contribute individually to the contents (all edits are recorded in the page history).

Group sandboxes will be listed above. For a user named "Johndoe22", his sandbox is [[User:Johndoe22/sandbox|]])

Please note: if you want to expand an existing article, please copy first the wikitext of the article into your sandbox, then work on it safely.

List of articles to be created or improved:

Kristina, Louison and Djordje, Pinar User:Kristina.unipd/sandbox	Freedom of movement Add sections and additional information on specific regions or countries, translate into other languages? THe paragraphs on TUrkey and Serbia are very weak --Calfux22 (talk) 21:41, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Mehmet, Hanna, Simone, Daniele, Yuliya User:Blacksheepsmirne/sandbox User:Daniele Tappa/sandbox	List of ships for the rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea This page could do with a better introductory paragraph I suggest a page about the Mare Jonio ship and/or the organization Mediterranea Saving Humans an article exists in Italian (it:Mediterranea Saving Humans) and in German (de:Mediterranea Saving Humans) - but not in English Mediterranea Saving Humans The English page is a summary of the Italian page with some additional information - Francesca has checked and the content is fine, I have made minor language corrections, it is well referenced and ready to go to Marco to check (of course there are other things that could be added but that can be done later on).--Calfux22 (talk) 21:41, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Nadezhda, Leonardo, Lydia, Noha User:HappyWikiContributor/sandbox	Linguistic landscape Add photos to Wikimedia, work This could probably do with some work on the main section by adding some subheadings on the areas of research (eg. multilingualism in signs, minority and dominant languages, historical or diachronic approaches, linguistic landscape in conflict areas (eg Cameroon ), I have checked and made some minor corrections - seems good now --Calfux22 (talk) 21:41, 23 December 2020 (UTC) Related pages of interest Bilingual sign
Waleed, Alvise, Alessio User:Waleedelsharkawy91/sandbox User:Toal98/sandbox (20th century)	Paragraphs on civil military relations in different European states Waleed changed and worked on the Syrian crisis - updating paragraph, I have checked and made some minor corrections - seems good now --Calfux22 (talk) 21:41, 23 December 2020 (UTC) Civil–military relations add Costa Rica military disbaund
Chiara, Ceyda, Hamid, User:Chiaralte/sandbox	Religion in politics enrich with more information and links; add to the paragraph on the debate on religion in politics After discussion in break out room you thought it might be easier to add and enrich country specific information on the page Religious education

Resources

• Journal of Language Policy
• Ethnologue
• Language education policy
• UNESCO language policies

Linguistic landscape

• Cameroon linguistic landscape[1]
• Venice's linguistic landscape [2]

Civilian and military relations

• human rights law in Europe and new forms of juridical civil–military relations[3]

Further information

Please start reading these pages:

• Wikipedia:Copyrights (how to avoid copyright infringments)
• Wikipedia:Notability (what to put into Wikipedia and what not, and how to choose the right topics for your article)
• Wikipedia:Tutorial (how to learn to contribute to Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia:VisualEditor - how to enable and use visual editor mode (easiest way to edit a page, and for inserting footnotes with sources)
• Help:Wikitext and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (correct format and conventions to be used)
• Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial (not all images are allowed!)
• Wikipedia:Content translation tool (may help)
• Wikipedia:GLAM (how cultural institutions can collaborate with Wikipedia)
•  Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD and it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università/UNIPD (Italian) - other courses using Wikipedia of the same university

Questions?

If you have questions you can use the talk page (clicking on "new discussion" and putting your signature at the end.