Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD/SAR Advocacy Seminar

In the SAR Advocacy Seminar, academic year 2020-2021, held by professor Francesca Helm and Claudia Padovani, the students will create or improve Wikipedia articles about specific content related to this Advocacy seminar.

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 has other courses running with Wikipedia.

What we do

15th May 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) (trainer, he leads two live workshops, at the beginning and at the end of the seminar)

Resources for students

• The project "Learning with Wikipedia"
• The Content Translation tool

Templates

{{#Babel:it|en-3|fr-1|es-1|la-1|vec-1}}

Participants

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

It is also necessary to create your userpage writing some essential information on your activities during this course, and adding a link to this page (edit source): [[Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD/SAR Advocacy Seminar]].

(Add you signature here, one per row):

1. --CPadovani (talk) 13:22, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
2. --Calfux (talk) 13:22, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
3. --Tomangelinib (talk) 13:23, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
4. --Cybersurfer666.13 (talk) 13:23, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
5. --Acheemara (talk) 13:24, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
6. --Giulia Zaghini (talk) 13:26, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
7. --Francescassaro (talk) 13:30, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
8. --Anaelizam (talk) 16:49, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
9. --Shagofah Ghafori (talk)
10. --EvyElfiraNS (talk) 11:20, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
11. --Ilariamezzanotte (talk) 14:39, 21 December 2020 (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 with their usernames (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 source (wikitext) of the article into your sandbox, then work on it safely.

Some examples of good articles:

• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International
• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
• Hossein Rajabian

List here the Group Sandboxes: Example: # User:Didatticus/sandbox - Group: --Didatticus (msg) and Marcok (msg)

Articles to be developed and working groups

1. Scholars_at_Risk (to be expanded and translated) - Sandbox: User:Calfux/sandbox/SAR - Group: --CPadovani (talk) 15:09, 15 May 2020 (UTC), --Cybersurfer666.13 (talk) 15:18, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
2. Ahmad_Reza_Jalali (to be expanded and translated) - Sandbox: User:Acheemara/sandbox - Group: --Cybersurfer666.13 (talk) 18:27, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
3. Niloufar_Bayani (to be expanded and translated) - Sandbox: User:Shagofah Ghafori/sandbox - Group: --Anaelizam (talk) 18:41, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Activity

Complete the table by answering these questions by exploring some tools (page history and page view) in the ‘page history’ of the wikipedia pages of Jalali and Noulifar. Then when we meet we can discuss together the possible structure of the pages (the examples I gave of Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Rajabian I thought might be useful as they are also imprisoned in Iran and their pages are more complete).

Header text	Ahmad_Reza_Jalali	Niloufar_Bayani
When was the page created?	26 December 2017	Example
How many times was it viewed last month?	709	Example
Has visibility grown over time?	Not really	Example
What languages is it available in?	4	Example
Which language was the first page?	Example	Example
What differences are there between the pages?	the amount of content	Example
Does the page have any sections?	Yes, especially in Persian, but we are not able to read	Example

Resources

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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 (editing guidelines)
• 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 - 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.