Wikipedia:Benelux Education Program/Maastricht University/MSP January 2023
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At the Maastricht University a course was organised in January 2023, in the scope of the Wikipedia Education Program, as part of the project Opening up old books: investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht.
Programme
- Monday 9 January 2023 9:00 - Meeting: start course
- Tuesday 10 January 2023 14:00 - Introduction search strategies
- Wednesday 5 January 2023 10:30-12:00 - Introduction in Wikipedia
- Wednesday 5 January 2023 14:00 - Guided tour though University Library catacombs
- Wednesday 18 January 2023 12:00 - First deadline: have draft ready
- Thursday 19 January 2023 9:00-10:00 - Feedback session
- Thursday 26 January 2023 12:00 - Final deadline for Wikipedia article draft
- Friday 3 February 2023 14:00-15:00 - Final meeting including publication
If you want additional feedback on your article, send Romaine an e-mail to schedule a meeting/time to have me review it.
Handy links
- A guide in Wikipedia writing
- Tutorial
- Cheatsheet with basic wikisyntax
- Annotated article
- Sandbox - generic page where you can test and try
- Your personal sandbox
- File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf
Guidelines
The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the content that you add must fit in an encyclopedia.
- Write in a neutral point of view.
- All content added must be free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. (copyrights)
- Use references to source facts in your article. Every paragraph and every two/three sentences should have a reference. You can use a reference more than once. Without references an article can't be published.
Further:
- Sign your messages in talk pages with
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12 points to keep in mind:
- add only knowledge that belongs in an encyclopedia
- add only material that is available under a free license or express it in your own words
- describe this knowledge from a neutral position
- add references and sources for the added information
- do not write about your organisation, yourself, a family member, or your boss
- do not describe new theories, new insights or thoughts and no opinions
- see articles about similar topics as an example
- use headings to structurise an article
- use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia)
- do not add links to other sites in the body text, add those only at the bottom of the article
- use no qualifications (best, most, etc)
- write timeless (not: "the last century", "next month", "recent", yes: "on 27 September 2016")
Contact info
Participants
- LilyTien (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- S0lar1s9 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- IDKMSP (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Fernesto botanical (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:30, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- TheTastyChip (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:30, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Laralarulala (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:31, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hilda Bards (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:31, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Kyriacoumarkos5 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:31, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Seknch13 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:38, 11 January 2023 (UTC)