Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism/Babycastles 2015/resources
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Resources for Editing[edit]
Wikipedia editing[edit]
- Welcome to Wikipedia,
- Wikipedia:Questions
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- How to write a great article
- Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
- Talk pages
- Sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date.
- Wikipedian
- Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
- Training for Students, a tutorial for beginners
- Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for 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 (applicable to any biography)
- Article development
- Your First Article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
- Manual of Style
- Citation templates
- Infobox templates
- Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
Training Lesson Plans and Tutorials[edit]
About Wikipedia's Systemic Gender Bias[edit]
- Gender gap resources.
- James Gleick, “Wikipedia’s Women Problem,” The New York Review of Books (4/29/13)
- Amanda Filipacchi, “Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists,” New York Times Opinion (4/24/13)
- Sue Gardner, “New York Times prompts a flurry of coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap,” Sue Gardner’s Blog (1/31/11)
- Noam Cohen, “Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List,” The New York Times (1/30/11)
- “The struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning,” (with Phoebe Ayers)(9/3/13)
- “Looking at the five pillars of Wikipedia as a feminist, part 1″ (8/26/13) & part 2 (11/13/13)
- “Wikipedia’s gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias,” (7/26/13)