This deck is a training presentation for the 2017 IA Summit session on editing wikipedia. The session was a working edit-a-thon and the deck was presented as a guide for attendees to access as needed. Slide 2 of this deck has links to the event dashboard and a list of diversity groups at Wikipedia. I also gave a talk at this conference on diversity and inclusion programs at Wikipedia and referenced a number of active user groups related to supporting diversity in Wikipedia. Attendees at the edit-a-thon were encouraged to either work on information architecture related content selected in the event dashboard, or a diversity project of their choice. Much of the content in this deck is from the Art + Feminism training guide.

1. IA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Join WikiProjects Information Architecture and Help Make IA
(and your favorite topics) Discoverable
Noreen Y. Whysel, COO, Decision Fish
nwhysel@gmail.com
Wikipedia User:nwhysel
#IAwikipedia #ias17

2. • Wikipedia Login — Sign In or create an account
www.wikipedia.org
• IA and Wikipedia Editathon — Event Dashboard
bit.ly/ias17wikidash passcode: IAWikipedia
• Wikipedia:Meetup - List of Diversity Groups
bit.ly/ias17meetups
• 2017 IAS Wikipedia Training
bit.ly/IA-WikipediaTraining
IA Wikipedia Editathon - Get Started

3. • Introduction: Cybersecurity on Wikipedia
• Creating an Account
• Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page: "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and "View
History“
• Making Simple Edits
• Userpages
• Working in the Sandbox
• Putting in Citations
• Additional Ways to Contribute
• Copyright and Wikipedia
• Basic Rules
• Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes
http://bit.ly/IA-WikipediaTraining
Training Guides

4. TRAINING OUTLINE: LINKS TO KEEP OPENTraining: Helpful Links
Guide to Contributing to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia
Wiki Markup Cheat Sheet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf
WikiProject: Information Architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture
IA Ongoing Tasks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture#O
ngoing_Tasks

5. • Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into
Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.
• Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the
GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) .
Copyright and Wikipedia

6. Wikipedia Conduct Policies
⬜ Civility
⬜ Clean start
⬜ Consensus
⬜ Dispute resolution
⬜ Edit warring
⬜ Editing policy
⬜ Harassment
⬜ No personal attacks
⬜ Ownership of articles
⬜ Sock puppetry
⬜ Username policy
⬜ Vandalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct

7. Neutral point of view – All Wikipedia articles and other
encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point
of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately
and without bias.
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies

8. Verifiability – Material challenged or likely to be challenged,
and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable,
published source. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that
people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check
that information comes from a reliable source.
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies

9. No original research – Wikipedia does not publish original
thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a
reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any
new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves
to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources.
BASIC RULES: CORE CONTENT
POLICIES
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies

10. If you think you have a Conflict Of Interest (COI), don’t create the article,
post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.
Basic Rules: Conflict of Interest

11. If available, academic and peer-reviewed publications are
usually the most reliable sources.
Other reliable sources include:
• university-level textbooks
• books published by respected publishing houses
• magazines
• journals
• mainstream newspapers
More information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#What_
counts_as_a_reliable_source
Basic Rules: Reliable Source

12. BASIC RULES:
NOTABILITY
What if notability guidelines reproduce structural sexism and racism? How
can we address and amend this?
Basic Rules: Notability

13. BASIC RULES:
NOTABILITY
Content Guidelines
⬜ Cite sources
⬜ Do not create hoaxes
⬜ No full text of primary sources
⬜ Identify reliable sources
⬜ No plagiarism
⬜ No patent nonsense

14. • Post a question on the talk page of another Wikipedia
User's talk page.
• Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question
board.
• Resolving disputes; Wikipedia:Dispute
resolution, Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Staying cool
when the editing gets hot.
• Email info@art.plusfeminism.org with specific Wikipedia
editing questions if you can't find what you need on
Wikipedia
Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

15. THANK YOU! // What Now?
⬜ Join WikiProject Information Architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture
⬜ Find an article in need of improvement and add it to WikiProject Information Architecture
or pick one from the project list.
⬜ Tag the Talk page of an article with the WikiProject Information Architecture category.
[[Category:WikiProject_Information_Architecture]]
⬜ Research citations on a person or topic that interests you.
⬜ Suggest citations or content on the Talk page of an article.
⬜ Fix typos and grammatical errors on existing articles.
⬜ If you are feeling bold, create a new article.
⬜ Ask for help if you need it!
⬜ Are You Hooked? Find a Wikipedia Meetup near you at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup