Why Wikipedia?


An Introduction to collaborative knowledge production

Agenda

  1. Why Wikipedia
  2. Anatomy of an Article
  3. Basic Editing
  4. Finding an article to edit
  5. Adding Citations
  6. Group Progress
  7. Open Editing

Objectives
    1. Demystify the editing process for Wikipedia
    2. Add a piece of Canadian scholarship to Wikipedia
    3. To understand the pedagogical potential of Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Wikipedia:Meetup
/CCA-CSDH_Congress2017

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Anatomy of
an article

Finding an
article to edit

Adding citations

    1. Click on [Edit] for section
    2. Click on [Pen Icon] for Visual editor
    3. Place cursor after period
    4. Click the “Cite button
    5. Add the required information
    6. Click Save page

Group progress

Open editing

Thanks!