Editing Wikipedia in Four Steps

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/wikiedit

Slides

• PDF of these slides, see these slides on the web, notes for this talk on Wikipedia

Wikimedia Areas

• Me: User page, Wikipedia entry, Contributions, Articles Created
• Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons
• For beginners: The Wikipedia Adventure, Introduction to Wikipedia, #1Lib1Ref, Teahouse for Q&A
• For non-beginners: Wikidata, many Wikipedia helper tools

On-Wiki Resources

• Public domain images
• Wikipedia's gender gap
• Racial bias on Wikipedia

Further Readings & Projects

• Art + Feminism project
• Women in Red Project
• GLAM-WIKI (galleries, libraries, archives and museums)
• My article: Bending Wikipedia Towards Justice
• My article: How to (try to) Lie With Wikipedia, The manufactured history of neckbeard-shaming