Editing Wikipedia

Join WikiProjects to Make AppSec VisibleNoreen Whysel, OWASP Community Manager

• Introduction: Cybersecurity on Wikipedia

• 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

Training Outline

TRAINING OUTLINE: LINKS TO KEEP OPEN

OWASP Community Etherpadhttp://owasp-community.etherpad.mozilla.org

Guide to Contributing to Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia

Cheat Sheet:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf

WikiProject: Computer Securityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_Security

Requested Articles on Computer Science and Securityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Applied_arts_and_sciences/Computer_science,_computing,_and_Internet#Security

Training Outline: Helpful Links

APPLICATION SECURITY ON WIKIPEDIA

WikiProject: Computer Security

WikiProject: Cryptography

Requested Articles: Computer Security

EDITING WIKIPEDIA PAGES

Every page edit is publicly visible. Every page edit you make is traceable to

your user account. Talk pages are Wikipedia's version of peer

review. A lot of extra information is available in the

View History tab.

Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page

Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – View History

Select Edit to view wikitext markup

Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page - Editing

You can enter an explanation of your changes in the Edit summary box, which you'll find below the edit window.

If the change you have made to a page is minor, check the box "This is a minor edit."

Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – Edit Summary

You should always use the Show preview button. After you've entered a change in the edit box for the sandbox, click the Show preview. This lets you see what the page will look like after your edit, before you actually save.

Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – Show Preview

USER PAGES

• Click on Create account to sign up for a Wikipedia editor account.

• Use your real name or a pseudonym.

User Pages

• Usernames are governed by Wikipedia policy.

• Anonymity is preferred.• If you are not sure which

username to create, click help me choose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username_policy

User Pages

• Click on your Username in the top left to view your User Page.

• Select Edit to make edits to your User Page.

• Using this Cheatsheet, write something about yourself.

User Pages

PLEASE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO MAKE SOME EDITS TO YOUR USER PAGE...

Over the next few weeks, add some well-cited sentences and paragraphs to articles in your area of expertise.

In the following slides, we’ll offer some guidelines and helpful tips about editing Wikipedia articles.

WHAT NOW? BE BOLD!

To experiment, you can use the shared sandbox or your personal sandbox (add {{My Sandbox|replace with your user name}} on your user page for future easy access).

Editing the Sandbox

For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags (i.e. <ref>citation</ref>).

…or highlight your whole citation and then click the markup icon to automatically enclose your citation in ref tags.

References and Citations –Footnotes

On a new page, you may need to create a section usually named "Notes" or "References" near the end of the page:

== Notes == <references />

or...== Notes == {{Reflist}}

Example of a complete footnote:

<ref>Name of author, [http://www.nytimes.com/article_name.html "Title of article"], ''The New York Times'', date</ref>

References and Citations - Footnote

When you’re ready, add a citation to a page in your area of expertise!

1. In your sandbox, insert a reference for the book Tom Sawyer using the Worldcat entry for this book: Twain, Mark, and Paul Geiger. 1985. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association.

2. Insert a reference using a citation template for this magazine article: Li, Shirley. "Roger Ebert's Wikipedia [Citation Needed]." The Atlantic. October 9, 2014. Article link

References and Citations – Your Turn!

• 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

Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Copyright– Wikimedia Commons

Copyright– Wikimedia Commons

POLICIES AND GUIDELINES

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

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

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

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 POLICIESBasic Rules: Core Content Policies

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

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

BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY

What if notability guidelines reproduce structural sexism and racism? How can we address and amend this?

Basic Rules: Notability

BASIC RULES: NOTABILITYContent Guidelines

• Cite sources• Do not create hoaxes• No full text of primary sources• Identify reliable sources• No plagiarism• No patent nonsense

• 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

THANK YOU! // Q&A

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