Wikipedia:Benelux Education Program/Maastricht University/MSP January 2022

At the Maastricht University a course was organised in January 2022, in the scope of the Wikipedia Education Program, as part of the project Opening up old books: investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht.

Programme

Monday 3 January 2022 - Start course
Tuesday 4 January 2022 - Introduction search strategies
Wednesday 5 January 2022 - Introduction in Wikipedia
Wednesday 12 January 2022 12:00 - First deadline
Thursday 13 January 2022 9:00-10:00 - Feedback session
Thursday 20 January 2022 12:00 - Final deadline for Wikipedia article
28 January 2022 12:00-13:00 - Final meeting including publication

If you want additional feedback on your article, send Romaine an e-mail to schedule a meeting/time to have me review it.

Handy links

A guide in Wikipedia writing
Tutorial
Cheatsheet with basic wikisyntax
Annotated article
Sandbox - generic page where you can test and try
Your personal sandbox
File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf

Guidelines

The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the content that you add must fit in an encyclopedia.
Write in a neutral point of view.
All content added must be free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. (copyrights)
Use references to source facts in your article. Every paragraph and every two/three sentences should have a reference. You can use a reference more than once. Without references an article can't be published.

Further:

Sign your messages in talk pages with ~~~~.

12 points to keep in mind:

add only knowledge that belongs in an encyclopedia
add only material that is available under a free license or express it in your own words
describe this knowledge from a neutral position
add references and sources for the added information
do not write about your organisation, yourself, a family member, or your boss
do not describe new theories, new insights or thoughts and no opinions
see articles about similar topics as an example
use headings to structurise an article
use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia)
do not add links to other sites in the body text, add those only at the bottom of the article
use no qualifications (best, most, etc)
write timeless (not: "the last century", "next month", "recent", yes: "on 27 September 2016")

Contact info

Participants

Ccammach (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:04, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- The useful plants of the Dutch East Indies (Wikidata)
Helene Rulkens (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:05, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Cyrine LM (contributions | sandbox | talk) 12:46, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
FaezRCh (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:05, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Natalie Vm (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:06, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- A textbook of general botany (Wikidata)
MT6250691 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:05, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Lgoetze (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:05, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Stavares222 (contributions | sandbox | talk) 10:06, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]