What?
editThis is a project page for journalism students at London South Bank University (LSBU) to collate resources and links they can use during Wikipedia training with Wikimedia UK.
How can you contribute?
editYou can add extra links under resources for pages that can be improved or created. But first, you should create a Wikipedia account and read some of the basic rules.
Step 1: Create an account. Click here
Step 2: Read the basic rules, the Five pillars of Wikipedia, the Notability criteria and the Reliable sources guidelines.
Step 3: Start editing!
Wikipedia for journalists: things to consider
edit- Wikipedia:Notability guidelines and Wikipedia:Reliable sources guidelines.
- Circular referencing - Wikipedia is not a source, and should not be used as one
- History pages
- Pageviews
- Reliable sources and the Daily Mail ban.
Resources
edit- List of Wikipedias on Meta.
- Wikimedia UK blog: How should journalists use WIkipedia?
- Slate article about Notability and its problems.
- Look at an ongoing page - Brexit negotiations or 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.
- UK stubs
WikiProject resources
editCategories
editLists
edit- List of journalists
- Lists of journalists
- List of Indian journalists
- List of Pakistani journalists
- List of fictional journalists
- List of arrested journalists in Turkey
- List of journalists killed in 2017
- List of journalists killed in 2018
- List of journalists killed during the Syrian Civil War
- List of journalists killed in Europe
- List of journalists killed in Russia
- List of journalists killed in India
- List of journalists killed in the United States
- List of journalists killed in Turkey
- List of journalists killed in Pakistan
- List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico
- List of journalists killed during the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Why?
editEverybody should have a basic understanding of how Wikipedia works, but this becomes especially important for media studies and journalism students. Wikipedia can be an amazing tool to learn media literacy, to understand how knowledge can be created in a collaborative way, to learn critical thinking skills, research skills and IT skills.
This project will be a hub for journalism students at LSBU to be able to practice editing a Wikipedia page and see how Wiki markup works - project pages like this one can only be edited in the source editor using Wiki markup, and not in visual editor like most pages on Wikipedia.
Involved in the project
editIf you are logged in, you can sign your name here by clicking edit, and adding four "~" (tilde) signs and saving the page.