Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD/Carbonate Sedimentology

In the course Carbonate Sedimentology[1], academic year 2018-2019, held by professor Nereo Preto, students can create or improve Wikipedia articles about specific disciplinary content.

This project is a part of it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università we are leading in the Wikipedia in Italian, fully supported by the community. The same university has other courses running with Wikipedia.

What we do

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20th of November 2018 workshop

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During this workshop, we introduce Wikipedia as a learning tool and his essential guidelines.

Basic guidelines: Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines/1

Hint: Wikipedia:VisualEditor

To enable Visual Editor:

  1. login with your username on Wikipedia in English
  2. go to your preferences Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
  3. unckeck the option "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta"
  4. in the "editing mode" menu, choose "Show me both editor tabs".
  5. press "Save" button and the bottom of the page.
  6. reload page(s).

Tutors

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  • Cinzia Ferranti --Cferranti (msg) (tutor Unipd and project coordinator of "Learning with Wikipedia")
  • MarcoK (msg) (trainer, he leads two workshops, one at the beginning and one at the end of the course)
  • Baldersdod (msg) (online tutor; contact him using the talk page)
  • Nereo Preto (msg), teaches Carbonate Sedimentology. Not as expert as the guys up here, but ask if you need help!

Resources for students

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Participants

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Students are invited to register an individual account and add their own signature using only the wikisyntax (Help:Signature) below.

It is also required to create your userpage writing essential informations on your activities during this course, and adding a link to this page.

(Add you signature here, one per row):

Articles

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Articles worked in small groups need to be developed collectively in the sandbox of one of the members (group leader) before publishing it into Wikipedia. All participants should contribute individually to the contents (all edits are recorded in the page history).

Group sandboxes will be listed above. For a user named "Johndoe22", his sandbox is [[User:Johndoe22/sandbox|]])

Please note: if you want to expand an existing article, please copy first the wikitext of the article into your sandbox, then work on it safely.

List of articles to be created or improved:

Articles to be improved or extended:

Articles to be created:

Examples of good articles:

Students are invited propose to the teacher what articles they prefer to improve or write from scratch, following their preferences and personal inclinations.

Further informations

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Please start reading these pages:

Questions?

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If you have questions you can use the talk page (clicking on "new discussion" and putting your signature at the end.

Note

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