For Wikipedia or Not for Wikipedia
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The document discusses the criteria for what information belongs in Wikipedia articles - verifiability and notability. Verifiability means information must be cited from reliable sources like mainstream news, published books, scholarly journals. Notability means topics require significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. Articles should not be based on self-published or personal sources. The level of coverage and sources determines if a topic has enough notability for a Wikipedia article.
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Pfancher]]
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For Wikipedia or Not for Wikipedia
- 1. What belongs in Wikipedia? 1
- 2. Two Criteria: Verifiability and Notability 1
- 3. First 1
- 4. Verifiability and reliable sources
- 5. What does verifiability mean?
- 6. Truth!!!
- 8. Wikipedia is not collecting Truth. Wikipedia is collecting information that can be verified in a reliable source.
- 9. That is so much easier... truth is a very difficult thing to prove. So how do you verify information?
- 10. Verifiability = Cite reliable sources. That's all verifiability means. You must verify that the information has been published in a reliable source. As long as a reliable source publishes the information, you can include the content in Wikipedia.
- 11. What qualifies as a reliable source?
- 12. What qualifies as a reliable source? 1. Mainstream Presses Newspapers, news channels, and reliable online news networks.
- 13. What qualifies as a reliable source? 2. Published books. Yep, you'll want to go to the library for this project.
- 14. What qualifies as a reliable source? 3. Magazines.
- 15. What qualifies as a reliable source? 4. Scholarly Journals If the topic you choose has been studied by scholars or scientists, then you really should include research from scholarly journals. (Scholars don't care about fancy logos.)
- 16. What does NOT qualify as a reliable source? Self published sources. Including: Facebook, Twitter, other Wikipedia articles, a personal website, a personal blog, a company website, any promotional materials, a personal interview (that has not been published in a reliable source), your own personal experience or knowledge. I can not contribute to my own Wikipedia page, although I know myself quite well. Information from my friend's band website is not a reliable source for information about that band. The information must be verified by an INDEPENDENT SOURCE.
- 17. Ok, that's verifiability in a nutshell. We can talk more about how to verify the information you want to include in the Wikipedia articles you will use. Criteria 2: Notability
- 18. Notability: Is this information right for Wikipedia? Articles require: ○ significant coverage ○ in reliable sources ○ that are independent of the subject
- 19. Notability: Is this information right for Wikipedia? Articles require: ○ significant coverage can be a very subjective criteria. For your project, you have to contribute 1000 words. This means you need to find significant enough coverage from all of your sources to write 1000 words.
- 20. Notability: Is this information right for Wikipedia? Articles require: ○ significant coverage ○ in reliable sources, which include news sources, magazines, books, academic journals.
- 21. Notability: Is this information right for Wikipedia? Articles require: ○ significant coverage ○ in reliable sources ○ that are independent of the subject, which means that your research cannot include any self-publishing. Independent sources are in no way personally, financially, or socially connected to the topic.
- 22. Is Ringo notable? (remember Ringo?) ● Ringo has a facebook page ● Ringo is published on youtube ● Ringo has been mentioned by name in a blog ● Ringo has been mentioned by name as an anicdote by a friend who writes for NewsWeek. (this may or may not be true.)
- 23. Is Ringo notable? Nope... not yet! ● Ringo has a facebook page (Nope...must be an independent source) ● Ringo is published on youtube. (Nope..No Youtube) ● Ringo has been mentioned by name in a blog. (No again... not an independent source) ● Ringo has been mentioned by name as an anecdote by a friend who writes for News Week. (This is an independent source, but a "mention" is not "significant coverage")
- 24. Is Maru notable? ● Maru has been published on youtube ● Maru has been mentioned multiple times in news sources ● Maru has been mentioned by name in blogs. ● Search for Maru_cat in Wikipedia to figure out why he is a notable cat.
- 25. When is a cat notable? Neither of these cats are inherently better than the other. They both sit around apartments, in cities, with owners who like to share their cuteness with the world. What makes Maru notable? Media sources and large Internet communities agree that Maru is a notable cat. Independent news sources have published information about Maru the cat. That's all it takes.... Ringo could save a family from a burning building, but if no one publishes the information in an independent, reliable source, then Ringo will still not be notable for Wikipedia.
- 26. Engage the Wikipedia Community
- 27. Connect with your class on Wikipedia ● Go to your user page ● Create a wiki-link to my user page. code = [[user: Pfancher]] ● Create a link to your wikipedia ambassador user page. Code= [[user:Nikkimaria]] ● Create a link to the course page. Code = [[Wikipedia: United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Eng_103: _Rhetoric_and_Composition_(Patricia_Fancher) |Wikipedia course page Spring 2012]] ● You’ve started to build your Wikipedia community!
- 28. Thank you!