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Introduction to Wikipedia & Wikipedia assignment
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Wikipedia Assignment
Write a new Wikipedia article or substantially improve an existing one on a topic relevant to the course
Goals of Wikipedia assignment
• Become an “expert” in some topic relevant to the course
• Provide common ground for class– Getting involved in a online community new to most
– Example of problems & solutions in contribution, regulation, socialization, organization & start-up
• Provide a public good– Return some of what you’ve learned back to the world by
improving Wikipedia
History
• Founded in Jan 15, 2001 as a feeder to Nupedia, an expert-authored, peer-reviewed, free encyclopedia
• Co-founders– Jimmy Wales – Larry Sanger
• Heavily subsidized by bomis.com (1996), Wales’ search portal, ad and porn company
Jimmy Wales
Larry Sanger
Growth• English version
– ~4M articles in English language Wikipedia
– 151,934 unique editors– Average 435 words/article (vs.
650 in Britannica)– Doubling number of & editors
articles every 40 weeks– Slower growth starting in 2007
• All versions– 250 languages– 11 language versions > 100K
articles– 282,875 unique editors
• Spin-offs– Wiktionary, wikibooks,
wikiversity, wikinews, wikispecies, wikiquote, wikisource
Article growth per month
Misalignment in Wikipedia: Iron Man
16
10,189 words
Major source of information on most psychological concepts
Yet many Wikipedia articles on psychology were impoverished or out of date
A Stub
Virtually no content
350 words
No references
Assignment
• Substantially improve a Wikipedia article relevant to the course or write a new one, if one doesn’t exist.– Goal is “Good Article” status
Original
1 article combing bio
and theory
Sections: 7
Words: 831
Images: 0
References: 5
External links: 7
New
2 pages with bio
separated from theory
Sections: 27
Words: 5,669
Images: 1
References: 35
External links: 18
Editing
Portions of poor quality
Revisions: History of the articleMar 17, 2010 Jan 24, 2011
Article discussion pages: Where coordination gets done
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carnegie_Mellon_University#Rankings
Principles and policies
What Wikipedia is not
Creating a user account
Via APS/Wikipedia Initiativehttp://hciresearch4.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/~apswi/stage/site/index.php
Register for class: CarCMU 05-32039-000-rob
7. Link your real name to username at
Create a user page & sandbox
To create a subpage (e.g., sandbox): [[user:Charlottesweb28/Sandbox]]Or practice in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
Start your user page by copying someone elses
Editing your user page
Provides a dashboard & tools for working on assignment
Read the Wikipedia Tutorial• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial