Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Step/2
A guiding path that makes the collaboration among cultural institutions and Wikipedia easier. It has been created for WikiAfrica and gives its contribution to the GLAM project.
| Share Your Knowledge | Get Started | Guidelines | Current work | Evaluation in 2012 | History |
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Give your contribution to Wikipedia and get users, collaborators and audience involved in the creation of articles and in the enhancement of cultural contents of your institution.
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It takes from 1 to 3 weeks |
1 – invite everybody to participate
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1 hour |
- Publish a piece of news presenting the project on your websites and send it to your mailing list. See a news sample.
2 - plan an event
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1 week |
- In order to improve the collaboration among people working for your institution and the Wikipedians, why don't you get them to know each other? Create a special initiative, like an event open to the audience and where Wikipedians can be invited. For example, you can plan a visit in “your institution and Wikipedia behind the scenes” or a "Wiki-marathon". Fix a practical and precise aim (like writing or improving some articles) and ask for the collaboration of the local Wikimedia chapter.
- Any questions?
- Whom can I ask for help on Wikipedia? Read the FAQs.
3 - give Wikipedia your contribution
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It takes at least 15 minutes and it's optional |
- Do not wait for someone else to do it: start uploading the contents enriching Wikipedia encyclopaedic articles.
- Start building a first short list of lacking articles that can be easily widened with your institution contents.
- Do not put your website link everywhere - do not spam! Improve Wikipedia articles content, proofread and widen lacking articles.
- Always follow Wikipedia guidelines: read the hints for professionals in the cultural field.
- Always cite the sources to anything you write: the information must be verifiable.
- Start writing a new article after having become a good proofreader and widening the existing articles.
- Any questions?
- Have you got any questions about how to follow Wikipedia guidelines? Read the hints for professionals in the cultural field.
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