Juneteenth at Wikipedia
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight @Rosiestep | Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University | V-P, Wikimedia DC | Co-founder, Women in Red Zoom training event via AfroCROWD & Women in Red | 06.20.2020 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 1 Wikipedia
● An encyclopedia ● Neutral point of view ● Free content ● Respect and civility ● No firm rules
2 Wiki… huh?
● ‘Wiki’: model of openly-editable content ● Hawaiian word meaning fast/quick ● 1995: coined by Ward Cunningham, inventor of the editing language used by Wikipedia editors
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.” -Jimmy Wales
5 Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emancipation_Day_celebration_-_1900-06-19.jpg (Mrs. Charles Stephenson (Grace Murray) / Public domain) 6 Wikidata
7 8 9 Volunteers
● “... 77 percent of Wikipedia articles are written by just one percent of Wikipedia editors…” (Daniel Oberhaus, "Motherboard, Tech by Vice", 7 Nov 2017)
● “Just 3,541 Wikipedia editors are considered ‘very active’, and very few of them are female.” (“New https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AfroCROW Statesman”, 8 Jan 2019) D_Team_at_the_first_AfroCROWD_Summit_Brookly n_NY,_1-2019.png (Shanluan / CC BY-SA) 10 Policies, guidelines, best practices
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies 11 Notability (WP:N)
● “If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list.”
12 Reliable sources (WP:RS)
● Sources should be “published”, not “oral”. ● Online sources are convenient, but sources do not have to be available online. ● Sources in any language are acceptable.
13 Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) ● All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view.
14 Paid editing (WP:PAID)
● Issues: ○ Trust ○ Disclosure
15 Conflict of interest (WP:COI) ● Disclose any potential conflicts of interest on your userpage. ● Don’t create an account in the name of your organization.
16 Conflict between editors ● Wikipedia can get frustrating. ● Take criticism as a learning opportunity. ● Wikipedia always wins. Don’t bet against Wikipedia.
17 Gender gap: editors
18 Who is editing Wikipedia? Who isn’t?
19 Women editors 2010 United Nations University study 12.6%
2011 Wikipedia Editor Survey 8.5%
2011 Wikimedia Foundation goal set: 25% women editors by 2015
2015 No survey
2018 Wikimedia Community 9% Engagement Insights survey https://w.wiki/GUp
20 “Conflict, confidence, or criticism”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Movement_strategy_discussion_at_WikiConference_North_America_2016_ -_2.jpg (Pax Ahimsa Gethen / CC BY-SA) 21 Gender gap: content
22 23 The example of another encyclopedia
● “...Diccionario biográfico, geograf́ico e histórico de Venezuela, -Ramón Armando Rodriguez (1957)
● 3.6% https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roger_Ba mkin_y_Rosie_Stephenson-Goodknight_en_Wikiman ia_2015_22.JPG (Luisalvaz / CC BY-SA) 24 % of women’s biographies on Wikipedia
● Oct 2014: 15.5% http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.02341v1.pdf
● Jun 2020: 18.46% http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html
25 % of women’s scientist biographies on Wikipedia
● https://www.denelezh.org/gender-gap/ 26 Article anatomy
27 Exploring tabs: Article history
Edit summary Editor Date username
28 Exploring tabs: talk page, community discussion
29 Lead paragraphs
Main photo or Infobox Lead paragraphs placement
30 References; inline citations
31 Categories
32 Decide on a ‘username’ that is not your institution's real name. Note that sharing an account is not allowed in Wikipedia, so you should not create an account for your organization as a whole. Create your 1. Click on the blue link "Create Account" in the top right corner. 2. Click on the blue link "Create One" in Wikipedia the sign in box. 3. Fill out the information on the page account (email is not necessary) and click the "Create Account" button. 4. Your username will now appear in red in the top right corner. 33 AfroCROWD Juneteenth 2020 editathon page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/AfroCROWD/Juneteenth2020
Click here.
34 Thank you
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, “Juneteenth at Wikipedia”, 2020, Zoom training event via AfroCROWD & Women in Red, CC-BY-SA-4.0 35