Wiki Club Gathering June 7, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up of the Top (and Side) of the Page
This month we looked at the various elements at the top of the page, and in the side bar (on the left-hand of each Wikipedia page). Last month we looked…
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Wiki Club Gathering May 3, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up of the Bottom of the Page
This month we looked at the various elements at the bottom of the page. This end matter is equivalent in many ways to the standard appendices and footnotes of a…
Wiki Club Gathering April 5, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up on how to make your article findable
This month we looked at findability (for our purposes, synonymous with discoverability). So, you’ve created a new article, or (more likely, and more achievable) you’ve improved or extended an existing…
Wiki Club Gathering March 1, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up on Biographies
This month we looked at biographies: articles about real people. Different and understandably much tighter rules apply to living subjects than to deceased ones. As with most Wikipedia articles, it…
Wiki Club Gathering February 1, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up on Illustrations
This month we looked at images, principally photographs, but including maps, drawings, diagrams and graphs. The same principles hold true for any image you create, including original artwork such as…
Wiki Club Gathering January 4, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up on the Lead Section
This month, given that it is the beginning of the year, we looked at how Wikipedia articles begin: the lead section, or introduction (a re-cap of the basics is at…
Wiki Club Gathering Dec 7, 2021: Roberta’s Sum-Up on Translations and Languages
This month we looked at translations and languages. There are 195 countries in the world today, and approximately 6500 languages, depending on how you count them. The online encyclopedias that…
Wiki Club Gathering November 2, 2021: Roberta’s Sum-Up on Resources and Citations
This month we looked at resources and citations. Wikipedia depends on reliable sources. (WP::RS.) Ideally, each factual assertion in every article should be backed up. This is where you come in. You…
Inaugural Wiki Club Gathering Oct 5, 2021: Roberta’s Sum-Up about How to Get Started
In the weeks in between our sessions, we will all be putting this knowledge to use by editing the encyclopedia. I recommend that you gain proficiency by improving existing articles,…
‘Sitting the month’: Post-partum Confinement Practices in China
Image credit Georgine Leung reports on foods offered to new mothers in China and her experiences of the recent Wikithon at the British Library There is a Chinese saying for…
