User:Pharos/FIT/Wikipedia
< User:Pharos | FIT
Reading and using Wikipedia
- Wikipedia and other sources
- What is distinctive about Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Five pillars, Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset)
- A free encyclopedia, free to read and to use, free of copyright (except for some Fair Use material)
- A comprehensive modern encyclopedia, with world-wide coverage, and at least some information about almost anything a person might look for in an encyclopedia; larger than print encyclopedias; extensively hyperlinked and categorized; lists; images & other media; watchlists and other software tools
- Verifiable, with references for the information, to check for accuracy and to find more material
- Open content: anyone can contribute – widest range of interests and knowledge; numerous contributors; Wikiprojects encourage collaboration
- Neutral and factual: all major points of view are covered in proportion, with sources for them (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)
- Uncensored: with respect to sex, politics, and other difficult topics
- Open community: self-governing, with minimal structure; everyone is a volunteer
- Wikipedia's coverage
- What are the problems?:
- Accuracy; updating; stability; edit wars/WP:OWNership
- Fairness; WP:COI
- Poorly covered areas
- Uneven depth in even fairly well covered areas
- Spam
- Where is it strong:
- Popular culture: TV, movies, games
- Computers; Medicine; Sports; Politics
- United States, Great Britain
- WP:Featured Topics, WP:Featured Articles, WP:Good Articles
- Where it is weak or erratic (Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias)
- Classic literature and drama
- History and Religion
- Africa, most of Asia, Latin America
- Where it is too difficult for most people?:
- Mathematics, Linguistics, ...
- How to use Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia)
- Searching
- Wikipedia Search box
- Google and other search engines
- Browsing Portal:Contents
- Wikipedia Portals of broad subjects Portal:Contents/Portals
- Wikipedia Categories & Complete A-Z list of categories, Outlines, and Lists; Timelines,Complete A-Z Index
- Links in articles
- Evaluating an article
- Sourcing (Wikipedia:Verifiability; WP:RS); External links (WP:EL)
- Article history (sometimes an old version contains useful information that has been dropped)
- Talk page - Wikiprojects rate their own articles; discussion of article improvement
- Quality and priority designations (Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment)
- Problem designations: Cleanup, PovCheck, Unreferenced, Tone, Advert, Disputed, Update
Anatomy of an article
- Tabs of plenty
Wiki in the World
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Free Culture Conference @ New York Law School this weekend (April 20-21)
- Chapters, Wikimedia NYC (Great American Wiknic 2013!)
- Wikipedia Ambassador Program
- GLAM, Wikipedia Loves Libraries, Wikipedian In Residence role
Fashion stubs!!!
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