Wikipedia:Meetup/Champaign/ICQI Digital Tools Edit-a-thon @ Ricker Library, University of Illinois
ICQI Digital Tools Wikihack[edit]
Join us in updating the Wikipedia entries related to qualitative research: A Hands-on Experience. You are invited to learn more about Wikipedia and how you, as a qualitative researcher, could participate in the generation, editing, and critique of the information available to the larger world about qualitative inquiry.
Event information[edit]
- Date: Friday, May 19, 2017
- Time: 11am-12:20pm
- Location: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Architecture Building, Rooms 205 (2nd floor), 608 E. Lorado Taft Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 / More accessibility information about building can be found here
- Cost: Free, but please register (below)
- Host: Ricker Library
- Please bring a laptop and power cord with you!
What to expect[edit]
We will provide tutorials for Wikipedia newcomers and an overview of the resource. Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. Stop by for a little bit or stay for the whole afternoon. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary!
If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature (by the way, signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).
Resources for editing[edit]
- Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
- Tutorial
- How to Edit a Page
Citations and style guidelines[edit]
Formatting shortcuts[edit]
- Editing Brochure Ask organizers for a physical copy.
- Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia Commonly-used Wiki markup language, including how to sign your username and add links
- PDF cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia (PDF version of printed handout of commonly-used Wiki markup language)
- Full list of Wiki markup All of the Wiki markup language
- Text Formatting
- Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
- Links
Images and photos[edit]
- Uploading Images -- tutorial, general overview
- Image Use Policy -- rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image
- Picture Tutorial -- technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good
- Adding Photos
Outcomes[edit]
Articles improved[edit]
List of Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSight
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_qualitative_data_analysis_software — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danfreak (talk • contribs) 16:23, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Edgerton&action=edit&redlink=1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sari_Biklen&action=edit&redlink=1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narratology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_storytelling
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcript_poetry
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_and_service_demonstrations&action=edit&redlink=1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_study
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_shadow
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_research
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Key_informant_interview&action=edit&redlink=1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Critical_Social_Research&action=edit&redlink=1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethical_Inquiry&action=edit&redlink=1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAXQDA
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDA_Miner
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas.ti
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedoose
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVivo
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipositivism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpositivism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiology
Articles created[edit]
- List of Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to create.
Participants - Sign Up Here![edit]
Prior to the event:
- Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
- No? Create a Wikipedia account
- Yes? Go to Step #2
- Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
- LibraryGurl (talk) 19:51, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
- Trenapaulus (talk) 16:58, 19 May 2017 (UTC)