Submissions/Quality Content Matters
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This is a Completed submission for Wikimania 2017 ready to be reviewed by a member of the Programme Committee. |
- Submission no. 2024 Subject - C7
- Title of the submission
Quality Content Matters
- Type of submission (lecture, panel, tutorial/workshop, roundtable discussion, lightning talk, poster, birds of a feather discussion)
Lecture
- Author of the submission
Brenda Wahler
- Language of presentation
English
- E-mail address
wahlerwikicon
gmail.com
- Username
Montanabw
- Country of origin
United States
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
None
- Personal homepage or blog
wahlerlaw.wordpress.com
- Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
Wikipedia users may not understand that the quality and stability of good and featured articles is of great value, and many editors find that bringing articles to this status can be daunting. To demonstrate how quality article improvement can occur, this presentation will outline ways to create and improve content by showing how a group of Wikipedia users created a featured article (FA), and along the way upgraded content to good articles (GA), plus created new articles that appeared at Did you know? (DYK) and In the News (ITN). Throughout, there was a need to monitor multiple articles, maintain the integrity of several biographies of living persons (BLPs) and update content constantly, sometimes live.
The quest of racehorse American Pharoah for the American Triple Crown presented a unique opportunity to write quality Wikipedia content while an event was unfolding. At the beginning, some articles were newly-created, others had existed for several years but required massive cleanup. A collegial and cooperative team that included regulars from WikiProject Horse racing and editors from outside the project worked together in a remarkable collaboration of diverse personalities. Along the way, a deft hand was needed to maintain Wikipedia's standards in the face of developing controversies, such as those involving the horse's "flamboyant and controversial" owner, Ahmed Zayat.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
Attendees at this presentation will learn how quality articles on Wikipedia are developed, including FA-level verifiability, locating and citing reliable sources, formatting, citations, obtaining free-licensed images, and pulling together submissions for four different review processes (ITN, DYK, GA and FA).
- Theme of presentation
- WikiCulture & Community
- For workshops and discussions, what level is the intended audience?
- Intermediate
- Length of session (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long)
- 25 minutes
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
- Maybe, am also seeking scholarship funding.
- Slides or further information (optional)
This will be a refined and tighter version of my WikiConference North America presentation Tracking the Triple Crown: Creating quality content, with more emphasis on the nuts and bolts of the process, per feedback from attendees. Slides will be updated and upgraded, but previous version is here.
- Special requests
- Require projector for powerpoint presentation, prefer one with audio output
- Is this Submission a Draft or Final?
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