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Diversity and Inclusion in InformationA Working Wikipedia Session
Noreen Y. Whysel, COO, Decision [email protected] User:nwhysel
#IAwikipedia #ias17
Session Overview⬜Inclusion in Information⬜Wikipedia Diversity Programs⬜Wikipedia Conduct Policies⬜Core Content Policies⬜Be Bold!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct
Inclusion in Information⬜Newspaper ownership⬜Bias in academic research⬜Disparity in positions of authority⬜Number of editors within a given group⬜Translating articles from one Wikipedia
language site to another.
Projects, initiatives, user groups
⬜ AfroCROWD⬜ Art+Community⬜ Art+Feminism⬜ Black WikiHistory Month⬜ Black Lunch Table⬜ Black Women Intelligentsia⬜ Indigenous Film & Media⬜ Indigenous Storytellers WikiThon⬜ Smithsonian APA Asian Pacific American⬜Wiki Loves Pride⬜ wikiD: Women. Wikipedia. Design.⬜Women in Red⬜Writing Middle Eastern Women into History Initiative (WMWH)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup#Projects.2C_initiatives.2C_user_groups
WikiProject Women in Red
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red
⬜Redlinks are pages that have not been created.
⬜If a woman’s name is linked and she does not have a Wikipedia page yet, the link will be red.
⬜The objective of WikiProject Women in Red is to turn Redlinks into Blue Links.
Art + Feminism⬜Less than 10% of contributors to Wikipedia
identify as female.⬜Our main purpose is to contribute and
amend meaningful content to the Wikipedia. ⬜All gender identities and expressions
welcome.
http://www.artandfeminism.org
AfroCROWD
http://www.afrocrowd.org
⬜Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements.
Wiki Loves Pride⬜Supported by Wikimedia LGBT+,
a user group that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT+ communities.⬜Activities usually in June and
September.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride
Refugees 2016⬜In May 2016 the Wikimedia DC Chapter held an
editathon on issues affecting refugees worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Refugees2016
Her Girl Friday / Lenny Letter⬜Women Journos Unconference and Editathon, a
Her Girl Friday Tackles the Gender Gap: The Wikipedia Editing Brunch event co-sponsored by Her Girl Friday and Lenny Letter, January 28, 2017, New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-01_HGF_Lenny
Projects in Vancouver⬜ Indigenous Storytellers WikiThon (April 4, 2017 @ UBC) :
Theme: Indigenous storytellers, specifically those working in film and theatre and situated in the country known as Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Indigenous_Storytellers_WikiThon
⬜ Art + Feminism (March 18, 2017 @ Belkin Art Gallery, UBC & March 19, 2017 @ Western Front Society): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/ArtAndFeminism_2017
⬜ Local Women in Science (September 21, 2016 @ UBC, SFU, BCIT): Theme: Local Women in Science, specifically, female scientists at BCIT, SFU, and UBC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/LocalWomeninSciencey
Neutral point of view – All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias.
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies
Be aware of the difference between a neutral point of view and a common understanding, which may reflect structural or institutional bias.
No original research – Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources.
BASIC RULES: CORE CONTENT POLICIES
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies
If a topic is little known or studied in academic institutions, it may be difficult to find sources to point to. For example, if you want to create an article about an endangered indigenous language, where would you find secondary sources?
Verifiability – Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that information comes from a reliable source.
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies
How would you find a reliable source? Journal articles on the subject with DOI link. Texts written by researchers at academic programs. “Mainstream media.” Avoid primary sources. What do you do if the source you use is challenged?
BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
What if notability guidelines reproduce structural sexism and racism? How can we address and amend this?
Basic Rules: Core Content Policy
Notability is a test used by editors to decide if a given topic warrants its own article. 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. If no reliable, third-party sources can be found on a topic, it will not be given a separate article.
BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
Basic Rules: Core Content Policy
H.W. Janson’s History of Art
● Seminal reference work● Published in 1962● Hundreds of artists
profiled● Only 27 female artists● Zero female artists
were included before the 1980s
BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies
Biographies of Living Persons: Articles about living persons, which require a degree of sensitivity, must adhere strictly to Wikipedia's content policies. Be very firm about high-quality references, particularly about details of personal lives.
“Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material—whether negative, positive, or just questionable—about living (or sometimes recently deceased) persons should be removed immediately and without discussion from Wikipedia articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space."
If you think you have a Conflict Of Interest (COI), don’t create the article, post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.
Basic Rules: Conflict of Interest
BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
Content Guidelines...or how to avoid rejection or reversion⬜Cite sources⬜Do not create hoaxes⬜No full text of primary sources⬜Identify reliable sources⬜No plagiarism⬜No patent nonsense
Wikipedia Conduct Policies
⬜Civility⬜Clean start⬜Consensus⬜Dispute resolution⬜Edit warring⬜Editing policy
⬜Harassment⬜No personal attack
s⬜Ownership of articl
es⬜Sock puppetry⬜Username policy⬜Vandalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct
Wikipedia Conduct Policies
⬜Code of Conduct⬜Safer Spaces⬜Child Care⬜Focus on collaborative editing⬜Access for the disabled
BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
Creating a Gender PerspectiveThe Women You Have Never Met project offers guidelines for sensitivity to gendered point of view.⬜Titles: Avoid using a married name in a title,
if the person is known by their maiden name.⬜Relationships: Avoid describing a female
subject in relation to her spouse or father (“wife of”, “daughter of”) in the lead paragraph.
⬜Description: Avoid referencing a subject’s gender, race or sexuality if it is irrelevant to their importances as a subject (“woman scientist” or “female author”)
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Women_You_Have_Never_Met #How_to_edit_including_the_gender_perspective_in_Wikipedia.3F
BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
Creating a Gender Perspective
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
Creating a Gender Perspective
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hélène_Langevin-Joliot
BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
Creating a Gender Perspective
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irène_Joliot-Curie
• Post a question on the talk page of another Wikipedia User's talk page.
• Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question board.
• Resolving disputes; Wikipedia:Dispute resolution, Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot.
• Email [email protected] with specific Wikipedia editing questions if you can't find what you need on Wikipedia
Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes
• Wikipedia is highly democratic. Anyone can edit any page. This can create challenges in developing an authentic and neutral point of view.
• Even information from reliable sources can be contentious (Fake News, intersectionality)
• Who speaks for the subject? Whose “neutral point of view” is most authentic? Must an authentic article equal an “authentic point of view”?
Challenge: Establishing Authenticity
• Wikimedia ProjectsWikidataWikimedia
CommonsWikisourceWikiquotes
Wikipedia features and tools for organizing information include:
• Categories• Infoboxes• Portals• WikiProjects• WikiTools
ReasonatorListeriaBotPetScan
How IAs Can Help
WikiProjects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frida_Kahlohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disability
Wikimedia Projects
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects
WikiTools: Reasonator
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects
WikiData: Q5588
https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5588
Wikisource and Wikiquotes
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Frida_Kahlohttps://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Frida_Kahlo
• Creating an Account• Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page: "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and "View
History“• Making Simple Edits• Userpages• Working in the Sandbox• Putting in Citations
• Additional Ways to Contribute• Copyright and Wikipedia• Basic Rules• Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes
http://bit.ly/IA-WikipediaTraining
Videos: http://www.artandfeminism.org/editing-kit/
Training Guides
TRAINING OUTLINE: LINKS TO KEEP OPENTraining: Helpful LinksGuide to Contributing to Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia
Wiki Markup Cheat Sheet:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf
WikiProject: Information Architecturehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture
IA Ongoing Tasks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Information_Architecture#Ongoing_Tasks
March is Women’s History Month⬜Join 41 Art + Feminism
events worldwide in March and April.
⬜Calendar: http://www.artandfeminism.org/find-an-event/
Upcoming Meetups - April⬜Apr 1: Black Lunch Table @ UNC Chapel Hill⬜Apr 8: WikiSalon @ Chemical Heritage Fdn,
Philadelphia⬜Apr 9: London 117⬜Apr 21: Black Lunch Table @ Boston U, Day 1⬜Apr 22: Black Lunch Table @ Boston U, Day 2⬜Apr 23: Oxford 49
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup
Upcoming Meetups - Tomorrow⬜Mini IA Editathon: Sunday at Lunch in Balmoral.⬜Signup for the IAS17 editathon via the signup
dashboard at http://bit.ly/ias17wikidash⬜Continue editing remotely.⬜Join WikiProject: Information Architecture
THANK YOU! // What Now?
⬜ Join WikiProject Information Architecture
⬜ Find an article in need of improvement and add it to WikiProject Information Architecture or pick one from the project list.
⬜ Tag the Talk page of an article with the WikiProject Information Architecture category.[[Category:WikiProject_Information_Architecture]]
⬜ Research citations on a person or topic that interests you.
⬜ Suggest citations or content on the Talk page of an article.
⬜ Fix typos and grammatical errors on existing articles.
⬜ Ask for help if you need it!
⬜ Are You Hooked? Find a Wikipedia Meetup near you at:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup
Noreen WhyselDecision Fish [email protected]@nwhyselLinks available at the WikiProject IA Facebook page:
