Resources for the Bookshelf Project
Please add to this list of resources. These resources will be used by the Bookshelf development team as background materials to draw from; they will not be used verbatim.
Culture and Community
[edit]- Evolution of an Article (Celilo Falls)
- Personae on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia About Page
- "FAQs about how Wikipedia works and why" AND "FAQs about tricky issues"
- Five Pillars
- Wikipedia Policies & Guidelines
- Wikimedia Foundation FAQs
- Presentations from wikitech.wikimedia.org
- Jimmy Wales' "State of the Wiki" address (video, ~1 hour)
- Wikipedia Quick Directory and Wikipedia Department Directory
- Wikipedia Community Portal
- Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation
- New User Resources
- Wikipedia Key Facts
- Wikimedia Statistics Portal
- Tables from Wikimedia Statistics Portal
- WikiProject Oregon blog
- Donor Quotes
- Wikipedia Top 10 Webby Award
- Anlysis of Wikipedia Editors
- Placeopedia, connects Wikipedia articles with places
- Time Article: Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?
- CNN Article: Wikipedia: No longer the Wild West?
- WSJ's Julia Angwin interviews Andrew Lih, author of Wikipedia Revolution, about why volunteers are increasingly quitting Wikipedia.
- Reading as a Form of Participation on Wikipedia Judd Antin and Coye Cheshire School of Information University of California - Berkeley {jantin, coye}@ischool.berkeley.eduFile:Antin-Cheshire-Readers-are-Not-Free-Riders.pdf
Editing Articles
[edit]- Help:Getting started
- Help Contents Page
- Namespaces Definition
- Wikipedia FAQ
- Wikipedia:NPOV
- Adopt-a-User
- Mentor
- German Wikipedia Mentoring Program
- Orientation to Advanced Tools and Tools
- Questions
- WMDOC/matrix
- WMDOC
- Usability and Experience Study and Usability Study Highlights
- w:en:Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest
- English Wikipedia's "tip of the day" series
- Cheatsheet
- Wired magazine article "Be a Wikipedia Editor"
- Companies on Wikipedia: Apple's Fans Get it Right
- Wikipedia 101 for Brands
Wikipedia in Education
[edit]- Educational materials
- Swedish Press Release On Wikipedia University Course
- Wikipedia in Schools: Sweden in Swedish
- Best practices in assigning Wikipedia articles as coursework to students
- How Wikipedia Works
- School and University Projects
- WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem/Planning and Resources
- Wiki Project Classroom Coordination
- UK Wikipedia Initiatives Schools Project
- User:Jbmurray/Advice On Using Wikipedia in Colleges and Universities
- Spanish Wikipedia: Wikipedia in the Classroom
- "Are We Ready to Use Wikipedia to Teach Writing?"
- Top 100 Tools in Education
- Prof Replaces Term Paper with Wikipedia Contributions. Also check out the Comments link at the end of the article.
- Interviews with professor at Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
- Classrooms for the Future, Pennsylvania Potential resource for secondary school teachers
- Professors Should Embrace Wikipedia
- Academic studies relating to Wikipedia by Luca de Alfaro, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz. System for establishing reputation of Wikipedia contributor
- Expert Hearing: Using Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool
Miscellaneous
[edit]- Wikipédia: découvrir, utiliser, contribuer (Book on Wikipedia, in French, general public with a focus on the education sector) by Guillaume Paumier and Florence Devouard. Published Jan 09. For sale, but also available on wikibooks. Comments on Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France
- How Wikipedia Works by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Mathews and Ben Yates, No Starch Press, 2008
- Other languages: