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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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:

• w:de:Wikipedia:Werbung
• w:pl:Wikipedia:Promocja
• m:Promotion

• Leaflets created by Wikipedia chapters, etc.
• Instructional videos