Wikipedia:GLAM/CJH/Tools

Starting to edit Wikipedia can be daunting, but there are plenty of materials to guide newcomers. Some GLAM-specific resources include:

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Libraries Archives Museums, specifically created for librarians and archivists to explain how and why they might begin editing.
• GLAM-Wiki LibGuide from Metro, with ideas on how to integrate Wikipedia into your workflow, how to learn about use cases, and articles on GLAM-Wiki projects.
• GLAM Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia on account creation, article editing.
• Wikipedia Loves Libraries Editing Ideas for ideas on what to edit.
• A very thorough training/educational resource for GLAMs made by Ally Crockford of the National Library of Scotland. (Click the picture to the right for the link.)
• A fabulous list of GLAM resources all in one place created for the GLAM Wiki Conference 2015: Outreach:GLAM consortium meeting agenda ideas, 2015/GLAM-US Resources Annotated Bibliography

Project-specific tools

• Template:LBI Collection Links — A wiki template for linking to holdings of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York

Basics

• The Five Pillars are Wikipedia's underlying principles in a nutshell.
• The Policies and Guidelines page provides a more thorough treatment of these issues.
• A simple Tutorial for beginners
• How to Edit a Page
• For a guide to creating new entries, there are two, very similar pages: Your First Article or Starting an Article
• FAQ/Editing and Editing
• Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
• How to understand page history

Style and layout

• Layout
• Manual of Style
• Annotated article is an example of a well-formed page with descriptions of the various components
• A formatting Cheatsheet page and the PDF print version
• The Picture tutorial explains how to insert and align images

Content and data guidelines

• Article titles; see also headings and sections in the Manual of Style
• See Article Development for an overview of the process from redlink, to stub, to feature
• How to cite sources
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates

Best Practices Guidelines for GLAM Editors

• Disclose your affiliation with the Center for Jewish History or its partners on your Wikipedia user page before editing. (The user page can be found in the top right corner of any Wikipedia page and can be edited like a regular article).
• If you edit articles about the Center for Jewish History as an institution, other Wikipedia users may perceive a Conflict of Interest. Simple factual changes (e.g.: personnel updates or outdated statistics) may likely be made without raising eyebrows, but more substantive changes should be proposed with a critical eye towards a potential Conflict of Interest. Such articles should be edited using appropriate discussion pages, and encouraging feedback from other Wikipedia editors.
• Additions to articles must be verifiable. This means that independent media or academic secondary sources should be cited whenever possible. Where CJH-published literature or web pages represent original scholarship, they may be cited, but they must go along with an additional verifiable source to back up this information.
• When editing articles, always maintain the impartial voice. You are writing an encyclopedia, not speaking for the Center for Jewish History.

Nerdier stuff

• Page size has tips for editing a long article or splitting articles
• See the Protection help page for editing protected pages or requesting status changes
• Moving a page to a new name
• Namespace