Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD/Spatial Cognition 2021-22

In the course of Spatial Cognition 2021-22, academic year 2021-2022, held by professor Chiara Meneghetti, the students can create or improve Wikipedia articles about specific disciplinary content.

This project is a part of it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università we are leading in the Wikipedia in Italian, fully supported by the community. The same university had other courses running with Wikipedia (in English, in Italian).

See the page in Italian.

What we do

30th of March 2022 introduction

Introduction of wikipedia. First steps.

6th of April (workshop)

During this workshop, we introduce Wikipedia as a learning tool and its essential guidelines.

• Presentation of the project and of the specific activity;
• How to respect the copyright for all contents (text and images)
• 5 pillars
• How to cite cite sources (Help:Footnotes and Help:Find sources)
• How to edit a Wikipedia page:
  • How to use the test page (Sandbox)
  • How to structure an article (Help:Section)

Basic guidelines: Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines/1

Hint: Wikipedia:VisualEditor

To enable Visual Editor:

1. login with your username on Wikipedia in English
2. go to your preferences Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
3. unckeck the option "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta"
4. in the "editing mode" menu, choose "Show me both editor tabs".
5. press "Save" button and the bottom of the page.
6. reload page(s).

5th of May (final review)

Public review and publishing.

Tutor

• Marco Chemello (Unipd) (msg) (Wikimedian in residence at Unipd, he leads two live workshops)
• Ignazio Ligotti (Unipd) (msg) (Wikimedian in residence at Unipd, online tutor)
• Cinzia Ferranti --Cferranti (msg)

Resources for students

• The project "Learning with Wikipedia"
• The translation tool

Participants

Students are invited to register an individual account and add their own signature using only the wikisyntax (Help:Signature) below.

It is also necessary to create your userpage writing essential information on your activities during this course, and adding a link to this page.

(Add you signature here, one per row):

1. --Lola1516 (talk) 09:07, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
2. --Lonnica (talk) 14:01, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
3. --1234becky (talk) 20:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
4. --Izzak03 (talk) 22:57, 5 April 2022 (UTC)Izzak03
5. --Ludovica.Alejandro (talk) 10:16, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
6. --Monica.Gabriele (talk) 10:18, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
7. ----VeliaB (talk) 11:51, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
8. --Gina Grigs (talk) 12:28, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
9. --2000Siena (talk) 13:38, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
10. --Sarita373 (talk) 01:35, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
11. --Wikiworkr (talk) 15:12, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Articles

Articles worked in small groups need to be developed collectively in the sandbox of one of the members ("group leader") before publishing it into Wikipedia. All participants should contribute individually to the contents (all edits are recorded in the page history).

Group sandboxes will be listed above. For a user named "Johndoe22", his sandbox is [[User:Johndoe22/sandbox|]])

Please note: if you want to expand an existing article, please copy first the source (wiki code) of the article into your sandbox, then work on it safely.

List of articles to be created or improved:

1. Spatial cognition#Individual differences (to be expanded)  Done - Sandbox: User:VeliaB/sandbox - Group: VeliaB, Wikiworkr , 1234becky
2. Cognitive map (to be expanded)  Done - Sandbox: User:Lola1516/sandbox - Group : --Lola1516 (talk) 09:13, 5 April 2022 (UTC) --Izzak03 (talk) 08:28, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
3. Spatial cognition#Distortion (to be expanded)  Done - Sandbox: User:Monica.Gabriele/sandbox - Group:--User:Monica.Gabriele User:Ludovica.Alejandro
4. Spatial anxiety (to be created)  Done - Sandbox: User:Sarita373/sandbox - Group: --Sarita373 (talk) 14:52, 6 May 2022 (UTC) --Gina Grigs (talk) 15:30, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
5. Navigation (to be expanded)  Done - Sandbox: User:Wikiworkr/sandbox - Group: --Wikiworkr (talk) 16:17, 6 May 2022 (UTC), --1234becky (talk) 11:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
6. Navigation#Individual differences  Done - Sandbox:2000Siena/sandbox - Group: --2000Siena (talk) 12:45, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Further information

Please start reading these pages:

• Wikipedia:Copyrights (how to avoid copyright infringments)
• Wikipedia:Notability (what to put into Wikipedia and what not, and how to choose the right topics for your article)
• Wikipedia:Tutorial (how to learn to contribute to Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia:VisualEditor - how to enable and use visual editor mode (easiest way to edit a page, and for inserting footnotes with sources)
• Help:Wikitext and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (correct format and conventions to be used)
• Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial (not all images are allowed!)
• Wikipedia:Content translation tool (may help)
• Wikipedia:GLAM (how cultural institutions can collaborate with Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD and it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università/UNIPD (Italian) - other courses using Wikipedia of the same university

Questions?

If you have questions you can use the talk page (clicking on "new discussion" and putting your signature at the end.