Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Step/2

A guiding path that makes the collaboration among cultural institutions and Wikipedia easier. It has been created for WikiAfrica and gives its contribution to the GLAM project.

Share Your Knowledge

Fase 1

Fase 2

Fase 3

second step: share contents on Wikipedia

Give your contribution to Wikipedia and get users, collaborators and audience involved in the creation of articles and in the enhancement of cultural contents of your institution.

It takes from 1 to 3 weeks

1 – invite everybody to participate

1 hour

Publish a piece of news presenting the project on your websites and send it to your mailing list. See a news sample.

2 - plan an event

1 week

In order to improve the collaboration among people working for your institution and the Wikipedians, why don't you get them to know each other? Create a special initiative, like an event open to the audience and where Wikipedians can be invited. For example, you can plan a visit in “your institution and Wikipedia behind the scenes” or a "Wiki-marathon". Fix a practical and precise aim (like writing or improving some articles) and ask for the collaboration of the local Wikimedia chapter.

Any questions?: Whom can I ask for help on Wikipedia? Read the FAQs.

3 - give Wikipedia your contribution

It takes at least 15 minutes and it's optional

Do not wait for someone else to do it: start uploading the contents enriching Wikipedia encyclopaedic articles.

Start building a first short list of lacking articles that can be easily widened with your institution contents.
Do not put your website link everywhere - do not spam! Improve Wikipedia articles content, proofread and widen lacking articles.
Always follow Wikipedia guidelines: read the hints for professionals in the cultural field.
Always cite the sources to anything you write: the information must be verifiable.
Start writing a new article after having become a good proofreader and widening the existing articles.

Any questions?: Have you got any questions about how to follow Wikipedia guidelines? Read the hints for professionals in the cultural field.

Make the final step check your path