KCB201 Week 11 Lecture (Christy Collis): Wikipedia

Slide 1: Wikipedia: adding your knowledge KCB201 2008 Christy Collis

Slide 2:  5 reasons for not contributing  What would make you/made you contribute?  What knowledge do you have?

Slide 3: technical

Slide 4: Space law  Look at “discussion”  Look at “history”  Compare selected versions

Slide 5: Space law: basic editing additions  as part of the International Geophysical Year  and which is environmentally ethical

Slide 6: Add internal link • [[International Geophysical Year]]

Slide 7: Add content  Debate is also focussed on whether space should continue to be legally defined as part of the “common heritage of man,” [[res communis]] and therefore unavailable for national claims, or whether its legal definition should be changed to allow private property in space.

Slide 8: Add edit summary  Added mention of debate over space’s legal status regarding property claims

Slide 9: Add references <ref>Fountain, L. (2003) Creating the momentum in Space: ending the paralysis produced by the “Common Heritage of Man” doctrine, Connecticut Law Review, 35(4), 1753- 1787</ref> <ref>Billings, L. (2006) To the Moon, Mars, and beyond: culture, law, and ethics in space-faring societies, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 26(5), 430-437</ref>

Slide 10: Add content & references Private space development firms are applying direct pressure on current space law, arguing that it should be replaced by a new version which allows for space claims and colonization <ref>Wiles, G. (1998). The man on the Moon makes room for neighbours: An analysis of the existence of property rights on the Moon under a condominium-type ownership theory, International Review of Law Computers and Technology 12 (3): 513- 534.</ref><ref>Marko, D. (1992-1993). A kinder, gentler Moon treaty: A critical review of the current Moon Treaty and a proposed alternative, Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, 293: 293-345.</ref>

Slide 11: Check spelling, format, and grammar  “How to edit a page” & “editing cheatsheet”  “manual of style”

Slide 12: tone

Slide 13: controversy

Slide 14: List of policies  Civility  Edit warring: seek resolution  No legal threats  No personal attacks  Ownership of articles  Sock puppetry  Three-revert rule  Vandalism  Caution with biographies of living people

Slide 15: Core content policies  Neutral point of view  Verifiability  No original research  Cite reputable sources

Slide 16: Neutral POV  Dealing fairly with multiple verifiable perspectives on a topic  Readers should be allowed/enabled to make their own informed decisions  Assert facts but not opinions  No undue weighting

Slide 17: Dispute resolution

Slide 18: Lamest edit wars

Slide 19: neutralise  Meat is murder.  Everybody knows that Big Brother is stupid.  There is no God.  Beethoven’s Fifth is his greatest symphony.