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Editing Wikipedia
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Noreen Whysel, OWASP Community Manager

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• Introduction: Cybersecurity on Wikipedia
• Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page: "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and "View History“
• Making Simple Edits
• Userpages
• Working in the Sandbox
• Putting in Citations
• Additional Ways to Contribute
• Copyright and Wikipedia
• Basic Rules
• Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes
Training Outline

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TRAINING OUTLINE: LINKS TO KEEP OPEN
OWASP Community Etherpad
http://owasp-community.etherpad.mozilla.org
Guide to Contributing to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia
Cheat Sheet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf
WikiProject: Computer Security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_Security
Requested Articles on Computer Science and Security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Applied_arts_and_scien
ces/Computer_science,_computing,_and_Internet#Security
Training Outline: Helpful Links

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APPLICATION SECURITY ON WIKIPEDIA

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WikiProject: Computer Security

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WikiProject: Cryptography

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Requested Articles: Computer Security

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EDITING WIKIPEDIA PAGES

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 Every page edit is publicly visible.
 Every page edit you make is traceable to
your user account.
 Talk pages are Wikipedia's version of peer
review.
 A lot of extra information is available in the
View History tab.
Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page

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Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – View History

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 Select Edit to view wikitext markup
Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page - Editing

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 You can enter an explanation of your changes in the Edit summary box, which
you'll find below the edit window.
 If the change you have made to a page is minor, check the box "This is a
minor edit."
Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – Edit Summary

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 You should always use the Show preview button. After you've entered a
change in the edit box for the sandbox, click the Show preview. This lets you
see what the page will look like after your edit, before you actually save.
Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page – Show Preview

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USER PAGES

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• Click on Create account to
sign up for a Wikipedia
editor account.
• Use your real name or a
pseudonym.
User Pages

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• Usernames are governed by
Wikipedia policy.
• Anonymity is preferred.
• If you are not sure which
username to create, click help
me choose:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi
kipedia:Username_policy
User Pages

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• Click on your Username in the
top left to view your User
Page.
• Select Edit to make edits to
your User Page.
• Using this Cheatsheet, write
something about yourself.
User Pages

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PLEASE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO MAKE SOME EDITS TO YOUR USER PAGE...

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Over the next few weeks, add some well-cited sentences
and paragraphs to articles in your area of expertise.
In the following slides, we’ll offer some guidelines and
helpful tips about editing Wikipedia articles.
WHAT NOW? BE BOLD!

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To experiment, you can use the shared sandbox or your personal sandbox (add
{{My Sandbox|replace with your user name}} on your user page
for future easy access).
Editing the Sandbox

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For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags
(i.e. <ref>citation</ref>).
…or highlight your whole citation and then click the markup icon to
automatically enclose your citation in ref tags.
References and Citations –Footnotes

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On a new page, you may need to create a section usually named
"Notes" or "References" near the end of the page:
== Notes ==
<references />
or...
== Notes ==
{{Reflist}}
Example of a complete footnote:
<ref>Name of author,
[http://www.nytimes.com/article_name.html "Title of
article"], ''The New York Times'', date</ref>
References and Citations - Footnote

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When you’re ready, add a citation to a page in your area of expertise!
1. In your sandbox, insert a reference for the book Tom
Sawyer using the Worldcat entry for this book: Twain,
Mark, and Paul Geiger. 1985. The adventures of Tom
Sawyer. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association.
2. Insert a reference using a citation template for this
magazine article: Li, Shirley. "Roger Ebert's Wikipedia
[Citation Needed]." The Atlantic. October 9, 2014.
Article link
References and Citations – Your Turn!

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• Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into
Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.
• Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU
Free Documentation License (GFDL) .
Copyright and Wikipedia

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Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it
is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.
Copyright– Wikimedia Commons

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Copyright– Wikimedia Commons

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POLICIES AND GUIDELINES

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Wikipedia Conduct Policies
• Civility
• Clean start
• Consensus
• Dispute resolution
• Edit warring
• Editing policy
• Harassment
• No personal attacks
• Ownership of articles
• Sock puppetry
• Username policy
• Vandalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct

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Neutral point of view – All Wikipedia articles and other
encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of
view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and
without bias.
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies

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Verifiability – Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and
all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source.
In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing
the encyclopedia can check that information comes from
a reliable source.
Basic Rules: Core Content Policies

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No original research – Wikipedia does not publish original
thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a
reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new
analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to
advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources.
BASIC RULES: CORE CONTENT POLICIESBasic Rules: Core Content Policies

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If you think you have a Conflict Of Interest (COI), don’t create the article, post that
someone else should create it on a related talk page.
Basic Rules: Conflict of Interest

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If available, academic and peer-reviewed publications are
usually the most reliable sources.
Other reliable sources include:
• university-level textbooks
• books published by respected publishing houses
• magazines
• journals
• mainstream newspapers
More information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#What_coun
ts_as_a_reliable_source
Basic Rules: Reliable Source

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BASIC RULES: NOTABILITY
What if notability guidelines reproduce structural sexism and racism? How can we
address and amend this?
Basic Rules: Notability

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BASIC RULES: NOTABILITYContent Guidelines
• Cite sources
• Do not create hoaxes
• No full text of primary sources
• Identify reliable sources
• No plagiarism
• No patent nonsense

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• Post a question on the talk page of another Wikipedia User's
talk page.
• Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question board.
• Resolving disputes; Wikipedia:Dispute
resolution, Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Staying cool when
the editing gets hot.
• Email info@art.plusfeminism.org with specific Wikipedia
editing questions if you can't find what you need on Wikipedia
Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

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