Interpersonal Media (Winter 2020)/Wiki Task 6

Wikipedia Task #6

Task

Make article "live."

Due Date

Friday February 14

Deliverables

Make contributions in Wikipedia and the class WikiEdu dashboard

• Polishing your article, it should be ready for public consumption.
• Move sandbox articles into the "(Article)" name space by using the "Move" tab, by setting the namespace to "(Article)" and by setting the page title to be whatever you want the article to be named.
• Once you have moved the article, visit the list of students in the WikiEdu dashboard and (a) assign the new URL to yourself and (b) remove the old one by clicking the "+" button to open the menu and using the "-" button next to the old "sandbox" copy of your article. You need to press "Save" at the top of the page once you are done.

Moving your work to Wikipedia - the detailed edition

The Week 6 module on WikiEdu will walk you through most of this. However, since almost everyone is working with pre-existing articles, here is the relevant checklist (with some additional commentary):

1. Open the original article and click on View history. If there were changes since you began writing (approx. January 17), and if the content that was modified is still in your sandbox (or is worth re-introducing), then make those changes in your sandbox before moving on.
2. Next, open your sandbox in Edit mode. (References and other templates will break if you copy from Read mode. I would go so far as to suggest using the Source editor for this task.)
3. Select the portion you want to move into the live article by highlighting and copying. (If you followed Step 1, then you can select everything.)
4. Open the original article in Edit mode and add your content by clicking into the proper location (or highlighting the content to be replaced) and pasting. (Again, I would go so far as suggesting the Source editor for this task.)
5. Add an edit summary that says what the change was for and that it was copied from your sandbox, then click Publish changes. (Do not add your signature, but do include a link to your sandbox, like "copied from [[User:Your Username/Article title]]", in the edit summary.)
6. Repeat this process for all of the changes you made to the original article. (It may seem tedious, but this way you won't accidentally write over content that someone else contributed since you began working on the article. Again, if you followed Step 1, then you may highlight everything and replace it all.)
7. Make sure that the lead section reflects the new content you've added and copy-edit the article to ensure your additions mesh well with any pre-existing content that you didn't change.
8. Once you have copied everything into the live article, review page 15 of the WikiEdu Editing Guide for a final check-list.

Thank you for becoming a Wikipedia contributor!