Re COI for academics: I've recently come across Melodee Beals, a senior
lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Her userpage
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mhbeals> strikes me as an exemplar of
one way for academics to engage with Wikipedia. She has given thought and
space to making a declaration of interests, spelling out how she intends to
handle affiliations and her understanding of self-promotion.
Declaration of interest: Dr Beals is the colleague of a friend of mine.
Roberta
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On 30 October 2014 10:58, Toby Hudson <tobyyy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/University_of_Sydney_…
This is going to be big. There are 39 signed up (mostly female academics
and students), but we are expecting nearer 100.
How Wikipedians can help:
We will have a decent number of experienced editors on site, but we will
be stretched. Anyone who can provide online support 03:00-07:00 UTC
tomorrow (Friday) would be much appreciated. Please add your name to the
project page with a note so that we know who we can call on. Here's some
ways you can help:
1. Any sandbox started by a wikibomb participant should be added to
*Category:University
of Sydney Wikibomb 2014
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:University_of_Sydney_Wikibomb_2014>* so
that we can all find it.
2. Monitor *These Related Changes
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/University_of_Sydney_Wikibomb>*
to
look out for editors having trouble.
3. Write (kind) sandbox_talk page comments if you see *promotional
language*. It seems that some participants are intending to write
articles about their friend/colleague/boss. The organizing team now all
understand how much COI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI> editing
is discouraged, but I'm afraid academics are harder to herd than cats. We
are at least trying to ensure that everyone declares their employer on
their userpage, and declares any COI they have on the article talk.
4. Assess articles' *readiness to move into mainspace* (also post a
note on the talk page). Experienced Wikipedians will do these moves, but
for COI and general stress relief, it would be good to have third party
eyes over it.
5. *Categorize, prettify, wikidatify, wikiprojectify* ({{WP Australia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WP_Australia>}}{{WP Biography
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WP_Biography>}} etc) any
articles that do make it into mainspace. We will not have time to
concentrate on any of these things.
6. *Ping me (99of9 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:99of9>)* or
another involved Wikipedian if you spot any problems.
7. Publicise on *Twitter (#Wikibomb)* with a link to the project page
Thanks for helping!
Toby/99of9
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