Sharing the Children's Museum's Treasures: A MAP Wikipedia Project
This page is a step-by-step guide for students in the Children's Museum of Indianapolis' Museum Apprentice Program (MAPs). From January to April 2011, students will be researching notable objects in the Children's Museum's collection and creating Wikipedia articles to share their work.
Asandbox is a subpage of your userpage that can be used for drafting articles.
These pages are not live articles, so they do not have to meet all of the Manual of Style requirements.
Each team should make only one draft for their article. Choose which Wikipedia Leader's userpage you will create it on.
Go to your user page and click on the Edit tab.
On the Edit page type: [[User:You/Draft]]. Exchange "You" for your username. This will create the sandbox. (Name it anything you like, as long as you include the backslash).
Click Save to save your edit screen and take you back to your user page.The link will be red, which means that the page does not exist yet.
Click on the link, and it will bring up a screen that says "Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name."
Type something in the Edit box and click Save. This will create your draft page.
GLAM stands for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. We will use the resources of GLAM so that our formatting corresponds with other artifact articles.
You will use the GLAM Article Template as a way to automatically add headings and an infobox to your draft and article.
The template includes an empty Infobox to be filled out and detailed suggestions for the content to be placed under each heading
Copy the following text and paste it into your new subpage: {{subst:GLAM Article}}
Save the page and include a note in the Edit summary such as "GLAM template". You'll notice that the page now has new headings.
Edit your draft again to see the template code, which includes suggestions in brackets that look like <!-- this-->. Do not put your content in between these brackets or it will not appear when you save it. The information in the brackets is just there to remind you what to put where.
Remove all of the suggestions and brackets (<!-- content-->) after you've added your research and filled out the infobox. Only the research, references, and WikiMarkup that you added should remain (in addition to the headings and Infobox).
This can be added to over the coming month and at your next session.
Don't forget the WikiMarkup Cheatsheet as you begin to edit your draft.
Working with the Reference Leaders, begin to add your notes under the appropriate headings in the article draft.
Go to the Reference Generator Tool and use your Reference Worksheet to add in the information you know. Be sure to click the appropriate type of source on the left side (is it a book, journal article, newspaper article, or something else?)
Click "Get reference Wiki text" and copy the code.
Paste the code (which is the citation) directly after each fact you are citing in the article. This will create in-line citations.
When you add notes from another source, return to the Reference Generator Tool and create new code for that source.
Repeat this process until all of your notes (each statement followed by a citation) are added into the article.
Adding tags and categories will prevent your article from being tagged an orphan.
Click on the Talk Page (Discussion tab) of your article and click Edit.
Copy and pate the following template: {{EducationalAssignment}} onto the article's Talk Page.
Go back to your article's main page and click Edit.
Add [[Category:The Children's Museum of Indianapolis]] to the bottom of the article. It should appear on the article's main page (not the Talk Page).
Find any other appropriate categories to add to your article. In the Wikipedia search box type Category: followed by whatever category topic you are searching for. If the category exists, add it. (Example: Dinosaurs, Archaeology, Public Art).
It is preferred that you include the most specific category possible (for example: "Glass artworks" instead of "artwork".)
Now that your article is live, check to make sure that your article uses citations correctly and has no major grammar issues.
Wikipedia articles can always be added to! They are never actually "done."
Read through your article to make sure that it flows well, sentences are clear, and information is under the heading that makes the most sense.
Remove headings that you didn't use (such as possibly Artist), or combine headings that are too short. If one heading seems long, you can add a subheading under it if it makes sense to do.
Make sure that each fact has a citation immediately following it.
Be sure to add any new research (and appropriate citations) that your team has compiled since the last meeting.
Now that you've worked so hard to research your topics and share the information on Wikipedia, make sure people see it!
Link your article: Go to other Wikipedia articles that mention your topic and make sure they link to your article.
Did You Know: If your article is new, or you expanded the content of an article by five (known as "five times expanded"), your article is eligible for the Did You Know column on the Wikipedia Main Page.