Wikipedia:Benelux Education Program/Maastricht University/FPN Historical Book Review Spring 2017

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Students in the Honour’s program of the bachelor's degree program in Psychology will write a Historical Book Review on Wikipedia. The objective of this course is to write a review about an interesting, important, and/or peculiar psychology related book from Maastricht University’s Special Collections and to publish it on Wikipedia. In five meetings we teach students of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience how to write a book review and how to write for Wikipedia. Furthermore we show students examples of psychology ‘classics’ from the Special Collections and organise guided tours exhibiting several collection highlights.

Programme[edit]

  • 18 April 2017 - Coordinators meeting
  • 19 April 2017 - Meeting 1 - guided tour through underground depot + introduction into writing book reviews/etc (teacher)
  • 26 April 2017 - Meeting 2 - book discussion + introduction in Wikipedia/Wikimedia
  • 3 May 2017 - Meeting 3 - (preparation: read parts of the books) - students discuss together + reviewing existing examples (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat & John Gabriel Stedman)
  • 9 May 2017 - Students have written their first 700-800 words draft in their sandbox by noon this day. Specific feedback for each draft will be given on students talk pages before meeting 4.
  • 10 May 2017 - Students have submitted which images from the books should be digitalised
  • 10 May 2017 - Meeting 4 - General feedback given during session, discussions
  • 16/17 May 2017 - Students have their articles expanded to a 1000 words and references/sources added.
  • 17 May 2017 - Meeting 5 - presentations
  • 26 May 2017 - Deadline submissions

Location: Parlour, Maastricht University (UM) Inner City Library Maastricht, Grote Looierstraat 17

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Guidelines[edit]

The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:

Further:

  • Use references to source facts in your article.
  • Sign your messages in talk pages with ~~~~. The software of Wikipedia automatically converts this in your linked user name and date and time, so other users know who wrote what when.

New on Wikipedia?[edit]

First: welcome to Wikipedia!

Before you start writing, please keep the following thoughts in mind:

  • add to Wikipedia only knowledge that is suitable for an encyclopedia
  • add only material that is available under a free license or describe knowledge in your own words
  • describe the knowledge from a neutral point of view
  • add references and sources where the information can be found
  • do not write about your own organisation nor about yourself, a family member or your boss
  • do not describe new theories, new insights that have not been published widely
  • look at comparable subjects as examples of how it is done
  • use headers to structure an article
  • use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia in that language)
  • do not use links inline in the text, but only as reference or at the bottom of a page
  • avoid qualifications like "the best", "the most", "great" and write time specific (not: "last year", "coming month", etc., but: "on 10 April 2016")

Please start writing in your sandbox. The link to your personal sandbox you can find on top of every page (if you are logged in).

Review[edit]

Romaine standard looks for a series of subjects that need improvement or are okay.

  • Intro sentence
  • Links
  • Headers
  • References
  • Context/timeframe
  • How was the book received
  • Other

References[edit]

Using a reference[edit]

There are multiple ways to create a reference. One example is below with a book, a second example is with an URL. 

This is a sentence with a reference from a book.<ref>Author, title, publisher, date of publishing, p. 80</ref>

This is a sentence with a reference from a web page.<ref>[http://www.website.org Title of web page]</ref>

Note:

  • The reference is behind the dot, no space in between.

Using a reference once[edit]

Use the code below and replace "RefSource" by the actual source, as described in the section above. 

<ref>RefSource</ref>

Using a reference twice or more[edit]

Use the code below and replace "RefSource" by the actual source and replace "RefCode" by a short code for the source. This code is used for internal purposes only and not shown when viewing the article. (Advice: use the name of the author/publisher and the year/date of the publication, like: JohnDoe2015.)
The first time you use a source as reference you use: 

<ref name="RefCode">RefSource</ref>

The second time you use the same source as reference you only use: 

<ref name="RefCode" />

Using a book/paper/etc multiple times, but with referring to different pages[edit]

If you use a source with multiple pages (book/paper/etc), and you refer multiple times to it, but multiple times with referring to a different page of the publication, you add the publication itself under a header "Literature", and in the references you use the author name and year (or date) of the publication.

In the example below the page 101 reference is used for multiple sections, and uses the system described in the previous section. 

Text bla bla.<ref>Doe, John. 2015. p.56</ref>

Text bleh bleh.<ref name="JohnDoe2015-101">Doe, John. 2015. p.101</ref>

Text blub blub.<ref name="JohnDoe2015-101" />

== Literature ==
* Doe, John. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Acme Publisher. 2015. ISBN ...

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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