This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
This challenge is for the uninitiated Librarian-cum-Wikipedian.
You'll learn how to edit and then take the challenge of improving one article from our trove of Open Access Content.
You'll do this by taking following some interactive videos, and then editing Wikipedia.
The easiest way to tangibly contribute to Open Access Week.
Open Access File of the day nominations: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Open_Access_File_of_the_Day/Nominations
Post a link to your Wikipedia profile page in the discussion if you haven't already, so we can award you the Barnstar . (Or if you know how to post a link to the "diff" in the discussion section, then that works as well.)
I found this lovely short video of a dung beetle cleverly dancing on a ball of dung and added it to the Dungbeetle article on Swedish Wikipedia, hopefully you'll find my diff here.
Thanks for a great challenge,
Wow, I'm surprised that image wasn't there before. Nice contribution.
Ok I admit, its a rather odd image but I placed this image on the en.wikipedia page for Congenital melanocytic nevus. I also added another category to that image on Commons:OAFD/N.
Now here is my question: when I added the new category to the image, it showed up in red. What does this mean?
A category being listed in red means that it does not exist yet. Typically, categories like Congenital melanocytic nevus are only started if there are at least about ten items that can be put in there, or if the parent category - in this case Nevus - is too crowded. Neither of these two conditions are met here.
Also, if the category "Congenital melanocytic nevus" existed, it would itself be categorized under (and thus listed in) the category "Nevus", so the latter would have to be removed from the file after adding the former.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dendrelaphis_caudolineatus&diff=520469318&oldid=518846302
Nice, do you know which image you replaced? Was it also from OA?
Nope, the old one was listed as public domain due to copyright expiry. Not sure original source.
Also you added this on the english wikipedia no?
Yep, but I thought listing one example would be enough here.
There was a very nice image from a psychology article of how the world feels with schizophrenia, but the main schizophrenia article was locked (I posted a note on the talk page). In stead I posted the image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanisms_of_schizophrenia.
