Day Twelve Class Notes

Housekeeping and formatting of collaboration pages

Collaboration pages must include

• updated and identifiable action plan
• 4 evaluated articles with Works Cited entries
• 3 clearly identified sub criteria
• links to all wikipedia article edits with justifications/explanations
• text that was changed as part of the "Add or substantially revise (add or rewrite a paragraph at least four sentences long) a section of the article" criterion

Look at current pages and brainstorm formatting ideas.

Demonstration of adding images

Okay, it's not as hard as we thought-- if you took the image yourself or someone gave you permission to use it. If it isn't your image, then it is hard because of the legal issues, not the technical ones.

Here's what you need to do:

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome --login on this page (top right of page); your wikipedia login should work-- if not, create a new account (top right of page)
• Click upload file on the left after you get logged in
• Click "entirely my own work"
• scroll down the page and fill in the information (click the question marks next to the text boxes to get more information on what goes in the box. You do not have to fill-in all the boxes)
• Obviously, start with the "local filename" box by browsing to your computer and finding the image (be sure to give the file a descriptive name while it is still on your computer)
  
• You do have to fill-in the license box: my suggestion is to go with the recommended license (Multi-license with CC-BY-SA-3.0 and GFDL); however, you should know that you are giving away almost all rights to the image-- but this is what you need to do if you really want to share it.
• you should choose a category to make the image easier for others to find (and you too if you lose it later!); you'll need to read about categories to get the idea of them
• click "Upload file"
• shout "woo-hoo" like Homer Simpson when the file finishes uplaoding

Now,to put it in your Wikipedia article

• view this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Images_help (it's a good bit of information, but you need to read it because it allows different ways of formatting the images on the page)
• Because your image is in Wikimedia Commons, the Image tag will pull it directly into the Wikipedia page (sweet!)
• I edited the MCTC page and added a picture using the following tag: [[Image:MCTC_Technical_building.jpgthumbleftThe Technical Building on the MCTC/Metro State campus as seen from Loring Park]]-- this pulls a small (thumb) version of the image into the page from Wikimedia Commons, floats it to the left of the text, and puts a caption under it -- go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Community_and_Technical_College to see what it looks like
• If you click on the file it goes to the full-size image-- it does that automatically (more sweet!)
• Caveats: 1) when placing images, do it by editing the sections of the page, not by using the "edit this page" tab at the top; 2) image file names are case sensitive, so make sure you get the image name right

So, go forth and try to make Wikipedia more image-y.

Continue Wikipedia article work in class

Intro to Persuasive Analytical Essay assignment

Read and ask questions in comment section of wiki page

Discuss

• Brainstorm nuanced argument
• Share ideas
• Respond
• Brainstorm again and refine

[photo: Sharing by furiousgeorge81]