Agenda for 27 May 2017

Agenda Items

Organisation

• organisation of final colloquiums (see here)
• checking homework: did everybody find a topic to write about, i.e., an article gap in Wikipedia?

Licenses and Plagiarism

• licenses and copyright issues for images and other media
  • Public Domain, Creative Commons
• quotes, paraphrases, summaries ("Avoid Plagiarism! Quote, Paraphrase, and Summarize Properly!", from mesacc.edu)

Structuring Articles

• different article types have different structures (cities, people, books, events, etc.)
• working with categories (example: Герой нашего времени in Wikipedia)
• Citing Wikipedia
  • how to properly quote a Wikipedia article ("Cite this page"/"Цитировать страницу")

An overview of (in)famous edit battles of the Russian Wikipedia

• naming /spelling/grammar battles
  • Беларусь vs Белоруссия
  • Русское царство vs Российское царство vs Царство русское
  • Ukraine ("на/в" battle)
• Ethnic controversies
  • Middle East conflict on the Russian Wikipedia
  • The Ayran battle (Armenians vs Azerbaijanis)
  • The Ukrainian Fleet battle
  • The Tatar-Bashkir battle
• Political controversies
  • The 'Putin's personal cult' page
  • Navalny controversy
• Homosexuality issues
• Just lame edit wars
  • Sea otter war
  • The Mayonnaise Can war
  • 'Siberian language'

Outro

• Unusual articles