Alpha Indic Wiki Demo (BHU)
Team | |
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Arnab Bhattacharya
Abhishek Shukla Deepak Kumar Lavanya Ravichandiran Neeraja Katkar Neeta Singh |
Prabhakar TV
Revathy K. T. Sandeep Kumar Sarika Gupta Sugatha Chaturvedi |
IITK IT in Agriculture Team, work
- Agropedia - failure
- vKVK - success
- KVKNet - failure
- Krishivoc, Hortivoc, Landvoc - success
- Mobimoos - success
- Agmoocs - successWorking since 2003
- Digital Mandi - failure
- Agrovoc in Hindi - success
Topics
- Introduction to the Project
- KrishiVoc for Categories
- Indic Wiki - Hands on
- Create account and login
- Architecture of a page
- Creation of a page (Visual Editor)
- Adding Categories
- TOR- Rules for writers
- Discussion
India Wiki Project
- Generate 50,000 Wikipedia pages in Science and Technology topics over a period of 3 years
- Build the S&T open knowledge community for sustainable growth of Wikipedia like projects
- Science Writers in Indian Languages
How do we tackle the scale?
Approach/ Methodology/ Strategy
The Numbers for Each KB
●Knowledge Boards(KBs): 1
●Sub KBs (x5): 5
●SKB Experts (x10): 50
●Writers (x10): 500
●Written Articles (x10): 5,000
Note: The break up for 3 years: 1K, 2K, 2K
Processes @ KB
1. Identifying Knowledge Board Administrator/Manager
2. Identifying Sub- Knowledge Boards, Administrators/Managers
3. Identifying the Experts who will contribute the articles
Identifying the topics (by KBM & SKBM) on which we would like the
4. articles
5. Vetting
6. Subject Matter Review (Expert/ SKBM/ KBM)
7. Language Review
8. Post processing (checking for Wiki guidelines implementation)
9.Publication
Taxonomy, Categories, Tagging
● Every Page is tagged with a Category
● Normally appears at the bottom
● Useful in search ○ show a sample page
● The Categories are arranged in a Tree Structure
- show Krishivoc for tree structure
KrishiVoc
● KrishiVoc
- Agrovoc, Agrovoc in Hindi
- History of project
- No of nodes(data) in Krishivoc
- -- Show the root and some levels --
● We shall use a truncated Krishivoc decided by you
How to tag in Indicwiki?
● Tags will appear at the bottom of the page
● Two stages for adding category:
- Categories Creation
■ Done once by the KB, Sub-KB Managers
■ Used by everyone
- Adding Categories to pages
■ By Content Authors Please Select from existing terms not Create new terms while adding Categories to a page
Indicwiki Agriculture Category Tree
Show pages from KB Category Tree
How to tag in Indicwiki, create the taxonomy?
Demo of adding tags to pages
Demo of Category tree creation
Process of Creating the Category Tree
See the KB Taxonomy Page
Highlight what you want to go into the Category Tree
We can help in creating the Category tree
Hands on
Covers….
1. How to create an account
2. Wiki features - an overview
3. How to create the topic to write an article
4. How to edit an article
5. How to get writing related help
We will cover the important points of the writing process on wikipedia!
Indic Wiki Portal
Review of Steps for Creating Content on Indic Wiki
1. Go to Indic Wiki website
2. Create an account
3. Log in
4. Type the topic of your interest in the search box
5. Click on the prompt to create the topic
6. Select the language “Hindi” (Input Settings) from the language section
next to the profile icon
Now you can start writing about your topic…
Indic Wiki TOR for Content Creation (OPS Guide) BHU
Terms of Reference (TOR)
Indic Wiki TOR for Content Creation (OPS Guide) BHU
(1) Selection of Topic
While selecting topic following guidelines should be followed
1. Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
2. Notability: Worth of notice
3. Verifiability: should contain material published by reliable sources.
4. No original research: contain previously unpublished arguments, concepts, data, or theories
5. Organically Developed: content created should sound organically developed
To Write...
Use google input tool to SPEAK and WRITE in Hindi
- outside Indicwiki
-Use Google translate for English to Hindi translation
-To write offline(MS Word) choose Unicode Font for Devanagari
Note: A text can be copied from a document created off-line and pasted in Indic
Wiki pages.
2. Images
Every article should have minimum two images with following guidelines
1. Image should be Own work, freely licensed, public domain images.
2. The Wikipedia image upload policy should be followed.
3. Captions: image should have a caption
4. Icons: are use to provide visual cues mainly for lists, tables, infoboxes, and navboxes
5. Gallery: a collection of images can illustrate aspects of a subject for some article
Can We Upload Any Image?
NO, One can use only…
1. Copyright free Images
1. Your own images: graphs, maps, diagrams, audio, and video you make yourself (natural landscape, animals , plants , public figures, people in public places, objects which are not artistic ie picture of sculptures , arts or brand logos).
Information On Copyrights
Images and media needs to be shared under proper license.
Types of licenses :
- CC-BY-SA: Attribution share alike license
- CC BY: By attribution
- CC 0:This means you release your work with no restrictions whatsoever.
- CC-BY-NC-SA: Non commercial license.
- CC-BY-ND: Non derivative
To know more about licenses please visit https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/
1) Copyright free Images
- Go to https://search.creativecommons.org/
- Type the topic of your search
- Tick the boxes “use commercially” and “modify or adapt “ options beneath search query
2) Your own images
- Never upload images directly to Indic wikipedia
- First share it on commons where everyone in the world can access it
- Give unique name to the image and also add description and category to make it easy for search
Uploading file to commons
1.Uploading someone else’s work
Go to commons.wikimedia.org first , make sure to log in Upload it to commons and then use.
2.Uploading your own work
3.Name a file
Give unique name to the image and also add description add category to make it easy for search.
Copyright and Plagiarism
Types of Plagiarism:
1.Unattributed plagiarism:Text is copied to wikipedia from another source but there is no indication of where it came from
2.Plagiarism of cited sources: if a footnote is added to show the source of the information, but the wordings are exactly same as source
3.Close paraphrasing: This is when editor takes source material whether they cite it or not, they rewrite it somewhat, still there are some phrases which matches with the source text.
3. Formatting
All articles should follow Wikipedia formatting guidelines for the following.
1. Title
2. Dates and Numbers
3. Abbreviations
4. Topic of content
5. Style and Section
Wikipedia Formatting Guidelines
Boldface and Italics
1. Boldface to highlight the first occurrence of the article's title word or phrase.
2. Boldface is automatically applied to headings upto level 3, description lists and table headers and citation templates.
3. Italics for emphasis and to introduce new terms.
4. Italics should be used for names and titles of scientific names.
5. Do not use underlining, all caps, or small caps for emphasis.
Font size and color:
1. Large and small fonts should be primarily produced through headings or carefully designed templates.
2. Prose text should never be manually colored. Refrain from implementing colored links that may impede user ability to distinguish links from regular text, or color links for purely aesthetic reasons.
4. Templates
Every article should have one Infobox and minimum one navigation template.
1. Infobox: summarizes key features of the page's subject
2. Navigation template:: to facilitate navigation between multiple related articles.
3. Other templates: as per need of the topic.
5. Hyper linking
To navigate seamlessly among information, the articles content should be hyperlinked with relevant information within and outside the Wikipedia.
1. minimum 5 internal hyperlinks per article.
2. minimum 2 external hyperlinks for a article page.
6. Classification
To group together pages on similar subjects.
Every article should be categorised in minimum 4 categories.
7. Citation
1. Follow the standard citation style of the Wikipedia.
2. Inline citations, which link specific reliable sources with specific pieces of information in the article,
3. References: provide a list of references without any inline citations.
4. Article should have minimum 4 citation/references.
Guidelines for Adding Citation
1. Use
- Textbooks
- Literature reviews
- Books or publications written by experts
in the field, and published by reliable publishers.
Typically, a citation can include the author's name, date, location of the publishing company, journal title etc
8. Further reading
The article should have a section see also/further reading which gives link for further related topic.
9. Adding location information
Based on the demand of the topic the article may include the location parameters
10. Adding Media
Based on demand of the topic the article should incorporate video, animation or audio in the articles.
All the copyright and related norms mention for images are applicable to media embedding.
Uploading Audio/ Video files
-Only .ogg files supported for uploading
-Need to convert .mp3 files to .ogg or .oga
-Need to convert .mp4 files to .ogv
-use file converters (Example)
11. Disambiguation
They are non-article pages designed to help a reader find the right Wikipedia article when different topics could be referred to by the same search term. The disambiguation entry for the article should be made in cases it is needed.
12. Redirects
For the article the redirects should be created for alternative names people may search the information.
13. Portals
For each sub-knowledge board a separate portal should be constructed.
14. Quality
To ensure the quality of the content every article should pass the two reviews as follows. The reviewer’s comments and corrections should be reflected on the discussion page.
a) Technical review
b) The language review
15. The content creation process should follow the namespaces
structure and all the guidelines of Wikipedia article writing policies
Summary
● Every Article has to have these - Notability, Verifiability, No original research, Neutral point of view, Organically developed
● At least two images
● Formatting guidelines
● Citation Guidelines
● References
● Links - Internal, external
● Infobox
Explained in detail in the TOR document
Next Step
Create a sample page to learn about editing processes
Generate a set of topics for SKBs
Thank you
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