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Tips for Content Facilitators
Tim Vickers, a biochemist who serves as director of the Wikipedia Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject, has written to SfN’s Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative Leadership Team with suggestions for content facilitators. The text below, excerpted from one of his messages, provides useful tips:
Take Inventory
Thinking this over, I think the most useful starting point for your project is to take a good inventory of what you have and how good it is, that will help you set priorities. An article is registered as part of your project if it has the neuroscience tag on its talkpage. This is a complete list of these tagged articles, sorted by quality: Wikipedia: Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Neuroscience articles by quality.
This is a set of categories of the articles, including those unassessed for quality: Category: Neuroscience articles by quality.
A useful start is assessing those in the "unassessed" category. It will probably also be the case that many relevant articles have not been tagged, so this list will be incomplete.
Beware of Alternative Names
The incompleteness of the "unassessed" list brings up a very important point for when your members create new articles: Check very carefully before doing this, including searching for existing articles under alternative article names. It is annoying for contributors to have to try to merge two articles called "Dopamine in schizophrenia" and "Role of dopamine in schizophrenia," as it is a waste of everybody's time.
Helpful Software
Once you are sure about having a reasonably complete and up-to-date list of relevant articles, you can use a piece of software called "Igor" (as it is a professorial assistant). The software helps organize articles by quality, importance and other variables, and helps determine what most needs doing.
Learn more: View instructions and download Igor.
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