English subtitles for clip: File:How to create a Wikipedia article - Right to science and culture.ogv

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Hi, I'm Sage, and I'm going to walk you through how to create a Wikipedia article.

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The first step is to decide what you want to write about.

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In this tutorial, I've decided to write about the right to science and culture,

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a human right expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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So the first step is to search Wikipedia to see if there's already an article on this topic.

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I'm going to go the search box and type "right to science and culture" and click "Go".

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What will come up is a list of results.

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But it doesn't take me straight to an article, because there is no article titled "right to science and culture".

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So the next thing I'm going to do is scroll through these results,

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to see if there's an article that's on this topic that goes by a different name.

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And there's not.

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So, there is no article about "right to science and culture", by that or any other name.

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The next thing I'm going to do is go to this link

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that says "You may create the page 'Right to science and culture'"

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and the link is red. Red links in Wikipedia mean there's no article on that topic.

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So, when I click this, what comes up is just a blank editing box.

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This is where you compose a Wikipedia article.

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So, the first thing you need in a Wikipedia article is the introductory sentence.

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The introductory sentence is a short defintion of what this topic is and what this is going to be about.

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So I've already composed mine, which I will paste in.

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"The right to science and culture

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is a human right claimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related documents

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which says that everyone has a right to participate in culture,

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to benefit from scientific progress,

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and to have a stake in their own contributions to science and culture."

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Now, at the bare minimum, this could be a Wikipedia article.

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I could come down here and click "Save", and it would be live.

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But, that's not all it takes to get a Wikipedia article to stick around.

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So let's click "Show preview" and see what that would look like.

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It's just this bare text that I typed in.

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And that doesn't look very much like what a typical Wikipedia article looks like.

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So, the first thing is, it's not very well-developed.

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So, I want to flesh this out a little bit more, and I want to do that based on sources.

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So, I found this article, "The Right to Science and Culture" by a legal scholar,

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that basically lays out what different people have said about the right to science and culture,

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how it's been interpreted.

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And I've looked through that,

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and what I found out is that this right is enshrined in two important human rights documents,

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the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

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and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

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and it has slightly different language in each place.

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And so, what I want to do is put that into the article,

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say where it's found.

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So I've composed that already, and I'm going to paste that in.

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"It is expressed in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:",

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and then here I have exactly what that part of the Universal Declaration says.

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And then, "Similar language appears in Article 15

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of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

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a treaty that many nations have signed,"

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and then I paste in exactly what that part says.

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And the next thing that I want to do is

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expand a little bit about what I learned on this article about the right to science and culture.

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And so I composed a few sentences that basically explain the gist of it.

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"The concept of a right to science and culture

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has received relatively little attention from legal scholars and human rights activists,

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and there is no widely accepted interpretation of what the right entails in practice.

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Members of the access to knowledge movement have argued that the right to science and culture

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is in tension with overly broad intellectual property rights

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that severely limit the ability of many people 

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to participate in cultural life and benefit from progress in science and technology."

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So that's a reasonable short article now.

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If I click preview again, I can see that there's a fair bit of text.

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But it doesn't look great.

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So, the next thing I want to do is start prettying this up.

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The first thing to do is the title of the article, and it appears in the first sentence, should be bold.

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So I'm going to make it bold by highlighting this title, "the right to science and culture,"

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and clicking the B, bold.

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And what it does is, it puts three single quotation marks (<nowiki>'''</nowiki>) on each side of the words.

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That's the Wikipedia markup that makes something bold.

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So if I go down here and click preview again,

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we'll see that now it's bold.

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The next thing I want to do is create some links to other articles,

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so that people will be able to click from this article to related topics.

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So, I think "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" is something

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that someone may want to read about.

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So I'm going to put - so I can do the same thing, actually.

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Highlight it, and click this link button, internal link.

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And what it does is, it puts opening and closing square brackets (<nowiki>[[</nowiki>, <nowiki>]]</nowiki>) around the words.

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And that is the Wikipedia markup to create a link to the article of that title.

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So, other things that I want to give similar treatment to include the

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International Covenant, link that, and...

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maybe...

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access to knowledge movement.

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That's a social movement that is related to this topic.

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So now I'm going to click "Preview", and we'll see what we have here.

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Great, these are all blue links,

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which means that there's articles associated with each of these things that I've linked.

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So our article's coming along,

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but it's not likely to stick around unless I cite my sources.

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So the very simplest way that I can do this

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is to create a new section,

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which I do by two equal signs (<nowiki>==</nowiki>), followed by the name of the section, "References",

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then two more equal signs (<nowiki>==</nowiki>).

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This will create a new section, and

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I want to cite this paper.

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So, I go down and there's actually a suggested citation format right here.

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So it's just basically a standard bibliographic citation,

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and I'm going to paste that in.

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Now let's see what our page looks like.

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So, at the minimum, if I saved it right now,

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this would probably stick around, because

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it's a basic article that looks okay, has wiki links in it,

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and it also has a reference,

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showing where this information came from so that people can check

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and make sure I didn't just make it up myself.

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So actually I'm going to do that and go ahead and click "Save page".

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It says "You have not provided an edit summary,"

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so I'm going to go down here to the Edit summary box and say,

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"new article about a human right",

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and click "Save page".

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So now I've created a Wikipedia article.

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It's that simple.