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1 00:00:00,398 --> 00:00:03,792 Welcome to the Wikipedia Citation Hunt tool tutorial for beginners! 2 00:00:04,803 --> 00:00:08,248 This is a great tool to contribute to Wikipedia in a quick and fun way! 3 00:00:08,278 --> 00:00:09,780 The Citation Hunt tool 4 00:00:09,811 --> 00:00:13,221 is actually a “Wikipedia-articles- with-missing-citations Hunt Tool”. 5 00:00:13,263 --> 00:00:17,583 Currently, the English Wikipedia includes over 6,4 M articles and counting 6 00:00:17,644 --> 00:00:22,518 and around 5% of them contain one or more “citation needed” tags as of 2019. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,502 Here we can use the “Citation Hunt” tool - in order to help editors, 8 00:00:28,543 --> 00:00:32,508 this tool finds sentences that need citations in Wikipedia. 9 00:00:33,895 --> 00:00:36,477 It is available in several languages 10 00:00:36,523 --> 00:00:41,765 and allows browsing snippets either randomly or by their article's categories. 11 00:00:44,912 --> 00:00:46,481 Here is how to use it: 12 00:00:46,725 --> 00:00:49,540 First, you need to login to Wikipedia. 13 00:00:51,158 --> 00:00:54,298 Then go to the citation hunt tool’s link. 14 00:01:04,460 --> 00:01:06,507 Use the citation hunt. 15 00:01:08,266 --> 00:01:12,745 A topic search box can be found underneath the 'I got this!' and 'Next!' buttons. 16 00:01:12,786 --> 00:01:15,050 To find articles on education, for example, 17 00:01:15,091 --> 00:01:17,530 simply type the text into the search box. 18 00:01:17,684 --> 00:01:20,838 You can customize the list of articles presented more specifically 19 00:01:20,870 --> 00:01:22,730 by clicking the Customize button 20 00:01:22,750 --> 00:01:25,826 next to the language selector at the top of the tool. 21 00:01:26,787 --> 00:01:29,512 Wikipedia articles require reliable, published sources 22 00:01:29,548 --> 00:01:33,150 that directly support the information presented in the article. 23 00:01:33,437 --> 00:01:38,499 As a general rule, reliable sources are academic and peer-reviewed publications, 24 00:01:38,531 --> 00:01:42,904 university textbooks, books published by respected publishing houses, 25 00:01:42,954 --> 00:01:45,765 magazines, journals, and mainstream newspapers. 26 00:01:46,084 --> 00:01:50,913 Self-published media such as newsletters, personal websites, books, patents, 27 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:53,975 open wikis, personal or group blogs, and tweets, 28 00:01:53,999 --> 00:01:56,539 are usually not acceptable as sources. 29 00:01:56,764 --> 00:01:59,597 Third-party publications are still preferable. 30 00:01:59,642 --> 00:02:02,178 You should always try to find the best possible source 31 00:02:02,218 --> 00:02:03,746 for the information you have. 32 00:02:04,355 --> 00:02:06,074 I'm going to show you an example. 33 00:02:06,131 --> 00:02:09,253 I’ve found an article needed citation, 34 00:02:10,731 --> 00:02:15,301 and I’ve found the reliable source – an academic publication, I can use this. 35 00:02:16,250 --> 00:02:19,819 To add the citation, I click Edit source link 36 00:02:20,260 --> 00:02:22,626 Add your reliable source 37 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:27,162 and press Publish. 38 00:02:27,208 --> 00:02:29,782 That’s it, I’ve contributed to Wikipedia! 39 00:02:34,493 --> 00:02:36,256 And now, for the exercise, 40 00:02:36,288 --> 00:02:41,811 practice adding missing citations at citationhunt.toolforge.org. 41 00:02:43,023 --> 00:02:45,259 Thank you so much for joining us!