Wikipages

[Paul Marrow]

I was talking to an emeritus professor at Liverpool University, who not surprisingly, has a page on Wikipedia. But there is a lot missing, so much that Wikipedia editors have put an alert on it. I know something about what needs to be added (having known of the research career of this person for a long time). 

But the last time I edited Wikicode was around the end of the last century. Is there anybody in the DoES community who can write Wikipages? There could be scope for collaboration. Let me know if you are interested.

Looking forward to no longer writing to this group via G***mail, but at the present time I don't seem to be able to change my posting address.

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Best wishes

Dr. Paul Marrow

Email: paul....@pm.me

Tel: +44-7423-156309

[Zarino Zappia]

Hi Paul,

I think Wikipedia has defaulted to an easy-to-use visual editor for newly registered users since 2021. If your account is older than that, and you want to enable it, you can do so in your Wikipedia account settings (“Enable the visual editor”). You may find this easier to use than the old wikitext source editor – although even that old editor has been improved over time, with a dropdown toolbar for common formatting tags, and a live preview mode.

When it comes to content, my advice would be to keep Wikipedia’s notability guidelines in mind, make thematic, incremental edits to a page (rather than completely replacing everything on one go, which is more likely to be automatically flagged as vandalism) and always always ensure that new information you add is cited to a reliable source.

Good luck!

Zarino

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[Alex J Lennon]

Hi Paul, all,

Some will vehemently disagree but I suggest a workflow that you might find interesting as a starting point at least

- Record a conversation, either yourself or with the professor. Chat about everything you fancy talking about as a brainstorming session and try to encompass all the kinds of information you think is relevant to the topic. I suppose in this case early life, career, achievements, hobbies, all that stuff. I tend to use Zoom for this. It's quite important to speak clearly for the next step.

- Then put that recording through an audio transcription service to convert to text. I tend to use Otter.ai. You will then probably need to go through that to correct any mistakes it's made.

- Then take that text and put it into an AI LLM like Claude. Ask the LLM to review this and then generate some output for you. In this case you probably want to start by asking it to create a good Wikipedia entry based on what you've provided.

It's early days for me but I find this all works really rather well. If you do give this a go please let me know the outcomes

KR, Alex

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