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Organising and making accessible the professional content of Wikipedia

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Abstract

University course, which goal is to establish, implement and maintain the portal relevant to the field of information science and librarianship in the Czech language version of Wikipedia in a way of collective work and collaboration. Students are first introduced to the basic principles of work in Wikipedia, especially to the possibilities and pitfalls of working with its content (basic rules, tools, services, etc.), and the basics of working with markup language MediaWiki (formatting text, inserting and formatting images, files and links, creating tables, etc.).

At the same time there is a gradual realization and implementation of the portal in accordance with the degree of acquired knowledge and skills through ongoing implementation of practical tasks involving the creation and maintenance of selected sections of the portal and related content, too.