After spending three years and 100s of hours on the cause I am wrapping up my time served as a-lot-of-time Wikipedia editor. Contributing as “Freechild” and a few anonymous IP addresses, I have created more than 400 articles, including dozens about the issues I originally explored on the Freechild Project website. Following are some of those topics listed for your easy reference and contributions. Please make Wikipedia better by getting in there and monkey-wrenching around yourselves – and don’t be shy! Want to know how to write a good article, defeat an “article for deletion” proposal or find references about obscure topics related to young people? Respond to this post!
Here’s a list of some of the articles I created on Wikipedia about topics focused on young people:
Issues
- Adultcentrism
- Adultism
- Aging out
- Children’s rights
- Community youth development
- Evolving capacities
- Fear of youth
- Fear of children
- History of youth rights in the United States
- Intergenerational equity
- List of children’s rights organizations by country
- List of children’s rights topics
- List of the youngest mayors in Canada
- List of the youngest mayors in the United States
- List of youth councils
- List of youth empowerment organizations
- List of youth rights topics
- List of youth topics
- Positive youth development
- Student voice
- Timeline of young people’s rights in the United States
- Timeline of young people’s rights in the United Kingdom
- Youth activism
- Youth-adult partnership
- Youth council
- Youth development
- Youth empowerment
- Youth engagement
- Youth leadership
- Youth participation
- Youth philanthropy
- Youth program
- Youth politics
- Youth voice
- Youth-led media
Organizations
- American Youth Congress
- Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity
- Canadian Children’s Rights Council
- Child Welfare League of America
- Global/National Youth Service Day
- National Commission on Resources for Youth
- National Network for Youth
- National Service Learning Conference
- National Youth Leadership Council
- National Youth Service Day
- National Youth Summit
- New York School of Applied Philanthropy
- Youth Communications
- Youth Activism Project
- Youth Innovation Fund
- Youth On Board
- Youth Service America
Individuals
- Wendy Schaetzel Lesko
- Mike Males
- Henry Giroux
- Dennis Harper
- Grace Llewellyn
- Giselle Martin-Kniep
- Sonia Yaco
- Keith Hefner
Other stuff
- Category:Child labor in the United States
- Category:History of youth
- Category:Laws affecting student rights
- Category:Laws affecting youth rights
- Category:Youth development organizations
- Category:Youth empowerment individuals
- Category:Youth empowerment organizations
- Category:Youth councils
- Category:Youth-led media
- Category:Youth development organizations
- Category:Youth rights
- Category:Youth rights individuals
- Category:Youth rights organizations
This list is almost complete. Also, please understand that Wikipedia is a constantly moving target, and I cannot be held responsible for the content of the articles beyond the last time I edited them.
Please let me know what you think, and again, please let me know how I can support YOU contributing to Wikipedia!
Written by Adam Fletcher, this article was originally posted to http://commonaction.blogspot.com. Learn more at adamfletcher.net!
2 replies on “Wikipedia Articles”
Hey Adam,Your Wikipedia contribution is tremendous, I admire you greatly for it. Just today I made my second (ever) very minor change to a Wikipedia article, inspired in part by reading the Wikipedia section of Clay Shirky’s new book Here Comes Everybody.Couple quick questions – what is the expectation for editors in filling out the “comments” section when making edits? Best resources for learning the Wikipedia lingo (such as how to fill out the comment section)?Also, when making major changes, is it best to first mention it on the discussion page and have conversation before posting it on the page itself?”Training” youth advocates to best use collaborative tools such as Wikipedia can be a powerful part of an advocacy strategy. Another training approach is to coach advocates to recognize and respond to misconceptions about youth involvement, democratic education, etc. on other blogs, news sites, and more. (Got this from Allison Fine’s Momentum.) Could even start a misconception website, or page on a website, for folks to see others’ corrections and share responses.Take care,DanaDemocratic Education Blog
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Comments section: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_summaryLingo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GlossaryMajor changes: Before making major changes on articles you haven’t spent a lot of time on, check the page’s history. The first entry there will tell you when the last edit was made. If its been a while, i.e. 6 mths to a yr, edit away. If it looks like one editor does all the work, you might write to them directly. Otherwise, you should follow the WP guideline called “Be bold”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BoldGood luck – I expect to see some good stuff, and that you’ll let me know anytime you need assistance.
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