Wikipedia:WikiProject Information Architecture#Ongoing Tasks

Information Architecture, is described by Richard Saul Wurman as "the creating of systemic, structural, and orderly principles to make something work — the thoughtful making of either artifact, or idea, or policy that informs because it is clear. It is a field of practice that has recently reached its fortieth anniversary (1976). Many tools and schools of thought have developed over the years to inform designers and information professionals on the design and management of information space. This project intends to recognize and celebrate the foundations of this field by discovering and informing the public about the history, tools, practitioners and benefits of information architecture.

Wikipedia has a way to identify pages in the WikiProject Information Architecture by status and class. We need to add this table to keep track.

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Open tasks can be broken down into a couple distinct groups. For specific tasks, look at the articles requiring improvement section below.

The following tasks are related to identifying, assessing and improving articles in :Category:Information architecture.

Category:Information architecture

The Information Architecture Institute has compiled a library of resources that you may use for citations within your articles. You may find a list of current [http://www.iainstitute.org/resources IA resources] including a [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fxLmmCsy2PmfPCWOtHbdlnut2gaopcy_S8b0_Z7Wkd8/edit#gid=2108101165 curated list of IA publications] in the IA Library. These resources contain discussion of information architecture practices, theories and methodologies. They range from highly notable sources, such as books and academic journal articles to less notable blog posts. Keep in mind the Wikipedia:Notability requirements when selecting sources.

Curated List:

• [http://www.iainstitute.org/resources IA Institute: IA Resources]
• [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fxLmmCsy2PmfPCWOtHbdlnut2gaopcy_S8b0_Z7Wkd8/edit#gid=2108101165 IA Institute: IA Library]

Original List:

• [https://docs.google.com/a/owasp.org/document/d/1BbzaObS6gLe1VhUknLqRcU5DgOrBzakmbxOfN-8Yyp0/edit?usp=sharing IA Resources: Books]
• [https://docs.google.com/a/owasp.org/document/d/1BbzaObS6gLe1VhUknLqRcU5DgOrBzakmbxOfN-8Yyp0/edit?usp=sharing IA Resources: Published Articles]

IA Topic Lists:

• [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h2hyR1S9v_Pgv64jmNexebAIIXGQqdB58mI6TDSDzng/edit#gid=0 IA Institute: IA Lexicon]
• [https://www.usability.gov/what-and-why/glossary/tag/information-architecture/index.html Usability.gov: Information Architecture Glossary]
• [http://argus-acia.com/white_papers/ia_glossary.pdf Argus: IA Glossary]
• [http://web.archive.org/web/20070417104203/http://www.iawiki.net/action=browse&id=GlossaryOfTerms&oldid=IAGlossary IAWiki Glossary of Terms]

The following are main topic articles within the category of Information Architecture. These are good places to start either by improving the articles themselves or by researching topics and resources mentioned within these articles to create and improve additional articles.

• Information Architecture
• Findability
• Usability
• User Experience
• Information Architecture Institute

Who would you add to the following lists of PIoneers, Influences and Information Architects? Note that for all living individual, you must review the requirements for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons Biographies of Living Persons] before creating a new article. A facilitator can help you create a stub article for review.

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The following topics were primarily derived from the controlled vocabulary underlying the online library at the [Information Architecture Institute]. Some terms were adjusted to reflect an existing page and some were removed because they were too general. Many are already pages which could be improved, while a few do not exist yet.

What other Information Architecture topics would you like to research? Add them below.

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• Embodied cognition

Add some additional topics for this project.

Articles may be tagged with the following categories. There may be articles already tagged within these categories that need improvement.

• :Category:Information architecture
• :Category:WikiProject_Information_Architecture_participants
• :Category:Information architecture methodologies

Articles under the following categories also may be of interest:

• :Category:Information architects
• :Category:Information technology management
• :Category:Data management
• :Category:Technical communication
• :Category:Information science
• :Category:Information technology
• :Category:Enterprise architecture

Information architects are natural Wikipedia and Wikidata editors. WikiProject:Information Architecture has been working with groups like the Information Architecture Institute and the Association for Information Science and Technology to introduce and promote Wikipedia and related tools in IA practices. To date we have logged the following participation:

• March 24-26, 2017: The Information Architecture Summit has invited Nwhysel (talk) and members of WikiProject:Information Architecture to expand participation for the 2017 conference. We are doing two sessions. The first on Saturday, March 23, 2017 at 3:30pm is Diversity and Inclusion in Wikipedia, and will give an overview of outreach and edit-a-thon activities of interest to information professionals in improving access and discoverability of underrepresented topics and people in Wikipedia. The second session is a working lunch at Noon on Sunday, March 26 and will cover how Information Architecture professionals in particular can use and improve Wikipedia findability and semantic tools. Please post to the talk page if you are interested in helping.

[https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Information_Architecture_Summit/IA_and_Wikipedia?enroll=mtdpgwvh Join the Event]

• May 22, 2016: Wikipedia: The Game was presented at Game Night at the IA Summit 2016 as a fun introduction to Wikipedia category structure. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/nwhysel/IASummit2016/Report]
• May 7, 2016: Nwhysel (talk) represented Wikipedia at the Information Architecture Institute's workshop on "Architecting the Information of Georgia House Bill 787," to describe the diversity efforts underway at Wikipedia to make articles of underrepresented groups such as women, minorities, disabled and LGBT people.
• June/July 2015. Information Architecture in Wikipedia published in the special Information Architecture Edition of the ASIS&T Bulletin.
• March 25, 2015: Poster presentation by Nwhysel (talk) on IA in Wikipedia Poster at the 2015 IA Summit in Minneapolis as a companion to IA Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. The poster included a full bibliography of over 650 items from the Information Architecture Institute library which can be used as verified sources on Wikipedia articles.
• March 25, 2015: IA in Wikipedia editathon held at the 2015 Information Architecture Summit in Minneapolis as part of the summit interactive sessions. Members of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Wikimedia chapter attended as facilitators, along with Nwhysel (talk) and Msweeny (talk).

File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf]

• Mini-workshops on editing Wikipedia: At least two per event -- {{User0|Nwhysel}} and other WM Vancouver or other WikiFacilitators :-)
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Self guided introduction
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Wikimedia Commons - getting images onto Wikipedia
• Infobox template

The boxes below provide help on Wikipedia editing policies and guidelines.

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{{Marked}} Please check with a WikiFacilitator before starting new pages – recommend beginners start editing existing pages vs. starting new pages

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; Add an infobox!

It's fun, not super hard, and improves Google search results! Plus you don't need citations for infoboxes!

• Biography articles without infoboxes
• Journalism articles needing infoboxes
• Politics and government articles needing infoboxes
• Musicians articles needing infoboxes
• Sports articles needing infoboxes

; Improve an existing stub article!

Clean up existing citations, add a new citation, add a selected works and publications section for published authors

• Activist stubs
• Political people stubs

; Add citations to articles that have none!

• Biographies of Living People (BLP) without sources – January 2017

;Other easy ideas

Obituaries are a great starting point, have tons of biographical info!

• Chicago Tribune [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ obituaries]
• Los Angeles Times [http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/ obituaries]
• The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries obituaries]
• The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/section/obituaries obituaries]
• The Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries obituaries]

Like tagging? Add Wikiproject:Information architecture tags to pages

Use the code: to add a page to the Wikiproject:Information Architecture

You can also add category tags by copying the following code to pages:

Are you into more tech-based data? Are you a librarian? Add Authority Control info to Wikidata!

: Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org)

1. Go to [https://viaf.org/ VIAF.org]
2. Search for person (last name, first name)
3. At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See [https://viaf.org/viaf/111607089/#Herzog,_Werner,_1942-.... Werner Herzog example]
4. Add each listed Authority to [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Wikidata] if its info is not already populated in Wikidata
5. Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories
6. Refresh Wikipedia page

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If you would like to identify yourself as a member of WikiProject Information Architecture, please put the following banner on your user talk page.

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To join the WikiProject as an official member, please add your name to the member list below.

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The following templates may be placed on the Talk page of an article or User page to identify it as related to WikiProject:Information Architecture. Be sure to place these templates only on the Talk page of a selected article or User page.

• Template:WikiProject_Information_architecture: Place this template on the talk page of any article you are working on as part of WikiProject:Information Architecture. This helps to identify pages within the WikiProject and recruit editors who may be interested in joining.
• Template:User_WikiProject_Information_Architecture: Place this template on the talk page of your User page to identify yourself as a member of this project.

When the WikiProject Information Architecture is mature we may want to create a portal that Wikipedia users can use to learn about the topic of Information architecture. A sample portal from a related discipline is Portal:Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction. More details on creating a portal are at Wikipedia:Portal.

• Portal:Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction
• Wikipedia:Portal Instructions
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals: Discussion and collaboration

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