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Creating Biosphere Reserve Wikipedia articles from UNESCO descriptions


UNESCO has made available all the descriptions of all the Biosphere Reserve sites available under CC-BY-SA in English. This guide will take you through the process of creating English language Wikipedia articles using UNESCO's text for the Biosphere Reserves which currently do not have articles. The guide is written for using Visual Editor to make the process as easy as possible.


Step 1: Finding the source text


  1. Click on this list ??? and click Run to see which Biospheres don't have English language articles yet
  2. Click on the Biosphere Reserve URL page
  3. Copy the text on the page


Step 2: Creating the Wikipedia article


  1. Go to English Wikipedia and paste the name of the reserve into the search bar
  2. Click the link at the bottom that say containing...
  3. If the article already exists skip to Step 5: Adding the article to Wikidata
  4. If the article does not exist click the red link, to switch to Visual Editor click Create at the top of the editing window.
  5. Paste the text copied from the UNESCO website into the blank article.
  6. Add links to other articles and alter the text to fit with the style of Wikipedia (some of the description pages do not fit the style of Wikipedia precisely)
  7. Add the category Biosphere Reserves of NAMEOFCOUNTRY (replace NAMEOFCOUNTRY with the country the Biosphere is in)
  8. Go to the Talk Page and click edit and paste {{WikiProject Protected areas|class=|importance=}} into the edit window and save the page.


Step 3: Attributing the text


  1. At the bottom of the page write References and give it a Level 2 heading
  2. Click Insert and then Template on the menu
  3. Paste Open-source_attribution into the box, click the first option and then click add template
  4. In the Source(s) field add the following (replace NAMEOFURL with the URL you copied the text from {{Cite web|url=NAMEOFURL|title=UNESCO - MAB Biosphere Reserves Directory}} {{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/world-network-wnbr/wnbr/|title=Licensing page}}
  5. In the License field paste CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0
  6. Save the page using 'Created page using CC-BY-SA text' in the edit summary.


Step 4: Linking from other Wikipedia articles


  1. In the Wikipedia serach bar paste the name of the new article
  2. Click the link at the bottom that say containing...
  3. Add links from any articles that mention the new article you have created


Step 5: Adding the article to Wikidata


  1. Click on the Wikidata ID number for the article you just created on the list
  2. Find the box that says Wikipedia.
  3. At the bottom of the list add the language code (en) and the name of the article.
  4. Click Save
  5. Done :) The list will update in around 15 minutes.