How to Create a Public Profile

ICANNWiki is an encyclopedia of wiki articles written about the people, companies, and other items that are or were related to ICANN, the Domain industry, and Internet governance. This article is specifically about creating people articles.

Steps

1. Easily Create an article about yourself by using the following information, also see: People Template
   1. A portrait picture and/or caricature. Download the maximum resolution image. If you cannot find either a portrait or a caricature, use the placeholder images: PortraitComing.jpg and CaricatureComing.jpg.
   2. One biographical paragraph.
   3. Find at least one contact point (Twitter, FB, e-mail, etc.).
   4. Verify that you are still actively involved in the world of ICANN or the IT community (Via LinkedIn, ICANN.org, etc).
2. Use the following Profile pages and other information out on the web to further develop your page:
   1. Twitter (use your @___ handle)
   2. Facebook (URL for your public Facebook page)
   3. LinkedIn (URL for your person's public LinkedIn page)
   4. Provide your e-mail address. When entering an e-mail address, replace the "@" with "_[at]_". This is to thwart e-mail spammers.
   5. Personal website or blog, etc. (other than their main company website)
   6. Your current country of residence

Keep in mind

• When uploading images, make sure they have your name as in "JohnDoePortrait.JPG" or "JohnDoeCaricature.JPG". If you just upload "Portrait.JPG", there is the chance that we will be overwriting each other soon. Other image file types such as .PNG are fine.
  • The placeholder images for missing portraits and missing caricatures are PortraitComing.jpg and CaricatureComing.jpg.
• Write your own content based on your research, which should be cited. Do not copy and paste.

Research Examples

Here are three examples to show how to write informative people articles with these scenarios: Frederick Schiwek, Victoria Fava and Vinton Cerf.

Frederick Schiwek

Let's take the example of Frederick Schiwek first. If you check the ICANNWiki.org-article on Frederick Schiwek, you can see there are the pictures and some summarized information.

• Search for information about this person with his name, for example: "Frederick Schiwek". (Remember to use quotation marks so that the search result does not return people named only Frederick or only Schiwek). Also, different people may have the same name so if you want to have more specific results you can search with keywords such as name and country (example of this search is "Frederick Schiwek" Luxembourg) or name and affiliation ( example of this search is "Frederick Schiwek" EuroDNS )

• Be sure to go through at least first 50 results and if there is not enough information in these page, all of them combined, that can help you write at least one paragraph about the people, go to the next person. But, in this case, if you visit the search results you can see there is plenty of information to write an organized article about Frederick Schiwek.

• After you find enough sources of information, the first step is to create a page in Create a page on ICANNWiki.com. Simply adding the name to the URL will create a new page. For example, to create a new page for Frederick Schiwek, we will simply use "Frederick_Schiwek" in "http://icannwiki.com/index.php" to change "http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Frederick_Schiwek" and go to that address. (Initially the page will not exist and you can use "edit this page" link to edit, add information and save the page).

• Use the People Template as the basis for the article. From the search results, you should find enough information to fill in the people template. Don’t worry if you can not find all of them, just add the ones you can find. Please follow the correct format for links, email address etc (mentioned in People Template). For example, from the search results we found the country, email address Facebook and LinkedIn link of Frederick Schiwek.

• If there was no caricature (for example, Zoe Baird) you can use caricature = CaricatureComing.jpg.

• Write the content. Also from the search results, you gather important information on the person you are writing and write it in an organized manner. Do not copy or paste anything, create your own content based on the information. Use the proper method to refer the original source of these information.

• You can start with giving the simplest introduction of the person mentioning his current employment and affiliation. For example, "Frederick Schiwek (Freddy) is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Domain Invest and Co-Founder of voipGATE ". This information was gathered from his LinkedIn profile which is completely rewritten and properly referred.

• You can mention what the person is currently doing, his important roles and achievements or any interesting facts you have read when you browsed your search result. This is why it is important to go through the initial search result before you start writing an article, so that you can have an idea about what you are going to write.

• It is good to put all of the employment information as a separate section called career history. Sometimes, you only find information in a form of experience and employment records (such as websites like LinkedIn) and you can rewrite them as a career history.

• For Frederick Schiwek, we have collected some of his information from his LinkedIn page and you can see how we have simply use these information as a source to create our own content.

• We have also used the other link to compile some important and interesting facts Frederick Schiwek on such as how he sold voodoo.com for a large amount of money or information on his early career etc.

• Notice one of the links is an interview. Interviews are an important source for information, so do not simply search for biographies, read all the interviews or anything else you can find on someone in order to write an article about him or her.

Victoria Fava

Let's take the example of Victoria Fava next. Once again, If you check the ICANNWiki.org-article on Victoria Fava, there are also the pictures and some information such as affiliation and country but once again no details.

• So we searched with different combinations of her name and her affiliation and came up with some results. Now if you check these result, you can see some of these results are not in English. This is a very common scenario for people who are from a country where English is not a native language.

• Always remember to check these pages too as there can be important information you can use in your article. You can use Google translation or any other online translation to translate the content. You can now use the translated information if appropriate. Do refer the source of the content.

• For example, we found a page written in Spanish from the search results. Google translate auto-detects the source language, so the translation process was easy and the result presented us with important information for the article.

Vinton Cerf

If you visit the ICANNWiki.org-article on Vinton Cerf, you see its an well written article with enough information. You can simply use these information to create a new article. But it would be better if you can use some additional information along the way, with citations as to where you found the information.

So even if there is a lot of information, we still searched for "Vinton Cerf" and gathered additional information supporting some of the facts of the article. In this way your article will be more precise and references will provided to the readers who wish to learn more about the information presented in the article.

And feel free to browse through the already completed articles for more ideas.

References

Don't forget that each article needs references, preferably from a variety of reputable sources! Be sure to cite often,using the ref tags (look at finished articles to see how this works, or ask an admin like Ray or Andrew). Do not use ICANNWiki.org as a source, as the articles will eventually be removed.