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Welcome to Wikipedia and the online edit-a-thon on climate change topics in November 2020

Guide: How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia

Hi,

I am EMsmile, and I am a part of a group of people wishing to improve climate change-related articles on Wikipedia. We are organising the "Wiki4Climate" online edit-a-thon from 24 November to 1 December 2020. Please take part by registering here. This event is organised by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Future Climate for Africa (FCFA). If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to ask on the event's talk page here. Please also join us in the event's Slack channel for easier communication and to make this into a collaborative effort. To join the Slack channel, please click here.

Here are some links about Wikipedia editing that you might find helpful when you are starting out with your Wikipedia editing journey:

• Guide: How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia (Baker, E., McNamara, L., Mackay, B., and Vincent, K. (2020). How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia: A guide for researchers, practitioners and communicators. Cape Town: Climate and Development Knowledge Network and Future Climate for Africa)
• Quick introduction to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Ten simple rules for editing Wikipedia

Please sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) when you post on talk pages. This will automatically produce your username and the date. Look for the "tilde" character on your keyboard; for example on English keyboards it is to the left of the "enter" key (accessible with the "alt gr" key). EMsmile (talk) 12:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I look forward to learning more and editing! GoluBanner11 (talk) 12:45, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

November 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Climate change and gender has been reverted.
Your edit here to Climate change and gender was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (http://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/deccma/wp-content/uploads/sites/181/2017/02/MD-delta-brief2.pdf) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 16:08, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

The URL is for a published policy brief of a research project published on the project's website which contains the "wordpress" in the URL. I confirm that this link is not a wordpress blog with personal opinions but contains evidence from research. GoluBanner11 (talk) 05:41, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Linking

Do adhere to what the bots are telling you. See what WP:External linking and WP:Reliable sources state. There is no good reason to link to WordPress on Wikipedia, and especially directly in the text. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 02:50, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Pinging EMsmile from above to maybe help guide you. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 02:52, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the guidance. I confirm that the source is not a wordpress blog but a link to a published policy brief on the research project website which (unfortunately!) has the word wordpress in the URL. It seems I cannot cite the evidences shared in these policy briefs owing to this wordpress issue. GoluBanner11 (talk) 05:37, 29 November 2020 (UTC)