Wikipedia:GLAM/Protests and Suffragettes/Resources

Resources edit

Here's some easy-to-follow resources about editing Wikipedia. Thanks to Dr Alice White of the Wellcome Library for creating these!

A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
A guide showing how to create a userpage and try out some editing tools in the Visual Editor.
A walkthrough guide on how to create an account and edit Wikipedia, including advice on how to interact with other Wikipedians.
A guide to elements to include in a wiki-biography, with a checklist to ensure you include as many as you can when editing.
A handout with lots of tips for what to include on a page, including some useful templates to include in pages.
An instruction page for adding infoboxes to Wikipedia articles using either Visual Editor or Source Editor.
A checklist for editing Wikipedia with reminders of page elements to include and hyperlinks to helpful pages (e.g. notability, lead section, categories, wikilinks).

Here are some essays about how to write pages about women.

Ewan, Elizabeth; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (2007). The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. ISBN 978-0-7486-3293-0.

This is a cool tool for creating infoboxes: https://magnustools.toolforge.org/prepbio.php
This is a tool for creating citations (especially useful for ISBNs): https://citer.toolforge.org/

Feel free to edit and use this box on the talk pages of articles created at Editathons:

If you participated and would like to add a Userbox to your userpage, copy and paste this code:

GLAM / Protests and Suffragettes project contributor

{{User WP GLAM P&S}}