Wikipedia:Meetup/Cleveland/ACS Education Night 2022

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ACS Cleveland Education Night 2022: Wikipedia Training

As part of the American Chemical Society's Cleveland Local Section's 2022 Education Night, the Ohio Wikimedians User Group will be hosting a Wikipedia training to introduce members to editing. Topics will include:

• A general overview of how Wikipedia works
• Creating a user account and user page
• Looking at an article that needs help and figuring out how to improve it
• Demo of editing
• Having participants make their own edits

Feel free to bring your laptop and an example of an article that is in dire need of editing!

Register

ACS Cleveland Website

Livestream

Zoom link upon registration

When

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

7-8 PM Eastern

Where

Shaker Country Club

Get started

• Create a Wikipedia account
• Sign in below
• Find an article to edit

Sign in

1) Select 'Sign in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Resources

Wikipedia policies

• Wikipedia:Username policy
• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Core content policies
• Wikipedia:General notability guideline
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources

Editing tips

• Getting started
• Your first article
• Referencing for beginners
• Using categories|Using categories
• Cheatsheet for wiki markup
• Infobox tutorial
• Manual of Style

Tools

• Track Wikipedia Page Views
• Wikimedia Statistics
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Chemistry resources

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals
• Chemistry Manual of Style

Things to edit

• See WikiProject Chemistry's Cleanup List
• Explore WikiProject Chemistry's stub-class articles
• Explore WikiProject Chemical's stub-class articles
• Find missing articles (red links) on List of inorganic compounds and Glossary of chemical formulae

Attendees

• ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 06:11, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

• Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 22:55, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

• Ppsarras (talk) 23:31, 27 April 2022 (UTC)