Wikipedia:Society for Experimental Biology Editathons 2023

Sign up either through this link on Eventbrite or through the society's webpage here. Everyone is welcome! You don't have to be a member of the Society for Experimental Biology.

How do I prepare for the event?

1. Create a Wikipedia account - the most important thing. You can find the police for usernames here, but in short:
   • shouldn't be your real name
   • don't include any organisations in it
   • it can have spaces
   • can be in another language than English
   • can't be offensive, promotional, another notable living person, etc.
2. Choose the topic you want to work on during the event.
   • Please put your name next to a topic from this list, or add your own topic if you already have something in mind: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zD3jizEVnQ7g5bg6J4cjpFgbTqilskI9KcBgCp_cX8M/edit?usp=sharing.
3. Log in to the event's Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/The_Society_for_Experimental_Biology/SEB_Editathon?enroll=fyjsluha. This will let us track all the improvements we make to Wikipedia during the event.

Extra resources

The below is just if you want to learn more about Wikipedia before or after the events, it is not something you have to do.

• Learn about editing: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
• Learn about creating women's biographies: Primer for creating women’s biographies
• Learn more about good practice for writing about women on Wikipedia: Writing about women

Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox

If you can't make it to the training, you can watch this 53 min video instead/beforehand, and then join the parts that you have time for. There are also other shorter videos here if you don't need the full training, but only wonder how you for example upload an image or add references.

A guide of how to move your draft of an article in your sandbox to main space (if you miss the last part of the event or haven't finished your article by the end of the event), can be found by pressing of the picture with the caption "Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox".

Text to copy to your user page during the training

I am currently at a training session run by the Society for Experimental Biology. We focus on, among others, women scientists that do not have a Wikipedia article, like Ann Oaks.

Things I want to edit about

Interest 1

Interest 2

Interest 3

My research

Topic 1

My example citation

This is an interesting article.

I can also reuse my reference later in the article.

Templates I can add

• Infobox Wikipedia user (for your own userpage)
• Infobox person (for generic biography articles)
• new user article (for putting on Talk pages of articles you have newly published in the Wikipedia main space).

References

COPY EVERYTHING FROM "I am currently at a training session..." UP TO AND INCLUDING "References".

Note that it is fine to copy from a page on Wikipedia into to your user page, but you can't copy from for example a BBC article since that will violate copyright regulations.

More events

If you enjoyed this event, there is a list of other events you can attend here.

Credit

Some of this is directly copied from Wikipedia:GLAM/Protests and Suffragettes/Events/Celebrating Scotland's Suffragettes: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop and Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Women in Red. The text to copy into the user page is adapted from Stinglehammer.