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Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/EUSci wiki editathon

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Info about the event edit

Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articles. Participants will create new pages and/or help improve already existing Wikipedia pages. We will focus on women and underrepresented minorities in STEM - please use the survey to suggest pages that could be improved or created!

No prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience. Experienced editors are welcome, particularly to help improve pages. While this is a remote editing event, we will send around recipes for baked goods and drinks before the event and hope to see some of your creations on the screen!

Come and help us add more notable women in STEM to Wikipedia at our EUSci editathon!

Your 1,2,3 to get started! edit

  1. Link to online webinar
  2. Create your Wikipedia account
  3. Once you have created your account join the Wiki dashboard

Schedule edit

Online training webinar on Thursday 17th August 2020 will begin at 1pm (BST). Please login at 12.45pm.
Link to online webinar


  • 12:45-13:00: Everyone log-in, housekeeping and welcome
  • 13:00-14:00: Wikipedia Training by Ewan McAndrew, the University of Edinburgh's Wikimedian in residence
  • 14:00-16:30: Editing in breakout rooms, feel free to take breaks if you like.
  • 16:30-17:00: Meet back in the main room to publish your edits. Session close and group picture.

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!

Editing edit

Questions about editing? Read the Wiki-editing FAQ!

Really simple edits:

  • Add people to categories by clicking Edit and then the three horizontal lines.
  • Add a name to a list e.g. such as List of cardiologists.
  • Add a citation of someone's work to improve a page about their field of research.

Worklist edit

Link to worklist spreadsheet

More useful links edit

Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:

  • Read up to find out more about sources and verifiability.
  • Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
  • Consider whether you have any conflicts of interest.
  • You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.
  • All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found below:
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    A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
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    Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
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    A guide to elements to include in a wiki-biography, with a checklist to ensure you include as many as you can when editing.
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    A guide to adding infoboxes (those handy things on the right side of a page with a summary of key info).
  • How to add an infobox on English Wikipedia
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    A complete beginner's introduction to adding information onto Wikidata. If in doubt, take a look at someone else's Wikidata entry for inspiration!
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    Steps to adding a photograph to Wikimedia Commons so you can use it in a Wikipedia article - the picture has to be your own for you to add it.
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    Guide to creating your Wikipedia userpage to introduce yourself to other editors.
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    Using talk pages
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    Citing your sources
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    Avoiding plagiarism
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    Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
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    Polishing your articles
  • You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.

Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:

  • You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
  • The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.

After today edit

Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

  • Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The   or   button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
  • If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.
  • Check out upcoming Wikimedia in Scotland editing events.
  • Check out upcoming Wikimedia UK editing events.

Video guides to editing Wikipedia edit

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