Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/World Scout Jamboree Wikipedia Editing Workshop

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World Scout Jamboree Wikipedia Editing Workshop

Did you know that Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that anyone can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries? During this workshop you will learn how to edit Wikipedia by adding or removing content, citing sources, creating hyperlinks and uploading photos.

When

July 22-August 2, 2019

Where

Summit Bechtel Reserve

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

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Wikimedia Projects

• Wikimedia movement
• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
• Wiktionary, a dictionary
• Wikibooks, educational textbooks
• Wikinews, news articles
• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
• Wikiversity, educational material
• Wikivoyage, a travel guide
• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species
• List of different editions of language Wikipedias

Wikipedia Policies

• 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

Quick Editing Tips

• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
• Creating Redirector with Source Editor
• Using categories
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects

• Track Wikipedia Page Views
• Wikimedia Statistics
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• WikiProject Women in Red

Suggested Article Work List

About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

• 24th World Scout Jamboree
• Your National Scout Organization (NSO)
• Your local scout council or scout camp

Attendees

• Totorothemusical (talk) 17:23, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

• Akstout (talk) 17:23, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

• Angrymarconi (talk) 17:23, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

• Nstout5 (talk) 17:23, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

• Randouserwsj (talk) 17:23, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

• TiroAethra (talk) 18:09, 30 July 2019 (UTC)