Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Open Edinburgh - Celebration of Open Source

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University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

About the event

On Saturday 28th September 2019, the University's Information Services team are running an Open Edinburgh event to celebrate the Open Source community.

Starting at 10am, there will be a range of activities and engaging talks from guest speakers highlighting the diversity of the open source community and what it means to contribute to open source. A crash course in Wikipedia editing training will be given at 10am ahead of a Wikipedia editing event to create new Wikipedia articles about the diversity of Edinburgh's alumni. New editors are very welcome and participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia articles; creating new role models for young and old alike.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Open Source!

Attendees

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Booking

Booking is now open - links below.

• If coming from the university, [please book your place through MyEd].
• If coming from outside the university, then [please book your place through Eventbrite].

Trainers

Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Hit list of articles to be created or improved

Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Articles to be created

• Rev Dr Simon Gqubule (Theocritus Simon Noziweni) - Respected theologian and educationist who threw the book at apartheid. [1][2]

[3] [4] [5]

• Patricia Hiddleston (1933-2017), Educationalist and mathematician. - worked on by Panos/Nick[6][7][8]
• Rev Elizabeth (Betty) Kinniburgh (1929-2016), one of first women to be ordained as a Church of Scotland minister.[9][10] - worked on by Chris
• Margaret Colquhoun(1947-2017), Evolutionary biologist.[11][12]. In 1993 Dr Margaret Colquhoun founded The Life Science Trust for the practice and research of Goethean Science and Art in Scotland. [13] - worked on by Maddie
• Matthew Olapade Ojo[14][15][16]
• Ching-Lai Sheng（盛慶琜先生）[17][18]
• Roanne Dods(1965-2017)[19][20][21]
• Ray Milne (linguist)(1914-2007), Linguist and cineaste.[22] Lauren
• Anne Mathewson(1932-2017) Ran Clifton Hall School in Edinburgh. - Worked on by Bruce[23]
• Angela Wrapson, Former chair of Traverse Theatre, arts consultant and former director of the Hansard Society Scotland. [24][25]
• Susan Sinclair(1923-2010)[26][27] - worked on by Aisha
• George Macaulay (physician)(1716-1766), “Man-Midwife, Male Feminist: The Life and Times of George Macaulay, M.D., Ph.D. (1716-1766)”[28]ODNB
• Eric Lucey(1923-2010), scientific film pioneer. - worked on by Dimitris

[29][30][31]

• Ian Duffield(1937–2019), chronicler of black British lives, and self-proclaimed ‘Rogues and Nobodies historian’.[32][33]
• Patricia Bagot(1942–2007), awarded OBE for services to housing, ‘well known throughout the housing world’.[34] - worked on by Helen
• Elizabeth Pirie(1932–2005), numismatics expert. [35][https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/2005_BNJ_75_13.pdf

http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/download/9596/9563/]

• Atsuko Betchaku(1960–2017), pacifist, founder of the 140,000 Origami Cranes Project.being

worked on by cdsnadal[36][37]

• Violet Laidlaw-2018, Secretary, union worker and Edinburgh University Court’s first non-teaching member.[38]
• James Moroka (has wiki page but no UoE mention)[39]
• Monty Naicker (has a page but is a stub) 1910 – 1978, Anti-apartheid activist and President of the Natal Indian Congress.[40][41] [42]
• Alfred Bitini Xuma (has wiki page but no UoE mention) 1893 – 1962, leader, activist and president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) [43] [44]
• Shettima Ali Monguno (Page flagged as needing citations) [45][46]

Use the PrepBio tool

• The PrepBio tool is very handy for creating stub entries on Wikipedia using the structured data information in Wikidata.
• Employed by Edinburgh University list
• Women educated at the University of Edinburgh with no Wiki article
• Women born in Edinburgh
• Women who died in Edinburgh
• Women employed by Edinburgh University without an article
• Female Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Sources

• Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
• For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
• We will provide a variety of reference books on the day.
• Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources.
• Search for articles on Google Scholar
• Try the Wikipedia Library's list of free resources
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• The Hathi Trust Digital Library - 100s of novels & other assorted texts
• Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
• Croptool

Suggested sources:

General

• DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.

News sources

• Factiva
• British Newspaper Archive
• More at: Edinburgh University Library - Newspaper database

Theses databases

• Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
• Proquest Dissertations
• More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database

What can I do after the event?

Join us for the event!

• Join WikiProject Women in Technology
• Join WikiProject Women Scientists

Helpful links

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. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

• The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page - a fun tutorial introducing new editors to Wikipedia
• Visual Editor user guide
• Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
• The Teahouse new editor help space
• Wikipedia Help pages
• Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
• The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
• Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
• Is your topic notable enough for an article?
• Be Bold!
• Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
• Learn from others
• How to write a great article
• A simplified manual of style

• 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.

You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

• Video tutorials
• Instructional videos on using Wikipedia

Resources

Join us for the event!

• 
  Wikipedia - Working with Images
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  Wikipedia - Writing about people
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  Wikipedia - Writing about Places
• 
  Wikipedia - Making Connections

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  Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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  Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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  Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
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  Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

• Wikipedia - It's main policies & guidelines
• Navigating Wikipedia's front page
• How to structure an article on Wikipedia: the Featured Article
• Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins
• How to edit using with Visual Editor Part 1: Creating an Account
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.1 Adding Headings
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.2 Adding bold & italics
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.3 Adding bullet points
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.4 Adding links
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.1 Adding citations and references
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.2 Further practice with citations (DOI and Pubmed IDs)
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories
• Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 3 Creating a new article in the Sandbox
• Editing Wikipedia: Communicating with others using the Talk page and Help Desk

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

• Visual Editor User Guide
• manual of style
• Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
• Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
• Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
• Article development
• Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
• Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
• Biographies of Living Persons

One page handouts

• 
  Using talk pages
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  Choosing an article
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  Citing your sources
• 
  Avoiding plagiarism
• 
  Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
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  Polishing your articles

Participants - Sign Up Here!

Prior to the event:

1. RSVP: Book your place here
2. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?

   No? Create a Wikipedia account

   Yes? Go to Step #2

3. Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
   

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

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