Wikipedia:Edit-a-thon/BioRECO2VER Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2019

The BioRECO2VER Project is a joint scientific project working on the topic of CO2 Capture and Utilization. To communicate the topics and results the project organizes a Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon. The goal of this course is to edit and update descriptions in Wikipedia of concepts such as Carbon capture and utilization, Gas fermentation technologies, Elecrofermentation and related topcs, where information gaps currently exist (see below). The event is organised by Achim Raschka (wikipedian from Germany, employee of Nova-Institut as consortium partner) with support from the Flemish institute for technological research (VITO), Luleå University of Technology, National Research Council (Italy) (CNR) and University of Girona. Commercial partners of the project will not be directly included in this edit-a-thon.

The BioRECO2VER Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is meant for anybody who uses Wikipedia and we invite scientist, researchers and Ph.D students interested in the addressed topics to participate.

Participants

 * -- Achim Raschka (talk) 09:45, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Where and when
The Editathon will be organised as an online event running for several sessions. The participants start with a first session on creating an account and sign-up at this page, then starting with first editing and later on working together on dedicated articles linked to the topics of the project.

To discuss problems and other topics a set of meeting will be held via Zoom (or other software) at specific dates.

What did the Edit-a-thon's participants bring?

 * Their laptops(and a chargers!)
 * Their Wikipedia login details (same of them created a free account here)
 * Their enthusiasm to help contribute to the world's greatest encyclopaedia

Wikipedia Policies
• Five pillars

• Core content policies

• General notability guideline

• Verifiability

• Conflict of interest

• Identifying reliable sources

• No original research (Examples of Original Research)

• Citing sources

• Identifying and using primary sources

Quick Editing Tips
• Help:Getting started

• Your first article

• Help:Referencing for beginners

• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor

• Creating Redirector with Source Editor

• Using categories

• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools and Other Resources
• Here is a short tutorial for getting started editing Wikipedia

• Citing sources

• Cheatsheet

• Citation templates

• Principles

• Tutorial

• [[Media:Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf | Wiki markup quick reference (PDF)]]

• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

• Last year's editing event at the Sumner school

Outcomes
The main focus to work on will be the english Wikipedia, but since BioRECO2VER is an international project the students and scientists may also work on the wikis in their mother language (German, Italian, Spanisch, Vlemisch/Dutch, Catalán)

Article wishlist
Pages to be created ex-novo or expanded/improved:
 * lead scientists (with photos)


 * species for fementation
 * Clostridium ljungdahlii
 * Thermothaga, Thermothaga neapolitana, Pseudothermothaga
 * Capnophile


 * main topics of the project
 * Carbon capture, Carbon capture and utilization
 * Biotechnology, Industrial biotechnology (no article),
 * Electrofermentation, Anaerobic fermentation
 * Lactic acid, Polylactic acid, Isobutene, ...

Pictures wishlist

 * Photos of fermentation equipment

Results
The following results are made from this course: