Wikipedia:GLAM/University of California Davis Libraries/Events/outline

Edit-a-thon workshop outline

 * Welcome, Purpose of the workshop/edit-a-thon
 * Logistics -- wifi, timing, schedule
 * Introductions: Wikipedia experience, interests
 * Experienced editors:
 * Who is available to answer questions
 * To-do list on the project page
 * Library tour / help will be offered
 * Brand-new editors
 * How wikipedia works ??
 * Steps getting started:
 * Create an account
 * Find your sandbox, make a test edit
 * demo sandbox, with User:PhoebeAyers
 * find an article, check out the talk page
 * Wikipedia policies -- NPOV, Verifiability, Notability
 * Demo a copyedit -- Hazel Bishop
 * Demo the parts of an article
 * Demo adding an external link section: use Geerat J. Vermeij for an example
 * Demo adding a reference: use Hazel Bishop,, Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century
 * Demo checking your own edits

To do
...
 * Create a userpage with your interests in wikipedia.
 * Create a list of articles you are interested in working on in your sandbox.
 * Start editing!
 * update bibliographies
 * add refs
 * copyedit

11/2 examples

 * Fix the link to Philip Power's UCD page


 * olive fruit fly -- add http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/9781420068467.ch110 as further reading

11/15 examples

 * add website for Alan Hastings

UCR
small fixes: link, name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Eastwood

http://library.ucr.edu/view/wrca/collections/portraits/eastwood.html


 * Sheila Finch -- add Nebula http://dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/