Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/500yrswomen

About the event
The Royal College of Physicians and Wellcome Collection are joining forces to host a 500 Years of Women in Medicine Wikithon. Join us to celebrate the women in medicine that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll develop your digital skills and learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge. Then there'll be the chance to go on a curator-led tour of the RCP Museum's exhibition 'This vexed question: 500 years of women in medicine' - the exhibition closes on 18 January 2019 - so this is the final exhibition event and guided tour!

Complete beginners and experienced editors are both welcome to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing. If you’ve spotted an article that needs improving, bring along your queries and we’ll see what we can do to help!

How do I prepare?

 * Sign up for the event!
 * Create a Wikipedia account (look at the top right of this page for the link). You don't need to do anything else, but it'll speed things up on the day if you've already signed up for an account.
 * Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
 * Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day (to help with verifiability).
 * Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
 * Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.

Click here to go to the Dashboard and find an article to edit (There are resources on several women here and if you choose to create a page for Sarah Gray, take a look at this source or for Gladys Maud Sandes there's this source).

Useful links
Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:
 * All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page.
 * Take a look at the Category:British women medical doctors to see who is already listed, and who might need to be added to the group.
 * 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.
 * If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about adding women to Wikipedia, take a look at Wikiproject Women in Red, plus find links to news articles and view worklists highlighting articles/topics that are the current focus of improvement.

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.