Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/Imperial College



An event was held at Imperial College in London on 14 June 2017.

The intention was to teach pupils of Lady Margaret School, Maria Fidelis Roman Catholic Convent School, Overton Grange School and The Kingston Academy how to edit Wikipedia and then for them to work on articles about women engineers.

Venue
Imperial College

Programme

 * Morning: lecture on how to edit Wikipedia in RCS1
 * Lunch
 * Afternoon: editathon, creating articles about women engineers, in the computer room of the main chemistry building

Requested

 * WikiProject Women in Red/Engineering – a list of missing women engineers

People

 * Alison Vincent

Templates

 * WikiProject Engineering - goes on talk pages

For biographies

 * Infobox person using infobox engineering career as a module. See Peter Hansford for example.
 * Succession boxes for presidents; see Jean Venables for example.
 * WikiProject Biography or WikiProject Biography - goes on talk pages

For organisations

 * Infobox organisation

Interested editors

 * User:Andrew Davidson
 * User:Jwslubbock
 * User:Thryduulf
 * User:Zeromonk

Useful resources

 * Introduction
 * Your first article
 * Cheatsheet (Cheatsheet also available as a PDF)
 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual for your PC or e-reader