Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/Sussex

Info about the event
Out and About STEM and Wellcome Trust are joining forces to host a LGBT in STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Join us to celebrate the people that deserve a more prominent place in the online record. You'll learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.

Useful links
Click here to go to the Dashboard and find an article to create or edit

There are also lots of articles you can find to edit here as suggested by the amazing folks at Wikiproject LGBT Studies. And for some nice easy edits, check that all people are in the right categories, translate information between Wiki's, and check that people's articles are included on lists like these and mentioned on relevant pages.

You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.

More useful links
Here are some more useful links to help you with your editing:
 * Learn more editing: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
 * Think about what you would like to edit about check that you have enough sources 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.
 * All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. Here's a selection:


 * 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.

See what a difference you're making
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.