Wikipedia:Meetup/Cleveland/ACS Education Night 2022

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ACS Cleveland Education Night 2022: Wikipedia Training


 * As part of the American Chemical Society's Cleveland Local Section's 2022 Education Night, the Ohio Wikimedians User Group will be hosting a Wikipedia training to introduce members to editing. Topics will include:


 * A general overview of how Wikipedia works
 * Creating a user account and user page
 * Looking at an article that needs help and figuring out how to improve it
 * Demo of editing
 * Having participants make their own edits

Feel free to bring your laptop and an example of an article that is in dire need of editing!

Register
 *  ACS Cleveland Website 

Livestream
 * Zoom link upon registration

When


 * Wednesday, April 27, 2022
 * 7-8 PM Eastern

Where


 * Shaker Country Club

Get started

 * Create a Wikipedia account
 * Sign in below
 * Find an article to edit

Sign in

 * 1) Select 'Sign in'
 * 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.


 * Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.



Wikipedia policies
• Username policy

• 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

Editing tips
• Getting started

• Your first article

• Referencing for beginners

• Using categories|Using categories

• Cheatsheet for wiki markup

• Infobox tutorial

• Manual of Style

Tools
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Chemistry resources

 * WikiProject Chemistry
 * WikiProject Chemicals
 * Chemistry Manual of Style

Things to edit

 * See WikiProject Chemistry's Cleanup List
 * Explore WikiProject Chemistry's stub-class articles
 * Explore WikiProject Chemical's stub-class articles
 * Find missing articles (red links) on List of inorganic compounds and Glossary of chemical formulae

Attendees

 * ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 06:11, 27 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 22:55, 27 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Ppsarras (talk) 23:31, 27 April 2022 (UTC)