Wikipedia:Meetup/Ireland Dublin City University Editathon February 2017

=Dublin City University Wikipedia editathon: workshop for staff and students on contributing to Wikipedia=

Introduction
DCU Library will host a Wikipedia editathon giving staff and students an introduction to contributing to Wikipedia. An editathon is an “organized event where editors edit and improve a specific topic or type of content, typically including basic editing training for new editor”. Staff and students with all levels of experience with Wikipedia or none are all welcome. Guests from outside the university are also welcome: contact us to arrange access to the library.

Here we will focus on improving and updating pages related to the university: something everyone in DCU knows something about. See our list of suggested articles (and feel free to add to this).

Date and location

 * Tuesday, 28 February, 15:00 – 17:00.
 * Mentoring Suite, Ground Floor, O’Reilly Library, DCU Glasnevin Campus.
 * Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided.
 * Wi-Fi and power sockets will be provided but attendees will need to bring their own device. Students can borrow a laptop in the library, subject to availability.

Benefits for attendees

 * an opportunity to meet, work and share knowledge with other staff and students from different DCU campuses, schools and units
 * learn about how Wikipedia works
 * gain experience in collaborative writing
 * share and discuss what you know about the university and learn something new

Event outline
The event organisers will kick things off with an outline of the principles of Wikipedia and will demonstrate some of the basics of contributing to Wikipedia, such as:
 * simple edits and corrections
 * adding citations
 * uploading photos

We will also discuss Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy and instances where it might not be appropriate for DCU staff and students to edit certain content.

Then everyone can get to work editing, individually or groups - whatever suits. You'll be able to quickly get advise and support from those around you.

We will provide print handouts and links to online tutorials, if needed.

We’ll conclude with an exit discussion on what we’ve learnt and any plans for future work on the pages.

Registration
To register:
 * Create a Wikipedia account if you don't already have one.
 * 1) While logged in to Wikipedia click to edit the Attendees list below and in a new line simply type four tildes (~), like this: . Click on Save Changes. This will add your username to the page.

If you're having difficulty with the above steps, email us to register.


 * 1) Smirkybec (talk) 01:44, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) SSCOhA (talk) 09:57, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) NIMA GORJI (talk) 14:34, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Ebegz (talk) 19:25, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) SamMurphy328 (talk) 19:54, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Aaachaoa (talk) 20:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 7) AishaShoak (talk) 21:02, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 8) AFUCoordinator (talk) 22:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)AFUCoordinator
 * 9) Padraig Doolan (talk) 10:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 10) Fago-dcu (talk) 15:24, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 11) Cabrie34 (talk) 14:07, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 12) Stevenphil (talk) 00:34, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 13) Dowlinme (talk) 14:46, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 14) Eihe (talk) 15:00, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 15) Florian.petermann (talk) 16:02, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 16) Loadwire11 (talk) 12:33, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 17) Waseem Ahmed (talk) 12:33, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 18) Padraig McKeon (talk)PM 14:14, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 19) JamesConnolly3051 (talk) 17:01, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Lend a hand
It would be great if attendees with experience contributing to Wikipedia could lend a hand informally helping others on the day. No other duties involved. If you'd like to help, then when registering also add your username to the list below using ~


 * 1) SSCOhA (talk) 09:57, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Smirkybec (talk) 15:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Before the event

 * We recommend that you take a look at some of the suggested articles to edit and think about any improvements you’d like to make.
 * If you have any nice photos you think would be relevant to the articles, bring them along for uploading.

Twitter
We’ll be using the hashtag #wikidcu

Contact
Jack Hyland, jack.hyland@dcu.ie SSCOhA (talk)

Suggested articles

 * Dublin City University
 * List of Dublin City University faculties, schools, research centres and laboratories
 * DCU Age Friendly Initiative
 * Albert College (Dublin)
 * Albert College Park (Dublin)
 * Glasnevin
 * Drumcondra, Dublin
 * The Helix (Dublin)
 * DCU Students%27 Union
 * DCU GAA
 * List of Dublin City University people
 * Dublin City University Saints
 * DCU Students' Union
 * St Patrick's College, Dublin
 * The College View
 * Dublin City University RFC
 * DCU GAA
 * Centre for the Talented Youth of Ireland
 * National Anti-Bullying Centre
 * All Hallows College
 * National Institute for Higher Education
 * Northside, Dublin
 * NorDubCo
 * Dublin Metro
 * Ballymun
 * Dublin-Belfast corridor
 * Whitehall, Dublin
 * Nubar
 * National Institute for Digital Learning
 * Category:Sport at Dublin City University
 * Category:Academics of Dublin City University
 * Category:Dublin City University
 * Category:Alumni of Dublin City University

Disability access

 * step free access yes
 * wheelchair access yes

Tutorials and guides

 * Getting started
 * Wikipedia training for students
 * The Wikipedia Adventure: a one hour introduction to Wikipedia
 * Wikitext cheat sheet on formatting text (adding links etc.)
 * Simple cheat sheet
 * Wikimedia Commons image upload wizard
 * Conflict of interest guidelines