Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Access to Industry event

Info about the event
Did you know that the world’s biggest encyclopaedia turned 20 on the 15th of January 2021? English Wikipedia has 6.4m articles but it is estimated that Wikipedia would need at least 106 million articles if it were truly aspiring to be the sum of all human knowledge. So while Wikipedia is the largest open education resource in human history, it still is a work in progress and it lacks both a diversity of content and a diversity of editors contributing to it. Yet with 500 million visitors per month and 18 billion page views per month, it is the place people turn to orientate themselves on a topic. And its open-licensed information is used by every major digital platform used on a daily basis so what is right, or wrong, or missing on Wikipedia matters!

Come and help us improve the knowledge freely available online at our Access to Industry editathon!

Your 1,2,3 to get started!

 * 1) Create your Wikipedia account
 * 2) Once you have created your account join the Wiki dashboard
 * 3) Get a cup of tea or coffee an let's get started!

You can get lots of helpful information on the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh website. More events on Eventbrite and on Wikimedia Scotland's site'.

Useful resources

 * 1) How to create a Wikipedia user page (pdf guide) - More pdf guides below.
 * 2) Wikipedia Basics site (how to add a link, citation, image and more).
 * 3) How to edit - video playlists ((how to add a link, citation, image and more).
 * 4) The Creative Commons search tool.
 * 5) Wikimedia Commons upload page.
 * 6) How to add an image to Wikimedia Commons
 * 7) How to add an image from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia
 * 8) The Wiki Loves Monuments competition map - add pictures of listed buildings and historic monuments
 * 9) How to edit existing pages the right way

Schedule
Training will begin at 11:30am on 25 November 2021.

25 November 2021

 * 11:00am - 11:30pm: Tour of St. Cecilia's Hall Museum.
 * 11:30am - 11:45am: Welcome and orientation to Wikipedia
 * 11:45am - 12:45pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.
 * 12:45pm - 1pm: Beginning to apply your new editing skills by researching a new article.

2 December 2021
Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!
 * 11:00am 11:10am: Recap and welcome back
 * 11:10am - 12:30pm Research and Editing with aim to publish by 1pm
 * 12:30pm - 1pm: Publish articles with help from Ewan McAndrew
 * 1pm: Event close

Editing
Questions about editing? Read the Wiki-editing FAQ!

Worklist
Google sheet with suggested pages to edit and create 

Outcomes - articles created
To be added.

Outcomes - articles improved
To be added.

More useful links
Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:
 * Read up to find out more about sources and verifiability.
 * Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
 * Consider whether you have any conflicts of interest.
 * All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found below:


 * 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.

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.

After today
Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.


 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page - a fun tutorial introducing new editors to Wikipedia
 * Visual Editor user guide
 * Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages
 * The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
 * Is your topic notable enough for an article?
 * Be Bold!
 * Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
 * Learn from others
 * How to write a great article
 * A simplified manual of style


 * Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes ( ~ ). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The [[File:Button sig.png]] or [[File:Insert-signature.png]] button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
 * If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.
 * Check out upcoming Wikimedia in Scotland editing events.
 * Check out upcoming Wikimedia UK editing events.

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia - It's main policies & guidelines
 * Navigating Wikipedia's front page
 * How to structure an article on Wikipedia: the Featured Article
 * Wikipedia editing in 30 mins
 * How to edit an existing article the right way
 * How easy is Wikipedia's Visual Editor? 5 min walkthrough
 * How to edit using with Visual Editor Part 1: Creating an Account
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.1 Adding Headings
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.2 Adding bold & italics
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.3 Adding bullet points
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.4 Adding links
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.1 Adding citations and references
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.2 Further practice with citations (DOI and Pubmed IDs)
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories
 * Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 3 Creating a new article in the Sandbox
 * Editing Wikipedia: Communicating with others using the Talk page and Help Desk
 * Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space.
 * Create visually dynamic timelines in minutes with Histropedia
 * Use the 'Find Link' tool to add links BACK to your page from other pages that SHOULD link to your page.