Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Creative Informatics

Your 1,2,3 to get started!
and a LOT of useful resources are on |our student-created website which recently won an |Open Education Global award.
 * 1) Create your Wikipedia account
 * 2) | Once you have created your account join the Wiki dashboard (click 'Allow' to permit your Wikipedia account to interact with the Wikimedia dashboard).
 * 3)  Grab a cuppa and get comfy!

Schedule

 * 1:45 pm - 2:00pm: Everyone log-in and housekeeping
 * 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm: Welcome
 * 2:15pm - 3pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew.
 * 3:00pm - 4:30pm Research and Editing with aim to publish by 5pm
 * 4:30pm - 4:50pm: Publish articles with help from Ewan McAndrew
 * 4:50pm - 5:00pm Event close

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!

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

Really simple edits:
 * Add people to categories by clicking Edit and then the three horizontal lines.
 * Add a name to a list such as List of cardiologists.
 * Add a citation of someone's work to improve a page about their field of research.

Worklist
Link to worklist spreadsheet

Articles to create

 * 1) Creative Informatics - (https://creativeinformatics.org/) - adding section on X (Melissa).
 * 2) CodeBase - (https://www.thisiscodebase.com/)
 * 3) Creative Edinburgh - likely with reference to wider Creative... cities across the UK and beyond (https://www.creative-edinburgh.com/)
 * 4) Creative Industries Clusters Programme - CICP (https://creativeindustriesclusters.com/)
 * 5) Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre - led by nesta (https://www.pec.ac.uk/) - CI Editor to draft
 * 6) Clwstwr - already referenced at Cardiff Capital Region. Include Media Cymru? (https://clwstwr.org.uk/)
 * 7) InGame - (https://www.innovationforgames.com/)
 * 8) Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology - BFTT (https://bftt.org.uk/)
 * 9) XR Stories - (https://xrstories.co.uk/)
 * 10) StoryFutures - (https://www.storyfutures.com/)
 * 11) Future Fashion Factory - (https://futurefashionfactory.org/)
 * 12) Future Screens NI - (https://www.futurescreens.org/)
 * 13) Bristol + Bath Creative R+D - (https://bristolbathcreative.org/)
 * 14) Audience of the Future - (https://audienceofthefuture.live/)
 * 15) Data Driven Innovation - the term as used in the DDI programme
 * 16) Creative AI - the broader term, which doesn't have a definition. To inc links to The New Real as example, PEC publications calling for a centre for AI, etc.
 * 17) Data Driven Innovation Initiative - and wider programme of work around this. (https://ddi.ac.uk/)
 * 18) Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland - MASTS (https://masts.ac.uk/)
 * 19) Scottish Games Network - (https://scottishgames.net/)
 * 20) Tinderbox - (https://tinderboxcollective.org/)
 * 21) TouchLab - note that there is a reference on the StartupBus page to another US start up with the same name (https://www.touchlab.io/)
 * 22) ANA Avatar X Prize - (https://www.xprize.org/prizes/avatar)
 * 23) Viapontica - (https://viapontica.ai/)
 * 24) Black Goblin Audio - (https://www.blackgoblinaudio.co.uk/)
 * 25) SENSEcity - (https://www.sensecity.co/)
 * 26) South of Scotland Enterprise - (https://www.southofscotlandenterprise.com/)
 * 27) Playable Technologies - there is already a page for their previous product Skoog (https://www.playable.tech/)
 * 28) Civic Digits - to include reference to Big Data Show and Data Driven Actor (https://civicdigits.com/)
 * 29) Amicable Animal - to include reference to BAFTA and SOLAS 128 (https://www.amicableanimal.com/)
 * 30) Pianodrome - include Leeds Piano Trail, Festival, Pianola Nova etc (https://www.pianodrome.org/)
 * 31) Drake Music Scotland - may need to disambiguate/carefully write to ensure clarity/distinction from Drake Music (England) (https://drakemusicscotland.org/)
 * 32) Edinburgh City of Literature - precedent and model for this for Melbourne City of Literature, include Literature House and Scotsman coverage of announcement (https://cityofliterature.com/)
 * 33) Vintage Vibes - (https://vintagevibes.org.uk/)
 * 34) The Big Light (podcast production company) - extended title needed to disambiguate from German silent film (https://www.thebiglight.com/)
 * 35) Children's Parliament - note that there is a redirection to Youth Council which may also need an associated edit (https://www.childrensparliament.org.uk/)
 * 36) Insurgent Studios - (http://insurgentstudios.com/)
 * 37) Prewired - (https://www.prewired.org/)
 * 38) The Flock - (https://flockmag.com/)
 * 39) Boom Saloon - (https://www.boomsaloon.com/links/)
 * 40) Edinburgh Tool Library - (https://edinburghtoollibrary.org.uk/)
 * 41) Screen Language - (https://screenlanguage.co.uk/)
 * 42) Chara AI - (https://chara.ai/)
 * 43) New Media Scotland - (https://www.mediascot.org/)
 * 44) inChat - (https://inchat.design/)
 * 45) Ray Interactive - (https://www.rayinteractive.org/)

Articles to edit

 * 1) Edinburgh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh) to add DDI Initiative to City Region Deal mention.
 * 2) Fruitmarket Gallery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitmarket_Gallery) to update and extend.
 * 3) The List (Magazine) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_List_(magazine)) to extend and update and include recent data work.
 * 4) Historic Environment Scotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Environment_Scotland) to extend, update and add Historiscope.
 * 5) Traverse Theatre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traverse_Theatre) to update and extend (ref Challenge?).
 * 6) Skoog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoog) to extend to update and also point to new Playable Technologies page if created.
 * 7) Armor Games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor_Games) to fix issues with the page (and point to new Amicable Animal page if created).
 * 8) Jupiter Artland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Artland) to extend and update, e.g. new work by Rachel McLean (ref Challenge?).
 * 9) Edinburgh Science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Science) fix page issues; update and extend inc. their move away from fossil fuel funding. Inc. recent innovations, Jonathan Elders basking shark sculpture, etc.
 * 10) Michael Begg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Begg) - to include Ocean ARTic work and Earth Percent Day work, extensive media coverage in 2021/2.

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