Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Eurostemcell Editathon - 20 July 2016

About the event
This event will be an opportunity for staff to learn more about Wikipedia and the benefits of Wikipedia for science outreach, and to create new and improve existing content on Wikipedia pertaining to stem cells.

Most articles on Wikipedia relating to Stem Cells are semi-protected, meaning that anyone intending to take part must create their account 5 days in advance, and must make at least 10 edits before they will be able to edit those pages. Please see below for further information about making edits. More training will be provided on the day.

Programme

 * 13:00 - Housekeeping and Welcome from Dr. Cathy Southworth
 * 13:15 - Introduction to Wikipedia and editing training
 * 14:30 - Break, then research & editing.
 * 16:30 - Transferring from the Sandbox (draft space area) to the Wikipedia live space.
 * 17:30 - Close.

Full training will be provided.

Trainers
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

How do I prepare?

 * Sign up for the event
 * Create a Wikipedia account
 * Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided)
 * Learn about editing: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia
 * Make some basic edits: see Wikipedia's Community Portal for ideas. I recommend spelling / grammar for easy fixes without needing to know too much about editing.
 * Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day

Hit list of articles to be created or improved
Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

Articles to be created
TBC

Articles to be improved

 * 1) Stem Cell *Check for accuracy and additions
 * 2) Stem-cell therapy * Check fro readability and accuracy / *Add Thymus under 'research' /*improve 'Pancreatic beta cells'
 * 3) cell therapy *Update references and text particularly diabetes reference / *Add other research examples /*add iPS
 * 4) Diabetes *Add to 'research' section work in regenerative medicine   review on stem cells and diabetes
 * 5) Regenerative medicine *Readability and sub sectioning *Add research section and include diabetes and thymus work
 * 6) Induced pluripotent stem cell
 * 7) Endoderm * Add differentiation to endoderm from pluripotent stem cells (title such as making endoderm in the lab?)  review on human pancreas development
 * 8) Pancreas *Add regeneration
 * 9) Progenitor cell
 * 10) Regeneration in humans *correct and extend thymus section and ref / *correct and read for possible improvements
 * 11) Organoids *Add thymus organoid
 * 12) Thymus *Add Regenerating the thymus
 * 13) Zebrafish Marja Karttunen added some sentences under the heading "Drug discovery".

Articles on the history of genetics to be improved
Some articles on people who played a role in the history of genetics could be much improved, and these might be a good starting point for those unfamiliar to editing. They are listed below, with links to the Wikipedia pages and to some sources to get you started:
 * C.P. Blacker doesn't have an infobox. There's also more information to add about him here.
 * Malcolm Ferguson-Smith doesn't have an infobox, and his page is a little sparse. There's some relevant information and pictures here.
 * Hans Grüneberg's page is almost all bullet-points. Information and pictures can be found here.
 * Arthur Mourant's page is not particularly extensive at present. Relevant information/images are here.
 * Lionel Penrose's page is quite brief at present, though well referenced. Information on Penrose to use in building up the page is located here.
 * Guido Pontecorvo's page is mostly bullet-points and could be significantly extended using this profile.
 * Robert Russell Race has a page which only consists of about one paragraph. Ruth Sanger's is only marginally better. There is some information to use in improving their pages here.

Suggested sources:

 * Eurostemcell for secondary source information about stem cells

General

 * DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.

News sources

 * Factiva
 * British Newspaper Archive
 * More at: Edinburgh University Library - Newspaper database

Theses databases

 * Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
 * Proquest Dissertations
 * More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database

Outcomes - Content created

 * Zebrafish
 * Thymus
 * Endoderm
 * Stem-cell therapy
 * Cell therapy
 * Regenerative medicine

Edits to improve readability & structure of Stem-cell therapy and Regenerative medicine pages undertaken remotely by [User:Zeromonk]].

What can I do after the event?


You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
 * Video tutorials
 * Instructional videos on using Wikipedia

Participants - Sign Up Here!
Prior to the event: Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
 * 1) RSVP: [mailto:cathy.southworth@ed.ac.uk cathy.southworth@ed.ac.uk] 
 * 2) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #2
 * 1) Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page


 * Marja Karttunen (talk) 08:33, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Endoderm
 * Endoderm (talk) 14:07, 18 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Zeromonk (talk) 16:49, 20 July 2016 (UTC)