Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Reproductive Biomedicine 2020

Consult the Manual of Style for Medicine-related articles on Wikipedia

 * Manual of Style for Medicine-related articles.

About the event
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? On the 23rd & 30th September 2020, the University's Information Services team will run a Wikipedia research session. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given. Thereafter the editathon will focus on creating & improving the quality of articles about reproductive medicine.

Working together with Academic Support librarians & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles covering areas which could stand to be improved in the field of Reproductive Biomedicine.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of reproductive medicine!



How do I prepare?

 * Create a Wikipedia account
 * Use a laptop or desktop computer.
 * Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
 * Think about what you would like to edit.

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

Helpful links
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. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. 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
 * Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
 * The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
 * Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
 * 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.

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 and improved

 * Horse ovary - why not build a section in Ovary then split if the page becomes unbalanced?
 * Artificial ovary
 * Testis organoid - why not build a section in Organoid, as is the case for Gut organoid and Lingual organoid
 * Luteolysis (in human, sheep and cow)
 * Bisphenol S (page exists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_S) but could be expanded: comparison to BPA could be made more clearly and the extent of its role as an endocrine disruptor can be expanded, a quick search has brought up at least 6 review articles.
 * Endogenous ovine jaagsiekte retrovirus - why not build on Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus?
 * Endothelin 2 - Currently very short page - to be expanded - secondary literature available.
 * Testicular Tissue Cryopreservation - suggest generating a new page for this, as has been done for "oocyte cryopreservation", "ovarian tissue cryopreservation, and "embryo cryopreservation".
 * Nanos Gene Family - Currently no page.
 * Reproductive toxicity – there is a wiki page but it could do with considerable updating/expanding.
 * Germ Cell Migration - there is some information on this under the ‘germ cell’ wiki page but there are a lot of citations missing and this could be expanded upon quite considerably, possibly in its own wiki page?
 * Resumption of Meiosis - either stand-alone or under Meiosis
 * Expand the 'Fertility' subsection of the Centriole page. Currently just two sentences.
 * Testicular Tissue Cryopreservation - suggest generating a new page for this, as has been done for "oocyte cryopreservation", "ovarian tissue cryopreservation, and "embryo cryopreservation".
 * Nanos Gene Family - Currently no page.
 * Reproductive toxicity – there is a wiki page but it could do with considerable updating/expanding.
 * Germ Cell Migration - there is some information on this under the ‘germ cell’ wiki page but there are a lot of citations missing and this could be expanded upon quite considerably, possibly in its own wiki page?
 * Resumption of Meiosis - either stand-alone or under Meiosis
 * Expand the 'Fertility' subsection of the Centriole page. Currently just two sentences.
 * Germ Cell Migration - there is some information on this under the ‘germ cell’ wiki page but there are a lot of citations missing and this could be expanded upon quite considerably, possibly in its own wiki page?
 * Resumption of Meiosis - either stand-alone or under Meiosis
 * Expand the 'Fertility' subsection of the Centriole page. Currently just two sentences.
 * Resumption of Meiosis - either stand-alone or under Meiosis
 * Expand the 'Fertility' subsection of the Centriole page. Currently just two sentences.
 * Expand the 'Fertility' subsection of the Centriole page. Currently just two sentences.

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

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 under 25 mins
 * 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

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * manual of style
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Article development
 * Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
 * Biographies of Living Persons

Outcomes
To be determined.

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

Wikiproject Medicine video

 * Link to Google slides: Medical Topics by Dr. James Heilman (Friday 24th June 2016 at Wikimania, Esino Lario).
 * New York Times artucle: "Wikipedia is emerging as trusted internet source for information on Ebola"

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:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk ewan.mcandrew@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