Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Info about the event
Wikipedia aims to capture 'the sum of human knowledge', but most volunteer Wikipedia editors are male, and there are fewer and less extensive articles on Wikipedia about women and their contributions to the world. A concerted effort has been building to create and expand pages documenting the lives and work of women in STEM: join us as we expand this effort to include some of the many women working in the digital arts, humanities social sciences, who meet Wikipedia’s standards for notability but don’t yet have a page or need a page expanded.

Come and help us add more notable women to Wikipedia at our Women in Digital Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences editathon!

Your 1,2,3 to get started!

 * 1) [Link to register for the online webinar]
 * 2) Create your Wikipedia account
 * 3) Once you have created your account join the Wiki dashboard

Schedule
Online training webinar on 17th March 2021 will begin at 11:45 am (GMT). Please login at 11:30 am. [Link to register for the online webinar]


 * 11:30 am - 11:45 pm: Welcome and housekeeping
 * 11:45 am - 12:00 pm: Intro to the topic - Wikipedia and Women in Digital Humanities
 * 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm: Intro to Wikipedia and related content
 * 12:15 am - 12:30 pm: Discussion of Wikipedia pages we can create/work on during the event
 * 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch break
 * 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew
 * 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm: Break
 * 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm: Research and editing
 * 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm: Publish articles with help from Ewan McAndrew
 * 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm: 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) Melissa Terras -
 * 2) Jennifer Guilano
 * 3) Beth Nowviskie

Articles to edit

 * 1) Deb Verhoeven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Verhoeven)
 * 2) Elizabeth Losh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Losh)

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.