Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/World Music Day 2017

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About the event
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? As part of World Music Day 2017, on Wednesday 21st June, the University's Information Services team will run an edit-a-thon at the newly reopened St. Cecilia's Hall. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given to attendees. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about musical instruments.

Working together with Academic Support librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles where Wikipedia's coverage needs improved; including the history of music, notable instruments etc.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and celebrate the history of music!



How do I prepare?

 * Sign up for the event
 * Create a Wikipedia account
 * Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided)
 * Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
 * Think about what you would like to edit - please prepare some materials to bring with you on the day

The Manual of Style
Wikipedia has help pages which set out style guidelines for pages being created on certain subject areas. Please have a look at the following pages:
 * Manual of Style for Biographies including how to begin the lead paragraph.
 * Manual of Style for Biographies of Living Persons

Programme (subject to change)

 * 12:30pm - 12:45pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
 * 12:45pm – 1:00pm: Guest speaker - TBD
 * 1:00pm - 2:15pm: Wikipedia training
 * 2:15pm – 2:25pm: Comfort Break
 * 2:25pm – 4:15pm: Research & EDIT!
 * 4:15pm - 4:45pm: Transferring drafted text to Wikipedia's live space.
 * 4:45pm - 5:00pm: Close.

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

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!

Looking for ideas
The following WikiProject Musical Instruments list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about short stub articles definitely requiring improvement. The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about musical instruments.
 * Click here to see the list.
 * Click here to see this list.

Articles to Create
TBD.

Articles to Improve

 * St Cecilia's Hall

St. Cecilia's Hall is a large space and we have a lot of work to do to address the coverage of the history of music and the musical instrument collection so other suggestions for articles to work on at the event are very welcome.

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 - New pages created
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

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