Wikipedia:Workshop/Royal Thimphu College/July 2023

Wikipedia:Royal Thimphu College workshops/July 2023
Kuzuzangpo and welcome to the project page for RTC workshops!

Step 1: Registration
Create your Wikipedia account here. Note down your password.

On your User Page, tell us a little about yourself. You may like to add a banner Category:Bhutanese Wikipedians. [For a Dzongkha banner add

See how User:StarLightMe and User:Phuentsho have created their User pages.

Step 2: Editing rules
Wikipedia pages are written without opinion or personal bias, trying to present all sides of an issue, written from a Neutral Point of View. Neutral point of view.

Editors can't add information without providing a source, even if they know it to be true from their own experience. All information must be referenced. No original research and Verifiability.

Notability of people means subjects can't just be well-known by their friends and family. They must have been written about in reputable publications. Notability.

References are all important. Facebook, Linkedin and personal blogs are not considered credible, but these sources are: News organisations - Kuensel, Business Bhutan, The Bhutanese, BBS website

Government and NGO publications - UNDP, Monarchy and Democracy in the 21st Century, by Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy. [1]

Academic - Druk Journal, Journal of Bhutan Studies

Books - The History of Bhutan, by Dr Karma Phuntsho; The Smiling Moon, by Khenpo Tshering (translated by Kencho Tobgyel), My Green School, by Thakur S. Powdyel.

Step 3: Editing
Here is an overview of Bhutan on Wikipedia WikiProject Bhutan

Here is a list of Bhutan pages Index of Bhutan-related articles

Bhutan Pages that need Dzongkha titles.
See Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, Membartsho and Lotay Tshering for examples of including Dzongkha titles.

Bhutan Pages that could be improved/expanded
Be adventurous...you can always undo whatever you have done.

Help each other...post a question on a colleague's Talk page (or message them on WhatsApp.

Wikipedia is the best resource for editing. Pages and pages are devoted to how to do things or how to fix it when things go wrong. Tip: google "wikipedia how do you...."

Don't give up...Wikipedians are, by nature, passionate about the site. They want it to be the best it can be. So if your edit is questioned, or your work deleted, just learn from it and move on. Your viewpoint is needed. You are very, very welcome here :)