Running your editathon

So you’ve had fun, you’ve done your bit in the name of information activism, but you want to do more. You want to go forth and spread your new-found knowledge to the world, in your communities and keep increasing the diversity of editors on Wikipedia. Fab! So how would you go about running your own […]

Women in Red editathons: What have you gotten yourself into?

As part of our Women in Red efforts, The University of Edinburgh runs regular Editathons in which we work together to add biographies of women to Wikipedia. What is an Editathon I hear you ask? An Editathon can be anything you want it to be! In short, an Editathon is an organized event where people […]

Resources

Wikimedia chapters or groups near you (here is a full list of chapters) United Kingdom United States Bay Area User Group Philadelphia meet-ups Ireland – wikimedia community working on setting up a chapter Getting started with Wikipedia University of Edinburgh Tutorial: https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wiki-basics/ Editing Wikipedia (pdf booklet) What’s where on Wiki (pdf) Building a brilliant […]

Essentials; Manual of Style and Reliable Sourcing

Before we get started creating articles, there are a few need-to-know Wikipedia essentials to go over. We need to understand what makes a good Wikipedia article, and how to check Notability – the individuals you add to Wikipedia must be considered to be Reliable sources – Wikipedia is a tertiary source of information Be bold If […]

Citations, Links & Images

Adding a citation Citations are the most important part of any Wikipedia page. Every bit of information on Wikipedia should be backed up by a reliable, high-quality, published secondary source… anyone can edit but we can’t just say anything. We should aim to have a citation at the end of every sentence, or at […]

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Women in red editathon guide

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