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Edit-a-thon workshop outline Welcome, Purpose of the workshop/edit-a-thon Logistics -- wifi, timing, schedule Introductions: Wikipedia experience, interests Experienced editors: Who is available to answer questions To-do list on the project page Library tour / help will be offered Brand-new editors How wikipedia works ?? Steps getting started: Create an account Find your sandbox, make a test edit demo sandbox, with User:PhoebeAyers find an article, check out the talk page Wikipedia policies -- NPOV, Verifiability, Notability Demo a copyedit -- Hazel Bishop Demo the parts of an article Demo adding an external link section: use Geerat J. Vermeij for an example Demo adding a reference: use Hazel Bishop, [1], Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century Demo checking your own edits To do Create a userpage with your interests in wikipedia. Create a list of articles you are interested in working on in your sandbox. Start editing! update bibliographies add refs copyedit ... 11/2 examples Fix the link to Philip Power's UCD page olive fruit fly -- add http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/9781420068467.ch110 as further reading 11/15 examples add website for Alan Hastings UCR small fixes: link, name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Eastwood http://library.ucr.edu/view/wrca/collections/portraits/eastwood.html Sheila Finch -- add Nebula http://dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/