Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/ALDUCL

Info about the event

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The UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering are hosting a Wikithon where we will focus on making or improving Wikipedia entries of under-represented scientists, clinicians and inventors. Join us to celebrate the people in science that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.

Editing

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Click here to go to the Dashboard so we can keep track of all the editing

For nice easy edits:

  • Check that people are mentioned on relevant pages - do pages about the science they work on mention their name?
  • Add wikilinks using the chain link button to help people find out more about the person's research topics, the places where they have worked, etc.
  • Add infoboxes - there's a handy guide here.
  • Check that people are included on lists like these.
  • Translate information between different language versions of Wikipedia.
  • Check out Wikidata - look on the grey bar on the left for the link to Wikidata and there's a guide here on how to edit Wikidata entries.
  • Add people to categories - click edit, then click on the three horizontal lines beside the pencil, then choose Categories. Look at other people's entries for inspiration for categories you could use.
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Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:

  • 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.

To help with future editing…

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Keep track of your edits

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  • 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.