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

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University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

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About the event edit

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!

 
We Can Edit

How do I prepare? edit

The Manual of Style edit

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:

Programme (subject to change) edit

  • 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 edit

Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Hit list of articles to be created or improved edit

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 edit

The following WikiProject Musical Instruments list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about short stub articles definitely requiring improvement.

  • Click here to see the list.

The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about musical instruments.

  • Click here to see this list.

Worklist edit

Articles to Create edit

TBD.

Articles to Improve edit

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.

Sources edit

Suggested sources: edit

General edit
  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources edit
Theses databases edit

Outcomes - New pages created edit

To be determined.

What can I do after the event? edit

 
Join us for the event!

You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

External links edit

Participants - Sign Up Here! edit

Prior to the event:

  1. RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
  2. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
    No? Create a Wikipedia account
    Yes? Go to Step #2
  3. 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
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!
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
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