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Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Access to Industry event

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Info about the event edit

Did you know that the world’s biggest encyclopaedia turned 20 on the 15th of January 2021? English Wikipedia has 6.4m articles but it is estimated that Wikipedia would need at least 106 million articles if it were truly aspiring to be the sum of all human knowledge. So while Wikipedia is the largest open education resource in human history, it still is a work in progress and it lacks both a diversity of content and a diversity of editors contributing to it. Yet with 500 million visitors per month and 18 billion page views per month, it is the place people turn to orientate themselves on a topic. And its open-licensed information is used by every major digital platform used on a daily basis so what is right, or wrong, or missing on Wikipedia matters!

Come and help us improve the knowledge freely available online at our Access to Industry editathon!

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    The Russell Collection
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    Wind and string instruments
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    Brass instruments

Your 1,2,3 to get started! edit

  1. Create your Wikipedia account
  2. Once you have created your account join the Wiki dashboard
  3. Get a cup of tea or coffee an let's get started!


You can get lots of helpful information on the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh website. More events on Eventbrite and on Wikimedia Scotland's site'.

Useful resources edit

  1. How to create a Wikipedia user page (pdf guide) - More pdf guides below.
  2. Wikipedia Basics site (how to add a link, citation, image and more).
  3. How to edit - video playlists ((how to add a link, citation, image and more).
  4. The Creative Commons search tool.
  5. Wikimedia Commons upload page.
  6. How to add an image to Wikimedia Commons
  7. How to add an image from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia
  8. The Wiki Loves Monuments competition map - add pictures of listed buildings and historic monuments
  9. How to edit existing pages the right way

Schedule edit

Training will begin at 11:30am on 25 November 2021.

25 November 2021 edit

  • 11:00am - 11:30pm: Tour of St. Cecilia's Hall Museum.
  • 11:30am - 11:45am: Welcome and orientation to Wikipedia
  • 11:45am - 12:45pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.
  • 12:45pm - 1pm: Beginning to apply your new editing skills by researching a new article.

2 December 2021 edit

  • 11:00am 11:10am: Recap and welcome back
  • 11:10am - 12:30pm Research and Editing with aim to publish by 1pm
  • 12:30pm - 1pm: Publish articles with help from Ewan McAndrew
  • 1pm: Event close


Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!

Editing edit

Questions about editing? Read the Wiki-editing FAQ!

Worklist edit

Google sheet with suggested pages to edit and create

Outcomes - articles created edit

To be added.

Outcomes - articles improved edit

To be added.

More useful links edit

Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:

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    A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
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    Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
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    A guide to elements to include in a wiki-biography, with a checklist to ensure you include as many as you can when editing.
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    A guide to adding infoboxes (those handy things on the right side of a page with a summary of key info).
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    A complete beginner's introduction to adding information onto Wikidata. If in doubt, take a look at someone else's Wikidata entry for inspiration!
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    Steps to adding a photograph to Wikimedia Commons so you can use it in a Wikipedia article - the picture has to be your own for you to add it.
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    Guide to creating your Wikipedia userpage to introduce yourself to other editors.
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    Using talk pages
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    Citing your sources
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    Avoiding plagiarism
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    Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
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    Polishing your articles
  • 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.

Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:

  • 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.

After today edit

Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

  • Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The   or   button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
  • If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.
  • Check out upcoming Wikimedia in Scotland editing events.
  • Check out upcoming Wikimedia UK editing events.

Video guides to editing Wikipedia edit

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