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Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/International Women's Day 2021

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Info about the event edit

Did you know that most volunteer Wikipedia editors are male, and that there are fewer and less extensive articles on Wikipedia about women and issues important to women? There are thousands of female scientists, engineers, mathematicians and technologists who meet Wikipedia’s standards for notability but don’t yet have a page.

Come and help us add more notable women in STEM to Wikipedia at our Women in STEM Connect editathon!

Your 1,2,3 to get started! edit

  1. Link to online webinar
  2. Create your Wikipedia account
  3. Once you have created your account join the Wiki dashboard

Schedule edit

Online training webinar on Sunday 16th August 2020 will begin at 1pm (BST). Please login at 12.45pm.
Link to online webinar


  • 12:45 pm - 1:00pm: Everyone log-in and housekeeping
  • 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm: Welcome from Edinburgh University Women in STEM and discussion of Wikipedia pages we can look to create during the event.
  • 1:15pm - 1:40pm: Wikipedia and Women in STEM from Jess Wade
  • 1:40pm - 1:45pm Break
  • 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew.
  • 3:00pm - 4:30pm Research and Editing with aim to publish by 5pm
  • 4:30pm - 4:50pm: Publish articles with help from Ewan McAndrew
  • 4:50pm - 5:00pm Event close

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!

Editing edit

Questions about editing? Read the Wiki-editing FAQ!

Really simple edits:

  • Add people to categories by clicking Edit and then the three horizontal lines.
  • Add a name to a list such as List of cardiologists.
  • Add a citation of someone's work to improve a page about their field of research.

Worklist edit

Link to worklist spreadsheet

Articles to create edit

  1. Anne Harper Anderson (social sciences) - [1]
  2. Toni Scullion [2]
  3. Catherine Price (neuroscientist) [3]

Articles to edit edit

  1. Leopoldo Pando Zayas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Pando_Zayas)
  2. Sharon Ashbrook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Ashbrook)
  3. Carol Prives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Prives)
  4. Marian Holness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Holness)
  5. Else Marie Friis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Marie_Friis)
  6. Barbara Sherwood Lollar(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Sherwood_Lollar)
  7. Lucy Carpenter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Carpenter)
  8. Judy Hirst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Hirst)
  9. Angela Strank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Strank)
  10. Sheila Rowan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Rowan_(physicist))
  11. Ingrid Scheffer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Scheffer)
  12. Wendy Bickmore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Bickmore)

More useful links edit

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

  • Read up to find out more about sources and verifiability.
  • Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
  • Consider whether you have any conflicts of interest.
  • You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.
  • All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found below:
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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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