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Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Open Edinburgh - Celebration of Open Source

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About the event

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On Saturday 28th September 2019, the University's Information Services team are running an Open Edinburgh event to celebrate the Open Source community.

Starting at 10am, there will be a range of activities and engaging talks from guest speakers highlighting the diversity of the open source community and what it means to contribute to open source. A crash course in Wikipedia editing training will be given at 10am ahead of a Wikipedia editing event to create new Wikipedia articles about the diversity of Edinburgh's alumni. New editors are very welcome and participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia articles; creating new role models for young and old alike.

Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Open Source!

Attendees

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Booking

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Booking is now open - links below.

  • If coming from the university, [please book your place through MyEd].
  • If coming from outside the university, then [please book your place through Eventbrite].

Trainers

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Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Hit list of articles to be created or improved

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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.

All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Articles to be created

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  • Rev Dr Simon Gqubule (Theocritus Simon Noziweni) - Respected theologian and educationist who threw the book at apartheid. [1][2]

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http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/download/9596/9563/]

  • Atsuko Betchaku(1960–2017), pacifist, founder of the 140,000 Origami Cranes Project.being 
worked on by cdsnadal[36][37]

Use the PrepBio tool

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Sources

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Suggested sources:

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General
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  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
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Theses databases
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Outcomes - Content created

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What can I do after the event?

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Join us for the event!
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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. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. 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.

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

Resources

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Join us for the event!
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    Wikipedia - Working with Images
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    Wikipedia - Writing about people
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    Wikipedia - Writing about Places
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    Wikipedia - Making Connections
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    Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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    Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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    Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
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    Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)

Video guides to editing Wikipedia

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Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

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One page handouts

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    Using talk pages
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    Choosing an article
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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
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Participants - Sign Up Here!

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Prior to the event:

  1. RSVP: Book your place here
  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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