Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/VE

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We all use Wikipedia to look things up – and sometimes it’s more useful than others! In this session, we’ll cover the challenges and possibilities of using Wikipedia and other digital sources for research, including critical thinking and fact-checking. You’ll also develop your writing skills and discover how many people are reading about the topics that you are researching.

Editing

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

For nice easy edits:

• Check that people or things are mentioned on relevant pages - do pages about relevant topics mention them?
• Add wikilinks using the chain link button to help people find out more about a topic.
• Add infoboxes - there's a handy guide here.
• Translate information between different language versions of Wikipedia.
• Check out Wikidata - look on the grey bar on the left of any Wikipedia page for the link to Wikidata. There's a guide here on how to edit Wikidata entries.
• Add pages to categories - click edit, then click on the three horizontal lines beside the pencil, then choose Categories.

Useful links

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

• All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. Here's a selection:

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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.

• 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…

• 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.

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.