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How to Edit

To Do List (Misc)

Women writers

Engineers and related women

Science Fiction and Fantasy lists

Women of rebellions

Tools and left overs

Helpful contacts

This page includes my templates for editing but if you check the table of contents there are HOW TO GUIDES further down.

Personal reminders for editing

How to cite

Note: Rare but occasionally you may want to say "Text copied from Article, see that page for attribution"

Dib citation

<ref name=ORiordan>{{cite book|last1=O'Riordan|first1=Turlough|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|chapter=Troy, Elizabeth Mary ('Lilly') }}</ref>

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A blank Bio

Create Bio from wikidata

Find the Q number

{{short description|notability}} 
  {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}

{{Infobox person
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  | caption          =   
  | native_name      =   
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  | birth_name       =   
  | birth_date       =    
  | birth_place      =    
  | death_date       =   
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  | nationality      =   
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'''Name''' (8{{ndash}}115), notability

==Biography==

==Bibliography==

==Sources==

[[Category:1908 births]]

[[Category:1980 deaths]]

Tools for after a page is created

Find links to prevent Orphan articles
Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard Upload Wizard

Other pages to update with the new page

Wikidata:MergeItems
Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge
List of Irish women XXX
List of Irish women artists
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/150
Given name pages
Year of birth pages
Year of death pages
Surname page
People from XXXX
- Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Essays/Writing women into the encyclopedia

Tags for the talk page

{{WikiProject Irish Republicanism|class=|importance=}}
{{WikiProject Ireland|class=|importance=|listas= }}
{{WikiProject Women writers|class=|importance=}}
{{WikiProject Horror|class=|importance= |listas=}}
{{WikiProject Women's History|class=|importance=}}
{{WikiProject Biography| a&e-work-group=|a&e-priority=}}
{{WikiProject Biography|politician-work-group=|politician-priority=}}(note it is a politics and government flag fitting for activists)
{{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950
{{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950
{{WikiProject Women artists}}
{{WikiProject Feminism}}
{{WikiProject Social Work}}
{{WikiProject Human rights}}
{{WikiProject Biography|living=no|class=|a&e-work-group=}}
{{WikiProject Politics}}

HOW : TO GUIDES

And - Do read the pages with the instructions, which ever ones you choose or if people point you to specific pages. There is useful information on them and they are helpful. If there is content you don't understand on them, just ask.

Why to Edit

Mind the Gap

Why does it matter that we edit Wikipedia to include women who work in genre fields- or any POC or marginalised group? Does it matter that these people edit Wikipedia?

Help to Edit

Create an Account

Are you ready to create a Wikipedia account, so you can keep track of articles in a watch list, customize your reading and editing preferences, and communicate with other Wikipedia volunteers about improving articles that interest you? GREAT!

Your first big decision will be choosing a username.

In addition, you may need to consider whether your preferred name would violate Wikipedia's policy on usernames; for instance, if it might be considered deceptive, promotional, offensive, etc. Please reference the Username policy if relevant.

Whenever you're ready…

Create an account now

How to create an account: 3 minute video
How to create a basic user page

Creating articles and information

If you'd like to edit Wikipedia, you definitely should! It's a lot easier than most people expect. To help you to edit:

There are tutorials

And pages with details

Here below are some useful guides you may want to keep around:

A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
A walkthrough guide on how to create an account and edit Wikipedia, including advice on how to interact with other Wikipedians.
A guide to elements to include in a wiki-biography, with a checklist to ensure you include as many as you can when editing.
A handout with lots of tips for what to include on a page, including some useful templates to include in pages.
An instruction page for adding infoboxes to Wikipedia articles using either Visual Editor or Source Editor.
An instruction page explaining what Wikidata is and how Wikidata items are laid out, with instructions for doing basic edits on the reverse.
Very simple instructions on how to add a photo you've taken to Wikimedia Commons (you can then add it to a Wikipedia page too!).
A checklist for editing Wikipedia with reminders of page elements to include and hyperlinks to helpful pages (e.g. notability, lead section, categories, wikilinks).
A case study on using Wikipedia for academic impact and engagement outlining motivations, methods and outcomes.
This one-page quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands.
The Wikimedia Foundation guide to editing Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation reference guide to how Wikipedia's quality system works.
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Ways to edit

Sometimes it seems like the high profile way to be involved with Wikipedia is as an article creator but really there are many other ways to edit. A humorous way of seeing the different ways to be involved is by reading Wikipedia:WikiFauna. Basically these break down the various ways to be involved into classifications. Reality is that everyone does a little of everything but we all have our preferences. Perhaps you prefer to work on the IT side, or as a proof reader, perhaps you want to work to improve the basic policies or to deal with vandals. What ever you are interested in, or however much time you have to spend on the Wikipedia, there is a way for you to help.

Read Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Contribution styles

Ways you can edit without doing content creation
Type of editing	A good place to start
How to give articles an assessment of good, start, stub etc :	Wikipedia:Content assessment
Getting involved in correcting Typos	Wikipedia:Typo Team
All the different kinds of maintenance	Wikipedia:Maintenance
Check out these	Wikipedia:Task_Center
Fight vandals	Wikipedia:Vandalism
Favourite tool for semiautomatic editing - 1	Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
Favourite tool for semiautomatic editing - 2	Wikipedia:Huggle

Editing suggestions

User:SuggestBot This bot will give you pages which need some kind of attention for you to edit.

But if you would prefer to get involved in specific topics and help out with issues arising there - take a look at that topic and see if it has a project page like

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland ---> here is the list of Ireland articles needing clean up
Wikipedia:Irish Wikipedians' notice board
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red ---> Turning an article into a Good article Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Green
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers
Portal:Speculative fiction/Science fiction (Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction)
Portal:LGBT
Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors

There will be articles which need review, copy editing, improvement, citations, etc all waiting there for someone with the skills to help. Some editors will have put tags on articles identifying what the area needing attention is. So if you don't want to create articles (and certainly I started with maintenance tasks to learn how to edit and what the policies were) you are needed to review new pages, fix spelling and grammar errors, assist with translation requests, fix unreferenced statements, fix original research, fight vandalism, help with link recovery, categorization, and all the many other behind the scenes activities that improve the articles.

And of course Wikipedia is only one of the Wikis that can use your help.

Article creation

When you are ready to try creating your first article, you can get help, advice and propose it as a draft which someone will review for you using the Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation

If you don't want to create an article but you are familiar with what is needed and what will be accepted, you can go there and review other people's drafts. There is usually a backlog.

REQUEST FOR HELP

Adding to lists

When people search Wikipedia for information sometimes they want a list- the list of violinist, a list of women in SFF, who died today, what famous think happened today. My list held here : User:Antiqueight/Pages#Full List gives the year of birth and death where known. All it needs is for the page about the person to be opened and the page of the year to be opened.

Example

Anna Maria della Pietà died in 1782 So open her page to get the exact date of her death and open the relevant year 1782

Go to the date or nearby (she's 10 Aug): add * August 10 – Anna Maria della Pietà], Italian violinist, composer and teacher (b. 1696) ...<-or as much of the detail as you think appropriate

If there is already an August 10 with someone else's name, you can just add **Anna Maria della Pietà, Italian violinist, composer and teacher (b. 1696) under the previous entry.

If there is no date given on her article but there is a year, at the end of the list there is usually a heading

date unknown

So you just add her to the list there as **Anna Maria della Pietà, Italian violinist, composer and teacher (b. 1696)

Then repeat for her birth year...

My list of names and years needing work

User:Antiqueight/Pages#Full List

If dates are not your thing, you can check the surname page for the person and add them there - I often have with my list but not always. Then there may be Lists where you can add her name, using the style of the page for guidance. The lists can be of Irish Writers, of Irish Women Writers, etc. Usually I try to add to those but not always. You can do this with any of the biographies, but I know that I have not done the birth and death years for most of those on my list so it gives you place to start.

User:Antiqueight/Draft

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