Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/CambWidPartDiv

Info about the event

The University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust are joining forces to host a Diversithon where we will focus on making or improving Wikipedia entries of a diverse array of scientists, clinicians and inventors. Join us to celebrate the people in science that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.

Editing

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

There are sources to get you started here.

If you want to explore Wikidata, take a look at this query to find some people with missing names and places of birth or this query that puts women physicists on a map!

For nice easy edits, check that all people are in the right categories, translate information between Wiki's, check out Wikidata, and check that people's articles are included on lists like these and mentioned on relevant pages.

If you're interested in finding someone who might need a brand new page creating, consider looking at the List of Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences for someone notable.

Useful links

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.
• There are some specific links to useful sources on some individuals here.
• 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 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.

• 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.