Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/LSHTM

A photograph of men and women at work in the Laboratory of the London School of Tropical Medicine at the Albert Dock Hospital, 1910. This image is one of thousands uploaded by the Wellcome Library to Wikimedia Commons.

About the event

Join us to celebrate medics, places, and events that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll develop your digital skills and learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web for public engagement. Experienced Wikipedia editors and complete beginners are both welcome to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing. Participants should bring a laptop if possible – editing is much easier with a keyboard. We will have some laptops available to borrow on the day - please get in touch with me by email if you would like to borrow a laptop for the session.

If you’ve spotted an article that needs improving, bring along your queries and we’ll see what we can do to help!

How do I prepare?

• Sign up for the event!
• Create a Wikipedia account (look at the top right of this page for the link). You don't need to do anything else, but it'll speed things up on the day if you've already signed up for an account.
• Bring a laptop.
• Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
• Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day (to help with verifiability).
• Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
• Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.

Programme

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Content to Improve/Create

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Participants

Participating wiki-editors can add their names here...

• Zeromonk
• intrepidtortoise
• Hillv (talk) 14:08, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
• Nice Skunk (talk) 14:08, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Useful links

Here are some useful links to help you with your editing and with keeping track of your edits:

• All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page.
• You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
• 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.
• If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about medicine, take a look at Wikiproject Medicine. You can view useful resources, find links to news articles on wiki+medicine, and view metrics highlighting featured articles and articles in need of improvement.
• 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.