Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/Optica21

Info about the event

Grab your coffee, lunch, snack or glass of wine – whatever works for your timezone! We will kick off an overview of why Wiki-editing is important, instructions on how to begin and tips for making strong pages. Following that, we'll get editing. We will stay on the webinar working along side all of you, available to answer any questions that come up.

Editing

So we can track all the edits, click here to join the dashboard.

If you want to create a brand new article, Click here to go to an excel spreadsheet and pick a page to edit - add your Wikipedia username to the left column to claim an article.

For nice easy edits:

Biographies

• Check that people are mentioned on relevant pages - do pages about the science they work on mention their name?
• Does everyone's page mention their Optica honors? Check this list to see honors and awards you could add.
• Is their page readable? Tidy it into a coherent structure with a clear order and headings (click the Paragraph part of the toolbar to choose headings).
• Add wikilinks using the chain link button to help people find out more about the person's research topics, the places where they have worked, etc.
• Add infoboxes - there's a handy guide here.
• Add people to categories - click edit, then click on the three horizontal lines beside the pencil, then choose Categories. Look at other people's entries for inspiration for categories you could use - nice obvious ones are: Women in optics, Optical physicist, Optical engineer, Optician.

Here are some people whose Wikidata entries say that they are women whose field is optics, who you can add to categories:

• Vivette Girault - this is a VERY short page and could have lots of information added, and an infobox.
• Isabelle Ledoux-Rak - another short page.
• Muriel Thomasset - doesn't exist in English yet, but does exist in French so there's something ready to be translated (Muriel Thomasset)!

Other

• Take a look at the Optics category - can you improve a page on one of these topics? Especially take a look at Optics stubs (short articles needing more information). Can you add a citation to the excellent work of a woman who has written about the topic?
• Take a look at the History of optics article - is there someone who has made a notable contribution whose work should be mentioned there?
• Translate information between different language versions of Wikipedia - you should already have the citations!
• Check out Wikidata - look on the grey bar on the left for the link to Wikidata and there's a guide here on how to edit Wikidata entries.

If you're interested in creating a page for a woman on the list who doesn't yet have one, consider looking at this draft page for a template. And look here for a list of useful information to get you started creating your biography.

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.
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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.

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.