Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing/Events/Winter22

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Winter Holiday Editing Adventure This winter season, we are encouraging participants to explore different small editing tasks by adopting a WikiFauna persona. WikiFauna are a list of mythical creatures that perform specific roles and editing tasks on Wikipedia. They were developed as a fun way to engage with the myriad contributions that exist to Wikipedia editors. We have developed an editing adventure related to three distinct WikiFauna personas. Get in character as one of the WikiFauna personas (i.e. WikiElf, WikiFairy, or WikiHobbit) and try out each editing mission. We encourage you to try it out with friends and family this holiday season. Start by signing in or creating an account and clicking the button below to sign in to the editing adventure. This will allow us to track your progress, offer specific tips and tricks, and congratulate you when you finish! center New to Wikipedia? Check out our resources page for a step-by-step guide on how to create an account and start editing. Get started After signing in or creating an account and signing in to our event dashboard, complete these steps to begin your adventure: Step One: Peruse the WikiFauna missions and select a persona you'd like to explore. Step Two: Check out the Recommended articles section for suggestions on what articles to explore during your missions. Step Three: Start your journey by completing each mission listed under your preferred WikiFauna persona. WikiFauna missions WikiElf WikiElves enjoy the behind the scenes work on Wikipedia. They often work on organization, classification, and navigation areas within the encyclopedia. A screencast showing how to categorize pages and explaining the usage of HotCat Missions: Make a copyedit to an article Add a category to a Wikipedia article using the HotCat gadget Add five articles in need of edits and/or creation to WikiProject Writing’s article lists Post a message on an article talk page with suggested improvements Complete one organizational task on WikiProject Writing WikiFairy WikiFairies enjoy beautifying Wikipedia by organizing messy articles and improving style. They like cleaning up confusing footnotes or references, standardizing format, or by organizing images for balance. Missions: Add a citation to an article using the Citation Hunt tool Upload an image from Wikimedia Commons into a Wikipedia article Add or modify the heading structure of a stub article for clarity Add an infobox to a biography of an academic WikiHobbit WikiHobbits enjoy improving and creating high quality articles with reliable sources. They like to double-check--and even triple-check--that all their citations come from independent, secondary sources that are acceptable on Wikipedia, to avoid any potential interactions with more outgoing editors. Missions: Add five citations to articles with information that is lacking reliable independent secondary sources Add a few links to the external links section of an article Review a pre-existing article for reliability and accuracy and post a talk page message suggesting additions or revisions to sourcing Draft a new stub or start class article with ten or more reliable references Recommended articles If you are not sure what articles to explore during your missions, below are a few recommendations. 1. Make small edits to the article on Writing. It is a vital article, meaning it is a high-impact article in need of edits to ensure high content and quality standards. 2. Check out our corwdsourced article lists for a variety of articles in need of edits and creation. 3. Review our past spotlights for a list of field-specific articles in need of edits and creation. Past spotlights Past spotlights November 2022: Multilingual Writers in Digital Space October 2022: Disability in the Rhetoric and Writing Classroom September 2022: Spotlight on University Writing Programs Summer 2022: Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy May 2022: Asian/American and Pacific Islander Heritage April 2022: Spotlight on Global & Non-Western Rhetorics March 2022: Learning Transfer in Writing Studies February 2022: Digital Composition January 2022: Global Scholars - Latin America December 2021: Global Scholars - Europe November 2021: Asian/Asian American Scholars/Scholarship October 2021: Defining Disability September 2021: Five Major Fields and Figures Summer 2021: WikiProject Writing Summer-long Edit-a-thon April 2021: Spotlight on Rhetorics of Climate Change & Environmental Activism March 2021: Centering BIPOC Women in Writing Studies Get help Feeling stuck in a mission or need help getting started? Follow these steps (in order): Check our resources page for general advice, editing resources, and other useful information Ask a question on our discussion page Contact Breadyornot or sign up for their office hours