Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/NHLI

Info about the event

Did you know that most volunteer Wikipedia editors are male, and that there are fewer and less extensive articles on Wikipedia about women and issues important to women? There are thousands of female scientists who meet Wikipedia’s standards for notability, including many we work with every day at Imperial, but don’t yet have a page.

Come and help us add more notable women to Wikipedia at our NHLI Wikithon!

Schedule

1.30pm Professor Anna Randi will introduce the session

1.35pm Dr Jess Wade OBE, Physicist in the Department of Chemistry and STEM Ambassador, will talk about why moving towards equal gender representation on Wikipedia is essential for equality in science. Jess spoke at our 2019 NHLI Athena Swan Lecture on How should we celebrate and support diversity in STEM

1.45pm Dr Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust will then give an instruction session on how to become Wikipedia editors

2.10pm The session will finish with chance to use your newfound editing skills to create live content on Wikipedia

Editing

Click here to join the Dashboard so that we can log all the editing.

Questions about editing? Read the Wiki-editing FAQ!

Really simple edits:

• Add people to categories by clicking Edit and then the three horizontal lines. Categories you might like to add to people's pages include: Fellows of the European Society of Cardiology, Women cardiologists, Pulmonologists, Women medical researchers.
• Add a name to a list such as List of cardiologists.
• Add a citation of someone's work to improve a page about their field of research.

More 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.
• 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.