Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/OUSTEMWiki

Open University STEM Wikithon in a nutshell:

Where?: Open University
When?: Tuesday 11th February, 2020, 12-3PM
Cost: Free!!!
How do I sign up?: Open to OU staff and students only.

Info about the event

The Open University and Wellcome Trust are joining forces to host a Wikithon to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Join us to highlight the women 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.

Links to get editing

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

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.

You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.

Even more things to edit

To find some fascinating women engineers, take a look at The Woman Engineer journal.
To find some fascinating women chemists, take a look at 175 Faces of Chemistry.

Take a look at the list of 20th-century women scientists and 20th-century women engineers for lots of examples of pages.

Some that especially need improving are here:

Also here:

Tips on how to edit

Here are some more useful links to help you with your editing:

Learn more editing: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
Think about what you would like to edit about check that you have enough sources 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.
All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. Here's a selection:

A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
A guide to elements to include in a wiki-biography, with a checklist to ensure you include as many as you can when editing.
An instruction page for adding infoboxes to Wikipedia articles.
An instruction page explaining what Wikidata with instructions for doing basic edits.

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.

See what a difference you're making

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.