Wikipedia:Meetup/Cleveland/ACS Education Night 2022
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ACS Cleveland Education Night 2022: Wikipedia Training
- As part of the American Chemical Society's Cleveland Local Section's 2022 Education Night, the Ohio Wikimedians User Group will be hosting a Wikipedia training to introduce members to editing. Topics will include:
- A general overview of how Wikipedia works
- Creating a user account and user page
- Looking at an article that needs help and figuring out how to improve it
- Demo of editing
- Having participants make their own edits
Feel free to bring your laptop and an example of an article that is in dire need of editing!
Register
Livestream
- Zoom link upon registration
When
- Wednesday, April 27, 2022
- 7-8 PM Eastern
Where
- Shaker Country Club
Get started
[edit]- Create a Wikipedia account
- Sign in below
- Find an article to edit
Sign in
[edit]- 1) Select 'Sign in'
- 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.
- Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.
Resources
[edit]Wikipedia policies
[edit]- Wikipedia:Username policy
- Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:General notability guideline
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
- Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources
Editing tips
[edit]Tools
[edit]Chemistry resources
[edit]Things to edit
[edit]- See WikiProject Chemistry's Cleanup List
- Explore WikiProject Chemistry's stub-class articles
- Explore WikiProject Chemical's stub-class articles
- Find missing articles (red links) on List of inorganic compounds and Glossary of chemical formulae