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Dublin City University Wikipedia editathon: workshop for staff and students on contributing to Wikipedia

Introduction

DCU Library will host a Wikipedia editathon giving staff and students an introduction to contributing to Wikipedia. An editathon is an “organized event where editors edit and improve a specific topic or type of content, typically including basic editing training for new editor”. Staff and students with all levels of experience with Wikipedia or none are all welcome. Guests from outside the university are also welcome: contact us to arrange access to the library.

Here we will focus on improving and updating pages related to the university: something everyone in DCU knows something about. See our list of suggested articles (and feel free to add to this).

Date and location

Benefits for attendees

  • an opportunity to meet, work and share knowledge with other staff and students from different DCU campuses, schools and units
  • learn about how Wikipedia works
  • gain experience in collaborative writing
  • share and discuss what you know about the university and learn something new

Event outline

The event organisers will kick things off with an outline of the principles of Wikipedia and will demonstrate some of the basics of contributing to Wikipedia, such as:

  • simple edits and corrections
  • adding citations
  • uploading photos

We will also discuss Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy and instances where it might not be appropriate for DCU staff and students to edit certain content.

Then everyone can get to work editing, individually or groups - whatever suits. You'll be able to quickly get advise and support from those around you.

We will provide print handouts and links to online tutorials, if needed.

We’ll conclude with an exit discussion on what we’ve learnt and any plans for future work on the pages.

Registration

To register:

  1. Create a Wikipedia account if you don't already have one.
  2. While logged in to Wikipedia click to edit the Attendees list below and in a new line simply type four tildes (~), like this: ~~~~. Click on Save Changes. This will add your username to the page.

If you're having difficulty with the above steps, email us to register.

Attendees (in person)

Please sign your name below using the signature tool or using ~~~~

  1. Smirkybec (talk) 01:44, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. SSCOhA (talk) 09:57, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  3. NIMA GORJI (talk) 14:34, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Ebegz (talk) 19:25, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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  6. Aaachaoa (talk) 20:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  7. AishaShoak (talk) 21:02, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  8. AFUCoordinator (talk) 22:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)AFUCoordinator[reply]
  9. Padraig Doolan (talk) 10:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Fago-dcu (talk) 15:24, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Cabrie34 (talk) 14:07, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Stevenphil (talk) 00:34, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Dowlinme (talk) 14:46, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Eihe (talk) 15:00, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Florian.petermann (talk) 16:02, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  16. JamesConnolly3051

Lend a hand

It would be great if attendees with experience contributing to Wikipedia could lend a hand informally helping others on the day. No other duties involved. If you'd like to help, then when registering also add your username to the list below using ~~~~

  1. SSCOhA (talk) 09:57, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Smirkybec (talk) 15:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Before the event

  • We recommend that you take a look at some of the suggested articles to edit and think about any improvements you’d like to make.
  • If you have any nice photos you think would be relevant to the articles, bring them along for uploading.

Twitter

We’ll be using the hashtag #wikidcu

Contact

Jack Hyland, jack.hyland@dcu.ie SSCOhA (talk)

Suggested articles

Disability access

  • step free access yes
  • wheelchair access yes

Tutorials and guides

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