(Re)making Middlesbrough edit-a-thon in a nutshell:
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There is no need to book for this event but please contact Sophie Nicholls on s.nicholls@tees.ac.uk to let us know you're coming along.
The internet doesn't know everything. The media gets a lot of things wrong about Middlesbrough. Come and help us change that.
On 27-28 April 2018, Teesside University will run (Re)Making Middlesbrough, a student, staff and community edit-a-thon. We'll be looking at how Middlesbrough and surrounding areas, its people, history and culture are represented online, through internet searches and Wikipedia pages. We'll be looking at what and who is missing from the stories and information that the world sees about our town and community. We'll be asking what needs to be rewritten, how we see ourselves and how the rest of the world sees us.
Central to this are the many misconceptions and prejudices that are often made about our region. We want to change this. We have a lot to be proud of and to celebrate.
Come and get involved - and learn to edit Wikipedia at the same time.
There are two main ways that you can get involved in this event.
Friday 27 April Wikipedia editing training will be provided by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian of the Year 2017. Come along to this session to learn Wikipedia and Histropedia skills. We hope that you might also then help us as 'champions' during our edit-a-thon on Saturday 28th April.
Saturday 28 April The edit-a-thon will focus on improving the quality of articles about the history, inhabitants and culture of Middlesbrough. You don't have to know anything about Wikipedia to come along and contribute on Saturday 28 April. We'll provide training on how to edit and how to participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia pages that need to be improved or further developed. But we also need people to contribute their knowledge about Middlesbrough, its history and stories. And we need people to take photographs of buildings and places that can be added to the Wikipedia pages. Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and help us to remake the way that the world understands Middlesbrough!
Wikipedia training in Teesside University Library Room L2.05
(Re)making Middlesbrough - Edit-a-thon Room L2.05'
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.
The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!
All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.
Linthorpe Art Potteries
Localism (a major crowd-sourced exhibition at mima)
Temenos (a sculpture by Kapoor at Middlehaven)
Helen Collingwood Hopkins (Middlesbrough botanist)
Missing wards linked from
/info/en/?search=Middlesbrough
Ayresome
Beckfield
Beechwood
Brookfield
Central Middlesbrough
Clairville
Gresham
Kader
Ladgate
Marton West
Middlehaven
St. Hilda's
Town Centre
Town Farm
At the end of the edit-a-thon, we'll update this space with everything that we've made together.
You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
Prior to the event:
(Re)making Middlesbrough edit-a-thon in a nutshell:
|
There is no need to book for this event but please contact Sophie Nicholls on s.nicholls@tees.ac.uk to let us know you're coming along.
The internet doesn't know everything. The media gets a lot of things wrong about Middlesbrough. Come and help us change that.
On 27-28 April 2018, Teesside University will run (Re)Making Middlesbrough, a student, staff and community edit-a-thon. We'll be looking at how Middlesbrough and surrounding areas, its people, history and culture are represented online, through internet searches and Wikipedia pages. We'll be looking at what and who is missing from the stories and information that the world sees about our town and community. We'll be asking what needs to be rewritten, how we see ourselves and how the rest of the world sees us.
Central to this are the many misconceptions and prejudices that are often made about our region. We want to change this. We have a lot to be proud of and to celebrate.
Come and get involved - and learn to edit Wikipedia at the same time.
There are two main ways that you can get involved in this event.
Friday 27 April Wikipedia editing training will be provided by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian of the Year 2017. Come along to this session to learn Wikipedia and Histropedia skills. We hope that you might also then help us as 'champions' during our edit-a-thon on Saturday 28th April.
Saturday 28 April The edit-a-thon will focus on improving the quality of articles about the history, inhabitants and culture of Middlesbrough. You don't have to know anything about Wikipedia to come along and contribute on Saturday 28 April. We'll provide training on how to edit and how to participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia pages that need to be improved or further developed. But we also need people to contribute their knowledge about Middlesbrough, its history and stories. And we need people to take photographs of buildings and places that can be added to the Wikipedia pages. Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and help us to remake the way that the world understands Middlesbrough!
Wikipedia training in Teesside University Library Room L2.05
(Re)making Middlesbrough - Edit-a-thon Room L2.05'
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.
The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!
All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.
Linthorpe Art Potteries
Localism (a major crowd-sourced exhibition at mima)
Temenos (a sculpture by Kapoor at Middlehaven)
Helen Collingwood Hopkins (Middlesbrough botanist)
Missing wards linked from
/info/en/?search=Middlesbrough
Ayresome
Beckfield
Beechwood
Brookfield
Central Middlesbrough
Clairville
Gresham
Kader
Ladgate
Marton West
Middlehaven
St. Hilda's
Town Centre
Town Farm
At the end of the edit-a-thon, we'll update this space with everything that we've made together.
You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
Prior to the event: