History of Veterinary Medicine edit-a-thon in a nutshell:
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To be assured of your place at the event, you can book through Event Booking here.
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? On Monday 4th July 2016, the University's Information Services team will run an edit-a-thon at The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given in the morning before a break for lunch. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about the history of veterinary medicine.
Working together with Academic Support librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles covering areas which could stand to be improved; including distinguished Edinburgh alumni, historic locations etc.
Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of the history of veterinary medicine!
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.
You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
Prior to the event:
History of Veterinary Medicine edit-a-thon in a nutshell:
|
To be assured of your place at the event, you can book through Event Booking here.
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? On Monday 4th July 2016, the University's Information Services team will run an edit-a-thon at The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given in the morning before a break for lunch. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about the history of veterinary medicine.
Working together with Academic Support librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles covering areas which could stand to be improved; including distinguished Edinburgh alumni, historic locations etc.
Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of the history of veterinary medicine!
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.
You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
Prior to the event: