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Wikipedia:Glam/Women In Red East Dunbartonshire 14.02.20

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Join us for the event!

About the event

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Want to help bridge the gender gap on Wikipedia? Join us for the ultimate Anti-Valentine’s Day! We need your help to create great Wikipedia articles about notable women from East Dunbartonshire. We’ll be creating Wikipedia pages from scratch, adding reliable citations from the extensive Local Studies collections.

No previous editing experience is needed as full training will be provided.

How do I prepare?

Programme

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  • 10:30 - Welcome
  • 10:35 - 10:50 - Introduction to the event, & Introduction to Wiki
  • 10:50 - 11:15 - How to Edit Wikipedia
  • 11:15 - 11:40 - Log in, Create your User Page
  • 11:40 - 11:55 - Examples of Good Wikipedia pages & When Things Go Wrong
  • 11:55 - 12:05 - Assign pages for editing / creation
  • 12:05 - 12:30 - Research
  • 12:30 - 13:25 - Edit!
  • 13:25 - 13:30 - What next?

Trainers

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Training will be provided by Michelle West & Gillian Kealey

Worklist

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Articles to create & improve

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Please note that new articles should aim for a minimum of 250 words, and reference at least 3 external, independent, reliable secondary sources. Text MUST NOT be copy & pasted from any other source, unless that source is openly licensed. If the latter is true, this text must be marked as such. We recommend that new articles are started in Draft space.


Event outputs

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Articles created

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Articles improved

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After the event

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