User:Jesswade88/Editathons/SPIE2019

Info about the event

Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world, with more than 32 million views a day. Unfortunately fewer than 18% of the English-language biographies are about women. The stats for ethnic and racial minorities and scientists who identify as LGBTQ+ are no better. During the edit-a-thon you will then have an opportunity to work together to research and write the biographies of scientists and engineers working in Optics and Photonics from under represented groups who inspire you. We've started a list (which you can see here) which includes recent SPIE fellows and award winners. No previous experience is needed!

Editing

Click here to sign up to the dashboard!

For nice easy edits, check that all people are in the right categories, translate information between Wiki's, check out Wikidata, and check that people's articles are included on lists like these and mentioned on relevant pages.

Useful links

Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:

• Read up to find out more about sources and verifiability.
• Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
• Consider whether you have any conflicts of interest.
• You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.
• All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. Here's a selection:

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  A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
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  Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
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  A guide to elements to include in a wiki-biography, with a checklist to ensure you include as many as you can when editing.
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  A guide to adding infoboxes (those handy things on the right side of a page with a summary of key info).
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  A complete beginner's introduction to adding information onto Wikidata. If in doubt, take a look at someone else's Wikidata entry for inspiration!
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  Steps to adding a photograph to Wikimedia Commons so you can use it in a Wikipedia article - the picture has to be your own for you to add it.

• There is also helpful information on the Wikimedia Foundation Education Platform:
  • A guide to writing biographies
  • A guide to editing chemistry related topics
  • A guide to editing articles in LGBT+ studies
  • Wikipedia training courses for students

• You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.

Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:

• You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
• The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.