Wikipedia:Meetup/FemTechNet/Illinois Wesleyan University

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Workshop Info

• Date: Thursday, October 20, 2016
• Location: Face-to-face class session held at Illinois Wesleyan University
• Event: A seminar session

Resources

Wikipedia Markup Language (Wikicode)

Wikicode Resources

• Wikipedia Cheat Sheet, Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference, PDF version of markup language cheatsheet

Citing Sources

• Citing Sources in Wikipedia Tutorial
• Referencing for Beginners
• More Info on Citing Sources

Other Resources

• How to edit a page
• Wikipedia Tutorial
• Welcome to Wikipedia
• GLAM's Beginner Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Help pages
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates

Wikipedia community

• Talk pages

• When leaving a message on a talk page: if you are responding on an existing thread, be sure to indent your comment (this is how conversations are organized on these pages) by starting your comment with a ":" for each indentation. If you are starting a new thread, indicate this with a new heading. Remember a level 2 heading is made with two equal signs (e.g. "==Talk page heading=="). Also, be sure to sign your name, be logged in and see below.

• Sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date.
• Common Questions
• Introduction
• The five pillars of Wikipedia

• Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
• Wikipedian
• Article development
• Manual of Style

From Adrianne Wadewitz’s HASTAC blog

• “The struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning,” (with Phoebe Ayers)(9/3/13)
• “Looking at the five pillars of Wikipedia as a feminist, part 1″ (8/26/13) & part 2 (11/13/13)
• “Wikipedia’s gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias,” (7/26/13)

Potential Pages and Articles to Explore

Sign Up

Please make sure to RSVP for this class exercise. Once you have an account, make sure to add your name below.

Please just add your Wikipedia name to the list below with four tildas (~~~~). If you have comments, insert them after a dash.

Attendees

Outcomes

List any articles created and/or edited during this Meetup here: