Wikipedia:GLAM/University of California Davis Libraries/Events/outline

• Welcome, Purpose of the workshop/edit-a-thon
• Logistics -- wifi, timing, schedule
• Introductions: Wikipedia experience, interests
• Experienced editors:
  • Who is available to answer questions
  • To-do list on the project page
  • Library tour / help will be offered
• Brand-new editors
  • How wikipedia works ??
  • Steps getting started:
  • Create an account
  • Find your sandbox, make a test edit
  • demo sandbox, with User:PhoebeAyers
  • find an article, check out the talk page
  • Wikipedia policies -- NPOV, Verifiability, Notability
  • Demo a copyedit -- Hazel Bishop
  • Demo the parts of an article
  • Demo adding an external link section: use Geerat J. Vermeij for an example
  • Demo adding a reference: use Hazel Bishop, [1], Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century
  • Demo checking your own edits

• Create a userpage with your interests in wikipedia.
• Create a list of articles you are interested in working on in your sandbox.
• Start editing!
  • update bibliographies
  • add refs
  • copyedit

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• Fix the link to Philip Power's UCD page

• olive fruit fly -- add http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/9781420068467.ch110 as further reading

• add website for Alan Hastings

small fixes: link, name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Eastwood

http://library.ucr.edu/view/wrca/collections/portraits/eastwood.html

• Sheila Finch -- add Nebula http://dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/