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University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

Booking[edit]

To be assured of your place at the event, please contact Felix Stein at felix.stein@ed.ac.uk or Elliott Oakley (s1354039@sms.ed.ac.uk)

About the event[edit]

Wikipedia - while being very widely read - is not necessarily a great resource for the topics of Anthropology or Global Health. We would like to change this, so we have organised a Wikipedia edit-a-thon for both fields of study. In this session the University's Information Services team will teach us how Wikipedia works, how you we edit it, and how we might potentially incorporate editing it into future teaching or outreach work.

If you attend, please think about a topic that you would like to edit during the session (maybe something that offsets Wikipedia’s current gender bias?). If you are really keen, please do feel free to bring a book or an article that you would like to work into Wikipedia.

We Can Edit

How do I prepare?[edit]

  • Sign up for the event by contacting Felix Stein (felix.stein@ed.ac.uk) or Elliott Oakley (s1354039@sms.ed.ac.uk)
  • Create a Wikipedia account
  • Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided)
  • Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
  • Think about what you would like to edit - maybe prepare some materials to bring with you on the day

The Manual of Style[edit]

Wikipedia has help pages which set out style guidelines for pages being created on certain subject areas. Please have a look at the following pages:

Programme[edit]

  • 1:00pm - 1:15pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
  • 1:15pm – 2:30pm: Wikipedia editing training.
  • 2:30pm – 2:40pm: Comfort break.
  • 2:40pm - 4:00pm: Research and edit.
  • 4:00pm - 4:15pm: Transferring drafted text to Wikipedia's live space.
  • 4:15pm Close.

Trainers[edit]

Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Hit list of articles to be created or improved[edit]

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!

Looking for ideas[edit]

Anthropology:

Global health:

  • Expanding the history section of this entry on Global Health
  • Expanding entries on the DALY
  • Creating entries on famous female global health scholars & their works

Further resources:

Sources[edit]

Suggested sources:[edit]

General[edit]
  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources[edit]
Theses databases[edit]

Outcomes[edit]

New pages created[edit]

  • Olivia Harris - British social anthropologist whose work focused on the study of the Bolivian Highlands. Her writing includes analyses of fertility, gender, money, conceptions of work and of time, the relation between law and custom, as well as the Inca and Spanish colonisation of current-day Bolivia.
  • Mohalla Clinics - primary health centres in the state of New Delhi in India, that offer a basic package of essential health services including medicines, diagnostics, and consultation free of cost. Mohalla in Hindi means neighborhood or community. These clinics serve as the first point of contact for the population, offer timely services, and reduce the load of referrals to secondary and tertiary health facilities in the state.
  • Joanna Overing - American anthropologist based in Scotland. She has conducted research on egalitarianism, indigenous cosmology, philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, the ludic and linguistics through fieldwork in Amazonia. She has extensively studied indigenous Piaroa people in the Orinoco basin of Venezuela.

Pages improved[edit]

Work in progress[edit]

  • Translation of Georgina Born (British academic, anthropologist and musician) into Spanish using the Content Translation tool.

What can I do after the event?[edit]

Join us for the event!

You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

External links[edit]

Participants - Sign Up Here![edit]

Prior to the event:

  1. RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
  2. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
    No? Create a Wikipedia account
    Yes? Go to Step #2
  3. Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page
Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
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