engage: Improving Wikipedia in your subject area
Wikipedia has become the most-consulted informational web site, and is the top web hit for a vast number of academic topics. Learn the basics of Wikipedia editing, including how to add citations and links from Wikipedia to your own research outputs. How to make changes that are kept and built upon by Wikipedians, and how to interact constructively with other users. The shortcuts to improving Wikipedia, e.g. by repurposing existing text and images. This is a hands-on workshop in which you will actually get to improve Wikipedia. No prior knowledge is necessary.
Date: 3 March 2017, 14:00 (Friday, 7th week, Hilary 2017)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Thames Suite
Speaker: Dr Martin Poulter (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organising department: IT Services
Organisers: Dr Ylva Berglund Prytz (University of Oxford), Alun Edwards (University of Oxford), Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: tel@it.ox.ac.uk
Host: Alun Edwards (University of Oxford)
Part of: #OxEngage Engage
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Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://oxford.imparando.com/accessplan/clientinput/course/coursebooker.asp
Cost: free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Alun Edwards