Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Celebrating Arab American Authors

Create Your account on Wikipedia BEFORE attending the event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount

Register and enter the event HERE

Passcode (if needed): moefntbh

Training videos and slides

Yes these slides and videos do have the wrong date for this event but I have reviewed them (on 1/9/2024) and they are still completely accurate and up-to-date!

Tutorial video on all the aspects of a wikipedia account, showing how to go all the way from creating an account to publishing a new page. How to Edit Wikipedia - a 2018 tutorial

Link to training modules:

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training 

Wikipedia Guide on Getting Started as a contributor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started

Wikipedia content policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Core_content_policies

Wikipedia contributor guidelines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines

We are going to use VisualEditor for this event. However, you may wish to gain experience with the source editor as well if you will be editing more extensively.

Training information from other edit-a-thons you may be interested in https://libguides.wpi.edu/WPI_Wikipedia_Editing_Community/training 

Training on setting up an edit-a-thon for your own group - https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editathons

How to use, set up, and interact with User pages.

Creating  a new page where one does not already exist:

What is a userspace draft?

So you made a userspace draft

Moving a page out of the sandbox

Handouts for editing specific types of articles 

Wikimarkup coding cheatsheets in various languages