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Downing College and Wellcome Trust are joining forces to host a Diversithon. Join us to celebrate the people that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.

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Click here to go to the Dashboard and find an article to create or edit

There are also lots of articles you can find to edit in these lists from the amazing folks at Wikiproject Women in Red.

For nice easy edits, check that all people are in the right categories, translate information between Wiki's, and check that people's articles are included on lists like these and mentioned on relevant pages.

You can find advice on how to search for relevant sources on any scientist here.

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Here are some more useful links to help you with your editing:

  • You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.

See what a difference you're making

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Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:

  • You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
  • The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.