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We all use Wikipedia to look things up – and sometimes it’s more useful than others! In this session, we’ll cover the challenges and possibilities of using Wikipedia and other digital sources for research, including critical thinking and fact-checking. You’ll also develop your writing skills and discover how many people are reading about the topics that you are researching.

Editing

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Click here to go to the Dashboard so we can keep track of all the editing

For nice easy edits:

  • Check that people or things are mentioned on relevant pages - do pages about relevant topics mention them?
  • Add wikilinks using the chain link button to help people find out more about a topic.
  • Add infoboxes - there's a handy guide here.
  • Translate information between different language versions of Wikipedia.
  • Check out Wikidata - look on the grey bar on the left of any Wikipedia page for the link to Wikidata. There's a guide here on how to edit Wikidata entries.
  • Add pages to categories - click edit, then click on the three horizontal lines beside the pencil, then choose Categories.
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Here are some 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.

To help with future editing…

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Keep track of your edits

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  • 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.