Editing for Wikipedia

Friday 11 Oct 2019, 09:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

Practical room (MPI for Evolutionary Biology Plön)

09:30 → 10:00 Introduction

10:00 → 10:30 The Wikipedia surface for unregistered users. A simple edit.

10:30 → 11:00 Differences between English and German Wikipedia. Sighting. Registering an account.

11:00 → 12:00 The Wikipedia surface for registered users. A simple edit. Helpful tools to understand what’s going on.

12:00 → 12:45 Lunch break

12:45 → 13:00 Preparations for writing an article

13:00 → 15:00 Writing an article

Outline, writing style, formatting
Citation: How does it work, when is it needed, what’s a notable source?

15:00 → 16:30 Dealing with other authors

· Definition and consequences of an edit war
· Strategies to handle a conflict
· Meta pages

16:30 → 17:30 Discussion, collection of topics for a specific help page within Wikipedia for MPI-EB