Editing for Wikipedia

Europe/Berlin
Practical room (MPI for Evolutionary Biology Plön)

Practical room

MPI for Evolutionary Biology Plön

Organized by

Gökçe B. Ayan

    • 9:30 AM 10:00 AM
      Introduction 30m
    • 10:00 AM 10:30 AM
      The Wikipedia surface for unregistered users. A simple edit. 30m
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Differences between English and German Wikipedia. Sighting. Registering an account. 30m
    • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
      The Wikipedia surface for registered users. A simple edit. Helpful tools to understand what’s going on. 1h
    • 12:00 PM 12:45 PM
      Lunch break 45m
    • 12:45 PM 1:00 PM
      Preparations for writing an article 15m
    • 1:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Writing an article 2h

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

    • 3:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Dealing with other authors 1h 30m

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

    • 4:30 PM 5:30 PM
      Discussion, collection of topics for a specific help page within Wikipedia for MPI-EB 1h