Editing for Wikipedia

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

Practical room (MPI for Evolutionary Biology Plön)

1 Introduction

2 The Wikipedia surface for unregistered users. A simple edit.

3 Differences between English and German Wikipedia. Sighting. Registering an account.

4 The Wikipedia surface for registered users. A simple edit. Helpful tools to understand what’s going on.

12:00 Lunch break

5 Preparations for writing an article

6 Writing an article

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

7 Dealing with other authors

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

8 Discussion, collection of topics for a specific help page within Wikipedia for MPI-EB