English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Meetup/Unbias Format

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Events at the Royal College of Art to improve understanding of Wikipedia and create and expand content on art/design, and where this can intersect with women and minorities online.

The Manual of Style

Wikipedia has help pages which set out style guidelines for pages being created on certain subject areas. Please have a look at the following pages:

January priorities for WikiProject Women in Red

Happening now

Trainers

Stuart Prior, Project Coordinator, Wikimedia UK

Participants

Hit list of articles to be created or improved

Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!

Worklist

[1]====Articles to Create====

References we have:

References we have:

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Legacy work

Sources

  • Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
  • For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
  • We will provide a variety of reference books on the day.
  • Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources.

Suggested sources:

General
  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
Theses databases

Outcomes

Created and Improved pages

External links

  1. ^ Krupat, Kitty; McCreery, Patrick (1 January 2001). Out at Work: Building a Gay-labor Alliance. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816637409. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Hostility in 1980 turns to acceptance in 2012". Times Union.
  3. ^ Alsop, Ronald. "Transgender, at the office". Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Denise Norris - Andes, NY". MEUSA. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  5. ^ https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Transgender-woman-honored-at-UAlbany-Lavender-7467664.php. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stonewalllive/2012/03/23/denise-norris-transgender-activist-thurs-mar-22-9pm-est. Retrieved 15 April 2018. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ Alsop, Ronald. "Transgender, at the office". Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Transexual Menace | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  9. ^ Stryker, Susan (7 January 2009). Transgender History. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780786741366.
  10. ^ "Lavender Menace". Wikipedia. 23 June 2017.
  11. ^ "Brandon Teena". Wikipedia. 15 April 2018.