{"id":1,"date":"2014-08-11T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/eahil-editathon\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-07-15T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T11:00:41","slug":"lets_get_started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/eahil-editathon\/lets_get_started\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s get started"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trusted more than the BBC, Guardian and Telegraph (Jordan, 2014<\/a>), Wikipedia receives some 17 billion pageviews from 500 million visitors each month and is estimated to be 1,500 times more cost effective than traditional ways of spreading information, such as presenting at academic conferences (Heilman, Masukume, Kipersztok, Shafee and Diptanshu, 2017<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A 2016 study found that 87.5% of students reported using Wikipedia for their academic work (Selwyn and Gorard, 2016<\/a>) so for many students this will be the first port-of-call when engaging with new topics.<\/p>\n

The reason being that when we explain these topics to students \u2013 why wouldn\u2019t they look them up on Wikipedia? And what they tend to find is American examples, old citations, pages conflating theory with practice etc.<\/p>\n

For this workshop, we have already identified articles that need work to allow you to make edits and improvements in a relatively short amount of time. The edits are mostly small and the articles are on many different topics:<\/p>\n

Add an image<\/h3>\n

\u221a<\/strong> <\/span>1) DONE\u00a0Moray House School of Education – Old Nursery School building\u00a0<\/a>
\nImage file\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

2)\u00a0New College Edinburgh – Library<\/a>\u00a0the inserted image could be improved with a caption
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

3) Montgomery railway station<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

\u221a<\/strong> <\/span>4) DONE\u00a0Clocaenog\u00a0forest<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

5)\u00a0Cytir\u00a0Mawr<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

6)\u00a0Aber\u00a0Taf\u00a0(the\u00a0Taf\u00a0estuary)<\/a>\u00a0the inserted image could be improved with a caption
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

\u221a<\/strong> <\/span>7) DONE\u00a0Blue Pool Bay<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

8)\u00a0Bodfach<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

9) Cwm Twrch<\/a>\u00a0the inserted image could be improved with a caption
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

10) Three Castles Walk,\u00a0Monmouthshire<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

11)\u00a0Guignolet<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

12) Frumenty<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

\u221a<\/strong> <\/span>13) DONE\u00a0Museum\u00a0d’Histoire\u00a0Naturelle Aix-en-Provence<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

14)\u00a0Deufringen<\/a>
\nImage file\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u221a<\/strong> <\/span>15) DONE\u00a0Ergenzingen<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

16)\u00a0Fernsehen\u00a0aus\u00a0Berlin<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

17)\u00a0Achttienhoven, Utrecht<\/a>
\nImage file\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

18)\u00a0Uttershill\u00a0Castle<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

19)\u00a0Penkill\u00a0Castle<\/a>
\nImage files:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_well_at_Penkill_Castle_(geograph_5171246).jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Winter_at_Penkill_Castle_(geograph_5171244).jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:William_Bell_Scott_-_The_Firth_of_Clyde_from_Penkill_Castle.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

20)\u00a0Megginch\u00a0Castle<\/a><\/p>\n

Image files:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Doocot,_Megginch_Castle._-_geograph.org.uk_-_214392.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Megginch_Castle_gatehouse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_377931.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

21)\u00a0Meggernie\u00a0Castle<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

22)\u00a0Luffness\u00a0Castle<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

23) Lennox Tower<\/a>
\nImage file\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

24)\u00a0Kinord\u00a0Castle<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

25) Magneto \u2013 medical applications<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a>
\nCitation could be added also:\u00a0https:\/\/copac.jisc.ac.uk\/id\/30666449?style=html&title=treatise%20on%20localized%20electrization%2C%20and%20its%20applications<\/a><\/p>\n

\u221a<\/strong> <\/span>26) DONE\u00a0Kuopio<\/a><\/p>\n

There is an image request in the Talk page for a\u00a0r\u00e4nnikatu\u00a0see –\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:Kuopio<\/a>
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

27) Bogoria, Poland<\/a>
\nImage of the notable church<\/a><\/p>\n

28) Sula (island)<\/a>\u00a0the inserted image could be improved with a caption
\nImage file<\/a><\/p>\n

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Add a citation<\/b><\/h3>\n

1) Jane Loudon, Horticultural writings<\/a><\/p>\n