Wikipedia:Meetup/Riverside/WLL/2014

As part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries, University of California, Riverside presents the fourth edit-a-thon drawing on the resources in UCR Libraries including the Special Collections. Event details Date: October 16th, 2014 Time: 10am - 4pm Location: 4th Floor Conference Room, Tomás Rivera Library (map) Event: An edit-a-thon! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others in editing articles related to UCR, SoCal, and beyond! Hashtag: The Twitter hashtag is: #ComeEditWikipedia UCR bell tower

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Come contribute to the world's most popular encyclopedia! Have no experience with editing Wikipedia? We'll teach you!

Anyone with an interest in editing collaboratively and having a great time is encouraged to attend. Bring a laptop and power cord as well as your library card!

Attending

• Chris Troutman (talk)
• Chris Marin (talk)
• Alexandra Dolan-Mescal, attendee
• Emilenkie, attendee
• Rwmmiller (talk)

Resources

Citing sources video tutorial -- part one

Citing sources video tutorial -- part two

Key Wikipedia guidelines and policies:

• Conflict of Interest policy
• Image Use Policy
• Article Naming & Disambiguation
• Wikipedia Markup Cheatsheet
  
  

Tutorials:

• Basic tutorial
• More detailed tutorial
• Wikipedia Adventure - a juvenile but easy and effective tutorial!

What to edit?

Not sure where to start? Here are some places to get ideas.

• The to-do list for UCR
• The Southern California Task Force