'A Wikipedia edit-a-thon for World Music Day 2017' in a nutshell:
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Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? As part of World Music Day 2017, on Wednesday 21st June, the University's Information Services team will run an edit-a-thon at the newly reopened St. Cecilia's Hall. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given to attendees. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles about musical instruments.
Working together with Academic Support librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to develop articles where Wikipedia's coverage needs improved; including the history of music, notable instruments etc.
Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and celebrate the history of music!
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:
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
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!
The following WikiProject Musical Instruments list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about short stub articles definitely requiring improvement.
The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about musical instruments.
TBD.
St. Cecilia's Hall is a large space and we have a lot of work to do to address the coverage of the history of music and the musical instrument collection so other suggestions for articles to work on at the event are very welcome.
To be determined.
You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:
Prior to the event: