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We Can Edit

Here are some informations for new Wikipedia authors that is intended for support - before or during the event, but also later for reading.

First steps

• Create an account now explains, why it makes sense to create a Wikipedia account.
• This page is about how to edit Wikipedia in general.
• The sandboxes are pages designed for testing and experimenting with wiki syntax and the VisualEditor.
• Your user sandbox, a personal place to test your editing skills in your own userspace.

Why run an edit-a-thon?

• It helps build the encyclopedia
• It builds relationships in the community
• It is an opportunity for editors to learn from each other
• It can entice people to become new Wikipedians
• It can help new Wikipedians to contribute
• It is an opportunity to improve the quality of Wikipedia by accessing offline materials and experts
• It's fun!

Edit-a-thons improve the quality and expand the scope of the encyclopedia, create a link between the authors and can be a wonderful way into Wikipedia for those interested. They are very different from other Wikipedia events. In short, an edit-a-thon is an entertaining workshop where all participants pull together to achieve a common goal.

More Information

Berlin Meet-ups

• Berlin
• Meet-ups Austria, Germany, Switzerland

General Information

• Getting Started
• Community Portal

Help pages for Wikipedia beginners

• FemSupport – Female support team in the German Wikipedia. Some speak a decent english – go ahead and ask them for help.
• Telefonberatung – only on offer in Germany: go ahead, they might speak english
• Teahouse (Forum for any kind of question)
• IRC – Wikipedia chat space

Women in Wikipedia

• WikiProject Women
• WikiProject Women Scientists
• WikiProject Women in Red missing biographies
• Statistics on the Gender Gap]

Contact

• More questions about Edith-a-thon?
• Great ideas for more Edit(h)-a-thons?
• You want to organize one yourself?

Please write to IvaBerlinwikipedia.de or use the discussion page!