Handy hints to get started editing your first Wikipedia article
A huge thanks to Wikimedia Ireland for partnering with LoveLaceSpace for our Ada Lovelace Day event. The following is useful links by Claire Murray to get you started, and interesting data to check out.
Five pillars of Wikipedia (Fundamental rules to live by as an editor)
I NEED HELP!
Go here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questions
Or put {{Helpme}}: into your talk page along with your question and an editor will come help you out.
Brilliant resources to help you if you get lost
A snapshot guide to editing:
How would you write the perfect article? (Living the dream!)
What might the perfect article look like?
There are 292 active Wikipedias
Searching for e.g. Every woman chemist ever can be done (clumsily) through
You can generate timelines using wiki data
Comparisons of different genders on different language Wikipedias (the English version is too big to run this)
Page views analysis e.g. the neverending cat versus dog debate:
Page views of English Wikipedia by country (Ireland has 61 million page views per month)
Citations are serious business
Fun facts: Editors banned the Daily Mail as it was so unreliable
What's your editor username? If you want to search for another editor type user:username in the search bar.
Claire M = Eolaíocht