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;Wiki Club &ndash; using Wikipedia as platform to shout about Scotland’s Heritage

''This article was first published in <span class="plainlinks">[http://archaeologyscotland.org/?q=node/35 Archaeology Scotland’s]</span> membership magazine and is reproduced with kind permission. Written by Doug Rocks-Macqueen, Cara Jones, Jeff Sanders and Leigh Stork.''

We all use (and love!) Wikipedia, but we are sometimes frustrated by the quality of the content on the Scottish Archaeology pages. We decided to do something about it and in Spring 2014, the Edinburgh Archaeology Wiki Club was born! Our aim is to meet up once a month and gradually improve the content of Wikipedia pages on Scottish archaeology. As archaeologists, we are regularly required with our work to go and visit archaeological sites in Scotland and are able to take lots of photographs that we are then able to upload. We are also familiar with a lot of the sites, are used to dealing with archaeological information, and have access to good data. We felt that we couldn’t complain about the quality of Wikipedia if we didn’t do something about it ourselves!

However, let’s go back to our first meeting. We were fortunate that Wikipedia provided two Wikipedians-in-residences (Pat Hadley and Ally Crockford) for our initial meet up. They were able to supply us with instructions, do’s and don’ts, and guide us through our initial steps of editing. Both have become a point of contact and support for our group, helping us to tighten up our wiki-editing skills. It is worth noting that (at the time of writing) there are currently two Wikipedians-in-residences in Scotland, and they are here to help you! One great aspect of Wikipedia is how supportive it is as an organisation. One of us (Doug) was funded by Wikipedia to go to the 2014 Wikimania in London and was able to bring back new skills and knowledge to share with the group. Wikipedia takes its contributors seriously and helps support them when they can.

<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/04/wiki-club-using-wikipedia-as-platform-to-shout-about-scotlands-heritage/<nowiki>[</nowiki>Continues...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>

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'''April'''
* {{event inline|2015|04|15|[[:w:Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/National_Maritime_Museum_April_2015|National Maritime Museum - Longitude Editathon]]}}, Greenwich
* {{event inline|2015|04|19|[[:m:Meetup/Oxford/27|Oxford meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|22|[[:m:Meetup/Edinburgh/8|Edinburgh meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|21|[[GLAM Committee Agenda 2015-04-21]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|23|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jason.nlw/WWI_Gallipoli_Edit-a-thon WWI - Gallipoli Editathon, National Library of Wales]}}
* {{event inline|2015|04|26|[[:m:Meetup/Manchester/28|Manchester meetup]]}}

* {{event inline|2015|04|29|[[:w:Education Program:Wikimedia UK/Educational Repair (Spring 2015)|Educational Repair Editathon]]}} in conjunction with [[:w:University College London|University College London]]
'''May'''
* {{event inline|2015|05|07|[[:w:Wikipedia:GLAM/Museums Galleries Scotland/Events and Workshops|Scottish Fairground Culture Editathon]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|05|07|[[:w:Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/General Election 2015 Editathon|Election night Editathon]]}}
* {{event inline|2015|05|10|[[:m:Meetup/London/93|London meetup]]}}
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