The Urban Tree Wiki-thon

Event Information

Join us for the launch event on Saturday 15th May at 11am. No previous Wikipedia experience is necessary: this is a friendly, open and welcoming environment to try your hand at some editing!

At the end of the festival, we will celebrate the fruits of our labours at the Show & Tell event on Sunday 23rd May at 11am.

We will provide lists and links to online resources and tutorials explaining how to edit Wikipedia. 

These will cover the principles of contributing to Wikipedia. Plus the basics of creating and editing articles. Including how to create a user page, conflicts of interest, talk pages, how to edit in sandbox, notability, reliable sources and neutral point of view.

Please use use #wiktreepedia on social media to share details of your work in progress, including links to articles that you create or improve during the festival. Also follow the British Library’s Digital Scholarship blog, which will showcase and celebrate created, updated and improved Wikipedia tree articles.

Contributors

Stella Wisdom is a Digital Curator at the British Library, working mostly with Contemporary British Collections, including emerging formats, interactive fiction and comics. She is interested in digital creativity, innovation and collaborations.

Dr Lucy R. Hinnie is currently Wikimedian-in-Residence at the British Library instigating and supporting innovative projects using Wikidata, Wikibase and Wikisource. From 2019 to 2021 Lucy was a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, on Treaty Six Territory and the homeland of the Métis.

Marion Tessier is development officer for events, digital and innovation in libraries in the ‎Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Marion is also co-founder of Story Circles, which creates different ways of experiencing stories both online and in the real world.