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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Date: October 8, 2025
Location: Bunce 252
Time/Registration Link:
First session: 9:30am-10:45am
Second session: 11:00am - 12:15pm
Third session: 12:30pm - 1:45pm

Rowan University Libraries is partnering with History, English, Center for Digital Humanities Research, and Women's and Gender Studies faculty to host a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. 

Facilitators will introduce the basics of Wikipedia editing, followed by hands-on editing. During that time the facilitators will also be available to help. Participants can also continue editing online throughout the month, and the facilitators will continue be available throughout the month to help. There are three sessions, and an introduction will be provided at the beginning of each. Feel free to attend any or all sessions! Register for a session using the links above, or in the library's workshop calendar.

There are numerous ways to contribute to Wikipedia, including adding citations to a select article, making small or substantial edits to an article, or even creating a new article on an overlooked topic, issue, event, or person.

No experience is necessary. Stay as long as you like during the live session, or participate after virtually!

Wikipedia can be edited in guest mode or using an account you create. If you plan on creating a Wikipedia account (which is required for advanced features like creating new Wikipedia pages), create it in advance. You may wish to use a pseudonym for your account, rather than your real name.

Creating a Wikipedia Account

Wikipedia recommends using a pseudonym when choosing a username for your account, rather than your real name, to protect your privacy or remain anonymous.

Advantages of having a Wikipedia account:

  • Join the Event Dashboard to have your contributions to the event recognized
  • Use advanced editing tools
  • Create new Wikipedia articles
  • Edit protected pages

For more information, see Wikipedia's page on advantages of creating an account.

Event Dashboard

If you would like to have your contributions to the event recognized, you can join the Event Dashboard using your Wikipedia account, which will show the impact of participant's work through the number of words added, references added, etc. to Wikipedia.

Follow the instructions on this page to join.

Possible Articles to Edit

The Event Dashboard lists articles related to women that can be edited as part of the event here. They are categorized by their "class", a measure of the quality of the article:

  • Start-class = A preliminary article with plenty of room for improvement
  • Stub-class = A short beginning of an article that needs more content
  • C-class = An intermediate article with room for improvement
  • Unrated = An article that hasn't yet been rated on Wikipedia's quality scale

The "How you can help" section of the Women's History WikiProject also provides articles you can edit as part of this event.

If you would like to create a new article and are looking for ideas, see this Wikiproject: Women in Red Index, which lists women and works created by women that may qualify as new Wikipedia articles.

Ways To Contribute To Wikipedia

  • Add citations for new information you add to articles

  • Fact check articles (add citations for uncited information)

  • Copy editing (fix spelling, grammatical errors, etc.)

  • Fix dead links

  • Add links to other Wikipedia articles

  • Add infobox

More Wikipedia Editing Resources