Edit-a-thon: Difference between revisions

== Options ==

Throughout most of the day, there will be a live stream of an editor participating in the Edit-a-thon. You are welcome to join whenever your schedule permits to learn how to participate or get live editing support.  

* Updating/expanding on that list of categories

* Reviewing and merging [[Help:Merging#Articles%20needing%20merging|articles needing merging]]

* As needed

=== Random page challenge ===

* Go to another random page and repeat the process

The Edit-a-thon focused on:

* connecting content and improving search [[Edit-a-thon#Adding categories|adding categories]]

* improving [[Edit-a-thon#Accessibility|Accessibility]] ([[Edit-a-thon#Alt text|Alt text]], [[Edit-a-thon#Section headings|Section headings]], and [[Edit-a-thon#Color contrast|Color contrast]]) in honor of {{W|article=Global Accessibility Awareness Day}}

The Edit-a-thon will focus on:  

* [[#Adding categories|Adding categories]]

''<small>Edit at [[Help:Category#Adding categories|Adding categories]]</small>''

{{#lsth:Help:Category|Adding categories using Visual Editor}}

{{#lsth:Help:Category|Adding an article to a category using Enhanced editor}}

In support of [[Global Accessibility Awareness Day]], we will also work to add:

*[[#Alt text|Alt text]]

*[[#Section headings|Section headings]]

*[[#Color contrast|Color contrast]]

This edit-a-thon will focus on:   

# using [[Help:Visual Editor|Visual Editor]] to make changes to the wiki   

# connecting articles ([[Wikifying]], Related link circles, [[Navboxes]], etc.)   

Editors are encouraged to:

* Spend five (5) minutes testing out the new editor (see [[Help:Visual editor]] for more details)

* Complete a task from [[Gardener's Dashboard]]

'''[[Acronyms|{{color|#1b9e77|All}}]] — [[Acronym A|{{color|#7570b3|A}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym B|{{color|#1b9e77|B}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym C|{{color|#d95f02|C}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym D|{{color|#7570b3|D}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym E|{{color|#1b9e77|E}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym F|{{color|#d95f02|F}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym G|{{color|#7570b3|G}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym H|{{color|#1b9e77|H}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym I|{{color|#d95f02|I}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym J|{{color|#7570b3|J}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym K|{{color|#1b9e77|K}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym L|{{color|#d95f02|L}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym M|{{color|#7570b3|M}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym N|{{color|#1b9e77|N}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym O|{{color|#d95f02|O}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym P|{{color|#7570b3|P}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym Q|{{color|#1b9e77|Q}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym R|{{color|#d95f02|R}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym S|{{color|#7570b3|S}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym T|{{color|#1b9e77|T}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym U|{{color|#d95f02|U}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym V|{{color|#7570b3|V}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym W|{{color|#1b9e77|W}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym X|{{color|#d95f02|X}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym Y|{{color|#7570b3|Y}}]]{{·}} [[Acronym Z|{{color|#1b9e77|Z}}]]'''

Every Women's History Month March highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society, as the focus for this month's edit-a-thon.  It will  

Select "Biography" template from the [[Boilerplate template]].  See the page creation options below.

The categories that will be used are:  

{{#lsth:Help:Category|Adding an article to a category}}

The December 2015 ran from December 28th through December 31st, 2015.  It focused on creating starter pages called [[stubs]].  A stub is an article that is too short to provide comprehensive coverage of the subject, but long enough to provide some useful information.  

{{Main|Help:Creating a page}}

Creating a new page is very easy.   

== Adding YouTube videos ==

'''Why''' - Adding YouTube videos is a quick way to add value to an article

==== Steps ====

# See [[#Adding the video|Adding the video]] below

# Add [[:Category:Pages with YouTube videos]] at the bottom of the article

== Ideas ==

== Related ==

* {{Tlx|Editing theme}}

{{Reflist}}

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