Taster Session on writing for Wikipedia [Inverness]
23 October 2025, Starts: 14:00, Ends: 16:00
Do you want to learn how to write for Wikipedia?
Is Wikipedia one of the first places you go to find out about something? Would you like to learn how to contribute?
The Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) Highland Association has arranged for a trainer from Wikipedia to come to Inverness in the New Year. If you want to have a taster of what’s involved, sign up for one of our Taster sessions at Inverness Library:
- Thursday 23rd October 2-4pm
- Tuesday 18th November 2-4pm
or send an email to wikihighlands@gmail.com expressing an interest in hearing about the sessions in the New Year.
What’s involved in the course?
- The sessions in the New Year will be three consecutive weeks, 10am-4pm in Inverness Library. We ask people to commit to all three.
- Basic computer literacy is strongly recommended. If your computer skills are not great, but you want to help draft content, we’ll try to pair you with someone who has computer skills but isn’t sure what topics they want to edit.
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, which means that all statements need to have reputable sources cited. So you need to have a good idea about footnoting. Check out some Wikipedia entries if you are unsure what this means.
- By the end of our third session you’ll be boldly editing existing content and maybe even contributing something new!
- And the course and taster sessions are free!
There’s scope for people with various interests. It may relate to the topic or could be the presentation. Perhaps you want to make sure apostrophes are correct. Perhaps you want to ensure that records have summary boxes to make them easier to read. Perhaps you want to update a number of records with a newly published important source.
People who edit on Wikipedia are also a community, and there’s an opportunity to become part of this, either online, in person or both.
If you’re a member of a group who would like a taster session for your members who might be interested in the training, get in touch by emailing wikihighlands@gmail.com and we’ll try to set something up.