Wikipedia:Meetup/ARLiSVRA2016

Event information

 * Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016
 * Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 * Location: [Vashon II Room] The Seattle Westin 1900 5th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101
 * Cost: $35, but please register (below)
 * Please bring a laptop with you!

What to expect
Participants will receive an introduction to how Wikipedia works including best practices, policies, and guidelines. Then participants will hear three case studies that will exemplify why they should care about Wikipedia. Following the panel there will be a two hour basic and intermediate edit training session. Finally, participants will end the day learning about the nuts and bolts of running an Edit-a-thon. We hope to schedule pop-up Edit-a-thons throughout the conference with resource guides from various SIGs to flex your newly gained editing skills

1-2pm: Why Wikipedia

Overview/introduction

Case Studies:
 * William Blueher will discuss Thomas J. Watson Library's on-going GLAM-Wiki project. A team of librarians and interns have added citations to over 2,000 Wikipedia articles, and as a result Wikipedia now drives over 50% of traffic to Watson's Digital Collections.
 * Mikayla Lynch will speak about her role as head of the Guggenheim Wikipedia Initiative which is an inter-departmental, cross-institutional effort that involves contributions from nearly all of their museum departments. The Guggenheim's project is unique in that rather than having a Wikipedian-in-Residence, they've trained six staff members across several departments as editors and essentially built an internal team of Wikipedians.
 * Siân Evans and Melanie Emerson, Head of the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss the success of the Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon series, which has been widely recognized as holding the most successful international edit-a-thons in Wikipedia history.

2-3pm: Hosting

How to run a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

3pm-5pm: Editing

Beginning Editing: Create username, Create userpage and a sandbox, Adding citations

Beginning Editing II: Infoboxes, Add Images to Wikimedia Commons

Introduction to Advanced Editing: Creating New Pages, AfD, Asking for Help and Resolving Disputes

Registration
Create an account before the event to enable you to begin editing more quickly. If you sign up, we can observe how your username uses the Wikimedia projects during and after this event.

Register for the Edit-a-thon
Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day-of.
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Art+Feminism Resources and Tutorials (applicable for any training)

 * Art and Feminism Resource List
 * Beginner Training Video: The Gender Gap
 * Beginner Training Video: Basic Rules of Wikipedia Editing
 * Beginner Training Video: Anatomy of a Page
 * Beginner Training Video: Userpages and the Sandbox
 * Beginner Training Video: Meet-Up Pages
 * Beginner Training Video: Adding Citations
 * Beginner Training Video: Adding Images to Articles
 * Beginner Training Video: Creating New Articles
 * Intermediate Training Video: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Intermediate Training Video: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Notability Guidelines
 * Core Content Policies
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article development
 * Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * manual of style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
 * Writing about women

How to Run an Edit-a-thon

 * How to run an edit-a-thon Wikipedia page

Articles created/improved

 * List of Wikipedia articles attendees have worked to improve.
 * 1)   arellucas edited St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church (San Diego, California)
 * 2)   arellucas edited Lamon V. Harkness
 * 3)   arellucas edited Autumn Leaves (1945 song)
 * 4)   arellucas edited Keith Henson