Wikipedia:Meetup/Adrianne Wadewitz Edit-a-Thon/Bloomington 2017

The Center for Eighteenth Century Studies at Indiana University Bloomington will host a special edition edit-a-thon focusing on eighteenth-century topics from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 5, 2017 at Indiana University's Arts Plaza as part of First Thursdays. (We'll be located between the Lilly Library and Woodburn Hall.) Help will be available throughout the event, thanks to our collaboration with the IU Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities. We will also have some computer access, but ...

Please bring your laptop and feel free to bring a friend!

Indiana University Bloomington Adrianne Wadewitz Edit-a-Thon 2017
Join us for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in honor of the memory of Adrianne Wadewitz. If you’ve never edited a Wikipedia article before, this will be a great time to start, as we will have experts on hand (both from among our own members and from the Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities). You can bring your laptop, or use one of the ones we will have on hand. You should also bring whatever research materials you need to update existing articles (you could start a new one, too, but this is a bit more complicated). There’s lots of work to be done (for instance, the entry on “American Revolution” cites a Political Science Quarterly article from 1950). We’ll be at the Arts Plaza of the Bloomington campus from 5-7 p.m. Refreshments provided!

Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz (Jan. 6, 1977-April 8, 2014) was an Indiana University alumna (PhD, English, 2011), noted Wikiepedian, and regular participant in the activities of the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her work on British literature and thought, with a focus on children’s literature and feminist criticism, exemplified the interdisciplinary spirit and ideals of eighteenth-century studies. At Indiana University, she worked with Mary Favret, Dror Wahrman, Sarah Knott, Richard Nash, and Nick Williams. At the same time, Adrianne trained herself in another field altogether, one in which none of her professors could test her: the emerging field of digital humanities. It’s as if she did graduate school twice—and simultaneously. Like other members of her cohort, she gave papers at regional conferences on eighteenth-century literature; unlike them she also flew to New Delhi and Alexandria, Egypt to talk to specialists about Humanities and the Web. If you read a Wikipedia entry on an eighteenth-century woman writer, Adrianne probably wrote it: in all she contributed to more than 40,000 articles. Before her tragic death in a rock-climbing accident, she was scheduled to give a keynote address at the annual 2014 WikiConference in New York City.

Most literary scholars prefer to work on their own, but Adrianne thrived on collaboration. The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies began these Edit-a-Thons in her honor at ASECS in 2015 (where it was coordinated by Adrianne's colleague from the IU English Department, Courtney Wennerstrom) and hosted them at ASECS 2016 and ASECS 2017 as well. It is intended that this will become an annual event into perpetuity.

Event details

 * Date: Thursday, Oct 5, 2017
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 * Location: Arts Plaza (between Lilly Library and Woodburn Hall), Indiana University, Bloomington
 * Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
 * Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
 * Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)

Tips and Directions for Participants

 * 1) Creating an account is super easy, all you need is an email address: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Main+Page . Also, feel free to use a pseudonym for your username; many first time editors find it makes them more comfortable.
 * 2) Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable VisualEditor (third option). Now you don't need to learn markup to edit Wikipedia!
 * 3) There are a number of ways for you to contribute to Wikipedia . You can create or enhance Wikipedia articles, add External_links, verify and update Inline_citations, provide resources to help those writing articles, and assist with research.
 * 4) If you have IU library access,see IU Libraries: 18C resources
 * 5) As you are working keep in mind Wikipedia's 5 Pillars:
 * 6) Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia.
 * 7) Wikipedia has a neutral point of view.
 * 8) Wikipedia is free content.
 * 9) Wikipedians should interact in a respectful and civil manner.
 * 10) Wikipedia does not have firm rules.
 * 11) Be_bold (but not reckless) in updating articles and do not worry about making mistakes Editing_policy. Prior versions of pages are saved, so any mistakes can be corrected.
 * 12) What not to do: User_talk:192.43.227.18
 * 13) What to do: GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND. If you don't understand an aspect of editing, google for help. Wikipedia has tons of meta articles. Also, this is a helpful tutorial: Training/For_students

Agenda

 * Presentation / overview
 * Editing time
 * Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page

Possible articles to edit
Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important eighteenth-century topics that are under-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a topic if you know an appropriate page that needs editing. We are also trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

'These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify'' according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!'''


 * 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kingdom_of_France_stubs
 * 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Knights_Templar_sites
 * 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:18th-century_play_stubs
 * 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysteries_of_Udolpho (needs citation work)
 * 5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Pirates (needs citation work)
 * 6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:18th_century_in_LGBT_history
 * 7) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_century_in_LGBT_rights
 * 8) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:18th-century_fashion
 * 9) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatting (actually needs date to be earlier, there is a poem by Charles Sedley)
 * 10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortsafe (cages for coffins! needs additional citations)

Wikipedia editing resources

 * Add an Infobox!
 * Adding images!
 * 1) Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different!
 * 2) Follow instructions to upload your images here...
 * Create or update Wikidata!
 * Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.


 * 1) Go to  Wikidata
 * 2) Read Wikidata's Introduction!
 * 3) Search for the person or subject
 * 4) If none exists, you can 'Create a new item'
 * 5) Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal.
 * 6) To add a field, click 'Add Statement'
 * Create or update Authority Control!
 * Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org)


 * 1) Go to VIAF.org
 * 2) Search for person (last name, first name)
 * 3) At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example
 * 4) Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata
 * 5) Add  after External links section above Categories

Outcomes
Alphabetical by first letter Infobox was added
 * Pages improved


 * Pages created


 * DRAFTS created


 * Wikidata items improved


 * Wikidata items created


 * Wikimedia Commons images uploaded


 * Wikimedia Commons categories


 * Event pictures uploaded to Wikimedia

Metrics
Outreach Dashboard Note -- metrics need to cycle through the dashboard, will update when that has happened
 * Articles Created: 0
 * Articles Edited: 0
 * Total Edits: 0
 * Editors: 0
 * Words Added: 0
 * Article Views: 0
 * Commons Uploads: 0

Attendees

 * Rlspang (talk) 21:01, 14 September 2017 (UTC)Rebecca Spang