Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Public Domain Day 2020

Schedule

 * 4:00p - get settled, sign up for accounts
 * 4:15p - welcome to the MIT Libraries and public domain day, about the MIT public domain books
 * 4:30p - split into editing groups and training
 * 5:00p-5:45p - editing!
 * 5:45-6:45 - Happy birthday Wikipedia! Keep editing, cake

To work on
10 public domain books digitized in 2020 (available in Internet Archive )


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! Books !! Signup !! Category More books to work on from last year's Public Domain Day edit-a-thon
 * Thirtieth anniversary report, sixth catalogue || || Category:Thirtieth_anniversary_report,_sixth_catalogue
 * The fourth book of the Class of Eighty-Nine || || Category:The fourth book of the Class of Eighty-Nine
 * Class record of '88 || || Category:Class record of '88, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Mary Hunter Austin The land of journeys' ending || || Category:Land of Journeys' Ending
 * The food manufacturing industries in New York and its environs; present trends and probable future developments, by Faith M. Williams|| || Category:The food manufacturing industries in New York and its environs
 * The life and letters of Emily Dickinson, by her niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi || || Category:The life and letters of Emily Dickinson
 * A school chemistry, by O.J. Flecker ||ChemLibrarian (talk) 21:23, 15 January 2020 (UTC) || Category:A school chemistry
 * My book and heart, by Corra Harris; with illustrations by Frederic F. Gruger || || Category:My book and heart
 * Personal hygiene for nurses, adapted also to the use of students of physical education and other health specialists, by John Wymond Miller Bunker and Clair Elsmere Turner ||Ctanguay (talk) 21:28, 15 January 2020 (UTC) || Category:Personal hygiene for nurses
 * Adapting nutrition work to a community, by Lucy H. Gillett || || Category:Adapting nutrition work to a community
 * }
 * The life and letters of Emily Dickinson, by her niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi || || Category:The life and letters of Emily Dickinson
 * A school chemistry, by O.J. Flecker ||ChemLibrarian (talk) 21:23, 15 January 2020 (UTC) || Category:A school chemistry
 * My book and heart, by Corra Harris; with illustrations by Frederic F. Gruger || || Category:My book and heart
 * Personal hygiene for nurses, adapted also to the use of students of physical education and other health specialists, by John Wymond Miller Bunker and Clair Elsmere Turner ||Ctanguay (talk) 21:28, 15 January 2020 (UTC) || Category:Personal hygiene for nurses
 * Adapting nutrition work to a community, by Lucy H. Gillett || || Category:Adapting nutrition work to a community
 * }
 * Personal hygiene for nurses, adapted also to the use of students of physical education and other health specialists, by John Wymond Miller Bunker and Clair Elsmere Turner ||Ctanguay (talk) 21:28, 15 January 2020 (UTC) || Category:Personal hygiene for nurses
 * Adapting nutrition work to a community, by Lucy H. Gillett || || Category:Adapting nutrition work to a community
 * }
 * }
 * }


 * Group: Work on images and add them to Commons
 * How to directions
 * extract images from books, upload them to commons
 * add covers to category pages
 * add metadata and categories


 * Basics of editing articles
 * Add an article for Martha Dickinson Bianchi


 * Editing wikidata items
 * (use book covers or first page of book for image of item)
 * Depict images using Structured Data tab (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data)
 * Add "archives at" statements to people whose archives are at MIT Archives at MIT spreadsheet


 * Adding images to articles
 * Use images from public domain books in Wikipedia articles: example The Encyclopedia of Food

Participant List
Register for event at MIT Libraries