Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/African Women Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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African Women Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Presented by Smithsonian National Museum of African Art



In 2015, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art conducted an assessment of its collection and ascertained that only 11% of the named artists in its collection self-identified as women. As part of its Women’s Initiative, this number has been increased to 22%. But did you know that only 18% of articles on English-language Wikipedia are about women? Help to change that by joining us for the National Museum of African Art’s African Women Artists Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. We will work together to increase the presence of African women artists on Wikipedia by improving existing articles and creating new ones. This event includes a curator-led tour of the exhibition, I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa.

No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary. Editing training will be provided by Wikimedia DC. Museum curators and librarians will be on-hand to provide expertise and source material.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Please send your laptop request to info@wikimediadc.org.

Lunch will be provided.

This free event is presented as part of the Art+Feminism DC2020 campaign.

Schedule:
 * Tour: 10:30am-11:30am – Curator Led Tour of I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa
 * Wikipedia training: 11:30am-12:30pm
 * Lunch: 12:30pm
 * Wikipedia editing: 12:30pm-4pm

When


 * Friday, March 20, 2020 10:30am-4:00pm

Where


 * National Museum of African Art
 * 950 Independence Ave SW,
 * Washington, DC 20560

Register
 *  Eventbrite 

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

Coordination

 * Please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes.'''


 * Etherpad

Please sign in

 * This is for use on the day of the event.
 * 1) Select 'Sign in'
 * 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.


 * Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.



Presentation
Slides will be added after the edit-a-thon.

Wikimedia
• Wikimedia movement

• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia

• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)

• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects

• Wiktionary, a dictionary

• Wikibooks, educational textbooks

• Wikinews, news articles

• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations

• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents

• Wikiversity, educational material

• Wikivoyage, a travel guide

• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies
• Five pillars

• Core content policies

• General notability guideline

• Verifiability

• Conflict of interest

• Identifying reliable sources

• No original research (Examples of Original Research)

• Citing sources

• Identifying and using primary sources

WikiProjects and Resources for GLAM Professionals

 * '''GLAM
 * Sample User Page Conflict of Interest Statement for GLAM Projects (User:Dominic, WIkipedian in Resident NARA)
 * GLAM/Getting started
 * '''The Wikipedia Library/Cultural Professionals
 * WikiProject Women in Red

Quick Editing Tips
• Help:Getting started

• Your first article

• Help:Referencing for beginners

• Manual of Style/Layout

• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor

• Creating Redirector with Source Editor

• Using categories

• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools, Resources
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

For Wikimedia DC Use

 * User rights management
 * Special username creation