Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/American Archive of Public Broadcasting/Library of Congress Wikipedia Editing Workshop

 @WikimediaDC American Archive of Public Broadcasting and Library of Congress Wikipedia Editing Workshop

Join us for a remote Wikipedia editing workshop and learn how to improve and create Wikipedia articles using collections from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and Library of Congress.

Attendees will be encouraged to continue editing during the ongoing period of social distancing. A suggested article work list will be made available to all attendees.

Please create a Wikipedia username prior to joining the session.

This event will be streamed via Zoom. A password protected link will be shared via email with all registrants. Please contact us if you are interested in hosting a remote training session for your staff or constituents.

When
 * Monday, April 27, 2020 10am-12pm EDT

Where
 * Remote

Register
 *  Eventbrite 

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

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.



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
• Username policy

• 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

Sample Conflict of Interest Statement
About Me
 * I am a paid employee of the Library of Congress. We are working to make our resources more accessible to the public by working directly with Wikipedia.

Conflict of interest statement
 * I am editing Wikipedia as part of my official duties at the Library of Congress. I will abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. Because the educational mission of the Library of Congress is in line with Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge freely, I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with Wikipedia's practices and procedures. The Library of Congress official work on Wikipedia is being governed by internal Library guidelines. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please let me know.

Wikimedia Affiliates

 * Wikimedia movement affiliates model


 * Chapters
 * Wikimedia chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects in a specified geographical region (in most cases, a country). Like the Wikimedia Foundation, they aim to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". There are currently 39 chapters, with at least one on every inhabited continent., i.e. Wikimedia DC


 * Wikimedia thematic organizations
 * Thematic organizations are incorporated independent non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work focused on a specific theme, topic, subject or issue within or across countries and regions. i.e., Wikimedia Medicine.


 * User groups
 * Wikimedia user groups are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates that are an alternative to chapters and thematic organizations - which require more formal requirements. User groups are highly valued as equal players in the Wikimedia movement, i.e., Art+Feminism

WikiProjects

 * Search all WikiProjects


 * WikiProject Women in Red
 * WikiProject Science
 * '''WikiProject Medicine

Quick Editing Tips
• Help:Getting started

• Your first article

• Help:Referencing for beginners

• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor

• Creating Redirector with Source Editor

• Using categories

• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

• Manual of Style/Layout

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

Article work list
About the Quality Scale

You may add to or edit this work list using source editor or VISUAL EDITOR.


 * Dictation machine
 * -The Stenographer's Friend


 * Lost Battalion (World War I)
 * -LOC content: The Lost Battalion


 * Christy Mathewson
 * -LOC content: Christy Mathewson, N.Y. National League baseball team


 * Stroh violin
 * -LOC content: Stroh Violin (National Jukebox)


 * Phonautograph
 * -LOC content: Phonautograms essay
 * -LOC content: Sounds of America radio show


 * Gloria Steinem
 * -AAPB content: Woman. A Conversation with Gloria Steinem


 * Dorothy Pitman Hughes
 * -AAPB content: Woman. Black Women


 * Father James Groppi
 * -AAPB content: The Wisconsin Magazine. Father James Groppi interview


 * Diane Nash
 * -AAPB content: Eyes on the Prize; Interview with Diane Nash


 * Jo Ann Robinson
 * -AAPB content: Eyes on the Prize; America, They Loved You Madly; Interview with Jo Ann Robinson


 * Frances Farenthold
 * -AAPB content: Assignment America; 124; Sissy Farenthold: A Texas Maverick


 * Head Start (program)
 * -AAPB content: NET Journal; 115; Head Start in Mississippi


 * PBS NewsHour
 * -AAPB content: PBS NewsHour Collection in American Archive of Public Broadcasting


 * National Educational Television
 * -National AAPB content: Educational Television Collection in American Archive of Public Broadcasting


 * The Civil War (miniseries)
 * -AAPB content: Ken Burns’ The Civil War Interviews Collection in American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Attendees

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