Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Asian Pacific American History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon



Asian Pacific American people, places, and events that shaped our world have gone under- and unrepresented in the historical record. This APA History Month, join archivists, historians, and the public for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon where we will edit and improve Wikipedia content related to Asian Pacific America using source material from the National Archives. New to Wikipedia? Don't worry - Training and lunch will be provided. Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

The APA edit-a-thon will be held in the Innovation Hub at the National Archives Research Center, 700 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20408. Please bring a picture ID and enter the building at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance.

When


 * Wednesday, May 8, 2019 10AM-2PM

Where


 * National Archives and Records Administration
 * Innovation Hub
 * 700 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
 * Washington, DC 20408

Register
 * Register here with'' Eventbrite '

Coordination
TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, 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. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.'''

Etherpad - Asian Pacific American History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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.



Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

Wikimedia Projects
• 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

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

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

• WikiProject Women in Red

Coordination
TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, 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. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.'''

Etherpad - Asian Pacific American History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Suggested Article Work List
About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

For Creation
 * Minidoka Irrigator (Minidoka internment camp newspaper)
 * Joseph Pierce
 * Filia (Phil) Uipi
 * Herman T. Guerrero
 * *New* Anti-Communist Youth League (North Korea)
 * Min Young Ik

Stub
 * Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement
 * Kim Young-Sam
 * Japanese silk

C
 * Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial
 * Japanese-American service in World War II
 * Japanese occupation of Guam
 * Korean Armistice Agreement
 * Clifford K. Berryman
 * Operation Hastings
 * Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–Japan)

B
 * Bruce Lee
 * Hawaii
 * United States home front during World War I
 * Guam
 * Guam
 * War Relocation Authority
 * Ferdinand Marcos

GA
 * Michelle Wie
 * 2010 United States Census

FA
 * Paramahansa Yogananda

NARA Resources

 * Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
 * Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files
 * of United States Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1944-1946
 * file for George S Fujii, leader of the draft resistance at Poston
 * intelligence files of the US Navy relating to WWII era espionage in the Japanese Fishing Village at Terminal Island, CA

Outcomes

 * Wikis: *.wikipedia, commons.wikimedia and en.wikipedia
 * Start date: 2019-05-08 10:00 (America/New York)
 * End date: 2019-05-08 14:30

Attendees

 * Catherinebrandsen (talk) 13:43, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Brock-brac (talk) 14:19, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 14:19, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * 207.245.177.14 (talk) 14:19, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * BBnDC (talk) 14:19, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * C.cho46 (talk) 14:19, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 14:20, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Kaybdc (talk) 14:20, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * 207.245.177.14 (talk) 14:21, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * C.cho46 (talk) 14:22, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Fridarch (talk) 14:40, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Ashen1203 (talk) 15:31, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Bluebadger81 (talk) 15:39, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Dcole7 (talk) 16:10, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Ashen1203 (talk) 16:19, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Cchang31 (talk) 16:31, 8 May 2019 (UTC)