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Wikipedia Edit A Thon: Improving FOIA

Join the FOIA Edit-a-thon at the Center for Public Integrity and help to improve or create Wikipedia articles about the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.

New to editing Wikipedia? Don't worry - Training will be provided. Laptops are required. Please bring your own. When


 * Friday, July 19 2019 from 3-5pm

Where


 * Center for Public Integrity
 * Barr Building
 * 910 17th St NW #700
 * Washington, DC 20006

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Training will be led by Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) with volunteers from Wikimedia DC. This event is open to up to 12 participants of all Wikipedia experience levels, from beginner to expert.

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 * Fuzheado &#124; Talk 11:27, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * econterms (talk) 22:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Brock-brac (talk) 19:06, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
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Presentation
Forthcoming

Etherpad

 * FOIA etherpad

Suggested Work List

 * Freedom of Information Act (United_States)
 * Elaborate on Exemption 4 - "trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential"
 * Add mention of 1974 landmark case National Parks Conservation Ass'n v. Morton
 * "releasing the data was likely (1) to impair the Government’s ability to obtain necessary information in the future; or (2) to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the person from whom the information was obtained." - from Lexology
 * Add mention of 2019 Supreme Court decision on Food Mktg. Inst. v. Argus Leader Media - PDF file
 * "The Court’s decision overturns the definition of confidential established over forty years ago in Nat’l Parks & Conservation Ass'n v. Morton, 498 F.2d 765 (D.C. Cir. 1974)." - Department of Justice
 * "Court gives broad meaning to “confidential” in FOIA exemption for commercial and financial information" - SCOTUSblog
 * Administrative Procedure Act (United States)


 * Wikidata items related to this
 * Add Wikidata items for the important cases related to FOIA over the years
 * Example of a Supreme Court citation tree generated via Wikidata for Roe v. Wade


 * Sources to draw from
 * FOIA blog at NARA
 * There's a (new?) job title in the Federal government for FOIA and privacy experts: Look for job series 0306, Government Information Specialist job series; some info may be at OPM.gov
 * Freedom of Information Act = 5 U.S.C. 552, right?
 * Many/most FOIA requests are from potential government suppliers who want to find out about existing contracts and acquisition. (source, aside from uncite-able interviews? uncertain)
 * Govt agencies use one of a couple of common platforms to process and track FOIA requests ; This is one: http://foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/about

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

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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

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Attendees

 * Brock-brac (talk) 19:07, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * econterms (talk) 19:22, 19 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Laurnosa (talk) 20:53, 19 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Fuzheado &#124; Talk 03:17, 20 July 2019 (UTC)