Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon



With the help of experienced Wikipedians, attendees will learn to edit Wikipedia and improve articles on historic sites, people, and institutions in and around Cleveland Park.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

Lunch will be provided.

When


 * Saturday, November 10, 2018 11AM-2PM

Where


 * Cleveland Park Library
 * 3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW
 * Washington, DC 20008

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• 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 and Other Resources
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Please sign in

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 * 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Save changes'.


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Work list in multiple formats

 * Wiki List Tool on Google Spreadsheets, showing ORES scores and Wikidata information
 * Tabernacle tool, to edit Wikidata metadata

Table
HISTORIC SITES and BUILDINGS

INSTITUTIONS

PEOPLE

Additional sources:
Kim Prothro Williams, Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, DC—Carin will bring a copy.
 * G. Martin Moeller, AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC (2012 edition)—Carin has this on Kindle.

Outcomes

 * Edited all the Wikidata items for these and included descriptions and aliases for all. -- Fuzheado &#124; Talk 13:12, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Attendees

 * Prose-proem (talk) 16:00, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Gamaliel ( talk ) 16:02, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Stitchyraven (talk) 16:02, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Shyzebra (talk) 16:12, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Marchand123 (talk) 16:13, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Sarasays (talk) 16:30, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Ckeatley (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Clevepkhistory (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Pearljames05 (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Christopher-honeyman (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Nnetch (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Tierceron (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Pearljames05 (talk) 18:35, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Bjlepard (talk) 18:43, 10 November 2018 (UTC)