Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/EHA

Background for editing Wikipedia

 * Cheatsheet -- what to put in the editor
 * Policies and guidelines
 * Help:Getting started
 * Starting an article
 * Intro to Wikipedia Slides from an earlier occasion

Attending today (add yourself!)

 * 1) Econterms (talk) 20:38, 19 September 2013 (UTC) (Peter Meyer)
 * 2) Harej (talk) 01:14, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) Geraldshields11 (talk) 12:38, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 4)  Price Fishback
 * 5) add your name here!  put in 4 tildes in a row, like ~, and when you preview and save the system will fill in your username or IP address

Exercises and to-do list

 * Cleometrics vs. Cliometrics -- merge them together? express a view at Talk:Cleometrics
 * Economic history of Pakistan -- an example article to expand; notice separate article for Economy of Pakistan
 * David Landes -- to expand. Describe his works, their impact, and a separate section for critiques
 * Whitcomb L. Judson -- can edit for brevity
 * Journal of Economic History -- think about how to make this and other Wikipedia articles about academic journals more complete, interesting, and useful.
 * Panic of 1893 -- cites a EH.Net Encyclopedia article but doesn't include its year, 2001. Can someone fix that?
 * Translating any of these to other languages, or specialized content from other languages into English

Peter can monitor all these during the conference and anything else done by signed-in attendees above. Don't worry.

Take a look

 * Using Wikipedia for class work: Education_program/Educators and Training/For_educators
 * A look at the Wikisource project: a page of a 1901 Popular Science Monthly
 * Industrial Revolution -- click the "history" tab and the "Page view statistics" it's about the 600th most-read on English Wikipedia
 * links from English Wikipedia to EH.net
 * WikiProject Economics -- a home page for people attentive to economics articles -- click the "talk" tab to see the conversation
 * WikiProject History -- and for history
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Academic_Journals -- discussion of articles about academic journals
 * Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts a new article, about a historic academic journal
 * Materials for including Wikipedia in class work: Sample Syllabus for Wikipedia assignment.pdf


 * Click here for Results from EHA meetings