Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Earth Optimism Wikipedia Workshop on Endangered Species

 @WikimediaDC Earth Optimism Wikipedia Editing Workshop on Endangered Species

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED

As part of the 2020 Earth Optimism celebrations, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and Smithsonian Libraries (SIL) will co-host a Wikipedia Workshop to improve Wikipedia pages about endangered species, drawing on BHL’s free and extensive online collections as source materials.

Produced with support from Wikimedia DC, the workshop will include an introduction to the Earth Optimism theme, BHL’s resources, and hands-on Wikipedia training. By utilizing BHL materials to enhance Wikipedia articles, attendees will provide easy access points for researchers and the public alike to data and resources about endangered species while also helping to raise public awareness about these species, which in turn can help build momentum for conservation activities.

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

This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited.

When


 * POSTPONED. Please check back soon or join Wikimedia DC's mailing list for updates.

Where


 * Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
 * 1000 Constitution Ave NW
 * Washington, DC 20560

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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

• WikiProject Women in Red

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

• Last year's editing event at the Sumner school

Coordination
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