Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Edit-a-thon for Planet Word’s Poets and Writers

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Virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Planet Word’s Poets and Writers

Planet Word features over 100 books and poems in our magical library, representing a diverse range of styles, subjects, and historical eras. Some of these writers and works are famous — others are less well known. But they all deserve documentation, and we could use your help! During this workshop, attendees of all experience levels will learn the basics of how to create and update articles in Wikipedia. Beginners are welcome.

This event is a collaboration between Planet Word and Wikimedia DC, the regional outreach organization for the Wikimedia projects.

Register
 *  Planet Word Website 

Livestream
 * Zoom link upon registration

When


 * Tuesday, January 26, 2021
 * 11am-2pm Eastern

Where


 * Virtual!

Event Schedule

 * 11am-11:05am: Welcome/Intro
 * 11:05am-12:30pm: Wikipedia editing training (for new editors), Editing time (experienced editors)
 * 12:30pm-2pm: Open editing time

Get started

 * Create a Wikipedia account
 * Sign in below
 * Find an article to edit
 * Ask questions in the Zoom chat

Please sign in

 * This is for use on the day of the event and is not the same as pre-event registration. To register, use the link above.
 * 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.



Articles to edit and links to potential sources
'''Please use this shared ETHERPAD document to share what you are currently editing. This will help to prevent cross-editing (two more more editors working on the same article simultaneously). Cross-editing can result in the loss of your edits.'''

See Article Quality Assessment Scale for more about article ratings

Red links = Articles that don't yet exist. Inclusion in this list does not denote notability. Use the sources provided here as well as ones you find on your own to determine if these works meet Wikipedia's notable standards. See: Wikipedia:Notability (books) and Wikipedia: Notability (poetry)

Poets, writers, and their works listed here are featured in the Planet Word's collection

Articles needing improvement - Poets and Authors

 * Layli Long Soldier (Article rating - Start)
 * Tracy K. Smith (Article rating - GA)
 * Ezra Jack Keats (Article rating - C)

Articles needing improvement - Works

 * One Art (Article rating - B) by Elizabeth Bishop (Article rating - GA)
 * This Is Just to Say (Article rating - Start) by William Carlos Williams (Article rating - GA)
 * Lake Isle of Innisfree (Article rating - C) by W. B. Yeats (Article rating - GA)
 * Wonder (Article rating - C) by R. J. Palacio (Article rating - Start)
 * The Crossover (Article rating - Start) by Kwame Alexander	(Article rating - Start)
 * Habibi {Article rating - Start) by Naomi Shihab Nye (Article rating - C)
 * Long Way Down (Article rating - C) by Jason Reynolds (Article rating - GA)
 * American Smooth (poetry collection) (Article rating - Start) by Rita Dove (Article rating) - GA

Works without articles or with articles needing improvement - Poems and books
Red links = Articles that don't yet exist. Inclusion in this list does not denote notability. Use the sources provided here as well as ones you find on your own to determine if these works meet Wikipedia's notable standards. See: Wikipedia:Notability (books) and Wikipedia: Notability (poetry)

Sample conflict of interest statement for GLAM professionals
GLAM professionals and WIkipedians-in-residence may improve Wikipedia using their organizations' resources while still complying with Wikipedia's policy on paid editing. COI-GLAM (the Conflict of Interest policy for GLAM organizations), states:


 * Museum curators, librarians, archivists, and similar are encouraged to help improve Wikipedia, or to share their information in the form of links to their resources. If a link cannot be used as a reliable source, it may be placed under further reading or external links if it complies with the external links guideline.

You must include a conflict of interest statement on your user page if planning to edit as part of your professional duties

Sample statement

About Me

I am a paid employee of XYZ Museum/Organization. We are working to make our resources more accessible to the public by working directly with Wikipedia.

Conflict of interest statement

I am editing Wikipedia as part of my official duties at the XYZ Museum/Organization. I will abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. Because the mission of XYZ Museum/Organization is in line with Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge, I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with Wikipedia's practices and procedures. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please let me know.

Wikimedia
• 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
• Username policy

• 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

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

• Manual of Style

• Infobox Tutorial

Tools, Resources
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

WikiProjects

 * Search all WikiProjects


 * WikiProject Women in Red


 * WikiProject Poetry

Wikimedia Affiliates

 * Wikimedia movement affiliates model


 * Chapters
 * Wikimedia chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects in a specified geographical region (in most cases, a country). Like the Wikimedia Foundation, they aim to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". There are currently 39 chapters, with at least one on every inhabited continent., i.e. Wikimedia DC


 * Wikimedia thematic organizations
 * Thematic organizations are incorporated independent non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work focused on a specific theme, topic, subject or issue within or across countries and regions. i.e., Wikimedia Medicine.


 * User groups
 * Wikimedia user groups are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates that are an alternative to chapters and thematic organizations - which require more formal requirements. User groups are highly valued as equal players in the Wikimedia movement, i.e., Art+Feminism

Attendees: 1/26

 * Rosiestep (talk) 16:01, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 16:33, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Baloba123! (talk) 16:34, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * CBZozo (talk) 16:34, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Jim.henderson (talk) 16:34, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Gamaliel ( talk ) 16:35, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * TitaniumCup (talk) 16:37, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 17:26, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Csg63 (talk) 17:27, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Lauriewrites (talk) 17:28, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Poethuntress (talk) 17:32, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Wordieredits (talk) 19:00, 26 January 2021 (UTC)