Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Enhancing the Narrative of DC Public Schools: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop

 @WikimediaDC Enhancing the Narrative of DC Public Schools: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop



Join us at Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives and help to improve and create Wikipedia articles about the history of public education in the District of Columbia. No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary, as training will be provided. Reference materials from the Sumner Archives will be readily available.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Lunch will be provided.

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

When


 * Saturday, January 19, 2019 10AM-2PM

Where


 * Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives 
 * 1201 17th Street Northwest
 * Washington, DC 20036

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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

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

Suggested Article Work List
About the Article Assessment Quality Scale • Anacostia High School

• Ballou High School

• Cardozo Education Campus

• Central High School (Washington, D.C.)

• Armstrong High School (Washington, D.C.)

• Margaret Murray Washington School

• Roosevelt Senior High School

• Charles Sumner School

• Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.)

• Spingarn High School

• Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)

• Bell Multicultural High School

• McKinley Technology High School

• James G. Birney School

• Arlene Ackerman

• Anita Allen

• Charles Baltimore

• Frank Ballou

• Martha B. Briggs

• Paul Phillips Cooke

• Dr. Carl F. Hansen

• Benjamin J. Henley Jr.

• Andrew E. Jenkins

• Vincent E. Reed

• Alfred Sao-ke Sze

• Franklin Smith

• William Syphax

• Maria Tukeva

• Mildred E. Gibbs

• James Wormley (use )

Resources/Potential Secondary Sources

 * Project Gutenburg
 * Wikisource

Attendees

 * History2049 (talk) 12:35, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Divadino (talk) 15:07, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Sherwin S DC (talk) 15:36, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Stitchyraven (talk) 16:28, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Gamaliel ( talk ) 16:30, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 16:31, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Nacho Fries (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * C7L8H (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Kespringle (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * History2049 (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Mwsimmons4598 (talk) 16:33, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Annasworld3 (talk) 16:36, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * econterms (talk) 16:40, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Fivehouserocks (talk) 18:13, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * MZMcBride (talk)

Outcomes

 * Wikis: commons.wikimedia, en.wikipedia
 * Start date: 2019-01-19 10:00 (America/New York)
 * End date: 2019-01-19 15:00


 * DvorakSymphony8 (talk) 15:42, 15 February 2020 (UTC)