Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/From Field to Lab: Writing (Wikipedia) Histories of the USDA's Women

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From Field to Lab: Writing (Wikipedia) Histories of the USDA's Women

When


 * February 14, 2020 at 11am-3pm ET

Where


 * Anywhere! A virtual event hosted by the National Agricultural Library.  (RSVP required if attending in person.)
 * National Agricultural Library
 * 10301 Baltimore Ave.
 * Beltsville, MD 20705

Your Hosts
 * National Agricultural Library and Wikimedia District of Columbia

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 * 1) Select 'Sign in'
 * 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.


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Schedule
From 11:00am-3:00pm Ariel Cetrone of Wikimedia D.C. and Jamie Flood, Wikipedian-in-Residence of the National Agricultural Library will be editing and available to assist and take any editing questions you may have.

We will be available in person in the Multi-Purpose Room of the National Agricultural Library. Light snacks will be available throughout that time.

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

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

• Manual of Style/Layout

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

• WikiProject Women in Red

Articles to work on
To avoid editing the same articles as other attendees, please use the Etherpad to share what you are currently editing. Please remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. Remember to publish/save often!

Research resources

 * The National Agricultural Library: A chronology of Its Leadership and Attainments 1839-1973


 * The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology
 * The History of the National Agricultural Library
 * Women Scientists in USDA by Vivian Wiser
 * Wonder Women in Agriculture
 * USFS' First Woman Research Forester

Attendees

 * Jamie-NAL (talk) 21:05, 13 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Cydparr (talk) 16:25, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Winelibrarian (talk) 16:32, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Nataliemhowe (talk) 18:10, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Dawanna.james-holly (talk) 18:28, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * KittyBuddah (talk) 18:52, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 19:00, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Aglaw kir (talk) 19:30, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Gamaliel ( talk ) 19:32, 14 February 2020 (UTC)