Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Learn to Edit Wikipedia - Social Distancing Edition

 @WikimediaDC Learn to Edit Wikipedia - Social Distancing Edition

Join us for a fully remote Wikipedia editing training session. Learn about Wikipedia's policies and the basics of editing.

This workshop will take place on Zoom. Attendees will receive a dedicated link to Zoom prior to the workshop. If you don't already have a Wikipedia username, please create one before proceeding to Zoom.

This workshop is presented by Wikimedia DC, the DC region's official Wikipedia affiliate.

Wikimedia DC will continue to offer remote workshops over the course of the next few weeks. Like our regular in-person events, these may be themed or presented in conjunction with area museums, agencies, institutions, and organizations.

Please contact us if you are interested in hosting a remote training session for your staff or constituents.

When


 * Tuesday, March 17 and Tuesday, June 30, 2020 10am-11:30am EDT

Where
 * Zoom - The link to the presentation will be shared after your registration with Eventbrite is completed.

Register
 *  Eventbrite 

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

Please sign in

 * This is for use on the day of the event.
 * 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.



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

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

WikiProjects

 * Search all WikiProjects


 * WikiProject Women in Red
 * WikiProject Science
 * '''WikiProject Medicine

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
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

For Wikimedia DC Use

 * User rights management
 * Special username creation

Sample Articles
About the Quality Scale

Some of the following sample articles are pulled from work lists compiled for recently postponed events:
 * Alicia Penalba (Stub class)
 * Liliana Porter (Start class
 * Jessie Tarbox Beals (C class)
 * Zaida Ben-Yusuf (B class)
 * Battle of Nam River (A class)
 * Zora Neale Hurston (GA - Good article]]
 * Harriet Tubman (FA - Featured article]]