Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Mastercard PRIDE and ADAPTability Virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

 @WikimediaDC Mastercard PRIDE and ADAPTability Virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

In recognition of the 75th Anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month and LGBTQ+ History Month, ADAPTability and PRIDE are partnering with the non-profit Wikimedia DC to host a global virtual edit-a-thon. We’ll be writing and improving Wikipedia articles about figures, history and culture relevant to diversely abled and LGBTQ+ communities. We will also work to improve accessibility across Wikipedia, making it more usable for people living with disability. No prior editing experience required.

What is an edit-a-thon? An edit-a-thon brings together volunteers to improve Wikipedia articles, usually focused on expanding coverage of underrepresented topics. They kick off with basic editing training for new editors followed by a few hours of editing. Traditionally, they meet up in person, but this virtual edit-a-thon will be done independently. We’ll still catch up during the day to check in and get to know each other!

When
 * Thursday, October 22, 2020
 * 10am-11am EDT

Where
 * Remote

Register
 * This event is private.

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

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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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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

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

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

Relevant WikiProjects

 * Search all WikiProjects
 * '''WikiProject Disability
 * '''WikiProject LGBT studies
 * '''Wikimedia LGBT+/Portal

Suggested Article Work List


About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

Use this Google sheet to access the article work list

You can also find articles using:
 * WikiProject LGBT studies/Vital articles
 * and
 * WikiProject Disability/Popular pages

Resources

 * Images via Smithsonian Open Access
 * Pride Month resource, Library of Congress
 * Smithsonian LBGTQ History
 * American Archive of Public Broadcasting LGBT+ Collection
 * Disability Museum
 * UMass Amherst Libraries Special Collections & University Archives: Collecting area: Disability
 * New York Times 'Overlooked' obituary series

Attendees
Pride is one of the Active BRG in mastercard.
 * 66.159.204.102 (talk) 14:09, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay about the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.[5] Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.[citation needed]

The initialism, as well as common variants such as LGBTQ, have been adopted into the mainstream in the 1990s[6] as an umbrella term for use when labeling topics about sexuality and gender identity. For example, the LGBT Movement Advancement Project termed community centers, which have services specific to those members of the LGBT community, as "LGBT community centers" in comprehensive studies of such centers around the United States.[7]

The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.[8] Recognize this inclusion as a popular variant that adds the letter Q for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual identity; LGBTQ has been recorded since 1996.[9][10]


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