Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Mastercard Service Project: Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

 Join us for the...

Mastercard Service Project: Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon



Did you know that only 18% of all biographies on English language Wikipedia are about women? Join us on November 1 and help to improve and create Wikipedia articles about gender, feminism and the arts. No experience is necessary. Training will be provided by Wikimedia DC, a nonprofit organization and official Wikipedia affiliate.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops available to loan. Email ariel.cetrone@wikidc.org to reserve one.

Lunch will be provided. THIS EVENT IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Register
 * Attendees must register using the Wikimedia Labs Dashboard. Follow these steps. It's quick and easy!
 * 1. Go to Mastercard ArtAndFeminism 2019
 * 2. Select Login if you already have a Wikipedia username or Sign-Up if you don't
 * 3. Once logged in, you'll be added to the list if attendees/editors

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

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

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

Suggested Work List
View the work list by visiting the Dashboard for this event

About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

Potential Sources
Links to sources shared by the National Museum of Women in the Arts