Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/NMAI COMM535 2015

National Museum of the American Indian An Edit-a-Thon

Edit-a-thon -- The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, welcomes participants to its edit-a-thon focused on Native American issues in Wikipedia. We will be working with Wikipedia and American University class COMM535 and journalism professor Andrew Lih.


 * When
 * Tuesday, March 31, 2015
 * 2:30 - 5:30pm


 * Who
 * The program is open to the public, and will be conducted in conjunction with a communications/journalism course taught by Andrew Lih at the American University on Wikipedia & Public Knowledge. Contact Andrew Lih and sign up below if you'd like to attend.


 * Where
 * National Museum of the American Indian
 * 4th St & Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560 (directions here)
 * Fourth floor, rooms 4018 and 4019 in the NE corner


 * What to bring
 * A fully charged laptop computer with charger or any device that can edit Wikipedia


 * RSVP Required
 * Please sign up below if you plan on joining us.


 * Etherpad shared notes for the day's event

Questions? Add your own

 * How do I RSVP?
 * Add your name to the list below if you plan on joining us remotely.


 * Can I share what I’m doing?
 * Yes, please feel free to share what you’re working on on your preferred social network using #glamwiki and invite your friends to join us remotely!

RSVP
Yes
 * 1) Fuzheado | Talk
 * 2) COMM535 students (15)
 * 3) Duckduckstop (talk) 19:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Articles and content to work on

 * Backtracking the editing history of articles relevant to an upcoming exhibition
 * Artists in the museum's collections

Resources

 * Incan Engineering: Inka Engineering Symposium on YouTube
 * Archaeology of the Americas: Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed- pdf of exhibition catalogue
 * Norval Morrisseau & George Morrison: Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes - pdf of exhibition catalogue via USB on-site
 * Exhibition catalogues, research files

Websites, library catalogs, & databases

 * Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
 * Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
 * National Museum of the American Indian Collections Search - http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx

Issues

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Resources

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Websites, library catalogs, & databases

 * Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
 * Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
 * Smithsonian Libraries catalog portal Tools for the Researcher
 * Smithsonian Libraries free databases and collections
 * Smithsonian Libraries article indexes and databases (some accessible only from terminals located in the library)
 * Smithsonian Collections Search Center
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Help after the event

 * Teahouse, a friendly place to help new editors get started

Results and outcomes

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Article creation

 * New articles
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 * Updated articles
 * George Gustav Heye added infobox
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