Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Textile Museum Edit-a-thon

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Textiles Edit-a-thon


 * Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that you can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries. As one of the web’s most visited reference sites, Wikipedia serves as a starting point for visitors who want to learn more about a variety of topics. With the help of experienced Wikipedians, attendees will learn to edit and contribute to textile-related Wikipedia articles. Librarians and staff from The George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum will be on hand to provide access to source material.

When


 * Thursday, August 10, 2017 10AM–1PM

Where


 * The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
 * 701 21st Street NW
 * Washington, DC 20052

Worklists
Special requests • Batik

• Carding

• Carpet

• Combing

• Couching

• Dye (Includes Synthetic and Natural Dye)

• Dyeing

• Resist Dyeing (Includes Wax and Paste Resist Dyeing)

• Tie-Dyeing

• Warp Dyeing

• Mordant

• Embroidery

• Felt (Includes Felt Making)

• Fiber

• Ikat

• Indigo

• Kilim

• Knitting

• Loom

• Looping

• Metallic-wrapped thred

• Oriental carpet

• Piecing

• Pile

• Plain weave

• Balanced plain weave

• Warp-faced plain weave

• Weft-face plain weave

• Plying

• Prayer rug

• Textile printing

• Quilting

• Rug

• Rug knot

• Selvedge

• Sericulture

• Shed

• Shuttle

• Silk

• Spindle

• Spinning

• Tapestry weave

• Slit Tapestry Weave

• Textile

• Textile structure

• Twining

• Warp

• Weft

• Yarn

Categories-Each category contains multiple articles (Taken from Wikiproject Textile Arts) • Textiles

• Textile arts by region

• Textile artists-All

• Women textile artists

• Batik

• Beadwork

• Buttons

• Glossaries of textile arts

• Ikat

• Indigenous textile art of the Americas

• Lace

• Needlework

• Quilting

• Ropework

• Rugs and carpets

• Sewing

• Spinning

• Textile design

• Textile printing

• Textiles in mythology and folklore

• Thangkas

• Wearable art

• Weaving

• Yarn

Stubs to expand
 * Textile arts stubs

Basics on editing Wikipedia

 * Five pillars and Core content policies
 * Your first article
 * Help:Getting started
 * Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
 * Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

Articles created

 * Balanced plain weave

Articles improved

 * Embroidery ‎ (Checked for spelling and grammar errors.)
 * Glossary of dyeing terms (spelling)
 * Ikat (added wiki-link; Added additional information and additional footnote)
 * Plying ‎ (Added citations in introduction for definitions. Rewrote section on Navajo plying to make it more factual, less instructive. Removed tags that no longer apply)
 * Prayer rug ‎ (added citation)
 * Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.) ‎ (Added accurate website; Added former location; Added photo of new location; updated image caption)
 * Silk waste ‎ (Add book to further reading)
 * Textile ‎ (Removed cn tag where ref was already present in "Production methods" section; Added Looping; added cite)
 * Plain weave ‎ (Added reference)
 * Looping ‎ (Linked to Textile page)
 * Warp and weft ‎ (Added the definition of "Warp" from The Textile Museum & cited it)

Attendees

 * DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 12:38, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * AdriannaScibor (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Sarandib2 (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * NancyLane (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Peggyhgreenwood (talk) 14:33, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Loriak41 (talk) 14:41, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Magstar887 (talk) 15:05, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * MZMcBride (talk)


 * Jofirzli (talk) 16:03, 10 August 2017 (UTC)