Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/UMDLabor2018



Labor History Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

Friday, May 4, 2018

Celebrate International Labour Day by joining a community interested in promoting labor history by editing the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Part celebration and part workshop, help us build awareness and increase visibility of our labor collections and expand page content for labor subjects, individuals, and organizations. We’ll draw content from labor-related collections at the University of Maryland, including AFL-CIO Archives. No editing experience necessary, however ability to use computers and search the internet is necessary. You’ll receive complimentary issues of Labor’s Heritage journal.

RSVP here!

Please bring your own laptop computer.

This event is part of DC LaborFest 2018, where there are many more events to celebrate the labor movement!

Time and place
Friday, May 4, 2018, Noon-3pm

This event will take place at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC
 * 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005
 * President's Room, 1st Floor

Attendees will be asked to show a Government issued ID when they enter the lobby

See the Google map for the location of the AFL-CIO.

Lunch can be purchased at nearby restaurants

Those unable to attend in person are invited to become Wikipedia editors, and edit pages listed in our goals below.

Agenda

 * 11:00 am - Setup by Ben Blake and AFL-CIO - Check wifi connection, get guest password(s)
 * 12:00 pm - Welcome and Introduction, Ben Blake, Labor History Archivist, UMD Libraries
 * Wifi guest password(s) and making connection
 * Round robin with introductions and identifying participant goals
 * Introduction to UMD Labor History Archives, exhibit website, related wiki sites
 * Handouts: Exhibit flyer, LHA flyer, list of LHA related wiki sites/needs


 * 12:20 pm - Introduction to editing Wikipedia, Peter Meyer, Wikimedia DC
 * 12:40 pm - Building and editing Wikimedia
 * 2:55 pm - Wrap-up. Editing can continue on an ongoing basis, keep us posted.  Virtual editing is encouraged through the month of May!   Thank you.
 * 3:00 pm – Clean up room

Goals
The UMD Labor History Edit-A-Thon will offer a selection of resources for attendees to:


 * 1) Use Labor’s Heritage journal sources to contribute to targeted articles.
 * 2) Create and/or expand articles pertaining to archival labor collections from the University of Maryland’s Special Collections in Labor History & Workplace Studies.
 * 3) Create and/or expand articles related to labor history in the greater Washington, DC region.
 * 4) Add external links to finding aids from University of Maryland's Special Collections.  Finding aids can be found in  ArchivesUM our finding aid database, specifically in the Labor in America guide.
 * 5) Update out-of-date references and citations for the George Meany Memorial Archive, now known as The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive at the University of Maryland Libraries.

Please place a next to an article to indicate that edits were made; the mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.

Articles to create
Organizations
 * Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 689 (Washington, DC)
 * The George Meany Memorial Archive (National Labor College) Please update all references found to this: The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive, University of Maryland Libraries
 * International Association of Siderographers
 * International Glove Workers Union
 * National Organizers Alliance

Individuals
 * Gordon H. Cole
 * George Harris
 * Nevada Jane Haywood
 * Lillian Herstein
 * Edward Levinson
 * Andrew Pettis
 * Michael Ross
 * Ted Selander
 * Danbury Shakes
 * Boris Shishkin
 * Jiří Veltruský/Paul Barton
 * Milton P. Webster

Events
 * Tacoma Union Movement

Publications
 * AFL-CIO News
 * American Federationist
 * Labor Presses: Norwegian; Danish; German; Jewish; Finns; Slovakian and Croatian; Russian

Articles to expand or revise
At a minimum, please add external link to finding aid in ArchivesUM or a citation to Labor's Heritage journal. Consider highlighting women in labor unions.

Organizations
 * AFL–CIO
 * Alton Railroad
 * American Institute for Free Labor Development
 * Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union
 * Bureau of Business Practice
 * Brookwood Labor College
 * Cigar Makers' International Union
 * Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
 * United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
 * Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill
 * Graduate student employee unionization
 * International Labor Communications Association
 * Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
 * Jewish Labor Committee
 * National Labor College
 * Postdoctoral researcher unionization
 * Seafarers International Union of North America
 * United Automobile Workers
 * University of Maryland Libraries

Individuals
 * Ralph Fasanella
 * Samuel Gompers
 * Chester Himes
 * Clara Lemlich
 * George Meany
 * Agnes Nestor
 * Rose Schneiderman
 * Ben Shahn
 * Maud Younger

Events
 * Colorado Coalfield War
 * Colorado Fuel and Iron
 * National Labor Relations Act
 * Newspaper delivery
 * Ludlow Massacre
 * Solidarnosc
 * The Workmen's Circle (Der Arbeiter Ring)

Other possibilities:
 * New suggestions for 2018 event
 * AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department - Copy and paste agency history, link to three collections. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B270iiodc9t9LVFkNU9lUF81UEE/view
 * AFL-CIO News
 * CIO News
 * Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO - Link to National Capital Area Trade Union Retirees Club Paul A. Wagner Oral History Project, 1994-2002
 * AFL-CIO International Affairs Department
 * AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education
 * Anthony Wayne Smith - labor lawyer and environmentalist
 * Social Justice and the American Labor Movement
 * National Organizers Alliance
 * UMD Labor History Archives
 * Articles for editing
 * Solidarity Day march - Link to documentary film, Solidarity Day-http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/39830- Done done
 * Equal pay for equal work - Link to broadcast documentary, Pay Equity (America Works) at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/39820
 * Coalition of Labor Union Women - Link to broadcast documentary film, CLUW, The First Ten Years at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/39819
 * Martin Luther King Jr. Link to documentary film, To Dream at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/39821
 * Social movement unionism, link to LHA exhibit site
 * Child labor, link to Gompers Papers project, http://www.gompers.umd.edu/mini%20course%20new.htm
 * Baltimore Federation of Labor, revise text and link to UMD collection
 * International Labor Communications Association, revise text and link

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Web access
We will have wireless guest accounts for participants. Please bring your own laptop.

Scholarly Research Articles
* * indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus access.
 * WorldCat via University of Maryland
 * Google Scholar
 * JSTOR * *
 * Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) * *
 * America: History and Life with Full Text (Ebsco) * *
 * EconLit * *
 * ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text * *

Encyclopedias
* * indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus access.
 * Historical Encyclopedia of American Business * *
 * Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History * *
 * Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America * *
 * American National Biography * *

Union Publications
* * indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus access.
 * The AFL-CIO News (1955-1996)
 * The Carpenter Magazine
 * Cigar Makers' Official Journal * *
 * Additional labor publications online at HathiTrust * *

Newspapers
* * indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus access.
 * America’s Historical Newspapers * *
 * ProQuest Historical Newspapers * *
 * Library of Congress Chronicling America
 * The Baltimore Sun (1837-1988) * *
 * The Washington Post * *
 * The New York Times * *
 * Financial Times Historical Archive * *

Archival Resources @ UMD

 * Labor History Research Guide
 * AFL-CIO archive "Guide to Collections"
 * Guides to non-AFL-CIO labor collections
 * Digitized labor materials

Access databases with your public library card: The Baltimore Sun and some other newspaper archives on ProQuest can also be accessed with a Maryland Library card. Here, for example is a list of databases accessible with a card from [Enoch Pratt Free Library] system. Here is a similar list for members of the PG County Library. If you live in Maryland you can get a library card in either of these systems and in most others around the state. If you live in the District of Columbia or Virginia you can get a library card in PG County and some other systems in southern Maryland.

Archival and manuscript collections
This Edit-A-Thon will focus on creating and expanding articles for archival collections at the University of Maryland. Links to collection information and finding aids can be found here: ArchivesUM: Labor in America -->

Basics on editing Wikipedia

 * Help:Cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup
 * Editing - The Basics has .pdf handouts and videos
 * Wikipedia Training, Includes a one-hour training for newcomers, and more extensive pages for teachers and Wikipedia Ambassadors
 * Wikipedia Tutorial is a hands-on approach that walks you through various aspects of Wikipedia editing

By Metrorail

 * The closest Blue/Orange/Silver Metro stop is McPherson Square, plus about three blocks to walk.
 * The closest Red line Metro stop is Farragut North, plus a one block walk.
 * Check out Metro's Trip Planner to plan your metro ride.

By Metro bus
Check out Metro's Trip Planner to plan your bus ride. Use this address in the destination field: 815 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005.

The S2, S4, and S9 stop on 16th street less than one block from the AFL-CIO Headquarters. Multiple buses stop on H street, also less than one block away.

Driving
Enter the following address into your GPS: 815 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005. The AFL-CIO Headquarters is less than a block north of Lafayette Square.

Parking
There are some public parking garages nearby. If you drive and park, be prepared to pay $15-$20.

See past events of this kind:
 * 2017 Edit-A-Thon
 * 2016 Edit-A-Thon
 * 2015 Edit-A-Thon

Outcomes
Please list edits here for May 2018. Include link to page and brief phrase that summarizes your edit, such as "new article" or "added link to archival material."
 * Solidarity Day march -- expanded, copyedits, added link to documentary film
 * File:Reagan la roba a los pobres Migrant farm worker at a demonstration - 02975u.tif upload file
 * Boris Shishkin -- created article!