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Unsung Marylanders: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Did you know that long-time resident Paul Henderson was one of the first professional photojournalists and a pioneering force for the Baltimore Afro American newspaper? Maryland was also home to Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, who was briefly married to Napoleon’s younger brother Jerome, and went on to become one of the wealthiest female property owners in 19th century Maryland. Still, Henderson and Bonaparte remain largely unknown to the public. Join the Maryland Historical Society and Wikimedia D.C. to learn how you can help to share the stories of these, and many other Marylanders who deserve greater recognition.

Wikimedia D.C. will teach participants how to become editors and update entries on Wikipedia, while MdHS staff will show you how to use archival collections and other reliable source material to further highlight the stories of unsung Marylanders.

Participants will need to bring their own laptops. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan, and they can reserved by emailing info@wikimediadc.org. This is a FREE program that includes admission to the museum. Lunch will also be provided by Wikimedia DC.

When


 * Saturday, April 27, 2019 12:00PM-4PM

Where


 * '''Maryland Historical Society
 * 201 West Monument St.
 * Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Register
 * Register here with'' Maryland Historical Society 

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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

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 Article Work List
About the Article Assessment Quality Scale