Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/VAM/AE Editing Workshop 2018

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Wikipedia Editing Workshop: 400 Years of Diversity, Democracy, and Opportunity in Virginia presented by the Virginia Association of Museums and American Evolution.



Did you know that Wikipedia is an openly editable resource and that anyone can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia articles? Join us for a Wikipedia Editing Workshop and help to improve and create Wikipedia content related to 400 Years of diversity, democracy, and opportunity in Virginia. Training will be provided for new editors. No experience necessary.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

This event is presented by American Evolution 2019 and the Virginia Association of Museums with support from Wikimedia DC.


 * From American Evolution 2019: 2019 will mark the 400th anniversary of the first representative legislative assembly in the New World, the arrival of the first recorded Africans to English North America, the recruitment of English women in significant numbers, the first official English Thanksgiving in North America, and the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of the Virginia Colony.

When


 * Friday, September 21, 2018 - 10AM-1PM

Where


 * Jamestown Settlement
 * 2110 Jamestown Road
 * Williamsburg, Virginia 23185

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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

Potential Sources

 * National Parks Service National Registry of Historic Places

Suggested Work List
Article Assessment Quality Scale

Cases, laws and legislation
For Creation
 * Ex Parte Virginia (1880)
 * Public Assemblages Act (1926)
 * Trial of Anthony Burns
 * The Great Charter of Virginia

Start
 * Virginia Slave Codes of 1705
 * The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935
 * Morgan v. Virginia

C
 * Buck v. Bell
 * Charter of 1606

Companies, institutions, organizations, social groups
For Creation
 * Camp Manufacturing Company
 * Cooperative Education Association
 * Instructive Visiting Nurses Assocation
 * Virginia Anti-Saloon League
 * Virginia HBCUs

Stub
 * Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers
 * Southern Aid Society
 * Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans
 * Equal Suffrage League of Virginia

C
 * Franklin and Armfield
 * London Company
 * Readjuster Party
 * Saint Paul's College (Virginia)
 * Virginia Company

B
 * Freedman's Bank
 * Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

Events, incidents and conflicts
For Creation
 * Anglo Powhatan Wars
 * Hillsville Massacre
 * Jack Jouett's Ride
 * Moton School Strike
 * Old Fiddler's Convention
 * Richmond Streetcar Boycotts (1904)
 * War Conference (1988 LGBT Meeting)

Stub
 * Battle of the Hook
 * First Anglo-Powhatan War
 * Gabriel's Conspiracy
 * Second Anglo-Powhatan War

C
 * Nat Turner's slave rebellion
 * Starving Time

GA
 * Richmond Theatre fire

FA
 * Hampton Roads Conference
 * Jamestown supply missions

Government
C
 * House of Burgesses
 * Virginia General Assembly
 * Restored Government of Virginia

People/Tribes
• For Creation

• Angela, (one of the First Recorded Africans in VA)

• Maragaret, Giles, & George Brent

• Miles B. Carpenter

• Hector Davis

• Carrie Dyer

• Dr. Florence Farley

• Hermanze E. Fauntleroy Jr.

• Reverend L. Francis Griffin Sr.

• Solomon & Ambrose Henkel

• Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley

• Rebecca Latimer

• Harry W. Meador

• Polly Miller

• Moses Myers

• Nottoway People

• Flora Cooke Stuart

• Captain John Woodlief

• Stubs

• Rufus William Bailey

• William Berkeley (governor)

• Evelyn Butts

• Louis Isaac Jaffe

• Clementina Rind

• William Tracy

• Start

• Elanor Allerton

• Jo Anderson

• Lucy Goode Brooks

• Anne Burras

• Mary Willing Byrd

• William Campbell (general)

• Laura Copenhaver

• Elizabeth Jordan Carr

• Mistress Forrest

• Thomas Gates (governor)

• Carter Henry Harrison I

• Sallie Holley

• John Jasper

• Sarah Garland Boyd Jones

• Cynthia D. Kinser

• Elizabeth B. Lacy

• Dangerfield Newby

• John Ratcliffe (governor)

• Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell

• Leroy R. Hassell Sr.

• Harold Spivacke

• Adam Thoroughgood

• Lila Meade Valentine

• B

• Floyd Allen

• Richard Buck (chaplain)

• Pierre Daura

• Sarah Lee Fain

• Sally Hemings

• John Lomax

• William Mahone

• Nansemond

• Pocahontas

• Powhatan

• Bill Robinson

• John Punch (slave)

• Eva Mae Fleming Scott

• William Smith (Virginia governor)

• C

• Pauline Adams

• Lucy Addison

• Samuel Argall

• Arthur Ashe

• Belle Boyd

• Henry Box Brown

• Carrie Buck

• Richard E. Byrd

• Leslie Byrne

• Christiana Burdett Campbell

• Lott Cary

• Adele Goodman Clark

• Cockacoeske

• Philip St. George Cocke

• Moncure D. Conway

• Jennie Dean

• Daniel Elfrith

• Ferdinando Fairfax

• Cicely Jordan Farrar

• William Flora

• Temperance Flowerdew

• Thomas Forrest (colonist)

• Peter Francisco

• Ellen Glasgow

• Elizabeth Key Grinstead

• James Hemings

• Helen Timmons Henderson

• Linwood Holton

• Robert Hunt (chaplain)

• Esther Cooper Jackson

• Barbara Rose Johns

• Vernon Johns

• Mary Johnston

• George Latimer (escaped slave)

• O. Winston Link

• Andrew Lewis (soldier)

• Edna Lewis

• John Martin (Jamestown)

• Cyrus McCormick

• Gari Melchers

• Lightfoot Solomon Michaux

• Yvonne B. Miller

• Shadrach Minkins

• John Mitchell Jr.

• Monacan people

• Irene Morgan

• Robert Russa Moton

• Mary-Cooke Branch Munford

• Christopher Newport

• Occaneechi

• Opchanacanough

• William Parks (publisher)

• Paspahegh

• Mary S. Peake

• George Percy

• Walter Plecker

• John Pory

• William Preston (Virginia soldier)

• Alexander Purdie (publisher)

• Caroline F. Putnam

• Virginia Randolph

• Joseph Jenkins Roberts

• John Rolfe

• Wendell Scott

• Anne Spencer

• Ralph Stanley

• Joel Sweeney

• Sally Louisa Tompkins

• Elizabeth Van Lew

• Wyatt Tee Walker

• Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr

• Carter G. Woodson

• George Yeardley

• GA

• Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor

• William Harvey Carney

• Oliver Hill

• Mary Draper Ingles

• John Mercer Langston

• Pamunkey

• Patawomeck

• Mary Randolph

• William Ferguson Reid

• Edwin Sandys (died 1629)

• FA

• Grace Sherwood

• St. George Tucker

Places
• For Creation

• Abingdon Muster Grounds

• Aldie Mill

• Bethel Baptist Church (Unionville)

• Bray School

• Butler School (Virginia)

• Contrabands at Ft. Monroe

• Gum Springs, Fairfax County, Virginia

• Israel Hill Settlement

• MacCallum More Gardens

• Mantle the Virginia Indian Tribute statue on Capitol Square

• Occoquan Prison

• Prince Edward State Parks for Negroes

• Richmond Coalfields

• Rosenwald Schools in Virginia

• Tucker Family Cemetery

• Stubs

• Brooklyn Tobacco Factory

• Buffalo Presbyterian Church (Pamplin, Virginia)

• Charlotte County Courthouse (Virginia)

• Court Street Baptist Church

• Crenshaw House (Richmond, Virginia)

• Custis Tombs

• Dan River Inc. Riverside Division Historic District

• Diamond Hill Baptist Church

• H. T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Work Building

• Holley Graded School

• Humpback Bridge

• Konnarock Training School

• Lumpkin's jail

• Manakin-Sabot, Virginia

• Mauck's Meetinghouse

• Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse

• Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute

• Pope-Leighey House

• Riddick's Folly

• Yates Tavern

• Start

• Attucks Theatre

• Belmead (Powhatan, Virginia)

• Berkeley Hundred

• Blackstone Historic District

• Blandford Cemetery

• Brentsville Courthouse and Jail

• Elmwood Cemetery (Norfolk, Virginia)

• Emancipation Oak

• Lincoln Homestead and Cemetery

• Little England Chapel

• Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth

• Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine

• Polegreen Church

• Portsmouth Community Library

• Prestwould

• Smith's Hundred

• Torpedo Factory Art Center

• Virginia Barrier Islands

• Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

• B

• Beth El Hebrew Congregation

• Colony of Virginia

• History of Jamestown, Virginia (1607–99)

• Smithfield Plantation (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

• C

• Augusta Female Seminary

• Barter Theatre

• Berkeley Plantation

• Bermuda Hundred, Virginia

• Blue Ridge Tunnel

• Bremo Slave Chapel

• Carter Family Fold

• Central State Hospital (Virginia)

• Eastern State Hospital (Virginia)

• Eden Center

• Fort Christanna

• Fort Ward (Virginia)

• Gadsby's Tavern

• George W. Watkins Elementary School

• George Washington Birthplace National Monument

• Graffiti House

• Hartshorn Memorial College

• Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)

• James River and Kanawha Canal

• Monumental Church

• Old Point Comfort

• Patowmack Canal

• Rosewell (plantation)

• Shirley Plantation

• Shockoe Hill Cemetery

• Werowocomoco

• White House of the Confederacy

• GA

• American Shakespeare Center

• Virginia State Route 244

Publications
For Creation
 * Dissertation on Slavery: with a Proposal for the Gradual Emancipation of it, in the State of Virginia
 * The Virginia House-Wife (1824)

Stub
 * The Journal of African American History

GA
 * Dunmore's Proclamation

Vessels
Vessels: 1619 Arrival of Africans to Virginia

For Creation
 * White Lion (vessel)
 * São João Bautista (vessel)
 * The Treasurer (vessel)

Vessels: 1619 Arrival of Women to Virginia

B
 * Susan Constant

C
 * Godspeed (ship)
 * Discovery (1602 ship)

Vessels: Other

C
 * Sea Venture

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