Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Virginia Association of Museums Wikipedia Editing Workshop

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Virginia Association of Museums Wikipedia Editing Workshop



Join museum professionals and fellow members of the Virginia Association of Museums at Gari Melchers Home and Studio for a Wikipedia editing workshop. Learn how to edit and improve Wikipedia articles and engage with museum-focused Wikipedia projects such as GLAM-Wiki, an initiative that helps cultural institutions share their resources with the world through collaborative projects with experienced Wikipedia editors.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Lunch will be provided.

This event is open to VAM members, staff and other invited guests. Registration required.

When


 * Monday, September 23, 2019 10AM-3PM

Where


 * Gari Melchers Home and Studio
 * 224 Washington Street
 * Falmouth, VA 22405

Register
 * This is a closed event.

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 * This is for use on the day of the event.
 * 1) Select 'Sign in'
 * 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.


 * Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.



Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

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

GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Initiative and Related Projects

 * About GLAM Wiki
 * Wikipedians-in-Residence (Not limited to GLAM only)

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, Resources and WikiProjects
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

• WikiProject Women in Red

Coordination
TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.'''

Contributors

 * 72.214.41.106 (talk) 14:05, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Jocatron (talk) 14:18, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 14:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * LESmootLib (talk) 14:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Pmcdougal (talk) 14:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 14:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * VACatlett (talk) 14:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Caitlincurtis (talk) 14:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Maiermuseum (talk) 14:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Lindsey2leo (talk) 14:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


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 * Cortesac (talk) 14:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * GunstonHall1755 (talk) 14:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Laura Macaluso (talk) 14:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Jocatron (talk) 14:24, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Sharris4 (talk) 14:24, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Jocatron (talk) 14:24, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Carrollvs (talk) 14:24, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * TJJHouse (talk) 14:36, 23 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Puckseva (talk) 14:54, 23 September 2019 (UTC)