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Wikipedia Editing – Is it for you? National Museum of American History Informational Session



Do you have questions about how Wikipedia and its related projects work? Are you wondering if it’s worthwhile to contribute information about your collections to Wiki projects? Are you curious about how to work collaboratively with experienced local Wikipedians (some of whom even work at SI)?

Come to an informal lunchtime learning session with Diane Shaw, SIL cataloger, and Ariel Cetrone, institutional partnerships manager for Wikimedia DC, to get answers to these and other questions and concerns you may have about the reliability of Wikipedia as a resource for sharing information about Smithsonian collections and research.

Seating is limited, so please RSVP to Trina Brown at BrownKM@si.edu by Oct. 1. A complimentary variety of sandwiches and beverages will be served.

Please create a Wikipedia username prior to our upcoming session. Wikipedia limits username creation to six per IP address per day. Creating your username ahead of time will help to avoid this problem.

When


 * Friday, October 5, 2019 Time: 12PM - 1PM

Where


 * National Museum of American History - This is a closed event.

Safe Space Policy

 * Safe Space Policy

Wikimedia
• 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

WikiProjects and Related Materials

 * '''GLAM
 * Sample User Page Conflict of Interest Statement for GLAM Projects (User:Dominic, WIkipedian in Resident NARA)
 * GLAM/Getting started
 * '''The Wikipedia Library/Cultural Professionals
 * WikiProject Women in Red

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

• Citing sources

Tools, Resourcess
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine