Wikipedia:Meetup/DC WWW1

DC Women Who Wiki Workshop Saturday, June 18, 2011 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

JESS3 HQ, 1707 L St. NW

Washington, DC 20036 Join us for this free 1/2 day workshop that starts at the very beginning of wiki editing.

What
Join us for this free 1/2 day workshop aimed at increasing the numbers of female Wikipedia editors. We'll explore why it's so important for girls and women to contribute to Wikipedia as well as how to join the editing community with confidence with a review of guidelines for engagement. We'll get hands-on by showing how to find information you need, setting up your Wikipedia user page, and finally editing articles. Advanced students are recommended to bring a project/topic of interest to work on in class, while beginners can simply participate in one of the general "gardening" tasks the instructors will provide.

While this workshop is specifically geared towards women MFA Degree and girls (who already have a familiarity using computers), men and boys are welcome to attend, especially parents and teachers.

Why
A 2010 study by the Wikimedia Foundation revealed that barely 13 percent of Wikipedia contributors are female. Sue Gardner, the Foundation's Executive Director, is concerned that this gender imbalance has fueled an imbalance in information, with topics that typically interest Wikipedia’s core contributor base, men in their late teens and twenties, growing daily while other entries stagnate with just a few sentences. Her goal is to increase the share of female contributors to 25 percent by 2015.

When
Saturday, June 18, 2011

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Who
Anyone interested in learning how to edit in Wikipedia or feels like editing and teaching others how to edit.


 * About the Instructors

Amy Senger is the cofounder of 1X57, a full service change agency for the social web. She is a leading voice in government, technology, and social advancement in Washington, D.C., with past projects and clients including Intellipedia at the CIA and A-Space at the DNI. She has been driving lessons enfield cited in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Washington Life magazine, featured at SXSW, Ignite DC, Digital Capital Week and on Brazilian television, TV Globo, and was recently named a 2011 Tech Titan by Washingtonian magazine.

Steven Mandzik is also a cofounder of 1X57. He grew up in Orange County, CA, attending college at UCLA and beginning his career teaching middle school History and running an educational science camp, then working on World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment. In 2006, he met his 1X57 co-founder Amy while working as instructors for the revolutionary Intellipedia Development Cell where they became experts on Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 technologies, and evangelists for wikis, blogs, Twitter, and many other social media applications. Steve was also named a 2011 Tech Titan by Washingtonian magazine.

Where
JESS3 Headquarters

[http://www.mapquest.com/maps 1707 L St. NW Suite #1000 Washington, DC 20036]

How
NOTE: No one under 18 can attend the event without adult supervision.
 * Lunch and refreshments will be provided
 * Bring your own laptop (wifi will be available)

Sign up
Please register via Eventbrite: http://growwiki.eventbrite.com/

Introduction (Amy)
The four of us met through Intellipedia (what is Intellipedia?)
 * About the Instructors
 * Amy Senger and Steven Mandzik: co-founders of 1X57
 * Andrea Baker (@immunity/immunity is a Manager for Systems of Engagement Development for AIIM International and was the Queen Bee community Manager and Head Gardener for Intellipedia, one of the largest driving Schools Twickenham enterprise wikis in the world.
 * Kirby Plessas is President of Plessas Experts Network, Inc, that specializes in bringing internet technology to government entities.
 * Plus Katie Filbert (@filbertkm) is President of the Wiki Society of DC, the soon to be official Wikimedia DC chapter.


 * Logistics
 * 1) Bathroom
 * 2) Breaks
 * 3) Beverages
 * 4) Lunch (we'll see where we're at around noon)
 * 5) Wifi
 * Schedule
 * 10:15-10:30: Background/Lead-in
 * 10:30-11:00: Goals and Expectations; What is Wikipedia?
 * Break
 * 11:10-1130: Navigating Wikipedia
 * 11:30-12:00: Creating Your User Page
 * Lunch
 * 12:30-12:50: Exploring and Editing Pages
 * 12:50-1:30: Advanced Editing (sourcing, redirects, new pages)
 * 1:30-?: Q&A

Background/Lead-In (Amy)
Last year a study by the Wikimedia Foundation that runs Wikipedia revealed that less than 13 percent of Wikipedia contributors are female. Reasons include:
 * 1) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because the editing interface isn’t sufficiently user-friendly.
 * 2) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they are too busy.
 * 3) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they aren’t sufficiently self-confident, and editing Wikipedia requires a lot of self-confidence.
 * 4) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they are conflict-averse and don’t like Wikipedia’s sometimes-fighty culture.
 * 5) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because the information they bring to Wikipedia is too likely to be reverted or deleted.
 * 6) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they find its overall atmosphere misogynist.
 * 7) Some women find Wikipedia culture to be sexual in ways they find off-putting.
 * 8) Some women whose primary language has grammatical gender find being addressed by Wikipedia as male off-putting.
 * 9) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because social relationships and a welcoming tone are important to them, and Wikipedia offers fewer opportunities for that than other sites.

That's why we set-up this workshop, to get more women like you involved in Wikipedia.

Plus, here is what happens when women are not involved. As the #1 knowledge resource in the world, women are being biased against, possibly unintentionally by missing women's point of views. Navigate to: MEN
 * I removed a section from this page citing Masculinity Characteristics from a 1974 source.
 * This page was viewed ~30k times in June: http://stats.grok.se/en/201106/Man

Goals and Expectations
By the end of this workshop, we expect every single person in the room to:
 * 1) Make edits in Wikipedia
 * 2) Feel confident to contribute, edit and engage in WIkipedia once you leave here and
 * 3) Spread the word/share your knowledge!

NOTE: If you have questions, just ask and we'll talk about them as they come up.

What is Wikipedia?
A free online encyclopedia launched in Driving Instructors Twickenham 2001 that anyone can edit. Derived from the word wiki which means quick in Hawaiian.
 * *Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Navigating Wikipedia (Amy)
[EXERCISE]: SEARCH JESS3
 * Read
 * Breakdown of a good page (Title, Intro, Sections, NPOV, Links, No Original Sources vs Sourcing)
 * Blue vs Red Links
 * preview Leslie Bradshaw
 * Categories
 * Talk page
 * Notability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
 * Edit
 * You can't break Wikipedia
 * No version is lost
 * History

First Edit: Your User Page - (Amy, Steve, Andrea, Kirby)
[EXERCISE] Login/Create User Account NOTE: Save early, save often; fill in edit summaries
 * Create one (this is YOUR PAGE!)
 * My name is [name]. I work at [org/company]. My interests include [interests].
 * Italic
 * Bold
 * Bullets
 * Numbers Lists
 * Indenting
 * Links (Internal vs External)
 * Categories
 * Signature
 * Cheatsheet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
 * My Talk
 * [EXERCISE] : Leave a message on your neighbor's TALK Page
 * Leave your signature
 * My Preferences
 * Number of edits
 * Change gender to Female
 * Email address
 * Change signature
 * My watchlist
 * check add pages I edit to My Watchlist
 * My Contributions

Exploring and Editing (Steve)
[EXERCISE] Search on a topic of interest and find a page that needs editing and edit it!
 * OR: Practice editing in the Sandbox

Advanced (Steve)
[EXERCISE] - Create page for Leslie Bradshaw)
 * Sourcing
 * Redirects and Disambiguation
 * Creating a new page
 * (Title, Intro, Sections, NPOV, Links, No Original Sources)

BEFORE YOU LEAVE
Add you username to the Attendees section: Meetup/DC_WWW1

Instructors

 * Steven Mandzik
 * Amy Senger
 * Andrea Baker
 * Kirby Plessas
 * Katie Filbert

Students

 * Michelle
 * Kris
 * Phil
 * Kerry
 * Nessy
 * Marilyn
 * Leslie
 * Jonah
 * Angie
 * Regina
 * Elizabeth

Help Pages

 * Five pillars
 * Article titles
 * Writing high quality articles
 * The perfect article