Wikipedia:Meetup/Fashion Institute of Technology/New York Textile Month 2017

Event information
The NYTM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is a chance to contribute your textile knowledge and expertise by adding and editing articles in Wikipedia on topics related to textiles, their history, production and cultural importance.

For more information about New York Textile Month, please visit New York Textile Month
 * Pre-registration page: Eventbrite
 * Main NYTM page: New York Textile Month
 * Dates: Tuesday, September 27 and Thursday, September 29th, 2016
 * Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
 * Location: The Gladys Marcus Library at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 5th Floor of the Goodman Building - entrance at the southwest corner of 27th Street and 7th Avenue, New York, NY.
 * Who should attend: Anyone with a background in textile and surface design, textile arts, textile production and textile science
 * Hashtag: #NYTM

Organizers
This NYTM event has been organized as a collaboration between Helen Lane, Emerging Technologies Librarian and Eric Ramirez, Chair, Textile & Surface Design, both of Fashion Institute of Technology with Willem Schenk, Executive Assistant to Lidewij Edelkoort, Dean of Hybrid Design Studies and Associate Provost, Parsons School of Design. Assistance and support has also been received by Richard Knipel, Wikipedian in Residence at the Guggenheim Museum and Jennifer Yao-Weinraub, Librarian at the New School Libraries.

Attendees
If you registered via our Eventbrite site, a Wikipedia account has been created for you in advance. Please see or contact the event managers for assistance if you do not recall your username or password.
 * If you did not register on our Eventbrite site, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account the day of the event.
 * If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).
 * 1) Librarianhelen (talk) 13:49, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Pharos (talk) 19:02, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Roman Spinner (talk) 05:37, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Clementinedi (talk) 15:58, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) T3xtstylist (talk) 18:09, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) MarNYC (talk) 18:10, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 7)  and Mohamed Udhuman (talk) 10:50, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Mozucat (talk) 21:11, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Jim.henderson (talk) 00:33, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 10) Laceknitter (talk) 17:12, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 11) EliLim91 (talk) 17:32, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 12) Sean cormier (talk) 16:54, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 13) Jeffreypsilberman (talk) 16:58, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) Haleykli (talk) 17:03, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 15) Farley bottleservice (talk) 17:14, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

List of articles to edit
These lists are a good place to start.
 * Textile arts cleanup list.
 * Textile Arts Stubs (too short articles)
 * Textile Stubs

Also, the following articles have been marked as needing work:

Topical pages

 * African waxprints
 * Barkcloth
 * Ikat
 * Textile manufacturing - Note: this is a big job that requires talk with other editors regarding the merging of this article with the article "Textile industry"
 * Cargill Cotton
 * Textiles in mythology and folklore
 * Madras (cloth) - Ability to translate from French useful.
 * Textile design
 * Fiber
 * Mitumba (clothing)
 * E-textiles
 * Finishing (textiles)
 * Whitework embroidery
 * Spindle (textiles)
 * Trapunto_quilting
 * Organdy
 * Textile-reinforced concrete
 * Sprang
 * Woodblock printing on textiles
 * Silk Road- Certain sections need verifiable citations

Biographical pages

 * John Ryle (manufacturer)
 * Margaret Greig
 * Julia Southard Lee
 * Ina Golub
 * Mariska Karasz
 * Mary Walker Phillips
 * Marianne Kinzel
 * John Kendrew (inventor)
 * John Lees (inventor)

Articles improved
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) African textiles --
 * 2) Bed sheet --
 * 3) Glossary of dyeing terms --
 * 4) Grödinge tapestry --
 * 5) International Cotton Advisory Committee --
 * 6) Liripipe --
 * 7) Loom --
 * 8) Martindale (unit) --
 * 9) Napkin folding --
 * 10) Natural dye --
 * 11) Penal treadmill --
 * 12) Rapier loom --
 * 13) Textile manufacturing --
 * 14) Textiles in mythology and folklore --
 * No edits made during editathon dates
 * 1) Madras (cloth)

New articles created
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Air-jet loom --
 * 2) Alma Lesch --
 * 3) Textile Society of America --

Editing Wikipedia resources

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * About the Sandbox
 * Your First Article
 * Article Development
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

Visual Editor
 * Visual Editor User Guide(edit Wikipedia as you would in a typical word processing program. Limited to article editing. Cannot be used in talk and other areas of Wikipedia.)

Editing in Wikipedia Markup
 * Tutorial
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia

Tools and templates

 * Infobox template - person
 * Infobox templates
 * Biographies of living persons