Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Earth Day Edit-a-thon

Please join the GC Digital Initiatives as we celebrate Earth Day and improve the quality of open access, free resources about environmental sciences and humanities.

Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd and people from all over the world are launching campaigns and promoting awareness about critical environmental issues. Our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is designed to help create and improve Wikipedia’s environmental sciences and humanities content. As the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet, Wikipedia provides many people with their first contact with scientific information.

During the Edit-a-thon, you will learn how to set up an account to edit content, learn how to create citations, and either begin connecting existing content to reliable sources or adding new content supported by citations. No previous experience is required. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here.

Details

 * Hosts: GC Digital Initiatives, Wikimedia NYC
 * Participants: This event is free and open to the public
 * Date: Thursday, April 27, 2017
 * Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM (Drop by at any time!)
 * Location: CUNY Graduate Center, Science Center (4th Floor)
 * RSVP: Here. If you require accessibility accommodations to attend, contact us at gc.digitalfellows@gmail.com

Articles to edit
Portals:
 * Climate change in New York City
 * Dead Horse Bay
 * Françoise Gasse
 * Gowanus Canal Conservancy
 * Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
 * New York City Audubon
 * Planetary Science
 * Tree Credits
 * Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
 * Orinoco Belt
 * Category:Natural environment
 * Category:Environment_stubs
 * Category:Stub-Class_Geology_articles

Articles to create
Portal: Requested Articles
 * Environmental Humanities (journal) (website)
 * Land use regression modeling
 * National Forest Commission
 * Superstorm

Editing Wikipedia

 * Wiki Markup Cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
 * WP:Notability
 * WikiProject Environment

Wikipedia's Principles

 * Five Pillars
 * Assume Good Faith
 * Be Bold

Research Resources

 * Earth and Environmental Science Research Guide from Graduate Center Library

Sign-up
RSVPs


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