Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/History of Medicine in Newark/October 2023

Help us enhance information in Wikipedia about the history of medicine in Newark!

The John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University in Newark welcomes students, staff, faculty, and the general public to an edit-a-thon focused on the history of medicine in Newark, New Jersey. Please register in advance and bring your laptop to participate in the event.

In anticipation of the edit-a-thon, "For all the People, a Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform, " a traveling exhibit created by the National Library of Medicine will be on display in Dana Library on the 1st floor. Please come check it when it goes on display October 3rd!

The participants affiliated with this initiative will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia. We will modify our editing behavior if any edits conflict with Wikipedia guidelines. Please contact the Project Coordinators, Dbiunno (talk) or Bobavrul or Runarchives if any activities appear to go against this statement.

Details

 * Location: Hybrid but in-person strongly encouraged! In-person at the John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University, Newark and via Zoom.
 * Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2023
 * Time: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
 * Sign up and register here: Please register in advance. Seating is limited.
 * Please register for a Wikipedia account at this link BEFORE coming to the event
 * All are welcome to join us! Please bring a laptop to participate.

Location:

 * John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Avenue, Newark, NJ NJ 07102. Use 77 Bleeker St, Newark NJ if you are using a GPS.
 * To enter the Library please use the new Plaza Entrance on the south side of Bleeker Street. 40.74239°N, -74.1753°W Climb to the plaza level. The Library is on the east (left) across the plaza from Paul Robeson Student Center on the west (right). When you go through the entrance door, you'll see the guard who will check your ID.
 * Directions to campus and a campus map
 * Attendees must present a current Rutgers ID card or government-issued ID (ie, drivers license, real ID, etc) to enter Dana Library.
 * Washington Street station (Newark Light Rail) is a few blocks south of the campus. If you are driving, you'll need to pay for street parking.

Quick Editing Tips

 * Visual editor cheatsheet
 * Referencing for beginners
 * What is a reliable source?
 * How to cite sources
 * Wikipedia's manual of style
 * Getting started
 * Wikipedia: Your first article

Agenda

 * Welcome! Introductions
 * Brief presentations
 * Angela Lawrence, archivist at the Rutgers University Newark Archives
 * Bob Vietrogoski, archivist at Smith Library, Special Collections in the History of Medicine
 * Beginner tutorial by Diane Biunno, archivist at the Institute of Jazz Studies: How to edit Wikipedia
 * Announcements: please feel free to share any events going on in the area.
 * Let's edit!

Upcoming Events
(feel free to add any upcoming Wikipedia related events you'd like to share)
 * Philadelphia WikiSalon - monthly online Wikipedia group, open to all
 * Meetup/NYC New York City
 * WikiConference North America 2023 - annual Wikimedia Conference - held in Toronto 9-12 November 2023

Attendees
List your username by adding the following line. * ~


 * Dbiunno (talk) 18:59, 22 September 2023 (UTC)Dbiunno


 * Jim.henderson (talk) 02:13, 29 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Dorevabelfiore (talk) 16:19, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 19:20, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Misterman226 (talk) 19:43, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Articles that need additional citations/references and general copyediting
This might be a good place for beginners or folks who've never edited Wikipedia before..

If you'd like to work on the following articles, please add your name or username to this spreadsheet
 * Marcus Lawrence Ward He co-founded Ward hospital in Newark, a hospital for convalescing service members. Former governor of NJ.
 * Hildegard Peplau   : American Nurse who created the first grad level program for the preparation of clinical specialists in psychiatric nursing.
 * Clara Maass was an American Nurse who died as a result of volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever. She was born in NJ and graduated from Newark German Hospital.

Short articles that need additional written content
To help get you started, we've attached links (footnote) to potential sources.

If you'd like to work on the following articles, please add your name or username to this spreadsheet


 * Rutgers School of Nursing:     Established in 1956. Article is very short. Find some reliable sources and add content.
 * John Kenney Founded Kenney Memorial Hospital in Newark. Article is very short. Find some reliable sources and add content.
 * Shirley Smoyak      nurse and academic who has had a significant impact on the field of psychiatric nursing. Article is very short. Find some reliable sources and add content.
 * Medical Society of New Jersey is the oldest professional society in the US. Article is very short. Find some reliable sources and add content.

Articles to create
Please add your username next to the article you'd like to work on so you can collaborate with other editors and/or avoid duplicating work


 * Mary G. Boland (nurse) NEW ON WIKIPEDIA


 * Ward hospital Hospital for convalescing service members. Co-founded by Marcus Lawrence Ward. Please work on the draft of the Wikipedia article with other editors in this google doc and when it's ready to be published, move it to Wikipedia. If you'd like to work on this article, please add your name or username to this spreadsheet
 * Ironbound Community Corporation  Please work on the draft of the Wikipedia article with other editors in this google doc and when it's ready to be published, move it to Wikipedia. If you'd like to work on this article, please add your name or username to this spreadsheet