Wikipedia:Meetup/OregonStateUniversity/WomensHistory2020

Oregon State University 'Writing Pacific Northwest Women's History into Wikipedia' with AfroCROWD
"'Join Oregon State University and AfroCROWD in creating and improving Pacific Northwest Women's history in Wikipedia'"



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Make sure to add your username to the dashboard, where we will track event activities (number of edits, editors, etc.). Event Dashboard

How to prepare

 * If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.

Event Agenda
Your goal is simple, edit just once sentence about Women's History in the Pacific Northwest during the week of March 9 - March 15.

Of course, we encourage you to add even more than one sentence! Please scroll down for more information about articles that need to be created and added to Wikipedia.

Make sure to add your name to our attendance list or the dashboard so that your work is recorded as part of this event.

What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on earth (World Economic Forum), and the English language Wikipedia contains nearly 5.5 million articles, more than 40 million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.[7] (See the statistics page for more information.)

=Our mission for today= Thanks for coming today and helping make history with the #AfroCROWD initiative to help close the Wikipedia diversity gap. Today's mission: Add at least once sentence or other contribution to Wikipedia about a notable women's history in the Pacific Northwest.

Let’s begin:

 * 1) Get your account/ create a username: Please don’t use your real name. It should be 6-8 characters. If you need help, please ask a Wikimedia coach
 * 2) Add your user name to the Dashboard
 * 3) Listen to the training or if you are editing from home or online head here for the basics overview. Head here for a simplified tutorial.
 * 4) Browse Editing Ideas below and choose a topic to edit (or if you already have one skip to the next step)
 * 5) Edit: in short - (1) click edit (2) add a sentence (3) provide a citation (4) repeat
 * 6) Ask for help: Don’t worry about perfection, the Wiki Coaches are here to help you.

Editing contribution types for new Wikipedia editors:
Is this your very first time? Try this:


 * Add a biographical sentence: Start with a name, a birthday, an occupation or title,  what they famously did,  and (very importantly) a citation to verify your information from a credible source(s).

How to make a citation (bibliographical reference):
1) First, click on the pencil icon on the right to begin using "Visual Editor". Visual editor makes editing easier - like writing a school paper.

2) In Visual Editor, click on the area you want to add the citation. Then click cite. If you have a website as a source, add the website to the blank area.

If you do not have a website source, click manual and follow the prompts. Then click publish. If you have questions, ask a Wikimedia coach or go to Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources.

3) Then click publish.

Editing Ideas: These have lists of potential articles to create/edit

 * AfroCrowd task list
 * Requested articles
 * WikiProject African diaspora
 * Wikipedia:Womeninred by occupation by country
 * The Visible Wiki Women Challenge
 * Wikipedia:WikiProject:Wiki Loves Women/African feminists
 * Wiki Months of African Cinema, part of Wiki Project AfroCine
 * Wikipedia:Womeninred by country
 * General History of Africa
 * New African Magazine 100 Most Influential Africans of 2017 Missing from Wikipedia List

Short articles to improve about the Pacific Northwest
Articles identified by librarians at Oregon State University in need of improvement or creation

Relevant videos and other media

 * Introduction to the AfroCROWD Wikimedia Initiative
 * Introduction to Wikipedia Editing
 * Creating and Editing Wikipedia Articles
 * Adding Citations to Wikipedia

Optional:
 * Introduction to adding images to Wikipedia via Wiki Commons

More useful resources

 * Learning tools
 * Wikidata Game
 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en?id=9f96e00c Citation Hunt]


 * Wiki Tribune
 * Wiki Tribune main page
 * Today's Newsathon Stream on Facebook page:
 * Today's Newsathon on Slack:

Attendance
1. Add your name to the dashboard: Oregon State University Women's History Wikipedia Editathon Dashboard

2. Add your Username here by clicking edit source and adding 4 of these squiggly lines below: ~

Bridges2Information (talk) 18:12, 2 March 2020 (UTC)