Wikipedia:Meetup/PSUL Native American Learning Group Editathon

The Penn State University Libraries Native American Learning Group is holding an edit-a-thon. Our goal is to improve Wikipedia resources about Native Americans, with a special focus on Native Americans in Pennsylvania. To accomplish that goal, you can help in many ways; you can create entirely new pages, re-vamp existing pages, or help proof-read pages! On this page, you'll find some information to help you set up a Wikipedia account and master the basics of page creation/editing. Also on this page, you can find suggestions for articles to improve. It's important to remember that every little bit helps, you don't need to create a whole new page to make a difference.

Trainings
No experience? No problem! We will introduce the basics of Wikipedia editing at the beginning of each session.

Make a Wikipedia account

 * https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Wikipedia-Account

Join our Event Dashboard
Once you have an account, join our Dashboard in order to make sure your edits are tracked for our two day edit-a-thon!
 * https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Penn_State/PSUL_Native_American_Learning_Group_Editathon?enroll=gmexlrwb
 * Passcode: gmexlrwb

Get familiar with Wikipedia

 * Take a look at the Wikipedia resources below and get acquainted with the creation/editing process.
 * Visit some Wiki pages and click "Edit Source" on the top of the page to see what it looks like to edit a page!
 * Review notability requirements if you're interested in creating a new page.

Editing Wikipedia: Tips and Tricks

 * Formatting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet
 * Page creation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_a_page
 * Adding an infobox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox
 * Article tips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard
 * Biography template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Biography

Editing In-Progress
Ruthbrarian (talk) 19:49, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi everyone - Eric

--Beaversamaze (talk) 19:52, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Nathan Tallman

g. johns

Lauren Cooper

Bethann Rea

Kevin Clair

Types of work for beginning editors
The lists below contain articles from any of the following categories, and their subcategories (up to 3 levels down), that need the type of work specified:
 * Category:Native_Americans_in_Pennsylvania
 * Category:Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School

De-orphaning articles
In the Wikipedia glossary, an orphan is defined as "an article with no links from other pages in the main article namespace". These pages can still be found by searching Wikipedia, but it is preferable that they can also be reachable by links from related pages; it is therefore helpful to add links from other suitable pages with similar and/or related information. De-orphaning articles is an important aspect of building the web. This is a really great, simple way for new editors to contribute to Wikipedia! Here are instructions for de-orphaning articles. (This description is based on the Art and Feminism edit-a-thon resources.)

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Other clean-up

 * Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional;
 * Adding new inline citations/references;
 * Adding a photo;
 * Adding an infobox;
 * Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox;
 * Creating headings;
 * Adding categories

Improving stub-class articles
Below are lists of "stub-class" articles (very short articles) in two categories relevant to our edit-a-thon. See Stub for information on how to improve and expand stub-class articles and when to remove stub status.

Stub-class articles within Category:Native_Americans_in_Pennsylvania and its subcategories (up to 3 levels down)
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Stub-class articles within Category:Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School and its subcategories (up to 3 levels down)
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