Wikipedia:Meetup/PlantsAndPeopleMCC2017

Mt. Cuba Center welcomes new and experienced Wikipedia editors to our first Edit-a-thon on Friday, January 27, 2017 as part of week-long event Plants and People spearheaded by members of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.

This Edit-a-thon will focus on creating and enhancing pages related to native plants of the Eastern United States. Editors will use the collections of the Mt. Cuba Center library to create and edit existing pages.

Training will be provided for those who have no prior experience editing Wikipedia. A training session will be offered during the first hour of this event. New editors are encouraged to attend this training. Experienced editors may arrive at any point during the event's duration.

Please register through our website, in addition to registering through this Wikipedia page.

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 Coordinator, Lfp85 (talk) if any activities appear to go against this statement.

Event details

 * Host: Mt. Cuba Center
 * Date: Friday, January 27, 2017
 * Time: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
 * Hashtag: #PlantsAndPeople
 * Cost: Free
 * RSVP:  RSVP HERE 
 * What to bring: Please bring a laptop or tablet!
 * Participants: Open to all!

Training
Training will be offered in the first hour for those who are new to editing Wikipedia. The Art+Feminism beginner editor video series is a fantastic resource and highly recommended for new editors.

Suggested activities
This list is very much a work in progress. Please feel free to add ideas, and keep an eye on this space for changes. A note on plant articles: Wikipedia suggests that most plant articles should include sections labeled See this article on templates for more information.
 * Description
 * Taxonomy
 * Subdivisions if applicable
 * Distribution and habitat
 * Ecology
 * Uses

Expand articles/Add or improve citations

 * Baptisia -- false indigo
 * Clematis morefieldii
 * Clematis socialis
 * Clematis texensis -- scarlet leather flower
 * Clematis versicolor -- pale leatherflower
 * Coreopsis -- Tickseed
 * Coreopsis auriculata
 * Coreopsis lanceolata
 * Coreopsis verticillata
 * Echinacea purpurea -- Coneflower
 * Echinacea pallida
 * Helenium -- sneezeweed
 * Heuchera -- alum root, coral bells
 * Monarda -- bee balm
 * Monarda fistulosa
 * Monarda bradburiana
 * Monarda citriodora
 * Monarda clinopodioides
 * Monarda punctata
 * Phlox
 * Phlox divaricata
 * Phlox stolonifera
 * Trillium
 * Trillium cuneatum
 * Trillium flexipes
 * Trillium lancifolium
 * Trillium luteum
 * Trillium stamineum
 * Trillium sulcatum
 * Symphyotrichum laeve -- smooth blue aster

Create new articles

 * Baptisia albescens
 * Baptisia calycosa
 * Baptisia cinerea
 * Baptisia fulva
 * Baptisia lanceolata
 * Baptisia megacarpa
 * Baptisia microphylla
 * Clematis carrizoensis
 * Clematis crispa -- curly virgin's bower
 * Clematis glaucophylla -- whitelead leather flower
 * Clematis pitcheri -- bluebill
 * Clematis viorna -- vasevine
 * Trillium grandiflorum 'Pamela Copeland'
 * Symphyotrichum turbinellum -- prairie aster

Create new articles

 * Pamela Cunningham Copeland

New articles created
Alphabetical order 3

Articles improved
Alphabetical order 8

Resources
Native Plants
 * Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database
 * The PA Flora Project
 * Flora of Delaware
 * Go Botany! New England Wildflower Society
 * Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
 * Native Plant Finder-Mt. Cuba Center

General Plant Resources
 * Floriculture InfoSearch
 * Biodiversity Heritage Library
 * PlantED Digital Library
 * The Biota of North America
 * Flora of North America
 * Botanic Gardens Conservation
 * Kew Electronic Plant Info Center
 * JSTOR Global Plants Database
 * Plant Information Online

General Resources
 * Directory of Open Access Jounals
 * Google Scholar

Editing Wikipedia
 * Wiki Markup Cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
 * WP:Notability (people)
 * Template for plant articles

Wikipedia's Principles
 * Five Pillars
 * Assume Good Faith
 * Be Bold

Attendees
If you are planning to attend, please also RSVP through our website.


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