Wikipedia:Meetup/Providence, RI/Brown University/AMST2020 Editing, Translation, and Wikipedia (Brown University)

Possible Topics

 * Race, Identity, and Shared Spaces in North America (based on course material)
 * Mammy Archetype
 * Scholarship Related to the Class
 * Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic
 * Incorporation/Translation of Non-English Sources into English Articles (and vice versa)


 * Adding Global Perspectives on Articles Related to British and North American History
 * First Opium War
 * Second Opium War
 * Old China Trade
 * Explore Wikipedia Portals
 * Example Portal on American Civil War Articles

Schedule
Tentative 4:00-4:15pm Welcome and Introductions 4:15-4:45pm Introduction to Editing Wikipedia 4:45-5:00pm Brainstorm Editing Topics and Tasks 5:00-6:00pm Editing 6:00-6:20pm Outcomes and Wrap-up
 * Talk Pages
 * Users and User Pages
 * Sign In
 * Summarizing Your Changes
 * Asking Questions at the Teahouse and Other Helpful Places
 * Many Wikipedias and Wikis
 * Wikipedia in other languages
 * Translating Wikipedia
 * Non-Wikipedia Wikis

Will attend
FaulkTest (talk) 01:22, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

YnTroOsoW (talk) 23:06, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Ykfuta (talk) 23:11, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Sunnie1015 (talk) 23:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Jill 1204 Zhang (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Cmding (talk) 23:10, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Xiaolu shi (talk) 23:12, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Catrinali (talk) 23:12, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Emma Xi (talk) 23:15, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Editing Basics

 * The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Starting an Article
 * Writing Your First Wikipedia Article
 * Citation Guide
 * Infobox templates
 * Formatting Shortcuts -
 * Text Formatting
 * Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
 * Links
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference
 * Wikipedia Cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia Image Policy

Community

 * Create your user page and add some info.
 * Add pages to your Watchlist to learn about subsequent edits.
 * The Wikipedia Teahouse is a good place to go for help
 * |"How To Create Wikipedia Entries That Will Stick" by Adeline Koh and

Wikipedia(s) & Translation

 * English Article on Chinese Wikipedia
 * Chinese Wikipedia
 * English Article on Portuguese Wikipedia
 * Portuguese Wikipedia
 * English Wikipedia Translation Page
 * Duolingo Translation
 * Duolingo Comment on Posting Translations to Wikipedia

Resources
More coming soon

Outcomes
Please share your contributions here.