Wikipedia:Meetup/RISD

On Wednesday May 13th, the first illustration edit-a-thon took place at the picture collection at RISD. Usually, Wikipedia Edit-a-thons are about updating the text of an article, however, this event focused on editing the illustrations, charts, diagrams, and photographs within Wikipedia articles. A Wikipedia edit-a-thon is a great opportunity to publish unused or new work on Wikipedia and make existing articles better. It is also a way to re-think school projects that end up nowhere and see how the work we make in studio can help strengthen open source communities.

First Wikipedia RISD Illustration edit-a-thon
The 2015 first RISD Illustration edit-a-thon took place Wednesday May 13th at the "Visual + Material Resource collection (room 204) in the RISD Fleet Library.

2015 Participants

 * Íñigo López Vázquez
 * Polina Godz
 * Elizabeth Goodspeed
 * Jordan Beard
 * Brielle Curvey
 * Alex Khomyakov
 * Barron Webster
 * Jon Rinker
 * Lizzy Gregory
 * Lukas Winklerprins



Useful links

 * Image syntax for Wikipedia articles
 * TED talk: How cognitive surplus will change the world
 * Libre Graphics Meeting
 * Open Source Kitchen
 * Wikipedia markup cheat sheet

Steps for uploading
Since most attendants will not have the permissions to upload images directly to Wikipedia, here is the shortcut for newly created accounts:
 * 1) Upload your work to Wikimedia
 * 2) Once you finish uploading, click on "Use this file"
 * 3) Copy the markup provided and paste it into the Wikipedia page you wish to edit.