Wikipedia:Meetup/Riverside/WLL/Water

Come contribute to the world's most popular encyclopedia! Have no experience with editing Wikipedia? We'll teach you!

Anyone with an interest in editing collaboratively and having a great time is encouraged to attend. Bring a laptop and power cord!

Water Edit-a-thon is an innovative approach to improving content and access to water resources in Wikipedia. This project is hosted in collaboration with Colorado State University Libraries with the goal of creating and improving Wikipedia articles about water in the West. No specialized knowledge of the subject is needed; we'll have librarians, subject experts and library and archival resources on hand to assist as well as a list of suggested topics. There will be free refreshments available to give you the energy you need for all your research breakthroughs. The local sessions are hosted by the UCR Library Special Collections and University Archives and the Librarians Association of the University of California Riverside Division. The Water Resources Collections and Archives collection manager, Jessica Davila Greene, will provide content, resources, technology and an introduction to Wikipedia editing by Phoebe Ayers, member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and author of Wikipedia Works: and How You Can be a Part of It.

Attending

 * Jessica Davila Greene, UCR Library Water Resources Librarian;
 * Rhonda L. Neugebauer, UCR Rivera Library, Latin American and Chicano/Latino Studies
 * phoebe / (talk to me) 18:13, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Christy Brown Anderson, UCR Library Acquisitions Dept
 * add yourself here!

Participating Remotely

 * Colorado State University
 * Montana State University
 * Colorado Mesa University
 * University of Denver
 * Washington State University

have all agreed to have their own meetups at their locations to work on this project!

Suggested Topics

 * 2013-2014 California drought (and/or improve 2012–14 North American drought and 2010–13 Southern United States drought)
 * Any of the Tributaries of the Santa Ana River
 * Quantification Settlement Agreement
 * Coachella Canal
 * Salton Sink
 * Dividing the Waters
 * Western Waters Digital Library
 * Joseph B. Lippincott
 * List of rivers of California (and the rivers on it)
 * California Department of Water Resources
 * List of largest reservoirs of California (and the reservoirs on it)
 * List of lakes in California (and the lakes on it)
 * Anything in Category:Water in California

Reference Sources

 * California Drought 2013-
 * California Institute for Water Resources
 * USGS California Water Science Center
 * California Drought (CA.Gov)
 * California Drought Watch
 * U.S. Drought Portal
 * Save Our Water Drought Portal

Wikipedia Help
Key Wikipedia guidelines and policies:
 * Conflict of Interest policy
 * Image Use Policy
 * Article Naming & Disambiguation
 * Wikipedia Markup Cheatsheet
 * GLAM Beginners Guide
 * Wikipedia Tutorial
 * Citation guide
 * Formatting Shortcuts -
 * Text Formatting
 * Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
 * Links
 * Tutorials:
 * Basic tutorial
 * More detailed tutorial
 * Wikipedia Adventure - a juvenile but easy and effective tutorial!

Outcomes

 * added references to Water in California, Owens Valley
 * edited groundwater and San Timoteo Creek
 * added further reading to Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and California State Water Project
 * added pictures to Lucy Stone and Lucy Stone League