Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UW Library Special Collections edit-a-thon 4-25-2015

WikiWork! A Collaborative Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, featuring the UW Labor Archives
Would you like to learn how to edit Wikipedia? Or are you an experienced editor, looking to make connections in the UW community? Are you interested in opportunities for digital activism that makes a real impact on the way in which information is created? Or maybe you just love UW’s libraries and archives and want to share them with the world!

The WikiWork! Collaborative Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon will introduce hands-on Wikipedia editing standards and techniques, while bringing conversations about local, working class history and other issues of representation to the world’s largest encyclopedia.

Join us for this dynamic interchange of people and technology, knowledge and information.

Refreshments will be served. Space is limited. Registration is suggested but not required. RSVP today! (Note: URL for more information and registration is coming soon)

Sponsored by the UW Libraries & Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

Suggested starting points
From Conor Casey, Labor Archivist, Labor Archives of Washington
 * Labor Archives of Washington - Research Guides at University of Washington Libraries
 * LAWS Digital Collection - Labor Archives of Washington
 * Northwest Digital Archives
 * HistoryLink
 * Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
 * Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights History Projects
 * Richard Berner Seattle 1900-1920: From Boomtown, Through Urban Turbulence, to Restoration
 * Jonathan Dembo "A history of the Washington State labor movement, 1885-1935"
 * Ron Magden A History of Seattle Waterfront Workers, 1884-1934
 * Ron Magden The Working Longshoremen (1991) A history of Tacoma longshoremen from 1886 to c. 1991

Recent improvements

 * See for an overview of the Wikipedia articles creation & external linking project to date. This project links Wikipedia articles to online archival finding aids listed in collections, records, & papers in the Labor Archives of Washington Collections Listing


 * Also see UW Special Collections--Seeding Inventory By Wikipedia Topic for a list of links of Wikipedia entries that have already had links to online finding aids added to them.


 * Also see for a list of links of UW archival collections that have been linked to related Wikipedia entries.

Proposed articles to edit

 * Perhaps we can document recent labor relations and union activities at Microsoft; Boeing; public sector unions like police, teacher, caregiver, and university employee unions; and the issues around minimum wage and legally mandated sick leave allowances.
 * Labor and the New Deal can become the basis for a Labor and the New Deal Wikipedia article linked from the Labor relations section in the New Deal article.
 * Seattle_General_Strike can be expanded from "T",.
 * I.W.W. in the Pacific Northwest could be the basis for its own I.W.W. in the Pacific Northwest Wikipedia article, using something like the further template, such as in the organizing section of Industrial Workers of the_World to direct one to the new article.

Proposed articles to add

 * Rosalinda Guillen
 * Cindy Domingo
 * Phil Lelli
 * Shaun Maloney
 * Labor Archives of Washington
 * Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, UW
 * Chris Mensalvas
 * Lonnie Nelson

Other projects

 * Wikisource
 * Out-of-copyright text may be uploaded into Wikisource. More info about Wikisource is summarized in an English Wikipedia article:Wikisource.
 * Commons
 * Out-of-copyright and public domain images may be uploaded into Main Page
 * International decision tree:
 * Under U.S. copyright law, works published before 1923 are in the public domain.
 * The US Federal government places most of its works into the public domain



RSVP
The Research Commons will be providing refreshments and asks all to please RSVP here: wikiwork — UW Research Commons

If you would, please indicate the likelihood of your attendance so we will have an idea of the Wikipedians / Cascadia Wikimedians User Group members attending.


 * Probably attending
 * Peaceray (talk)
 * shameran81 (talk)
 * Pine (Pine)


 * Maybe attending
 * Brianhe (talk)


 * Probably not attending