Wikipedia:Meetup/UAzAgricultureNaturalResourcesEditathon

Introduction
This page is a meetup for the University of Arizona Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Agriculture and Natural Resources content. Our goal is to bring together our knowledge of high-quality information to crowdsource Wikipedia pages that deal with some aspect of agriculture, natural resources and other "test" disciplines which are listed within the "Stub" and "Start" classes. Since this is a pilot program, there is a cap at 15 participants. Register early for your spot!

In addition to our main goal of adding more high-quality information to Wikipedia, we also desire to:


 * encourage new or inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia


 * learn from and document our experience so that we may continue to host edit-a-thons at scale

Event Information

 * Date: Friday, March 11, 2016
 * Time: 11:00-5:00 pm MST


 * Location: University Services Bldg (USB) Room #310
 * Registration: Registration open to University of Arizona faculty, staff and students and other affiliates
 * Prerequisites: No prior Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Training will be provided during the event, editors will be on hand to help with questions.

Schedule of events
Draft schedule


 * 11:00am-11:30am      Buffet Lunch with Welcome, Introductions, Background & Overview of Editathon
 * before beginning'''         Pre-event survey
 * 11:30pm-11:45pm      Greetings from Helaine Blumenthal, Program Manager at Wiki Education Foundation
 * 11:45pm-12:30pm      Online workshop with Cornell on editing in Wikipedia
 * 12:30pm-1:00         Review topics for editing and guidelines for entering original content (doing & documenting your research)
 * 1:00pm-4:00pm*        Wikipedia editing (on own or with teams; organizing committee on hand to assist)
 * 4:00pm-4:30pm        Lightning Talks (3 minute reports) to present results; comment on what worked and what did not
 * before leaving'''           Post-event survey
 * 5:00pm               Happy Hour:  Adjourn to celebrate!

*Note: Feel free to step out or work elsewhere as needed but please do make as much progress on your editing as possible and come back for the Lightning Talks and Happy Hour!

Participants (optional)
Once you've created your user account, you can add your user name here by typing in # and four tildes (i.e., ~) below:
 * 1) Fyr3opal (talk) 18:55, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Jeff Oliver (talk) 19:38, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) BarbaraHutchinson (talk) 22:34, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Diaruga11 (talk) 22:35, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Dahmsjo (talk) 22:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Chrislibrarian (talk) 22:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Jodi Reeves Flores (talk) 22:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Whoanoelle (talk) 22:38, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Ash Scheder Black (talk) 22:39, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Preparation
Please complete the following prior to the March 11 session:
 * 1) [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page&type=signup Create your account]
 * 2) Create your user page
 * Click on your username on the top right bar
 * Click on “Start the User:[your username] page”
 * Enter information about yourself or your Wikipedia-related activities into the empty text box.
 * Click “Save page”
 * Your username on the top right bar should turn from red to blue.
 * 1) Record your username. (Bring this to the March 11 event. We’ll be using these to track our editing progress.)
 * 2) We suggest you scan one or more of the following resources in advance:
 * Wikipedia [|Wikipedia Tutorial]
 * The Five Pillars, or fundamental principles of Wikipedia
 * What Wikipedia is Not
 * Wikipedia:Your first article

See also the List of Resources / Wikipedia Basics below.

Articles to edit
For beginning editors it is best to begin with a stub or start class article. More experienced editors can feel free to go for more advanced articles, start a new article, and/or mingle and help other editors. Below are sample lists of stubs, articles that need improvement and UA-related institutions and topics that do not currently have a Wikipedia article. Participants can choose from one of these options, identify a different article to edit/create, add citations to articles in their domain or add other UA centers/departments/etc. to existing Wikipedia lists.

Stubs & Stub Lists

 * Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
 * Link to Agriculture stubs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Agriculture_stubs
 * Biology stubs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biology_stubs
 * Botany stubs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Botany_stubs
 * Livestock stubs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Livestock_stubs
 * Ecology stubs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ecology_stubs

Articles Needing Improvement

 * Santa Rita Experimental Range and Wildlife Area
 * Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park
 * Flora of the Sonoran Desert
 * List of flora of the Lower Colorado River Valley
 * Pages needing attention
 * Ecology and Agriculture
 * Biology
 * Environment
 * Forestry
 * Meteorology and Weather

Potential New Articles
Note: Confirm that an article does not exist before creating a new article based on the list below
 * Create article for the University of Arizona Herbarium (referenced in List of herbaria in North America)
 * Create article for the University of Arizona Insect Collection (referenced in Entomology)

List of resources

 * Institutional Partnerships with Wikipedia / Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Wikipedia Info Booklet
 * This guide has directions on the various Wikipedia projects, and includes a guide for beginners, guides to Wikipedia markup, adding references, and other tasks

Wikipedia basics

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Wikipedia Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Article Development
 * Community Portal
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
 * Student Training Modules from the Wiki Education Foundation