Wikipedia:Meetup Agnic

Introduction
This page is a meetup for the virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Pilot Program hosted by the partners of AgNIC. Our goal is to bring together our knowledge of high-quality agricultural information to crowdsource Wikipedia pages that deal with some aspect of agriculture and which are listed within the "Stub" and "Start" classes. Since this is a pilot program and will be hosted synchronously online, there is a cap at 10 participants. Register early for your spot!

In addition to our main goal of adding more high-quality agricultural 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
 * foster and support the already robust and extensive professional network of agricultural information specialists

Schedule

 * Registration : January 14-31, 2016
 * Training Session #1: Tuesday, February 15, 2016
 * Training Session #2: Friday, February 26, 2016
 * AgNIC Edit-a-Thon: Friday, March 4, 2016

Event information

 * Date: Friday, March 4, 2016
 * Time:
 * 2-4:30pm EST
 * 1-3:30pm CST
 * 12-2:30pm MST
 * 11am-1:30pm PST
 * Location: Synchronous online meeting.
 * Registration: Registration open for members of AgNIC, USAIN, and our colleague librarians at land grant institutions.
 * Prerequisites: No prior Wikipedia editing experience necessary. At least 2 short training sessions will be provided in advance of the Edit-a-Thon, with small homework assignments. During the events, editors will be on hand to help with questions.

Register (optional)
(You can register by signing your name with four tildes)

1. KellyDoyle (talk) 17:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

2. That librarian 88 (talk) 14:48, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

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4. Koprivan (talk) 16:18, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

5.Fyr3opal (talk) 00:48, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

6.Julieannkelly (talk) 22:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

7.foodfriendly130.184.237.71 (talk) 18:41, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

8.Theloneshopper (talk) 20:09, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

9.BarbaraHutchinson (talk) 14:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Articles to edit
For beginning editors it is often best to begin with a stub or start class article. If you are a more experienced editor, please feel welcome to select more advanced articles and/or help other editors get started.

Otherwise, the organizers of this event have selected a list of stub and start class articles that need some help. Below you will find alphabetized lists of stub and start class articles, the Wikipedia Community has helped us by organizing the stubs by category (below).

==="Stub-Class Agriculture articles" ===
 * Agriculture stubs *W
 * Livestock stubs
 * Cattle stubs
 * Goat stubs
 * Poultry stubs
 * Sheep stubs
 * Other children: horse-stub under mammal-stub in Zoology
 * domestic-pig-stub feed into this category

"Start-Class Agriculture articles"

 * Agriculture starts *W

Tracking
We will be asking our participants to track their efforts in a shared Google spreadsheet, which will be available via email closer to the date of the event.

Top Training Resources

 * Wikipedia Markup Cheatsheet (Web version)
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * FAQ
 * WikimediaFoundation Youtube channel
 * GLAM-Wiki initiative ("galleries, libraries, archives, and museums") Beginners Guide
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * 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

Additional Training Resources
See especially the section on "Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page" and "Making Simple Edits." Covers userpages, working in the sandbox, and adding citations. Includes best practices for more in-depth editing.
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Article Development
 * Wikipedia Community Portal
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
 * Art+ Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 1
 * Art+Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 2
 * Art+Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 3

Additional Readings of Interest

 * Why GLAM Wiki: Wikipedia and Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
 * Art+Feminism Downloadable Organizer's Kit