Wikipedia:RBMS edit-a-thon 2015

Wikipedia for Librarians of Special Collections materials

What's it about
A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon can bring together professionals from GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) institutions and Wikipedians to generate and improve Wikipedia content using and linking back to institutional holdings. Edit-a-thons are fun, informal, and productive ways for librarians, archivists, and others to learn about Wikipedia, and to introduce the Wikipedia community to a library’s collections. Join us for this informal session designed for librarians who want create a proactive and productive relationship with Wikipedia. Participants can use this time to create an account, learn the basics of editing, and work through common Wikipedia editing issues that may be difficult to resolve alone such as notability and conflict of interest. Those who are already comfortable editing Wikipedia can help improve articles related to librarianship. RBMS, Library catalog, and ACRL all need your help!

Organized by:
 * Merrilee Proffitt

When and where
DATE: Friday June 26, 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm

WHERE: Oakland Public Library, Bradley C. Walters Community Room, 125 14th Street, Oakland, CA 94612

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 * AmandaRR123 (talk) 13:16, 12 June 2015 (UTC) (meeting until 4pm, but hope to make it over before the end)
 * Melissa Hubbard (talk)
 * Shannon K. Supple (talk)
 * Karen Coyle (talk)

What you need to bring

 * Participants will need to bring their own laptop or tablet
 * Participants should register a Wikipedia username prior to the workshop. You might first want to review the page on usernames.

Projected schedule:


 * Welcome and introductions / background. What do you want to get out of this?
 * Topics we are likely to cover, depending on interest
 * Let’s get started editing!: Wikipedia basics, editing articles, references, bibliographies
 * Editing questions & feedback, tips & tricks; Wikipedia help resources: Teahouse, talk pages, WikiProject Pages

Goals
Depending on what we cover, participants may:
 * become novice Wikipedia editors
 * understand Wikipedia’s core principles (e.g. no original research, citations, issues concerning conflict of interest)
 * understand the use of sources on Wikipedia
 * understand how to evaluate Wikipedia articles
 * understand how to approach and become a part of the Wikipedia community and social structure
 * be introduced to the Wikimedia Commons and (time allowing) other Wikimedia projects relevant to their work in libraries and archives

Suggested articles to edit

 * Vellum
 * Library
 * Bibliographer
 * Manuscript
 * Library theft
 * Special Collections
 * Fredson Bowers
 * Madeleine B. Stern
 * Leona Rostenberg
 * RBMS
 * Library catalog
 * ACRL
 * June L Mazer Lesbian Archives

Suggested resources

 * Help:Cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup


 * Rare Book School - Advance Reading List (contains links to many articles)


 * Wikipedia Loves Libraries - brief overview of effort to foster collaborations between Wikipedia and libraries

People attending

 * User:Merrilee
 * User:mazarines
 * User:LaMona
 * User:childdramacoll new account!
 * User:pjackson0 new account!
 * User:Theletterp new account!
 * User:AmandaRR123
 * User:Leofstan
 * User:Amfraas

Topics covered

 * Did we miss anything? Please add it!
 * Creating accounts and getting started on editing
 * Strategies for effective and ethical editing
 * Enabling the visual editor and hotcat
 * Creating and adding categories to pages
 * Discussing nominating pages for deletion

Articles edited
Please list which articles you edited as part of the edit-a-thon (replace "name of article" with the article name you edited)
 * June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
 * Hinman collator
 * University of California, Los Angeles Library
 * Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
 * Added suggested research topic to talk page for Fredson Bowers

Drafts started

 * Charlton Hinman