Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/African Americans in medicine 2019

The Consortium on the History of African Americans in the Medical Professions (CHAAMP) at the University of Virginia is hosting African Americans in medicine, a private classroom event for students and faculty to share information about African American medical organizations and health care providers from the time period before 1960. Wikipedia has been a popular source of information for a generation and continues to influence thought in all fields. By sharing information in Wikipedia we make information accessible to others and track its popularity.

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Agenda
This event includes wiki editing. The orientation at the start of the event is open to anyone who wants an introduction to Wikimedia projects and will be interesting even to people who are unable to join the editing workshop which follows.


 * 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
 * 0:05-0:20 - Orientation and tutorial for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and related Wikimedia projects
 * 0:20-0:25 - Discussion and demos
 * 0:25-1:00 - Wiki editing!
 * 1:00-1:05 - Check in, share early results
 * 1:05-1:30 - Wiki editing!
 * 1:30-1:45 - Wrap up!

Goal
The minimum target goal for participants in the editing workshop is the following:
 * 1) Register a Wikimedia account
 * 2) Add 1 sentence and 1 citation to any Wikipedia article
 * 3) Add 1 statement (structured data with citation) to any Wikidata item

Doing this much will leave participants with insight into how Wikimedia projects work. The theme of this editing event is "black life in Charlottesville" and recommended articles to develop are below.

Topics

 * 1) Content in the following categories
 * Category:School segregation in the United States
 * Category:History of Virginia
 * Category:African-American history of Virginia
 * 1) University of Virginia
 * 2) notice - there are wiki restrictions about editing with conflict of interest!
 * 3) University of Virginia
 * 4) University of Virginia Health System
 * 5) Newspapers
 * 6) The Charlottesville Tribune - merge with Draft:Charlottesville Tribune
 * 7) Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune
 * 8) People
 * African Americans with UVA relationship

Wikidata data models

 * WikiProject Universities recommended statements - university model
 * WikiProject Periodicals
 * WikiProject Source MetaData

Contact

 * Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry) for Wiki issues

Links

 * WikiProject University of Virginia, a landing page for anyone to coordinate collaboration between the UVA and wiki communities
 * Consortium on the History of African Americans in the Medical Professions
 * Data Science Institute at University of Virginia, which coordinates wiki activities at UVA