Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Surfacing Black Life November 2018

The University of Virginia Library is hosting Surfacing Black Life, public Wikipedia event for students and faculty to have fun while also sharing information from the library's special collections. 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 it popularity. Come to socialize, share snacks, and to publish information that people will read. Feel free to ask any questions you have ever had about the encyclopedia.

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 * Date: November 30, 2018
 * Time: 1-4:30 pm
 * Place: Auditorium, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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) T. J. Sellers
 * 9) The Reflector (Charlottesville, Virginia)
 * 10) Randolph Lewis White
 * 11) People
 * African Americans with UVA relationship
 * 1) Randolph Lewis White
 * 2) Visual Artists of the African Diaspora in VA
 * 3) Education
 * 4) Jefferson School (Charlottesville, Virginia)
 * 5) Burley High School (Charlottesville, Virginia)
 * 6) Segregation academy
 * 7) Black school
 * 8) Massive resistance
 * 9) Other concepts
 * 10) Charlottesville, Virginia
 * 11) List of newspapers in Virginia
 * 12) List of high schools in Virginia

Wikidata data models

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

Digitized Reflector newspaper issues
Several issues of The Reflector, a 1930s Black-edited Charlottesville newspaper, are online in a UVA Box folder. To access that folder, click here: https://virginia.box.com/s/yh0o8wu4kzvqqchx080pgntp52r9md5b

Contact

 * Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry) for Wiki issues
 * Molly Schwartzburg (User:Leofstan) for the University of Virginia Library

Links

 * WikiProject University of Virginia, a landing page for anyone to coordinate collaboration between the UVA and wiki communities
 * Data Science Institute at University of Virginia, which coordinates wiki activities at UVA