Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Truth and Evidence in Academic Research

Truth and Evidence in Academic Research is a University of Virginia Seminar series presented by the Provost office. On Monday 4 March 2019 user:bluerasberry will present "Quality Control in Wikipedia", a lecture and workshop in this series. This is a private event for students in the class and invited guests.


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Preparation

 * 1) Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
 * 2) please sign in so that your instructor can find your account name and the article you edited
 * 3) Bring your device to the event. Wiki's editing interface is best on non-mobile display.

Program

 * 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
 * 0:05-0:30 - Quality Control in Wikipedia
 * 0:30-0:35 - review of class readings
 * 0:35-0:50 - Discussion, questions
 * 0:50-1:00 - Tutorial on data science, Wikidata, and feminism
 * 1:00-1:30 - editing, everyone edits wiki and becomes a structured data expert
 * 1:30-1:45 - participant show and tell
 * 1:45-2:00 - editing wrap up, open discussion, thx

Wikidata editing exercise

 * 1) Do "preparation" above
 * 2) navigate to a list of people
 * Albemarle and Charlottesville people
 * women with a UVA affiliation
 * African Americans with a UVA affiliation
 * 1) click the name of a person
 * 2) "add statement"
 * 3) Consider adding any of these
 * 4) Occupation
 * 5) country of citizenship
 * 6) Ethnicity (requires citation)
 * 7) Sexual orientation (requires citation)
 * 8) Employer
 * 9) description
 * 10) Educated at

Supplementary wiki reading

 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject Data Quality
 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject Wikidata for research/Talks/Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata 2019

Contact

 * Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry) for Wiki issues
 * Meridith Wolnick, Director, Teaching & Learning at the University of Virginia Library
 * Bethany Mickel, Librarian, University of Virginia Library