Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Women Writers October 2018

University of Virginia class ENNC 8500 is hosting "Women Writers", a private Wikipedia and Wikidata editing event for the class.

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 * Date: Monday October 15, 2018
 * Time: 3:30-4:45pm EST
 * Place: Bryan 310
 * Slides: Wiki + Collective Biographies of Women

Agenda
This event includes wiki editing. Please bring a laptop!


 * 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
 * 0:05-0:20 - Orientation and tutorial for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and related Wikimedia projects
 * 0:20-0:25 - particular discussion about women's projects
 * 0:25-0:55 - Wiki editing!
 * 0:55-1:05 - Check in, share results
 * 1:05-1:15 - 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.

Steps

 * 1) For Wikipedia
 * 2) off Wikipedia and in library resources, find a publication with interesting facts
 * 3) identify a fact
 * 4) now browse Wikipedia for an article covering the topic of the fact
 * 5) click edit at Wikipedia article
 * 6) type your fact into the Wikipedia edit box
 * 7) click "cite" at top, and enter your citation
 * 8) click save
 * 9) For Wikidata
 * 10) Consider Wikipedia's presentation of the Collective Biographies of Women database
 * 11) identify a fact
 * 12) now browse Wikidata for an item covering the topic of the fact
 * 13) insert the fact as structured data
 * 14) cite the source
 * 15) save

Wikidata inspiration

 * Data models
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Women
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers
 * Wikidata:WikiProject Universities recommended statements - university model
 * lists of people
 * d:Wikidata:University_of_Virginia/Listeria/UVa_people/African_Americans
 * WikiProject University of Virginia/Women Writers October 2018/Listeria

Contact

 * Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry) for Wiki issues
 * Alison Booth, professor

Links

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