Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Wadewitz
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Welcome! Occidental College is hosting Writing for Wadewitz: Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-Thon. |
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 When: Friday, May 23, 2014, time TBD Where: Occidental College, exact location TBD What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. Focus: ............. As always, you do not need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor in order to attend. Hashtags: #wadewitz and #wikiwomen |
Background
Adrianne Wadewitz, known as User:Wadewitz (formerly User:Awadewit), died on April 8 from injuries suffered during a rock-climbing fall on March 28. She was a well-known and popular editor on the English Wikipedia, where she authored 36 featured articles and organized edit-a-thons in Los Angeles. She served on the board of the Wiki Education Foundation, and was a vocal public Wikipedia advocate on HASTAC, an online group that works with scholars in the humanities, arts, and sciences on innovative collaborations on new modes of learning and research in higher education. Some of you may have met her at previous edit-a-thons, including the March 2014 edit-a-thon at MOCA.
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To-Do
Resources
- Wikipedia Markup Cheatsheet
- Basic tutorial
- More detailed tutorial
- Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
- Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) ------------>