Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Peabody Essex Museum Edit-a-thon Spring 2014
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 Basic informationCome and join the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) for our very first Wikipedia edit-a-thon! PEM is committed to making information about its collections available to a global audience. At this first edit-a-thon, we’ll be editing Wikipedia articles and uploading images on our Native American and Chinese art collections using the resources and expertise provided by the PEM curators and staff.
How to sign upEveryone
New to Wikipedia?Want to learn about Wikipedia but never edited before? That’s fine! New editors are welcome at this event. We’ll provide training throughout the morning from friendly, experienced Wikipedians and museum staff. Before you come, you might want to check out the following resources:
Sign up for a Wikipedia account before you come (not necessary, but saves you a step on the day): Already a Wikipedian?Below are lists for Wikipedians to identify themselves and their interests ahead of time. Facilitators
Participants
Remote ParticipantsIf you can't make it but want to help out, let us know and we’ll figure out something! Regrets but maybe next time
On the dayMeet in the Atrium (main entrance) at 9am to sign in. There will be signs directing you to Create Space 2, where the event will take place.
Suggestions for editingThe day is themed around enriching and adding articles pertaining to Native American and Chinese art. Below is a list of topics we would like to focus on for this edit-a-thon. Many of these have links to PEM’s collections. Curators will be on hand with material related to these topic areas. These topics are broad- other suggestions are welcome! We will try to be as flexible as possible with requests on the day, but cannot guarantee the provision of materials on other topics.
Contemporary Native American artists Many of the Wikipedia articles on [contemporary Native American artists] are incomplete, and many significant contemporary Native American artists do not currently have their own Wikipedia articles. We'll be working to update information about these artists and add images of their works from PEM's collection. We'd like to improve the articles about these contemporary Native American artists:
We'd like to create articles about these significant contemporary Native American artists:
We'll also try to edit and/or add images to these articles about Native American art:
Resources
Check out these resources to learn more about Native American art:
This article was edited as part of an edit-a-thonThis article was edited as part of the Peabody Essex Museum Edit-a-thon Spring 2014
 The editor who attended the event may be a new editor. In an effort to support new editors, please assume good faith to their contributions before making changes. Thank you! Ed Rodley (talk)
NoticeYou're invited to the Peabody Essex Museum Edit-a-thon Spring 2014
On May 3rd, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts will be hosting a Native American and Chinese Art edit-a-thon from 9-5. You are more than welcome to attend, as there will be free food and drink, as well as an outing afterwards. If you are interested please sign up here, as we would love to see you there! If you have any questions, please leave a message at Ed Rodley's talk page. You can unsubscribe from future notifications for Boston-area events by removing your name from this list. OutcomesWe'll fill this in after the event! |
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