Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Disability Pride Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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Disability Pride Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

The disabled community is underrepresented on Wikipedia, and YOU can make a difference by participating in our Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon.

Join us at 12:30 PM for a brief lesson on editing Wikipedia. Stay for the remainder of the event and help to improve and create Wikipedia articles related to disability.

This event is presented by ODU Department of Women's Studies, ODU Libraries and Wikimedia DC.

Questions? Contact: rosorio@odu.edu,

When

Thursday, October 17, 2019 Time: 12:30PM - 3PM

Where

Old Dominion University

Perry Library Room 1309

Norfolk, VA

Please sign in

This is for use on the day of the event.

1) Select 'Sign in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Safe Space Policy

• Safe Space Policy

Wikimedia Projects

• Wikimedia movement
• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
• Wiktionary, a dictionary
• Wikibooks, educational textbooks
• Wikinews, news articles
• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
• Wikiversity, educational material
• Wikivoyage, a travel guide
• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies

• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Core content policies
• Wikipedia:General notability guideline
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources

Quick Editing Tips

• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
• Creating Redirector with Source Editor
• Using categories
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects

• Track Wikipedia Page Views
• Wikimedia Statistics
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• WikiProject Women in Red

Coordination

TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.

Shared Doc: Etherpad

Suggested Work List

About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

Work list is available HERE in a Google Shared Doc. The list includes both articles for creation and existing articles. Please start with existing articles if you are new to editing.

Attendees

• Agehr003 (talk) 16:43, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Meghanjmorris (talk) 16:43, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• 128.82.19.5 (talk) 16:43, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Abrow011 (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Ameliamaclay (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Baseballgod757 (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Carhodes74 (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Toomanynathans (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Meghanjmorris (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Krund001 (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• Mortduo (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

• 128.82.19.5 (talk) 16:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)