Summer ‘18 Edit-a-thon at BU

Meetup/Boston/Summer ‘18 Edit-a-thon at BU
	African Studies Bookshelf
When and Where
Time	1:00pm to 4:00pm
Address	Mugar Memorial Library, 771 Commonwealth Avenue, Estin Room (Room 302)
City, State	Boston, Massachusetts
Date	July 10, 2018

Join Boston University Libraries on Tuesday, July 10, from 1:00pm-4:00pm at Mugar Library for a Wikipedia Meetup. In anticipation of the upcoming Wikimania conference, our theme for this event will be the Global South: Bridging Knowledge Gaps. Please register here.

Event Information

Date: July 10, 2018
Time: 1-4:00 pm
Location: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University, 771 Commonwealth Avenue, Estin Room (302), Boston, MA, 02215
Host: Boston University Libraries
Please bring: A laptop and a Wikipedia account. Don't have a laptop? Let us know when you register. Don't have a Wikipedia account? That's ok. You can try to create one in advance. Wikipedians will be on hand to assist those who need help setting up an account.
RSVP encouraged: Please register here.

Schedule

1:00-1:30 -- Welcome, create Wikipedia accounts
1:30-2:00 -- Presentation by Evelin Heidel (Scann) What Open means in the face of inequity & inequality
2:00-2:15 -- Introduction to editing Wikipedia
2:15-4:00 -- Editing

Track your participation

We will be using a Wikipedia Dashboard to easily track the edits made during this Edit-a-thon. By logging into the dashboard before you start editing, your edits will be automatically tracked, and we'll be able to collect statistics on the work we've done during this editing event.

Go to the Summer 18 Edit-a-thon at BU program page.
Under Actions, click Join Program.
Enter the passcode we will provide you with.

Participant list/registration

Please add your Wikipedia username below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day-of. You can also register here

Remote participation is also encouraged. Participate virtually, from anywhere, by adding your username to this page and working on some suggested articles!

Participants:

Gkuriger (talk) 15:08, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Xplorecre84give (talk) 14:04, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
EllenLibrarian (talk) 00:14, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
phoebe / (talk to me) 15:32, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Voltaireloving (talk)
LibraryRonnie (talk)
ghost-nebula (talk)
sgsmith1616 (talk)
AmandaRR123 (talk) 13:24, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Shetlie69 (talk) 14:28, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
FuniHistory (talk) 18:22, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
LibrarianBTeam (talk) 10:09, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Brookline History
Jason.prentice.bu (talk) 13:10, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Dan Rabinowitz (talk)
Eleni Castro (talk)
Charles Riley (talk)

add your name here

Possible Topics for Editing

Dead External Links

This is a good project for beginning editors.
Dead external linkson Cleanup listing for WikiProject Libraries There are many topics related to libraries outside of the United States and Europe. Below are a few examples:

List of national and state libraries
Lists of film archives This list also needs websites added.
Antigua Public Library
General Archive of the Nation (Colombia)
National Library of Ivory Coast

Add Citations

This is a good project for beginning editors.
Wikipedia's Citation Hunt tool randomly generates Wikipedia snippets that need reliable citations.

Citation hunter search for Wikiproject Africa articles. This should bring up a random “citation needed”, but limited to articles that have been identified as “about Africa."
Citation hunter: Wikiproject South America

Create Articles

This is a good project for more experienced editors.

Participate in the WikiProject United Nations/Open Access Descriptions Project and help turn drafts into Wikipedia articles. This project focuses on the state of Open Access in different countries and regions around the world using open license text from the UNESCO Global Open Access Portal descriptions. The articles should include a description of Open Access initiatives for the specific country or region you are writing about, any relevant government policies or institutional support, links to OA repositories, and other useful facts. This information is all available from the UNESCO Global Open Access Portal. Some of the text can simply be pasted in, while other sections will need editing and some original writing. You may need to adapt the layout and the style and tone of the writing and create a new first sentence which must be a definition of the subject. The text must also follow Wikipedia's three core content policies. Full directions are available at the Wikipedia:WikiProject United Nations/Open Access text page and additional instruction will also be provided at the event.

Expand Stubs

After logging in on Our Dashboard, look for the "Find Articles" link. This allows you to do keyword search for articles and then sort them by article class. (S is stub class.)

Other Ideas

Training to Edit Wikipedia

Wikipedia:Five pillars
Steps for Adding Reliable Citations to Wikipedia
Wiki Education Training Modules First time editors may wish to start with Wikipedia Essentials and Editing Basics
The Wikipedia Adventure
Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Wikipedia has a project page for different style manuals. There are ones for different languages, technical topics, and genres.

Resources for Research

Websites/ Freely available sources:

Conference of Directors of National Libraries
Wikipedia:List of free online resources
Ethnologue:Languages of the World
Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford University) A collection of online resources sortable by country or topic. includes Newspapers and Libraries & Archives
UNESCO: General History of Africa This 9 volume set is now freely available as downloadable pdfs.
South African History Online
Access to MidEast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
Brill Open E-book Collection Asian Studies
Latin American History OA Resources from Easten Arizona College
Fordham University Guide to Open Access Resources

Images:

Resources Available at Boston University (some eresources may require a login)