Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Justin Dart Jr. Virtual Edit-a-thon 2015
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| Date and Time | August 26, 2015 (Wednesday) through August 31, 2015 (Monday) |
| Address | An entirely virtual event! |
Virtual Edit-a-thon to Commemorate Disability Rights Activist Justin W. Dart Jr. and the 25th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act
[edit]A virtual edit-a-thon to celebrate the memory of Justin Dart Jr. (born August 29, 1930), and to create and enhance articles on disability rights activism for the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Sponsored by the National Museum of American History, the Executive Office of the President of the United States, the National Council on Disability, and Wikimedia DC
If you are interested in participating, please sign up below and/or share the results of your work done between August 26-31, 2015.
Goals
[edit]- To encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
- To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to disability topics
- To make Smithsonian-held materials more openly linked
- To increase awareness of the research resources freely available through libraries, archives, and museum
Participating remotely
[edit]- Penny Richards (talk) 03:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 05:28, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- Add your user name here
Suggested articles to create or edit
[edit]Below is a list of articles which could be created or expanded using information from the National Museum of American History's collections. This list is not exhaustive and you may edit or expand any additional Wikipedia articles on disability themes.
Articles to expand
[edit]- Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr.
- American Association of People with Disabilities
- Post-Polio Health International see Polio Place website http://www.polioplace.org/
- Marca Bristo
- Max Starkloff
- Walgreens Justin Whitlock Dart Sr. was an executive for the company, 1930-1940
- Universal design
- Patrisha Wright
- ADAPT
- Disability rights movement
- Stetson (Dart's favorite hat brand)
New articles
[edit]- Yoshiko Saji Dart Wife of Justin W. Dart, Jr. and also a disability activist. See "The life and occasionally scandalous times of Yoshiko Dart" by Josie Byzek with photos by Tom Olin, in Mouth (magazine) http://www.mouthmag.com/says/yoshiko_says.htm and article "Yoshiko Dart" in Bender Consulting Services, Inc. blog, March 28, 2012 http://www.benderconsult.com/blog/2012-03/yoshiko-dart and "United we shall overcome: A message from Yoshiko Dart" on the AAPD Power Grid blog, Nov. 23, 2011 http://www.aapd.com/resources/power-grid-blog/united.html
- Yoshiko Dart's entry would also be an appropriate project in September, for Wikipedia APA. All the more reason to get something started.Penny Richards (talk) 03:51, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- Evan J. Kemp, Jr. Activist for disability rights; see his New York Times obituary at http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/14/us/evan-j-kemp-jr-60-champion-of-disabled.html and an editorial by Kemp in the New York Times, Sept. 3, 1981 http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/03/opinion/aiding-the-disabled-no-pity-please.html and his obituary on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/45th/ada20/kemp.cfm
- Paul G. Hearne Lawyer and activist for disability rights; obituary in the New York Times, May 10, 1998 http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/10/us/paul-g-hearne-48-affable-champion-of-disabled-dies.html and his obituary and AAPD Hearne Leadership Awards Program information from the AAPD website http://www.aapd.com/take-action/the-aapd-hearne-leadership-awards-program.html
- Michael Anagnos doesn't have an entry yet--director of Perkins School for the Blind in the 1880s
- Helen Anne Henderson (Canadian journalist died April 2015)
- Tom Olin, photographer
- Sonsheree Giles, dancer (redlinked in AXIS Dance Company)
- Ethel Bent Walsh (1923-2004), EEOC, Pregnancy Disability Act (Washington Post obit)
- Encarna Conde, Spanish disability rights activist (she has an entry on Spanish wikipedia, if someone wants to translate: Encarna Conde
- National Organization on Disability
- Hale Zukas (b. 1943), member of the Rolling Quads [1]
- Maria Rantho (d. 2002), South African disability rights activist [2]
- Ron Mace (1941-1998), coined the term universal design
- Everest and Jennings, first mass-manufacturer of wheelchairs[3]
- Richard Devylder (1969-2015), transportation activist [4]
- Lucy Spruill (1945-2015), transportation activist [5]
- Michael A. Winter (1951-2013), NCIL president[6]
- Donald L. Rasmussen (1928-2015), miner's health advocate [7]
Images to upload
[edit]- https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmuseumofamericanhistory/sets/72157657296517198/page1/; also includes pdf's of relevant speeches etc. of Justin Dart Jr., from the National Museum of American History's Flickr page
Categories
[edit]- Poliomyelitis (add Dart's name to the list)
- Disability_rights_activists_from_the_United_States
- Disability_in_the_United_States
- United_States_disability_organizations
Resources
[edit]- Pioneers in Disability Rights and Community Organizing: An Interview with Justin Dart, WNYIL (Western New York Independent Living, Inc.) on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx30dRH4-6c
- body/freedom/art: Rethinking Disability Through Art, from the National Museum of American History's blog, "O Say Can You See?" http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/bodyfreedomart-rethinking-disability-through-art
- The making of the ADA, from DREDF (Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund) http://dredf.org/2015/07/14/the-making-of-the-ada/ includes a video interview with Dart
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1989, video from C-SPAN, August 15, 1989 http://www.c-span.org/video/?8719-1/americans-disabilities-act-1989 Includes an interview with Justin Dart
- Justin Dart Jr. Memorial Service, video from C-SPAN, July 26, 2002 http://www.c-span.org/video/?171512-1/justin-dart-jr-memorial-service
- Justin Dart, the Industrialist and Friend of Reagan, Dies, New York Times obituary for Justin Dart Jr.'s father http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/27/obituaries/justin-dart-the-industrialist-and-friend-of-reagan-dies.html
- George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, July 26th, 1990, Gold Pictures, on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1K8fj0KcFk
- The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Timeline, from ABC-CLIO Companion to the Disability Rights Movement, by Fred Pelka. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 1997, available from the Bancroft Library website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/resources/timeline.html
- EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America, online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, https://everybody.si.edu/citizens/laws
- Whatever Happened to Polio?, online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, http://amhistory.si.edu/polio/index.htm
Websites, library catalogs, & databases
[edit]- Introduction to editing Wikipedia (Slideshare prepared by Sara Snyder for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon, May 2014)
- National Museum of American History Archives Center http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives
- Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
- Smithsonian Collections Search Center http://collections.si.edu/search/
Results
[edit]- Add the titles of your new/upgraded articles here, and links to any uploaded images
- Maria Rantho (new entry)
- commons:Category:Justin Dart images here
- Elizabeth E. Farrell (expanded a two-sentence stub into a more substantial article)
- Everest and Jennings (new entry)
Resources for Editing
[edit]Wikipedia Editing Tutorials
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Copyright and Wikipedia
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Tutorials on Wikipedia editing
[edit]Editing Wikipedia resources
[edit]- Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
- Tutorial
- How to Edit a Page
- Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
- Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
- Article Development
- Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Manual of Style
- Citation templates
- Infobox templates
- Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
Tools and templates
[edit]- Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
- Infobox template - person
- Biographies of living persons
- Writing an article
- About the Sandbox
- Wikipedia Cheat Sheet – a Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
Conflict of Interest
[edit]WikiProject Disability
[edit]- WikiProject Disability is the long term project on the English Wikipedia that takes responsibility for all articles related to disability. WikiProject Disability will thus take responsibility for the curation and improvement of all the articles created and expanded by this edit-a-thon.
- The Project's Talk page is a good place to get general advice about the topic of disability on Wikipedia. The WikiProject also has a style guide which may be useful to edit-a-thon participants.
- Place the WikiProject Disability banner on the Talk page of new articles by adding {{WikiProject Disability}} to the top of the talk page.
- Please join the project if you're interested in continuing to contribute to Wikipedia after the edit-a-thon.