Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/USC/OTM
Join us for Off the Margins: Your Voice Matters - A Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at University of Southern California on Monday, February 1, 2016 This is a Polymathic Pizza Event, free and open to the public |
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University of Southern California Libraries will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to increasing the diversity of Wikipedia editors and content. This free event is open to the public, but please RSVP! No specialized knowledge of a subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. Please bring your laptop and power cord (we will have a few laptops available but not enough for everyone); we will provide WiFi, snacks, pizza and beverages, reference materials and a list of suggested topics. What: Wikipedia’s diversity gap is well documented; both in article content and editor identity. With Wikipedia being one of the most popular websites accessed around the world to find information, we want to help ensure that the editors and entries are more inclusive and as diverse and representative as its users are. Whether you regularly edit Wikipedia entries or are curious about the editing process, all skill levels are welcome. When: Monday, February 1, 2016 from 3pm–6pm
Where: Doheny Library Room 241, University of Southern California, 3550 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Directions and Parking: Doheny Library is located in the center of campus, adjacent to Alumni Park and across from Bovard Auditorium, on Trousdale Avenue. Room 241 is located on the second floor. The closest parking available is at Gate #3 which has an entrance on Figeroa Street at McCarthy Way. There are Metro Expo line stops at Expo Park/USC station, and Jefferson/USC station. Prior to arrival: Create your Wikipedia account before you arrive. There is a limit to the number of new accounts that can be registered on-site. While you are able to edit anonymously creating an account allows your IP address to remain private and less CAPTCHA entering. PLEASE do this in advance of your attendance!!! What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. |
RSVP
[edit]Please sign below (by editing the source code) or RSVP using this online form
--Librarian ccg (talk) 16:10, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
--Enamei2 (talk) 22:13, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
--Edoolan (talk) 11:46, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
--Stacywills (talk) 11:51, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
To-Do
[edit]For those new to editing Wikipedia we recommend looking for articles that need references, in-text citations, or stubs that need expanding. For those looking for a challenge try those that need more substantive edits around language, bias, and original research. And for the Wikipedia rockstars we recommend creating an article from scratch.
Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
You can help by adding to it.
To improve:
- ACT UP (citations needed)
- Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival (stub)
- A. Magazine (stub)
- Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons (references needed)
- African-American middle class (citations needed)
- Alice L. Kibbe (stub, needs references)
- Amerasia Journal (stub)
- Antifeminism (original research, unsourced statements, controversial)
- Barnes-Wallace v. Boy Scouts of America (citation needed)
- Camille Rose Garcia (citation needed)
- Chawathil First Nation (stub)
- Commonwealth v. Wasson (references needed)
- Compromise of 1877 (needs expansion)
- Dorothea Lange (citation needed)
- Double X Science (stub, needs references)
- Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) (verification, stub)
- Emma Bodie Begay (stub / notability)
- Feminist theory in composition studies (lead text needs to be rewritten)
- Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles (reference needed, introduction needs to be rewritten)
- Gender inequality in Honduras (references)
- Gender Parity Index (stub, notability)
- Gender pay gap in the United States (tone, reference errors)
- Gender roles in Afghanistan (style editing, additional references)
- General Union of Syrian Women (stub)
- Gertrude Neumark (stub)
- Harriet Zuckerman (needs references)
- Ida Henrietta Hyde (needs references)
- Incarceration of women in the United States (neutrality, additional references, expansion)
- Kathleen Haddon (needs references)
- La Raza (citations needed)
- Latino USA (additional citations needed)
- Marilyn Friedman (references needed)
- National Black United Front (stub)
- Nicola Pellow (needs secondary sources)
- Poetry slam (more precise citations needed)
- Polymath (additional gender representation needed)
- Queen Betty (stub)
- Ruben Salazar (citations needed)
- Slave narrative (citations needed)
- The Journal of African American History (stub)
- The Washington Afro American (stub)
- Treatment of slaves in the United States (citations needed)
- Women's Caucus for Art (citations needed)
- Women in Sikhism (references, original research)
- Women in Uzbekistan(needs expansion)
- Women's rights in Cuba (references needed)
- Women's rights in Tonga (references needed)
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/bycat/Human_rights.html (references needed)
If you don't see a topic/article of interest to you listed above, try searching this Citation Hunt tool
To create:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Women_in_architecture (list of missing articles about women in architecture)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Biography/By_profession#Feminist_figures (list of requested feminist figure biographies)
- Mary Jean Bowman - (1908-2002) University of Chicago economist best known for her work on the economics of education.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicana/Latina_Foundation - Burlingame, California foundation
Outcomes
[edit]List below which articles you created or improved. Thanks!
Created:
New Stub:
Improved:
- added JCR info to International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
- added citations to Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
- added citations to Cynthia McKinney
- added citations to Eva Kolstad
- corrected citations and added references to Lisa Ben
- corrected citations and added references to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- Added history section to Transgender studies
- Added secondary source to Equality California
- Added content and citation to Gospel quartet
- Added a citation to Minstrel Show
- Rewrote lead and copy-edited Audre Lorde
- Added JCR info to Signs (journal)
- Added JCR info to * The Journal of Popular Culture
Resources for publishing on Wikipedia
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Please start here:
- Unforgetting L.A.: Getting Started (step-by-step instructions + links)
- Wikipedia:GLAM/Beginner's guide to Wikipedia
- Help:Cheatsheet
When in doubt:
- Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
- Notability Guidelines for Organizations
- Conflict of Interest policy
- Image Use Policy
- Article Naming & Disambiguation
Additional Tutorials:
- Basic tutorial
- More detailed tutorial
- Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
- Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) ------------>