Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Refugees2016

First Hand: Refugee Talks and Wikimedia DC are planning an edit-a-thon on the subject of refugees.

When and where and how to get there[edit]

Saturday, May 14, 2016, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

901 G Street NW, Washington, DC

By metrorail:

Gallery Place-Chinatown (Red / Green / Yellow Lines)

Once you've entered the library, turn left to go into the Digital Commons, then in that big room turn right. We'll use their projectors.

Please bring your own laptop computers. We don't have any spare ones.

Schedule[edit]

1:05 PM - Welcome by Aaron, Becki, and Ruth of First Hand: Refugee Talks. Guidance to resources, snacks
1:15 PM - Talks by refugee
1:45 Introduction to editing Wikipedia, Peter Meyer, Wikimedia DC, and Alex Stinson
2:15 - 4:30 PM, Editing time

Basics on editing Wikipedia[edit]

Today's intro slides
Help:Cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup
Editing - The Basics has .pdf handouts and videos
Wikipedia Training, Includes a one-hour training for newcomers, and more extensive pages for teachers and Wikipedia Ambassadors
Wikipedia Tutorial is a hands-on approach that walks you through various aspects of Wikipedia editing
Creating Wikimedia accounts at MLK library may require being logged in first; it can be done from Peter's account using Special:CreateAccount or equivalently Special:UserLogin/signup

Resources to use[edit]

Basic info[edit]

More useful sites[edit]

General articles about refugees-- the preferred kind of source[edit]

One Year After a Devastating Earthquake, Nepal Is Still in Ruins -- Newsweek
High Commissioner welcomes Turkish work permits for Syrian refugees - Source: UNHCR
Merkel visits Syrian refugees in Turkey amid tension over EU migrant deal - euronews
Merkel accused of turning a blind eye to plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey - The Guardian
The Guardian ‘No one can lecture Turkey’: EU leaders praise Erdogan’s refugee effort, shrug off rights concerns — RT News
In no man's land: Syrian refugees trapped and dying on Jordan border Middle East Eye
Syrian refugees mark 5,000th birth at Zaatari clinic - Al Jazeera English search
Czech police marking refugees directly on their skin - Euronews
Resettling Bhutanese Refugees – Canada’s Commitment
Bhutanese Refugee Health Profile: Population Movements - CDC
Resettlement of Bhutanese refugees surpasses 100,000 mark Bhutan's Refugees - My Country is My Family - UNHCR
South Sudan: Portrait of a civil war refugee - Al Jazeera English

Firsthand accounts by refugees for expanding articles[edit]

Story of a Syrian refugee family’s journey to resettlement in the U.S. at time.com
Video interviews with Iraqi refugees by an American journalist
Interviews with Syrian refugees in Lebanon in 2011
First hand refugee stories collected by a Syrian-American volunteer at NY Daily News
- Firsthand accounts at The Guardian site
Firsthand accounts from a UK social service agency that focuses primarily on asylum-seekers
Stories about refugees in Belgrade, from a travel writer
Firsthand account from a volunteer who assisted on the Turkish-Syrian border
- firsthand account from an American doctor who volunteered in Greece
- brief account from a volunteer on Lesvos
Account from a (filmmaker?) on Lesvos
[1] - Story about a non-refugee European who traveled to Kos and witnessed the crisis “I knew I would not find the answers staring at a screen, and then on Wikipedia I read something that made up my mind. A citizen of Kos is called a Koan – the same word used in Zen Buddhism to describe a paradox used to move the mind towards enlightenment and greater understanding. I would take my Koan to Kos.”
To destroy you is no loss by Thida Budh Mam -- first hand account of a refugee from the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia -- [2], [3], [4]
New education centre for Syrian children in Nizip - UNICEF CEE/CIS Media centre

Attending?[edit]

Please add your name or username!

econterms (talk) 12:21, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sadads (talk) 01:17, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sudowoodoo (talk)
czave (talk)
--Jkburges20 (talk) 19:58, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Pumpkin.pie.labrador (talk) 19:56, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
--Lambertbc3 (talk) 19:58, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Vkurka (talk) 19:59, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
--NaraForRefugees (talk) 20:01, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Eric Scharf (talk) 20:00, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Virtual participation[edit]

Can't make it to the event? You can participate online! Here's how it works:

1

On the day of the event, check in with your Wikipedia username.
Don't have a username yet? It's easy to create one.

2

Choose an article to edit from the list on this page.
Want to work on an article that's not on the list? You're welcome to choose any topic you like!

3

Have questions during the event? Chat with us!
Some events also include a video or audio conference. You can find more details on this page.

Vkurka (talk) 19:59, 14 May 2016 (UTC)--Vkurka (talk) 19:59, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Articles to create, expand or revise[edit]

Link these and others to particular articles of interest, in any language

List of refugees
Refugee -- Definition and information on refugee makeup
Calais Jungle -- major refugee camp -- and related articles.
Refugee camp Could be better organized.
Sudan - Darfur section
Refugees of the Syrian Civil War
Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Refugees of Nigeria
Refugees in Nigeria
Refugees in Nepal -- add information about refugees and homeless from the earthquake
Refugees of South Sudan - (we'll use this as a sample article)
Panyijar County - (we'll use this as a sample article)
Syrians in Germany
Nyarugusu
Balochistan_conflict -- can we add sources?
Administration of justice in refugee camps - Info from UNCHR report
Refugees in Chad - UNCHR report on planning refugee camps in Chad. Article on Sudanese refugees in Chad already exists.
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition -- TASSC -- can use sources and editing
United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP)

Refugee camps information -- finding sources[edit]

See:

Refugee camp articles to create[edit]

Syrian refugee camps -- Many, many camps here have no articles!
Mbera Refugee Camp
Nakivale, Uganda

Outcomes[edit]

List here, or please place a Y next to an article above to indicate that edits were made. The mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.