Wikipedia:Meetup/Corning/NYSLAA2015

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Wikipedia and GLAMs are partnering to improve the quality of information on Wikipedia. GLAMs provide subject expertise and Wikipedia has a massive audience. At "Wikipedia and Libraries: How We Can Get Involved," learn about the ins and outs of Wikipedia, the GLAM-Wiki initiative, and how your organization can get involved.

When and where

• When: June 18, 2015, 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST
• Where: NYSLAA Annual Conference, Radisson Hotel, Corning, NY
• Participants: No Wikipedia editing experience necessary - ask me if you have editing questions!

Agenda

• 10:15 AM - GLAMs + Wikipedia: Why we should be involved and an introduction to Wikipedia
  • The five pillars of Wikipedia
  • Conflict of interest, advice for editors who may have a conflict of interest, and an example of a conflict of interest statement
  • Anatomy of a Wikipedia page (article, edit, view history, talk) - e.g. Rupert Giles; user pages
• 11:00 AM - Questions
• 11:15 AM - Editing time - go improve some articles!

Suggested articles and topics

Wikipedians and library staff collaborating in Portland, Oregon in 2012

Attendees at the 2014 Southern Tier history edit-a-thon at the Rakow Research Library of the Corning Museum of Glass.

Please place a Y next an article to indicate that edits were made; the mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.

You can always find articles needing basic edits at the Community portal.

• Library technician
• Library circulation
• Reference desk
• Digital reference
• Catalog card
• Online public access catalog
• Reference work
• Bibliographic record
• Bibliographic database
• Library of Congress Control Number
• MARC standards
• History of public library advocacy
• Library Bill of Rights
• Ask a Librarian

Categories to check for other ideas

• Category:Library and information science biography stubs
• Category:Library and information science stubs
• Category:Library science

Basics on editing Wikipedia

If you have a question about editing, feel free to ask me for help! The Teahouse is also a great place to ask for help from expert editors.

Editing tips

1. Preview your changes before you save them.
2. Write a brief edit summary noting your changes.
3. Don’t forget to use the help bar at the top of the edit box.
4. Sign your posts on talk pages by adding four tildes.

Useful links

• Help:Cheatsheet, quick guide to Wiki markup
• VisualEditor, edit Wikipedia without learning markup (here's the user guide)
• Beginner's guide to Wikipedia, a step-by-step guide that brings together some of the best resources to help you get started in Wikipedia.
• 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
• The Wikipedia Adventure is a 7-mission interactive guided tour which introduces new editors to basic editing, social, and policy skills.
• Writing your first article (the Article Wizard is a great tool)

Resources

• A beginner's guide to Wikipedia
• GLAM one-pager
• Ten ideas for editing Wikipedia - for library edit-a-thons
• Wiki markup cheatsheet

Further reading

• GLAM-Wiki US Consortium
• Wikipedia Loves Libraries
• How to run an edit-a-thon

Attendees

Create an account and add your username below.

• extabulis (talk)

Outcomes

Your comments and outcomes here!