Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Textile Museum Edit-a-thon
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Textiles Edit-a-thon
- Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that you can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries. As one of the web’s most visited reference sites, Wikipedia serves as a starting point for visitors who want to learn more about a variety of topics. With the help of experienced Wikipedians, attendees will learn to edit and contribute to textile-related Wikipedia articles. Librarians and staff from The George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum will be on hand to provide access to source material.
When
- Thursday, August 10, 2017 10AM–1PM
Where
- The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum [1]
- 701 21st Street NW
- Washington, DC 20052
Articles to work on[edit]
Worklists[edit]
Special requests
- Batik
- Carding
- Carpet
- Combing
- Couching
- Dye (Includes Synthetic and Natural Dye)
- Dyeing
- Resist Dyeing (Includes Wax and Paste Resist Dyeing)
- Tie-Dyeing
- Warp Dyeing
- Mordant
- Embroidery
- Felt (Includes Felt Making)
- Fiber
- Ikat
- Indigo
- Kilim
- Knitting
- Loom
- Looping
- Metallic-wrapped thred
- Oriental carpet
- Piecing
- Pile
- Plain weave
- Balanced plain weave
- Warp-faced plain weave
- Weft-face plain weave
- Plying
- Prayer rug
- Textile printing
- Quilting
- Rug
- Rug knot
- Selvedge
- Sericulture
- Shed
- Shuttle
- Silk
- Spindle
- Spinning
- Tapestry weave
- Slit Tapestry Weave
- Textile
- Textile structure
- Twining
- Warp
- Weft
- Yarn
Categories-Each category contains multiple articles (Taken from Wikiproject Textile Arts)
- Textiles
- Textile arts by region
- Textile artists-All
- Women textile artists
- Batik
- Beadwork
- Buttons
- Glossaries of textile arts
- Ikat
- Indigenous textile art of the Americas
- Lace
- Needlework
- Quilting
- Ropework
- Rugs and carpets
- Sewing
- Spinning
- Textile design
- Textile printing
- Textiles in mythology and folklore
- Thangkas
- Wearable art
- Weaving
- Yarn
Stubs to expand
Resources[edit]
Basics on editing Wikipedia[edit]
- Wikipedia:Five pillars and Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:Your first article
- Help:Getting started
- Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
- Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
References[edit]
- Artisan Textile Resources (non-scholarly brochure from Weave a Real Peace)
- Maiwa (Introductory pages dyeing)
- Maiwa (Introductory pages weaving)
- Victoria & Albert Museum (see Read More)
- Textile History (Scholarly journal that includes some open access articles)
- The Textile Museum - terms and definitions
- The Textile Museum Thesaurus
- Textile Society of America Symposia Proceedings
- University of Arizona On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics
- Google Scholar
Outcomes[edit]
Articles created[edit]
Articles improved[edit]
- Embroidery (Checked for spelling and grammar errors.)
- Glossary of dyeing terms (spelling)
- Ikat (added wiki-link; Added additional information and additional footnote)
- Plying (Added citations in introduction for definitions. Rewrote section on Navajo plying to make it more factual, less instructive. Removed tags that no longer apply)
- Prayer rug (added citation)
- Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.) (Added accurate website; Added former location; Added photo of new location; updated image caption)
- Silk waste (Add book to further reading)
- Textile (Removed cn tag where ref was already present in "Production methods" section; Added Looping; added cite)
- Plain weave (Added reference)
- Looping (Linked to Textile page)
- Warp and weft (Added the definition of "Warp" from The Textile Museum & cited it)
Attendees[edit]
- DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 12:38, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- AdriannaScibor (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- Sarandib2 (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- NancyLane (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- Peggyhgreenwood (talk) 14:33, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- Loriak41 (talk) 14:41, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- Magstar887 (talk) 15:05, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- MZMcBride (talk)