Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WikiGap

	United Nations Headquarters
When and Where
Date	Thursday, March 8, 2018
Time	11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Address	United Nations Headquarters; New York City;
City, State	New York City, New York 10017

This meetup page is an archive of a past event. Please do not edit the contents of this page.

The Swedish Mission to the United Nations WikiGap Women in Leadership Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the United Nations Headquarters, New York was organized in 2018 in partnership with the Swedish Mission to the United Nations,the United Nations, UN Women, UN DPI, UN DM/OICT, Office of the SG's Envoy on Youth, UN Intranet-iSeek, Consulate General of Sweden, Wikimedia, Wikimedia NYC, AfroCrowd and the greater WikiGap campaign.

Event information[edit]

Date: Thursday, March 8, 2018
Time: 11:00-3:00pm
Location: United Nations Headquarters, United Nations Headquarters Express Bar area, New York, NY 10017
Subway: Grand Central–42nd Street (New York City Subway)
Bus:
- M42 bus
- First and Second Avenues Line M15 bus to 45th or 46th Street
Worldwide Wikigap event page
Social Media: Tweet, like, comment or follow us on social media. Our hashtag is #Wikigap and @WikimediaNYC #AfroCROWD @AfroCROWDit @SwedenUN

SIGN UP: Dashboard

How to prepare[edit]

Bring your laptop: Editing Wikipedia is easier with a keyboard.
Bring a published source to cite: Suggested books and papers will be available at the event. If you like, bring an academic paper or other reliable source of information to cite, to support your addition to Wikipedia. You will use Wikipedia to distribute information from this source. Try to bring the highest quality most reputable source you can find for the information.
Create a Wikipedia account, if you do not have one already.
If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.

Event Agenda[edit]

We will open the area for registration at 10:30 AM, with introductions, speeches and the primary training session to start at 11:15 am. The program will end at 3 PM:

10:30-11:05 - Sign in and registration to dashboard and accounts

11:05-11:10 - Introductions

11:10-11:25 - Presentation on editing Wikipedia. Training by Wikimedia NYC President, Megan Wacha.

11:25-11:50 - Participants will have the Wikipedia editing experience; demos and support are offered mostly to individuals

11:50-12:00 - Editing time!

12:00-1:30 - Continued workshop, questions answered and demos made on request for group or individuals

1:30-1:45 - Photo time

1:45-2:00 - Discussion, let's take a look at what we did today

2:00-2:45 - Wrap up time

We will have light snacks and drinks throughout the day

WikiGap 2018 video

Welcome to the Edit-a-thon![edit]

Welcome to the International Women’s Day #WikiGap Women Leaders Wikipedia Edit-a-thon hosted by the Swedish Mission to the United Nations

Led by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this event is part of the #WikiGap initiative, a partnership between Swedish embassies and local Wikimedia affiliates and volunteers around the world to close the gender and diversity gap on Wikipedia.

What is Wikipedia?[edit]

Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on earth (World Economic Forum), and the English language Wikipedia contains nearly 5.5 million articles, more than 40 million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.^[7] (See the statistics page for more information.)

Why are we here?[edit]

All-day in-person edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the Wikipedia gender gap can become narrower and include more content on notable women.^[3] Another goal is to increase the number of female editors. Though Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", as at 2015 only roughly 10 percent of editors were women.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[3]Female-focused biographies number about 17 percent versus other genders. *From the Women In Red Wikipedia Project on edit-a-thons.

Our mission for today[edit]

Today's mission: Add at least once sentence or other contribution to Wikipedia about a notable woman leader.

Did achieve today's goal? Tell wiki coach, and we can help check your edit(s) for you.

Thanks for coming today and helping #MakeHistory with the #WikiGap initiative to help close the Wikipedia gender and diveristy gap.

Let’s begin:[edit]

Get your account/ create a username: Please don’t use your real name. It should be 6-8 characters. If you need help, please ask a Wikimedia coach
Add your user name to today’s event
Listen to the training or if you are editing from home or online head here for the basics overview. Head here for a simplified tutorial.
Browse Editing Ideas below and choose a topic to edit (or if you already have one skip to the next step)
Edit: in short - (1) click edit (2) add a sentence (3) provide a citation (4) repeat
Ask for help: Don’t worry about perfection, the Wiki Coaches are here to help you.

Editing contribution types for new Wikipedia editors:[edit]

Is this your very first time? Try this:

Add a biographical sentence: Start with a name, a birthday, an occupation or title, what they famously did, and (very importantly) a citation to verify your information from a credible source(s).

- Example: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American politician, diplomat and activist.[[Eleanor Roosevelt#cite note-PBS-20140910-1|<sup>[1]]] She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office,^[1] and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952.^[2]^[3] President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.^[4]

- - Citation example from above: (1)Moore, Frazier (September 10, 2014). "PBS' 'The Roosevelts' portrays an epic threesome". Associated Press. Retrieved September 10, 2014.(2)Rowley, Hazel (2010). Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-15857-6.

How to make a citation (bibliographical reference):[edit]

1) First, click on the pencil icon on the right to begin using "Visual Editor". Visual editor makes editing easier - like writing a school paper.

2) In Visual Editor, click on the area you want to add the citation. Then click cite. If you have a website as a source, add the website to the blank area.

If you do not have a website source, click manual and follow the prompts. Then click publish. If you have questions, ask a Wikimedia coach or go to Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources.

3) Then click publish.

Editing Ideas: List of articles to create/edit[edit]

Short articles to improve[edit]

100 underdeveloped articles on UN officials (shortest to longest):

Start a new article[edit]

About the Organizers[edit]

About Wikimedia NYC: Wikimedia New York City is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and local Wikimedia chapter for New York City and the New York metropolitan area. We are the regional Wikimedia chapter serving the New York metropolitan area. We help promote free access to the world's knowledge in support of Wikipedia and the other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Follow us on Twitter:@WikimediaNYC

About Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD): AfroCROWD is an outreach initiative which seeks to increase awareness of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements among potential editors of African descent. Since its launch during Black Wiki History Month in 2015, AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target audience about free culture crowdsourcing and the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia. AfroCROWD has also held monthly multilingual editathons in partnership with cultural institutions, galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM), academicians, cultural institutions and many others.

Follow us on Twitter:@AfroCROWDit, Facebook: @AfroCROWD, Instagram:@AfroCROWD or head to our website: AfroCROWD.org

Sign up[edit]

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Likely attendees[edit]

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