Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/BU Earth Day 50

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Earth Day 50 Virtual Editathon

When and Where
Host	Boston University
Time	3:00pm to 6:00pm ET
Address	Virtual: Please register for more information
City, State	Boston, Massachusetts (Virtual)
Date	April 23, 2020

Earth Day 50 Virtual Edit-a-thon

As part of Boston University's Earth Week celebrations, the Boston University Libraries are hosting a virtual edit-a-thon on Thursday, April 23, 2020, from 3 - 6 p.m. Our event will include a presentation by MIT Librarian and Wikipedia expert Phoebe Ayers on the many sustainability and climate change related initiatives in the Wikimedia Community. Please register by April 22 at 3pm.

Event Information

• Date: April 23, 2020
• Time: 3-6 pm ET
• Location: Online through Zoom. We will send a link to Zoom prior to the event. You must register to receive this link.
• Host: Boston University Libraries
• RSVP: Please register by April 22 at 3pm ET.
• Register for a Wikipedia account. Don't have a Wikipedia account? That's ok. Please create one in advance. Wikipedians will be on hand to assist those who need help setting up an account.

Before the event

We will show you how to edit during the event, but if you'd like learn more on your own:

• Try some self-paced training if you are a first time or returning editor. WikiEdu has many helpful training resources. Here are a few to get started:
  • Wikipedia Policies(25 minutes) provides an overview of Wikipedia's policies. Highly recommended.
  • How to edit: Wikicode vs Visual Editor(20 minutes) shows the basics of editing. Highly recommended.
  • Finding your article (10 minutes)
  • Adding citations (10 minutes)
• Want to get a head start? Wikimedia DC is hosting a live training: Learn to Edit Wikipedia on April 17, 10-11:15am

Schedule

• 3 - 3:30 p.m.: Welcome and technical troubleshooting
• 3:30 - 4 p.m.: Presentation: Sustainability and Climate Initiatives in the Wikimedia Community, Phoebe Ayers, Wikipedian and Librarian for Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT
• 4 - 6 p.m.: Editing, with the option to join breakout 'rooms' for instruction or projects. This will include a brief training for absolute beginners or others interested from 4-4:30.

Track your participation

We will be using a Wikipedia Dashboard to easily track the edits made during this Edit-a-thon. By logging into the dashboard before you start editing, your edits will be automatically tracked, and we'll be able to collect statistics on the work we've done during this editing event.

1. Go to Earth Day 50 Dashboard.
2. Under Actions, click Join Program.
3. Enter the passcode we will provide you with your registration.

Participant list/registration

Please add your Wikipedia username below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day-of.

Confirmed Wikipedians attending:

add your name here:

• FuniHistory (talk) 15:36, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
• Aeffenberger (talk) 21:58, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
• Gkuriger (talk) 23:23, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
• Xplorecre84give (talk) 20:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
• Ptinphusmia(talk) 14:15, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 19:06, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
• MaynardClark MaynardClark (talk)
• Brooklinehistory (talk) 19:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
• Falcanta (talk) 20:44, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
• phoebe / (talk to me) 21:11, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
• Krugergirl (talk) 21:16, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Possible Topics for Editing

• Expand an environment stub. You can improve stubs by adding a reference or brief information. There are many topic related to sustainability in this project.
• Clean-up an article listed in the WikiProject Climate Change. For new editors, Cleaning up Dead links is often an easy way to edit.
• Sustainable Art Consider adding internal links to this start-class article. Are there other additions that can be made?
• Add missing citations using citation hunt. Try limiting your search to WikiProject Environment or WikiProject Climate change.
• More topics to be added
• One Health Initiative Task Force (OHITF).

Articles to Edit

• Articles about the environment in New England:

• Add to the environment section in Boston, add mention of the Boston climate plan
• Climate change in Massachusetts -- expand lede section, expand with info, citations, update, incorporate info from the National Climate Assessment
• Climate change in New Hampshire
• Climate change in Vermont
• Climate change in Maine
• Climate of New England
• Climate of Massachusetts
• Algonquin Power & Utilities
• Eversource Energy
• Solar power in Massachusetts
• Solar power in Rhode Island
• Wind_power_in_Massachusetts
• Pollution on Cape Cod - a very sad article! needs to be merged into Cape Cod but also checked, cited, expanded
• List of Superfund sites in Massachusetts - update dates, add cites includes sites that are red links
• Charles River Esplanade. Needs proofreading and citations.

• Other environmental-related articles:

• Ecopreneurship
• Cob_(material). Citations needed.
• Corporate social entrepreneurship
• Knowledge entrepreneurship
• List of environmental film festivals. This list could use proofreading and descriptions could be added. Perhaps there are other festivals that could also be added.
• Terrafrica partnership. Expand this stub.
• Individual action on climate change
• Environmental movement in the United States. Needs proofreading and citations.
• Ouarzazate Solar Power Station. Start class article needs citations and possibly updated information.
• History of the electric vehicle
• Passive solar building design
• Pollution prevention
• Pope Francis - Link environmental teachings to relevant articles.
• Renewable energy in Morocco. This overview could use updated statistics. Information might be available in the Wikipedia main articles linked in the text.
• Social enterprise
• Social entrepreneurship
• There are many biographies needing improvement in this category: Category:Women environmentalists, with >200 of which could be improved in this subcategory alone: Category:American women environmentalists. There might also be interest in improving some of the articles located here: Category:Women ecologists.
• Articles on renewable energy technologies and/or renewable technology companies may need improvement.

• Other biocentric public health-related articles:

• One Health
• One Health Initiative Task Force (OHITF)

Articles to Create

• Environmental entrepreneurship
• Jerome Foster II - (born 9 May 2002) is an African-American vegan climate change activist, voting rights advocate, and virtual reality developer.
• Makenna Muigai, Kenyan climate change activist
• Boston Climate Action

Tools to Help You Edit

Wikipedia Editing

• Steps for Adding Reliable Citations in Wikipedia. Use this guide and the Citation Hunt to fix "citation needed" references.
• Wikitext Cheatsheet

Research Resources

• BU Libraries' Sustainability and Environment Reference Books Online Access requires BU Libraries login.
• Boston Climate Action Plan