Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/New England New Play Alliance and HowlRound Wikipedia Hackathon

New England New Play Alliance and HowlRound Wikipedia Hackathon
Date	February 10, 2018
Time	1pm-4:00pm;
Address	2nd Floor of the State Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza
City, State	Boston, Massachusetts

New England New Play Alliance and HowlRound Hackathon
This hackathon/Edit-a-thon, hosted by HowlRound and the New England New Play Alliance is focusing on New England playwrights and New England theatre companies who produce and develop new plays.
When: 1:00 to 4:00PM on Saturday February 10th, 2018 Where: 2nd Floor of the State Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 RSVP: On Facebook

Event details

The New England New Play Alliance and HowlRound are co-hosting this Wikipedia Hackathon, focusing on New England playwrights and New England theatre companies who produce and develop new plays. Join us in this effort! We welcome all open knowledge enthusiasts and theatre-people. We will introduce you to the basics of editing Wikipedia and walk you through adding citations before moving to an open editing session. We have identified suggested articles to edit, as well as suggested sources, but we encourage you to edit pages that interest you!

About us

HowlRound, part of Emerson College is a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners. The New England New Play Alliance works to bring together the collective energy and resources of new play producers and developers in New England to:

Grow audiences for new plays.
Encourage more new play development and production.
Spread the word outside of Boston about plays/playwrights from Greater Boston/New England

Schedule

If possible, create a Wikipedia username ahead of time. If you can't, no problem. We will help you!

1:00 pm – 1:10 pm: Welcome
1:10 pm – 1:30 pm: Intro to editing Wikipedia
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Open editing

FAQ

Should I bring a laptop? Yes!
Will there be food? Refreshments will be provided.

Join us!

Participants

How to participate

1

On the day of the event, add your Wikipedia username to the list of attendees above.
Don't have a username yet? It's easy to create one.

2

Choose an article to list on this page.
Want to work on an article that's not on the list? You're welcome to choose any relevant artist or organization you like!

3

Have questions during the event?
Ask one of the facilitators!

Get started!

Editing your first article!

Pick an article to edit!
Find some reliable sources that can support that article.
Learn more about citing sources.
Make your edits, or begin your article via the Wikipedia:Article wizard

Examples of Playwright and Company entries

Melinda Lopez (this could also use some updates for recent shows)

For company entries, we may want to include a section on new plays developed. Adding this to entries highlights their work in new play development.

Suggested sources

HowlRound
Emerson College's Library (Ask HowlRound Staff for a login)
World Theatre Map
Boston Globe

Wikipedia help

Wikipedia's standards

Wikipedia's organization and markup

After today's event

Outcomes

We will track number of edits, articles edited, etc. during our event. To have your contributions included in our outcomes, add your name to the list of participants above.

Resources

Hooked on editing Wikipedia? Attend another Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! They are listed on this page: Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston Educating with Wikipedia Half-Day Workshop] and happen frequently in Boston.
Check out the World Theatre Map, an open source directory for the global theatre community!