Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Capital Area Biospace Emerging Technologies Edit-a-thon

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Emerging Technologies Wikipedia Workshop

with Capital Area Biospace, MoCoMakers, and Rockville Science Center

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This workshop will bring together DIY biologists and makers from across the DC area with experienced Wikipedians. Learn about emerging technologies like synthetic biology, nanotechnology, robotics, and more! Afterwards, we'll teach you how to improve Wikipedia articles on science and engineering topics of your choice.

As the web’s most visited reference site, Wikipedia is a starting point for both scientists and non-scientists to learn about technology topics. Wikipedia is openly editable, meaning that you can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries. During this training, you will learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia articles, and practice these skills with experienced Wikipedians.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan; you can reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

Lunch will be provided!

When

Saturday, June 2, 2018 12–4PM

Where

Studio i Makerspace, Second floor of Rockville Memorial Library

21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland

Register

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Agenda

The following agenda is tentative. Lunch will be served starting at 12.

• 12–12:15 Introductions
• 12:15–12:45 Wikipedia training
• 12:45–3:30 Editing!
• 3:30–4:00 Talk on DNA nanotechnology

Policies, Quick Tips and Other Wikimedia Resources

Policies

• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Core content policies
• Wikipedia:General notability guideline
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources

Your first article

• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Referencing for beginners

Tips

• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
• Creating Redirector with Source Editor
• Using categories
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

Wikimedia and other related projects

• Wikidata
• Wikimedia Statistics
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Wikimedia Commons

Articles to work on

If you need some inspiration to find an article to work on, browse these worklists for examples of articles that need improvement!

• Articles in categories: Synthetic biology, Nanotechnology, Robotics, 3D printing
• Articles that need to be created: Ephemeral random constant, List of online bioinformatic resources, List of emerging applications for genome editing with CRISPR technique (Including CRISPR/Cas9 and CRISPR/Cpf1).
• Articles that need to be expanded: List of biomedical cybernetics software, List of open-source bioinformatics software, BioLinux.
• Articles needing expert attention: Genetics, Microbiology, Robotics
• Requested articles: Genetics, Electronics
• Wikipedia Requests: Genetics, Microbiology
• Stubs to expand: Genetics, Microbiology, Biophysics, Robotics
• Cleanup listing: Microbiology, Biophysics, Nanotechnology
• Women in Red: Biology, Engineering

Resources

Sources to cite

In general, secondary sources are the best sources for Wikipedia. These include review articles in peer-reviewed journals or books, guidance documents and technology roadmaps from government agencies and industry groups, and technical news articles from trade publications like Chemical & Engineering News or journals like Science and Nature. Here's a list of sources to get you started:

Synthetic biology

• Industrialization of Biology: A Roadmap to Accelerate the Advanced Manufacturing of Chemicals (National Academies, 2015)
• Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century (National Academies, 2013)
• The Science and Applications of Synthetic and Systems Biology (National Academies, 2011)
• Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature's Inspiration: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries (National Academies, 2010)
• Biodesign for the Bioeconomy: UK synthetic biology strategic plan (2016)
• Synthetic biology: report to Congress (U.S. Department of Energy, 2013)
• Advanced biomanufacturing: a workshop (NSF) (U.S. National Science Foundation, 2013)
• NIST–ABMS workshop to develop a metrology roadmap for synthetic biology (U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2013)
• Synthesizing law for synthetic biology (2010)

Basics on editing Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Five pillars and Wikipedia:Core content policies
• Advice for scientists editing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Getting started
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
• WikiProjects are portals for collaborating in Wikipedia around specific subjects. Some relevant WikiProjects are:
  • WikiProject Genetics
  • WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology
  • WikiProject Microbiology
  • WikiProject Biophysics

Outcomes

• Draft:Graphical perception
• C9orf64
• Exome
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• Genetic exceptionalism
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• Do-it-yourself biology
• Workplace robotics safety
• Haloarchaea
• Single-cell analysis
• Viologen
• Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith
• Flagellum
• Ionic (mobile app framework)
• Olney, Maryland
• Bowerbird
• Kawhi Leonard
• USCGC Campbell (WPG-32)

Sign-ins at the event

• econterms (talk) 16:21, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 16:27, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 17:44, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Nebrial (talk) 17:44, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 17:44, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Rscus2001 (talk) 17:44, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Vcassian (talk) 17:45, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Alin1212 (talk) 17:45, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Windsparrow (talk) 17:45, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Synoby1357 (talk) 17:46, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Icwatkin42 (talk) 18:19, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Genomegal (talk) 18:26, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

• Elhamdania (talk) 19:59, 2 June 2018 (UTC)