Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/FAIRly Obscure Anthropology Edit-a-thon

FAIRly Obscure: An Edit-a-thon Exploring Anthropology, Communities, and Wikipedia Representation

Presented by:

The University of Maryland Center for Archival Futures, the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution; George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology; The Bentley Historical Library and University of Michigan School of Information; the University of Missouri’s College of Information Studies; and the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR), and Wikimedia DC

Event description

Are you interested in the history of anthropology? In archival description, outreach, and linked data? In FAIR and CARE principles for social science and scientific information? Join a co-sponsored edit-a-thon event to support the ethical description of anthropological knowledge and anthropological records focused on reworking and expanding related Wikipedia and Wikidata entries. This edit-a-thon will focus on editing, adding, and checking information on these publicly available and publicly maintained databases relating to anthropologists and anthropology. Interested audience may include community members, anthropologists, graduate students in anthropology, graduate students in information science, linked data nerds, and others!

No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Training will be provided, taking place December 13, 12pm to 1:30pm (Eastern time). Open editing time will run from 1:00pm to 4:00pm (Eastern time). If you've never edited before, please plan to attend the training session.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own.

When

December 13, 2024

Training will be provided, and lunch will be provided for in-person participants from 10am-11:30am. Open editing time will run from 11:30am to 4pm. If you've never edited before, please plan to arrive for the training session. Editing and open time for questions 12:30-4pm.

Please fill out this quick Google Form to indicate your interest in Wikipedia or Wikidata:

Where

Primary site: Univ. of Michigan: Whiting Room, Bentley Historical Library, 1150 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Satellite site: Room 2119, Hornbake Library-South, College of Information, University of Maryland, 4130 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20740

Online

Registration

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Event Dashboard

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Safe Space Policy

• Safe Space Policy

Sign in: Outreach Dashboard

Step 1: Go to the Dashboard

Step 2:

• Have a Wikipedia username? Select 'Log-in with Wikipedia'.
• Don't have a username? Select 'Sign-up with Wikipedia'

Note: You can also create a username in Wikipedia (top right of this page or any article). If creating one there, be sure to return to the dashboard to sign-in there as well. Your Wikipedia username can be used to log-in across Wikimedia projects.

Instructions

Goal 1. Create drafts of new Wikipedia articles. Move articles from draft form to Wikipedia main space when ready.

• Choose an article you want to edit or create from the list below
• Use this [Google sheet] to reserve the article you would like to edit and find the sources needed to create the articles.
• Return to this page and select the red link to open a blank page
• Select Create, not Create source (top right). This may happen automatically.
• Start writing and cite sources from this [Google sheet]. You may also use verifiable secondary sources you've found on your own.

• Tip: Be sure to add a header titled 'References' at the bottom of the page before you begin.

• Publish as you go (blue button, top right)
• Select 'Edit' to re-open the draft and keep working
• Once you are pleased with the article, publish one last time.
• Select the 'More' button (top right next to View History). Note: This button may not be visible to new editors. Ariel can deactivate this restriction. Be sure to sign in to the Dashboard so she has your username. It is needed to give these extra permissions.
• Open the 'New title' drop down menu.
• Change Draft to (Article). You may need to scroll up to find it.
• Select the blue 'Move' button

Goal 2: Edit existing articles

• Choose an article you want to edit or create from the list below
• Reserve the article you want to edit in [Google sheet].
• Return to this page and select a blue link to open an existing article
• Select 'edit'.
• Make changes, add content, etc.
• Publish as you go

Articles to create

Use the [Google sheet] to reserve the articles you would like to edit and find the sources needed to create these articles.

Select a red link below to start an article draft. Once the draft is ready, you may move to Wikipedia mainspace. Feel free to ask Ariel to review your draft before it is moved. DO NOT select the 'submit y article for review' option.