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Ford's Theatre Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Ford's Theatre

At the April 2019 Ford's Theatre Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, the group photo

Join us at Ford's Theatre to help improve and create Wikipedia articles related to Lincoln's assassination. There were nearly 2,000 witnesses and thousands of other individuals whose responses to the assassination provide a rich illustration of a country reeling from unprecedented tragedy. This edit-a-thon will focus on bringing some of those stories to light.

No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary. Training will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Snacks will be provided.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing [email protected].

When

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5PM-8PM

Where

Ford's Theatre

Check in at Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership

514 10th Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20004

Register

Register here with Eventbrite'

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This is for use on the day of the event.

1) Select 'Sign in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Presentation

Ford's Theatre Edit-a-thon Slides 2019

Safe Space Policy

• Safe Space Policy

Wikimedia Projects

• Wikimedia movement
• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
• Wiktionary, a dictionary
• Wikibooks, educational textbooks
• Wikinews, news articles
• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
• Wikiversity, educational material
• Wikivoyage, a travel guide
• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia 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

Quick Editing Tips

• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
• Creating Redirector with Source Editor
• Using categories
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects

• Track Wikipedia Page Views
• Wikimedia Statistics
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• WikiProject Women in Red

Coordination

TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.

Etherpad - Ford's Theatre Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Suggested Article Work List

About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

For Creation

• Willie T. Clark (wd)
• Emilie Davis (wd)
• Henry Clay Ford (wd)
• Dr. Anson G. Henry (wd)
• Mary Anna Henry (wd)
• Charles Adolphus Jewell II (wd)
• Clara Clough Lenroot (wd)
• Osborn Oldroyd (wd)
• Horatio Nelson Taft (wd)

Stubs

• Elizabeth Keckly

Start

• Petersen House
• Michael O'Laughlen
• Sarah Gooll Putnam
• Samuel J. Seymour
• Robert King Stone
• Edward D. Townsend

C

• Charles Francis Adams Sr.
• Samuel Arnold (conspirator)
• George Atzerodt
• John Bigelow
• Orville Hickman Browning
• William Turner Coggeshall
• Ford's Theatre
• Samuel Mudd
• Johannes Adam Simon Oertel
• Edmund Spangler
• John Surratt
• James Tanner

GA

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Henry Rathbone
• Clara Harris

FA

• Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln
• Mary Surratt

Attendees

• Uncommon fritillary (talk) 21:09, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
• Brock-brac (talk) 21:10, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
• Stitchyraven (talk) 21:12, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• econterms (talk) 21:13, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• EdInterpMuseums (talk) 21:13, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• Analialegria (talk) 21:13, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 21:14, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• 38.111.140.238 (talk) 21:14, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• 81pecooper81 (talk) 21:14, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• Dpmckenzie (talk) 21:14, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• Tessduncan (talk) 21:14, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
• Sadads (talk) 21:22, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• Tessduncan (talk) 21:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• BVershbow (WMF) (talk) 21:36, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:04, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Outcomes

• Wikis: commons.wikimedia and en.wikipedia
• Start date: 2019-04-16 16:00 (America/New York)
• End date: 2019-04-16 20:00

Bytes changed	Edits	Uploaded files in use	Uploaded files	New editors	Pages created	Views to pages created	Pages improved	Avg. daily views to pages improved	Unique pages with uploaded files	Avg. daily views to uploaded files	Participants	Retention after 7 days
7,747	25	0	4	3	0	0	11	1,056	0	0	11	3

Images uploaded

• 
  Ford’s Theatre on April 15, 1865, the day after John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. A sign advertising the play for that night, The Octoroon, is visible, as is black mourning crepe over the entrance to the theatre.
• 
  A view of the east side of the Lincoln Museum at Ford’s Theatre, 1964.
• 
  John T. Ford, owner of several theatres in the eastern United States during the mid-1800s.
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  Congressman Henry Riggs Rathbone (left) with Osborn Oldroyd, owner of a large collection of Lincoln memorabilia housed in the Petersen House from 1893 to 1930. Rathbone arranged the U.S. government’s purchase of the collection in 1926.