Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Historic Ivy Hill Cemetery Wikipedia Editing Workshop

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Historic Ivy Hill Cemetery Wikipedia Editing Workshop

Crypt at Ivy Hill Cemetery

Ivy Hill Cemetery

Always wondered how editing Wikipedia works? Would you like to learn to edit Wikipedia or find out how it is monitored? Join us for this FREE workshop and learn to edit, improve or create Wikipedia articles about Alexandria's Historic Ivy Hill Cemetery and notable individuals interred there. Training will be provided for new editors. No experience necessary.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

When

Sunday, November 11, 2018 2PM-5:30PM

Where

Ivy Hill Cemetery

2823 King Street

Alexandria, VA 22302

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Presentation

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 and Other Resources

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

Suggested Article Work List

• Ivy Hill Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia)
• Richard H. Bales (wd)
• John Carlyle Herbert Bryant
• Ellen Coolidge Burke
• John Woolfolk Burke
• H. (Henry) Stewart Dunn
• Franz Gunther Eyck (wd)
• Anne S. Frobel (wd)
• Constance Cary Harrison
• Sarah Cornelia Tracy Herbert
• William Haywood Hume
• Lucy Randolph Mason
• Yvette Francis-McBarnette
• Simonne Jeanne Michenon
• Wernher von Braun
• Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
• Richard Bland Lee
• Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist (wd)
• Nicholas Trist
• Martha Jefferson Trist Burke (wd)
• Charles Creighton Carlin
• Mary E. Switzer
• David Lawson
• Vola Lawson
• Mary Gibbons Natrella
• Ferdinando Fairfax

• Jeanne Chalifoux Goddin
• C.S. Taylor Burke Jr.
• Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow (1840–1913)
• Patsy Ticer
• Edgar Warfield
• Edward Stabler (Apothecary) (of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop)
• Edward Stabler Leadbeater
• Launcelot Blackford
• Patrick Callaway
• George Marvin Giammittorio
• James Green
• Eli H. Janney
• Windsor Demaine
• Burton Harrison
• Sarah Tracey
• Olvin McBarnette
• Alice P. Morgan
• Wikidata list of people buried in Ivy Hill Cemetery (incomplete)

Attendees

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• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 20:32, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 20:32, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

• Leslie Friedman (talk) 20:33, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

• Tenley Hornbrook (talk) 20:34, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

• Brock-brac (talk) 21:28, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 22:06, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 22:07, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

• Hajala77 (talk) 22:07, 11 November 2018 (UTC)