Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/UMDLabor2017

Celebrate International Labour Day by joining a community interested in promoting labor history by editing the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Part celebration and part workshop, help us build awareness and increase visibility of our labor collections and expand page content for labor subjects, individuals, and organizations. We’ll draw content from labor-related collections at the University of Maryland, including AFL-CIO Archives. No editing experience necessary, however ability to use computers and search the internet is necessary. You’ll receive complimentary issues of Labor’s Heritage journal.

Please bring a brown bag lunch and your own laptop.

Twitter hashtags: #wikilabor17 #glamwiki

This event is part of DC LaborFest 2017. Check out many more events to celebrate the labor movement!

When and Where

Friday, May 5, 2017, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

This event will take place at the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC

815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005

President's Room, 1st Floor

Attendees will be asked to show a Government issued ID when they enter the lobby

See the Google map for the location of the AFL-CIO.

Lunch can be purchased at nearby restaurants

Those unable to attend in person are invited to become Wikipedia editors, and edit pages listed in our goals below.

Agenda

12:00 PM - Welcome, Jen Eidson, Labor Collections Assistant Archivist, and Ben Blake, Labor Collections Archivist, UMD Libraries
12:10 PM - Introduction to editing Wikipedia, Peter Meyer, Wikimedia DC
12:25 PM – Navigation to online resources and handout copies of Labor’s Heritage journal
12:40PM - 2:45 PM, Editing time
2:45 PM - Wrap-up

Goals

The UMD Labor History Edit-A-Thon will offer a selection of resources for attendees to:

Use Labor’s Heritage journal sources to contribute to targeted articles.
Create and/or expand articles pertaining to archival labor collections from the University of Maryland’s Special Collections in Labor History & Workplace Studies.
Create and/or expand articles related to labor history in the greater Washington, DC region.
Add external links to finding aids from University of Maryland's Special Collections. Finding aids can be found in ArchivesUM our finding aid database, specifically in the Labor in America guide.
Update out-of-date references and citations for the George Meany Memorial Archive, now known as The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive at the University of Maryland Libraries.

Please place a Y next to an article to indicate that edits were made; the mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.

Articles to create

Organizations

Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 689 (Washington, DC)
The George Meany Memorial Archive (National Labor College) Please update all references found to this: The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive, University of Maryland Libraries
International Association of Siderographers
International Glove Workers Union
National Organizers Alliance

Individuals

Events

Tacoma Union Movement

Publications

AFL-CIO News
American Federationist
Labor Presses: Norwegian; Danish; German; Jewish; Finns; Slovakian and Croatian; Russian

Articles to expand or revise

At a minimum, please add external link to finding aid in ArchivesUM or a citation to Labor's Heritage journal. Consider highlighting women in labor unions.

Organizations

Individuals

Events

Resources

Web access

We will have wireless guest accounts for participants. Please bring your own laptop.

Scholarly Research Articles

** indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus access.

Encyclopedias

** indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus access.

Union Publications

** indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus access.

Newspapers

** indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus access.

Archival Resources @ UMD

Access databases with your public library card: The Baltimore Sun and some other newspaper archives on ProQuest can also be accessed with a Maryland Library card. Here, for example is a list of databases accessible with a card from [Enoch Pratt Free Library] system. Here is a similar list for members of the PG County Library. If you live in Maryland you can get a library card in either of these systems and in most others around the state. If you live in the District of Columbia or Virginia you can get a library card in PG County and some other systems in southern Maryland.

Archival and manuscript collections

This Edit-A-Thon will focus on creating and expanding articles for archival collections at the University of Maryland. Links to collection information and finding aids can be found here: ArchivesUM: Labor in America

Basics on editing Wikipedia

Help:Cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup
Editing - The Basics has .pdf handouts and videos
Wikipedia Training, Includes a one-hour training for newcomers, and more extensive pages for teachers and Wikipedia Ambassadors
Wikipedia Tutorial is a hands-on approach that walks you through various aspects of Wikipedia editing

About Labor History Collections

Our labor collections are comprised of AFL-CIO Department records, trade department records, international union records, union programs, union organizations with allied or affiliate relationships with the AFL-CIO, and personal papers of union leaders. We also have extensive photo documentation of labor union activities from the 1940s to the present in the photographic negative and digital collections. Additionally, collections of graphic images, over 10,000 audio tapes, several hundred films and videotapes, and over 2,000 artifacts are available for research and study.

http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/guides/labor

Guide to Labor Collections at University of Maryland

RSVP

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Virtual editing is encouraged through the month of May!

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Getting There

By Metrorail

The closest Blue/Orange/Silver Metro stop is McPherson Square, plus about three blocks to walk.

The closest Red line Metro stop is Farragut North, plus a one block walk.

Check out Metro's Trip Planner to plan your metro ride.

By Metro bus

Check out Metro's Trip Planner to plan your bus ride. Use this address in the destination field: 815 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005.
The S2, S4, and S9 stop on 16th street less than one block from the AFL-CIO Headquarters. Multiple buses stop on H street, also less than one block away.

Driving

Enter the following address into your GPS: 815 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005. The AFL-CIO Headquarters is less than a block north of Lafayette Square.

Parking

There are some public parking garages nearby. If you drive and park, be prepared to pay $15-$20.

Outcomes

Please list edits here for May 2017. Include link to page and brief phrase that summarizes your edit, such as "new article" or "added link to archival material."

Solidarity (Polish trade union) -- updated broken link
Samuel Gompers -- Added schools named for Gompers in Death/Legacy
Amalgamated Transit Union -- copyedit
Baltimore Federation of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union, and Tobacco Workers International Union -- added information about additional resources held at the UMD Labor History Collection
Alton Road -- added reference to Alton Local 377 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners America archives at UMD Labor History Collection
American Institute for Free Labor Development -- added citation to the UMD Labor History LibGuide mentioning the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (the name of the merged Center that includes the AIFLD)