Wikipedia:Meetup/Los Angeles/University of California Los Angeles/Edit-a-thon-open-access-digital-collections
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Welcome! You are invited to the UCLA Library Edit-a-thon Open Access Digital Collections |
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What: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Open Access Digital Collections When: Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 10 am-1pm Where: UCLA Library, Young Research Library RC Classroom What to bring: Your laptop and power adapter. The Library will also have 24 laptops available. Focus: Expanding Wikipedia's external links from existing articles to digitized open access library collections. See the 3 minute overview video, Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Learn, Lunch & Leave a Footprint with Open Access! As always, beginners are welcome! Refreshments will be provided!
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editGuidelines for Creating External Links
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Wikipedia Manual of Style on Linking
| Item | Link to Item | In Progress (add username here) | Added To This Wikipedia Page | Complete (Y/N) |
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| Will Connell Papers | http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5199n9r9/ | User:Liber8er | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Connell | yes |
| Conoximent de las Orines (An early book about analyzing urine for medical purposes) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002267k | glowreuh | added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinalysis | Yes! |
| Dissertation on the Voluntary Eating of Blood (An early book on vegetarianism) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00022683 | 'User:Moonflea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_eating_meat#External_links | Y |
| Index of Medieval Medical Images | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002fn7s | username | added to | complete? |
| Patent Medicine Cards (Early advertising cards (like baseball cards) about medicine being sold for various ailments) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002gwzg | nafpaktitism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine | Y |
| Picart (Bernard) Collection (An 18th century encyclopedia (copies in English, French, Dutch and German) about all the religions of the world (for its time it was very neutral in its approach to comparitive religion) Has numerous illustrations which are famous) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/picart/index.html | Zytzel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Picart | Y (already existed) |
| Maps of Los Angeles, California, the United States and the World | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002h48z | username | added to | complete? |
| AIDS Posters collection (A range of international public health posters related to AIDS (Not all images are available in full size off campus (thumbnails are available)) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002ksb2 | MetaClaudia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day | Y |
| Ethnomusicology Archive: D. K. Wilgus Collection (recorded sound) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00089bvf | User:Moonflea | John Fahey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fahey_(musician)#External_links | link can be added to other pages! |
| Bound Manuscripts Collection. Collection 170 (All sorts of manuscript material that is bound like a book and held in Library Special Collections) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00089wzq | username | added to | complete? |
| St. Denis (Ruth) Papers. Collection 1031 (dance pioneer) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?keyWord=St.%20Denis%20(Ruth)%20Papers&selectedProjects=34 | zytzel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_St._Denis#External_links | Y |
| Holtzman (Howard) Collection on Isadora Duncan. Collection 1729 | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008c2pw | User:Moonflea | Isadora Duncan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan#Archival_collections | yessiree |
| Armenian Manuscripts Collection. Collection 2089 (early Armenian handwritten materials) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?keyWord=Armenian%202089&selectedProjects=49 | username | added to | complete? |
| Exhibit Collection of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts. Collection 1656 (demonstration materials about Arabic, Persian and Turkish) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?keyWord=1656%20Persian%20Turkish&selectedProjects=56 | username | added to | complete? |
| Phonetics Laboratory Archive | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008nkk5 | User:Moonflea | Phonetics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetics#External_links | There was no phonetics laboratory archive wiki, but I know nothing about it so I didn't create a page |
| Orsini Family Papers. Collection 902 | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000945wq | SFVtotally (talk) 18:46, 21 October 2014 (UTC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orsini_family | Yes |
| Solinus (C. Iulius) De situ orbis terrarum | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00098b52 | username | added to | complete? |
| McAfee (Byron) Papers. Collection 339 (Related to Nahauatl materials (Mexico)) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009c4d4 | username | added to | complete? |
| Calif. Fruit Labels Collection. Collection 319 | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009c4g5 | vbross2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunkist_Growers,_Incorporated#External_links | in part? |
| Hathaway Manuscripts (Odd collection of musical notation that was found bound into other books and rescued) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gsq9 | username | added to | complete? |
| Armenian Manuscripts (Another collection of Armenian manuscripts) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gx2d | username | added to | complete? |
| Ethiopic Manuscripts (in Ge'ez) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gx3x | mlsteele04 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_art | perhaps more to be done |
| Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts (mainly from continental Europe) | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gx4f | glowreuh | added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript | yes! |
| Sachtleben (William) Diaries, Papers, and Images of Armenian Massacre | link to item | "username" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sachtleben | N |
| Los Angeles Aqueduct | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct | User:Liber8er | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct | Y |
| Instant guide to Synanon : a compilation of the most frequently asked questions about our Foundation | http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?keyWord=synanon&selectedProjects=358 | User:Liber8er | 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon | Y |
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To Do Homework- Oral History Interviews for Wikipedia Links
edit| Item | Link to Item | In Progress (add username here) | Added to this Wikipedia Page | Complete? (Y/N) |
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| Architects: | Empty | Empty | Empty | Empty |
| Harwell Hamilton Harris | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zfbn&title=Harris,Harwell Hamilton, 1903- | "username" | "added to" | Y/N |
| Cliff May | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zdfq&title=May,Cliff | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Artists: | - | - | - | - |
| Los Angeles Art Community: Group Portrait | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000905qb&title=Los Angeles Art Community - Group Portrait | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Frederick Hammersley | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00096ncm&title=Hammersley,Frederick | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| John Outterbridge | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zmxv&title= Outterbridge,John W. | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Books and Fine Printing: | - | - | - | - |
| Jake Zeitlin | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zbd7&title=Zeitlin,Jake | MetaClaudia | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Film: | - | - | - | - |
| Hollywood Blacklist | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000905wx&title= Hollywood Blacklist | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Music | - | - | - | - |
| Central Avenue Sounds Oral History Project (on jazz on Central Avenue) | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000905zz&title=Central Avenue Sounds | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Asian American History | - | - | - | - |
| Korean American in Los Angeles after 1945 | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000966t2&title= Korean Americans in Los Angeles after 1965 | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| German Emigres | - | - | - | - |
| Marta Feuchtwanger (wife of author Lion Feuchtwanger) | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008z8g9&title=Feuchtwanger, Marta | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Gertrude Zeisl (wife of composer Eric Zeisl) | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008z8sz&title=Zeisl,Gertrude S. | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Social Activism: | - | - | - | - |
| Carey McWilliams | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zbzh&title=McWilliams, Carey | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Dorothy Healey (head of the Communist Party in Southern California) | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zbb6&title=Healey,Dorothy | MetaClaudia | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Environmental Movement | - | - | - | - |
| Environmental Activism in Los Angeles | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00094bm0&title= Environmental Activism in Los Angeles | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| Andy Lipkis (founder of Tree People) | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00096kj7&title=Lipkis,Andy | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
| LGBT Movement | - | - | - | - |
| Harry Hay | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/Browse.do?coreDescCvPk=27922&Subject=LGBT Movement | "username" | "added to" | "Y" |
| Labor (Justice for Janitors movement): | - | - | - | - |
| Donde Haiga un Trabajador Explotado, Ahí Estaré Yo: Justice for Janitors' Workers, Organizers, and Allies | http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz002b0jrb&title= Donde Haiga un Trabajador Explotado, Ahí Estaré Yo: Justice for Janitors' Workers, Organizers, and Allies | "username" | "added to" | "Y/N" |
Results
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editResources from the organization East of Borneo:
- Unforgetting L.A.: Getting Started (step-by-step instructions + links)
- Unforgetting L.A.: New article template: Artist (copy and paste!)
- Unforgetting L.A.: New article template: Gallery/Organization (copy and paste!)
- Unforgetting L.A.: Infobox templates
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- Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
- Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) ------------>
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