Wikipedia:The Trust for Public Land/Summer 2018

Wikipedia Editathon for New York Parks

When and Where
When:	Monday 18 June 2018
Time	2-4pm
Where:	The Trust for Public Land, 666 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York City
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The Trust for Public Land is hosting a private Editathon for their staff to learn to edit articles on New York Park projects.

Wikipedia is an online, nonprofit encyclopedia project that provides verifiable information from reliable, published sources using a neutral point of view. The Trust for Public Land may be interested in a Wikipedia collaboration as a way to achieve communication goals including reaching a larger and more relevant audience by presenting the expertise and brand of TPL in Wikipedia's publications about parks, or for the purpose of recommending Wikipedia as a publishing outlet for individual parks anywhere when their management has a need to demonstrate information distribution to a relevant audience while also engaging local communities.

Event information

This event is Closed to the Public! Please come by invitation only.

• Date: Monday 18 June 2018
• Time: 2:00-4:00pm EDT
• Location: The Trust for Public Land, 666 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York City
• Slides: Wikipedia Editathon for New York Parks: The Trust for Public Land (NYC)
• Feedback (after the event): Wikipedia Editathon for New York Parks FEEDBACK

Pre-work

Attendees are asked to take 5 minutes to do these steps before the event on Monday, June 18.

1. Create a Wikipedia account if you do not have one. You may use any user name you want. It is not easy to change your user name once created, so consider if you should use your real name or any other user name you wish to use. Avoid using a username that makes you appear like a company to avoid administrators freezing your account (only people can have accounts on Wikipedia, not companies).
2. Include an email address in your Preferences
3. Enable all email Notifications.
4. Click HERE to sign in before Monday 6/18!

Please bring (or plan to share) a wifi-enabled laptop to the event.

Agenda

This is a non-technical orientation designed to interest a general audience.

0:00-0:10 - Welcome & Introductions

0:10-0:30 - What Is/Isn’t Wikipedia? Who Cares?

0:30-1:00 - Introduction to Wikipedia Editing

1:00-1:30 - Everyone add at least one sentence and one citation somewhere!

1:30-1:40 - Introduction to Contributing Photos

1:40-1:50 - How about Writing a new Wikipedia Article?

1:50-1:55 - Sharing Progress & Outcomes

1:55-2:00 - Wrap-up & Next Steps

post-session - Feedback (via SurveyMonkey)

Learning objectives

By the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to:

1. Express the fundamentals of what Wikipedia is (and is not) in the new media ecosystem
2. Consider ways of using Wikipedia to engage various communities in park advocacy
3. Edit and improve a Wikipedia article on a New York Park
4. Identify a new article that is needed

Example topics

New York parks

• List of New York City parks
  • List of New York Parks via NYC Parks website

• Central Park
• Washington Square Park
• Stonewall National Monument
• West side Community Garden
• Sterling Forest State Park
• Greenacre Park
• Ridgewood Reservoir

Related park specifics

• community gardens
• Green Schoolyards
• Schoolyards to Playgrounds
• PlaNYC
• 10-Minute Walk
• Sharon Gamson Danks
• Green Playgrounds
• Nature classroom
• outdoor learning
• Green Schoolyards America
• Green Schoolyards International
• schoolyard
• living schoolyard

Other parks

• Boeddeker Park
  • Tenderloin, San Francisco
  • On Wikidata as Boeddeker Park (Q47487600)
  • Boeddeker Park at TPL.org

• Newark Riverfront Park
  • Newark Riverfront Park at TPL.org
  • newarkriverfront.org, the official website

Projects with Trust for Public Land support:

• https://parkserve.org/
• http://parkscore.tpl.org/#
• https://www.parkology.org/

Links

• Trust for Public Land
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)