Wikipedia:The Trust for Public Land/Winter 2018

Orientation to Wikipedia and Wikidata

When and Where
When:	Monday 12 February 2018
Time	9-11:30am
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 workshop for their staff to edit Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.

Wikipedia is a nonprofit media organization which provides information on a range of topics. The Trust for Public Land might 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.

• create a Wikipedia account then please sign in!

Workshop participants will leave with the following:

1. Perspective and the ability to discuss Wikipedia's place in the new media ecosystem
2. Understanding of options for engagement with Wikipedia, including estimates of what audience reach might result from a given labor investment
3. Experience of having edited Wikipedia a few times in the typical way

Event information

• Date: Monday 12 February 2018
• Time: 9-11:30am
• Location: The Trust for Public Land, 666 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York City
• Slides Intro to Wiki @ The Trust for Public Land
• Closed to the public! Come by invitation only.

Agenda

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

0:00-0:05 - Personal introductions

0:05-0:20 - Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikidata editing

0:20-0:30 - Review of the publications and media the host wishes to share

0:30-1:30 - All participants do Wikipedia and Wikidata editing. Everyone add at least one sentence and one citation somewhere!

1:30-1:40 - Group sharing of outcomes, progress, and publishing.

1:40-2:00 - Wrap up

2:00-2:30 - long goodbye

Advance preparation

• Attendees please create a Wikipedia account then sign in!
• Invite staff, especially on communication and outreach teams! Wikipedia influences online research of all topics! Anyone who has not had an introduction to Wikipedia will find this workshop interesting!
• No prior Wikipedia / Wikidata experience required!
• Bring a laptop!

Example topics

From The Trust for Public Land

• 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

• Frogtown Park and Farm
  • Frogtown Park and Farm at TPL.org
  • Frogtown Park and Farm Project, the city's own planning notes

• Wikidata property proposal for "has amenity"
  • d:Wikidata:Property_proposal/Place#has_amenity

Projects with TPL support:

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

From UNESCO

Man and the Biosphere reserves

• Wikipedia articles
• Official descriptions
• Create Biosphere Reserve Wikipedia articles from UNESCO descriptions

Links

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