Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndCommunity/Newark2017
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ART + COMMUNITY
[edit]During this two-day edit-a-thon taking place on Saturday, February 25, 2017 and Saturday, March 11, 2017, we will be adding and updating articles for artists, activists, and organizers with a sustained involvement in cultural production, community building, and intersectional dialogs in Newark and New Jersey.
- Dates: Saturday, February 25, 2017 & Saturday, March 11, 2017
- Times: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
- Location: Project For Empty Space | Gateway Project Spaces, 2 Gateway Center, Newark, New Jersey
- Please bring: A laptop, article information, and your enthusiasm!
Who are we focusing on?
[edit]Artists, activists, and organizers with a sustained involvement in cultural production, community building, and intersectional dialogs in Newark and New Jersey. Although the additions and edits will be far from comprehensive, it is one step towards a more diverse archive. Art + Community aims to add diverse practitioners and communities to the wikipedia archive. New articles will be chosen through a series of discussions with members of the Newark community and artist Jaret Vadera.
List of Artists, Activists, and Organizers
[edit]Working list by suggestion (Alphabetical by first letter)
Edit Improve:
The Process: Step-by-Step
[edit]1. Create your account
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Decide on a username
- Click on the blue link "Create Account" in the top right corner.
- Click on the blue link "Create One" in the sign in box.
- Fill out the information on the page (email is not necessary) and click the "Create Account" button.
- Your username will now appear in red in the top right corner.
2. Create your userpage
[edit] Creating a user page will be your first time editing in Wikipedia!
- Make sure you're signed in.
- Click on your user name, which is a red link, in the top right corner.
- Click the “Edit” tab (located between “Read” and “View History”) to make several edits to your userpage.
- Include as little or as much information about yourself as you would like. It's often a good idea to state your interests and what you'll be working on, including any declarations of possible conflicts of interest (for example, where you work, if you're comfortable sharing.)
- Tell edit-a-thon organizer your username so they can add it to the ART+COMMUNITY Meetup Page
- The “Creating a userpage” document will walk you through the steps involved in setting up your userpage. your edits.
3. Create a draft in sandbox
[edit] A sandbox is a subpage of your userpage that can be used for drafting articles.
- When you are logged-in, look in the upper-right hand corner and you will see a link to your sandbox.
- When you click on this link, it will bring up the Edit box. You can type something in here and click Save, which will create your draft page. You can use this space for testing and practice.
- These pages are not live articles, so they do not have to meet all of the Manual of Style requirements.
4. Artist/Activist/Organizer Template
[edit]Use skeleton template to cut and paste into your sandbox
5. Read
[edit] It is important that you read about the Five Pillars of Wikipedia.
6. Choose artist page to create or edit from the list above or feel free to suggest a page you would like to work on
[edit]7. Research / Write / Share with other participants
[edit]8. Tell edit-a-thon organizer when you are close to done so you can upload together
[edit]Partipants
[edit]- SENIOR ADMINS! We would love if you could participate remotely! Please contact JVadera if you are able to, and please add your Wikipedia username to the "Remote Participants" section below
Confirmed
[edit]- Aewheeler (talk · contribs)
- artists_we (talk · contribs)
- DMPuliti (talk · contribs)
- JVadera (talk · contribs)
- Jwahi (talk · contribs)
- R.JAMPOL (talk · contribs)
- Lsanart (talk · contribs)
- Tefoster (talk · contribs)
- ThatgirlA (talk · contribs)
- Lilly lips (talk · contribs)
Remote participants
[edit]History
[edit]ART + COMMUNITY is part of an ongoing series of edit-a-thons originally developed by Uzma Rizvi and Jaret Vadera aimed at adding diverse practitioners and communities to the wikipedia archive. It was first hosted in the Social Science and Cultural Studies Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York
Past events
[edit]Wikipedia editing resources
[edit]| December 2024 +/- | |
|---|---|
| Christchurch 34 | December 1, 2024 |
| BLT Antenna New Orleans | December 7, 2024 |
| Haitian Creole NYC | December 8, 2024 |
| London 211 | December 8, 2024 |
| Chicago December 2024 | December 14, 2024 |
| Perth 85 | December 15, 2024 |
| San Diego 117 | December 16, 2024 |
| Seattle meetup | December 17, 2024 |
| January 2025 +/- | |
| Wikipedia Day Seattle | January 11, 2025 |
| London 212 | January 12, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day Minnesota | January 15, 2025 |
| Exeter 2 | January 18, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day Toronto | January 19, 2025 |
| Edinburgh 19 | January 25, 2025 |
| Wikipedia Day NYC | January 25, 2025 |
| Brixton 6 | January 27, 2025 |
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N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources
- Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
- Tutorial
- How to Edit a Page
- Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
- Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
- Article Development
- Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Manual of Style
- Citation templates
- Citation guide
- Infobox templates
- Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
- Formatting shortcuts:
- Images and photos:
- Uploading Images -- tutorial, general overview
- Image Use Policy -- rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image
- Picture Tutorial -- technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good
- Introduction and Guide 1: Getting Started! – Why Edit Wikipedia?, Using the WikiD Guides and Getting Started.
- Guide 2: Selecting and Researching a Topic/Subject – Choosing a Subject, References and Sources and Images.
- Guide 3: Writing an Entry – Tone and Style, Content and Structure, Building an Argument, Precedents and Article Titles.
- Guide 4: Navigating the Wikipedia Interface – Editing Interfaces, Creating a New Article, Editing Existing Pages and Disambiguation
- Guide 5: Troubleshooting – Deleted Pages, Flagged Pages and Talk Pages