Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Public Domain Day 2020
Join us to celebrate Public Domain Day and Wikipedia's 19th Birthday at the Public Domain edit-a-thon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on January 15, 2020! |
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We’ll introduce the works and give you an introduction to editing Wikipedia and ideas for topics to work on, or bring our own topics. No prior Wikipedia experience is required. We will have support from experienced Wikipedia editors and librarians, as well as snacks and pizza. Join us for an afternoon devoted to exploring engineering in the Jazz Age and contributing to the world’s largest reference work. We will combine this with an event to celebrate Wikipedia's 19th Birthday! Wikipedia was founded on January 15, 2001. We'll have pizza and cake into the evening to celebrate. Wikipedians old and new are invited to attend. Please join us for any portion of the event, but do register here or list yourself below so we have an accurate count for snacks. What: Public Domain Day Edit-a-thon When: January 15, 2020, 4-6:45pm Where: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, Barker Library Active Learning Classroom - 10-604. Directions: go to Building 10. From the lobby take the elevators to the 5th floor, Barker Library. Go inside the library past the circulation desk, then go up one more floor (stairs or elevator) to the 6th floor. Go to your left past some bookstacks to find the classroom. map to Building 10
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Schedule
[edit]- 4:00p - get settled, sign up for accounts
- 4:15p - welcome to the MIT Libraries and public domain day, about the MIT public domain books
- 4:30p - split into editing groups and training
- 5:00p-5:45p - editing!
- 5:45-6:45 - Happy birthday Wikipedia! Keep editing, cake
To work on
[edit]10 public domain books digitized in 2020 (available in Internet Archive )
More books to work on from last year's Public Domain Day edit-a-thon
- Group: Work on images and add them to Commons
- How to directions
- extract images from books, upload them to commons
- add covers to category pages
- add metadata and categories
- Basics of editing articles
- Add an article for Martha Dickinson Bianchi
- Editing wikidata items
- (use book covers or first page of book for image of item)
- Depict images using Structured Data tab (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data)
- Add "archives at" statements to people whose archives are at MIT Archives at MIT spreadsheet
- Adding images to articles
- Use images from public domain books in Wikipedia articles: example The Encyclopedia of Food
What we did
[edit]Participant List
[edit]Register for event at MIT Libraries