Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/AMS edit-a-thon

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American Meteorological Society Conference Wikipedia a Edit-a-thon presented with support from Wikimedia DC

When

January 28, 2024

Registration

Private event

Google sheet

Use the Google sheet ro reserve articles before editing

Outcomes

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Safe Space Policy

Safe Space Policy

Presentation

Create Wikipedia username, log-in and check in for the event

Step 1:

Create a Wikipedia username if you don't already have one (top right)
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Usernames are public. You do not have to use your real name.

Step 2:

Check-in for this event using the blue button below. This helps us to track editing progress during the edit-a-thon.

1) Select 'Check in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes'. DO NOT ADD TEXT TO THE FIELD.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Articles to create or edit

Instructions

Open this Google sheet
Add your username next to the article you'd like to edit or create. Articles must be reserved. Two or more people CANNOT work on the same article at once.
Return here to the event page and select your article's red or blue link.

NOTE: Red links open blank pages to start article drafts (select 'Create to begin'). Blue links open existing mainspace articles and existing drafts (select 'Edit' to begin).

TIP: For new articles, start by adding a 'References' header at the bottom. Return to the top and start writing.

Use the sources provided on the event page (numbers next to each name) or other reliable secondary materials to find the information needed to build your article

Articles

Baltimore - [1]-[2] - To do: Add more about the heat island effect in climate section. There's one sentence, but it could be expanded. Maybe add section on air quality. Source: [3], Possibily add content about urban agriculture. Sources: [4][5][6]
Jones Falls - [7] [8] - To do: Add news of vinegar pollution and lawsuit against vinegar plant
Curtis Bay - [9] [10] - To do: Add news of explosion, environmental activism in the community and related
Draft Chesapeake Marine Railway and Dry Dock Company - [11] https://www.baltimoresun.com/1999/02/08/a-19th-century-business-pioneer-recalling-black-history/] - Create. Once ready (today or at a later time), move draft to Wikipedia mainspace
Canton, Baltimore - [12] - To do: Add info about heat index
American Meteorological Society - DO NOT EDIT THIS ARTICLE IF YOU ARE EMPLOYED BY AMS. To do: Remove promotional language. Fix structural issues. Check to see if primary sources are used and replace with others. Add conteent about Green Meetings Initiaitve. Note: The source/s for this needs to be secondary (i.e. news, etc.) and cannot be the AMS website or other AMS materials.
Chesapeake Climate Action Network - To do: Find better sources about the organization. Sources must be secondary. Add external links section below 'references' and add the organization's website. https://chesapeakeclimate.org/
Climate change in Maryland - [13] - Note: 2021 experience over 50 days with temps over 90 degrees.
Mr. Trash Wheel
Draft:Blue Water Baltimore - [14][15][16] - To do: Create
Urban heat island - [17] [18] - Edit examples. Add Maryland/Baltimore
Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States - To do: Update Maryland section if needed
Waste management - To do: Add section for Maryland if needed
Baltimore/Washington International Airport - [19] To do: Add Environment section
Community resilience - To do: Add section of examples
Rain garden [20][21][22] - To do: Add Baltimore or Maryland section unider United States
September 2023 northeastern U.S. floods - To do: Expand Maryland section if needed
Maryland Department of the Environment [23][24] - To do: Add information about vinegar case if appropriate

No specific action items

Air quality law
Greenhouse gas emissions
Air pollution in the United States - Recommended only for experiences editors
Climate change in the United States - Recommended only for experiences editors
Presidential Climate Action Plan
Climate movement
Rail transport
Baltimore County, Maryland
Baltimore Sustainability
Sustainable community
Chesapeake Bay
Patuxent River
Potomac River
Pepco
Wheelabrator Incinerator
Port of Baltimore
Energy policy of the United States - Recommended only for experiences editors
BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
The Climate Mobilization
Environmentalism

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