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First Hand: Refugee Talks and Wikimedia DC are planning an edit-a-thon on the subject of refugees.

MLK Library
A past editathon
Previous editathon in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's MacMillan Education Center
2015 STEM Editathon with Tech Lady Mafia

When and where and how to get there

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Saturday, May 14, 2016, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street NW, Washington, DC
By metrorail: Gallery Place-Chinatown (Red / Green / Yellow Lines)
Once you've entered the library, turn left to go into the Digital Commons, then in that big room turn right. We'll use their projectors.

Please bring your own laptop computers. We don't have any spare ones.

Schedule

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  • 1:05 PM - Welcome by Aaron, Becki, and Ruth of First Hand: Refugee Talks. Guidance to resources, snacks
  • 1:15 PM - Talks by refugee
  • 1:45 Introduction to editing Wikipedia, Peter Meyer, Wikimedia DC, and Alex Stinson
  • 2:15 - 4:30 PM, Editing time

Basics on editing Wikipedia

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Resources to use

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Basic info

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More useful sites

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General articles about refugees-- the preferred kind of source

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Firsthand accounts by refugees for expanding articles

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Attending?

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Please add your name or username!

Virtual participation

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Can't make it to the event? You can participate online! Here's how it works:

Vkurka (talk) 19:59, 14 May 2016 (UTC)--Vkurka (talk) 19:59, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Articles to create, expand or revise

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Link these and others to particular articles of interest, in any language

Refugee camps information -- finding sources

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See:

Refugee camp articles to create

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Outcomes

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List here, or please place a checkY next to an article above to indicate that edits were made. The mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.