Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Earth Day 2023 Bushwick

Environment of Brooklyn
Editing Wikipedia for Beginners

When and Where
Date:	Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
Time:	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (BPL) 1:00 p.m – 5:30 p.m. (SWC)
Address:	Bushwick branch Brooklyn Public Library 340 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Sure We Can 219 McKibbin St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Brooklyn Public Library Edit-a-thon on Earth Day 2023 with WMNYC

McKibbin Street clean on Earth Day 2023 with Sure We Can members

Sure We Can, the Brooklyn Public Library Bushwick branch, the Environment of New York City Task Force and Wikimedia New York City welcome the general public of all experience levels to come to the Bushwick Library in person and learn how to use Wikipedia! All skill levels welcome at the event! Experienced Wikipedia editors from the Wikimedia New York City chapter will be in attendance and available to help. A one hour training session will be offered at the start of this event covering introductory topics. Attendees familiar with editing Wikipedia can edit off of a worklist focused on the environment of New York City; as well as, a sub-list focused on the environment of the Brooklyn. The Bushwick Library will pull topical media from their collection to assist the editing.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

Please contact: User:wil540_art (talk) or any other member of WMNYC if any activities appear to go against the WMNYC Code of Conduct.

The event will run from 11am to 5:30pm, with Wikipedia talks and editing at the library going on from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. and a continued event at Sure We Can from 1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Attendees are invited to come at any time they can make it and stay for as long or little as they'd like!

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Event details

• Hosts: SWC NYCPM WMNYC BPL - Bushwick Branch
• Date: Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
• Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (BPL) / 1:00 p.m – 5:30 (SWC)
• Location: Spectrum Learning Lab - Bushwick branch Brooklyn Public Library and Sure We Can
• Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81025390549?pwd=YUY2NUNTRytOSk13Q1hQOVFGTDVYdz09
• Street address: 340 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206 at Seigel Street 40.7045°N 73.9393°W / 40.7045; -73.9393
• Cost: Free
• Capacity: 21 Attendees (if we have over 21 RSVPs, we will move the adjacent room)
• What to bring: Laptop if you have one!
• Dashboard: Please sign into the dashboard
• Participants: Open to all! Hybrid event IRL and online

Wikipedia articles to edit & create:

Note: We have compiled a list of articles that need attention. For the beginners: Don't be intimidated! A great place to start is to search through an article that interests you and look for spelling or grammar errors. Find one word out of place. Editing one sentence to make it flow better. Those are all great contributions. It is ok to start small.

• Environment of Brooklyn related articles to review, improve, & create
• Environment of NYC related articles to review & improve
• Environment of NYC related articles to create

For multilingual editors, there are wikipedia projects in many different languages, for example: Spanish-language Wikipedia. For those that are multilingual, there are a lot opportunities to translate English language wikipedia articles into other languages.

Wikipedia Editing Itinerary (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)

11am-1130am (Intro)

Welcome & Introductions

Group introductions

Hello from Sure We Can

Hello from Wikimedia New York City

Welcome to Wikipedia

Welcome to Environment of New York City Task Force

1130am-12pm (Lightning talks)

• Brief 3-5 minute talks on the subject of one's choice related to Earth Day and/or Wikipedia
  • The Perks and Pitfalls of Maintaining the "New York City waste management system" article- Wil540 art (talk) 22:03, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

12pm-1pm (Edit-a-thon)

General editing

Live demonstrations:

A Beginner's Guide to Wikipedia

Editing a wikipedia article - where to start?

Is my local park notable enough for a wikipedia article?

How do I upload a photo to Wikimedia Commons and put it in a wikipedia article? What photos are and aren't allowed?

What does the Environment of Brooklyn look like via Wikidata?

How can we use the Wikimedia Foundation projects to strengthen and advocate for the environment of New York City?

Free pizza

Free pizza will be provided to participants, served down the street at Sure We Can's lot after the Edit-a-thon at around 1-1:30.

Training

A training session will be offered at the start of this event covering introductory topics.

Local East Williamsburg/Bushwick topics to edit and add to WikiData & potentially Wikipedia:

Local parks and green spaces

• Justice Gilbert Ramirez Park
• Powers Street Garden
• Olive Street Garden
• Oko Farms
• La Finca Community Garden
• Red Shed Garden
• EL Garden
• LDC of Broadway
• Know Waste Lands
• Green Central Knoll
• Sternberg Park
• Ahawith Chesed Cemetery
• Linden Hill Methodist Cemetery
• NYCHA - Tompkins - Senior Retreat Garden
• All People's Church of the Apostolic Faith Community Garden
• Tranquility Farm (Willoughby Ave. Garden)
• T&T Vernon Block Association Garden
• Vernon and Throop Community Garden
• Bushwick Library

Newtown Creek related topics:

• MV Schamonchi

External links

• http://www.surewecan.org/

Attendees

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Regrets

• Even if I dropped everything now, there's no way I could make it up there in a day. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 19:23, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed

• Wil540 art (talk) 22:28, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

• Schwartzray (talk) 01:53, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

• Manhattia (talk) 10:34, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

• Kind data (talk) 18:13, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

• Jim.henderson (talk) 01:43, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

• Pharos (talk) 16:44, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

• ^Complex/_Rational 16:02, 5 April 2023 (UTC) (most likely online)

• Jacobin 357 (talk) 18:19, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

• Treetopz (talk) 19:31, 18 April 2023 (UTC) I can probably attend remotely, if that's an option :)

• SnowFire (talk) 17:07, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• Hdevine825 (talk) 17:51, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• MLouiset (talk) 14:23, 22 April 2023 (UTC) MLouiset in person

• BLynnM (talk) 14:54, 22 April 2023 (UTC)RLynnM

• Rgm38 (talk) 14:58, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

• Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 05:57, 26 April 2023 (UTC)