Oregon State University 'Writing Pacific Northwest African American History into Wikipedia' with AfroCROWD

"Join Oregon State University and AfroCROWD in creating and improving Pacific Northwest African-American history in Wikipedia"

SIGN UP FOR THE IN-PERSON EVENT HERE

Library guide with registration for the African American history editathon. Note that we're hosting a Women's history event in March, and signup is located on the same page.

SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE REMOTELY

Scroll down and add your username to the section titled "Attendance"

Add your username to the dashboard

Whether you are attending remotely or in person, make sure to add your username to the dashboard, where we will track event activities (number of edits, editors, etc.). Event Dashboard

How to prepare

Bring your laptop: Editing Wikipedia is easier with a keyboard. However, if you do not have a laptop, we will have desktop computers available.

Create a Wikipedia account, if you do not have one already.
If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.
Social Media: Tweet, like, comment or follow us on social media. Our hashtags for today are #OSUWikiEdit and #AfroCROWD. Our Twitter handle is @AfroCROWDit and on Instagram and Facebook @AfroCROWD.

Event Agenda

We will open the area for registration at 1:30 PM, with introductions and the primary training session to start at 2:05 PM.
We will begin with two guest speakers (5 minutes each).
We will have a brief time take a group photo at 3:30PM and time to share at 4:15PM.
We will give a Wikipedia waterbottles to the two participants (in the Autzen classroom) with the most edits by 4:15. You must be present to win.
The program will end at 5:00 PM with wrap up to begin 30 minutes before that.

Welcome to the editathon!

Please ask the event organizer for the Wifi Information.

What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on earth (World Economic Forum), and the English language Wikipedia contains nearly 5.5 million articles, more than 40 million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.^[7] (See the statistics page for more information.)

Our mission for today

	The AfroCROWD User Group AfroCROWD
When and Where
Date	February 28, 2020
Time	2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Address	Autzen Classroom, Second floor of the Oregon State University Valley Library ;

Thanks for coming today and helping make history with the #AfroCROWD initiative to help close the Wikipedia diversity gap on notable people of African Descent. Today's mission: Add at least once sentence or other contribution to Wikipedia about a notable person of African descent or a place or cultural item associated with the the African Diaspora.

Did you achieve today's goal? Tell a wiki coach, and we can help check your edit(s) for you

Let’s begin:

Get your account/ create a username: Please don’t use your real name. It should be 6-8 characters. If you need help, please ask a Wikimedia coach
Add your user name to the Dashboard
Listen to the training or if you are editing from home or online head here for the basics overview. Head here for a simplified tutorial.
Browse Editing Ideas below and choose a topic to edit (or if you already have one skip to the next step)
Edit: in short - (1) click edit (2) add a sentence (3) provide a citation (4) repeat
Ask for help: Don’t worry about perfection, the Wiki Coaches are here to help you.

Editing contribution types for new Wikipedia editors:

Is this your very first time? Try this:

Add a biographical sentence: Start with a name, a birthday, an occupation or title, what they famously did, and (very importantly) a citation to verify your information from a credible source(s).

How to make a citation (bibliographical reference):

1) First, click on the pencil icon on the right to begin using "Visual Editor". Visual editor makes editing easier - like writing a school paper.

2) In Visual Editor, click on the area you want to add the citation. Then click cite. If you have a website as a source, add the website to the blank area.

If you do not have a website source, click manual and follow the prompts. Then click publish. If you have questions, ask a Wikimedia coach or go to Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources.

3) Then click publish.

Editing Ideas: These have lists of potential articles to create/edit

Short articles to improve about the Pacific Northwest

Articles identified by librarians at Oregon State University in need of improvement or creation

Relevant videos and other media

Optional:

Introduction to adding images to Wikipedia via Wiki Commons

More useful resources

Learning tools

Wikidata Game
https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en?id=9f96e00c Citation Hunt]

Wiki Tribune

Wiki Tribune main page
Today's Newsathon Stream on Facebook page: [1]
Today's Newsathon on Slack: [2]

Attendance

1. Add your name to the dashboard: Oregon State University AfroCROWD Wikipedia Editathon Dashboard

2. Add your Username here by clicking edit source and adding 4 of these squiggly lines below: ~

Partners

The AfroCROWD User Group