Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UW Molecular Engineering and Sciences edit-a-thon 8-06-2016
| When: | Saturday, 8-6-2016, 10:30am-4:00pm |
| Who: | UW students, faculty, and staff; Seattle community members |
| Where: | UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences Building |
| Focus: | Wikipedia topic pages related to Molecular Engineering |
Please join us for our first-ever MolES Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in support of Wikimedia Foundation’s 2016 Year of Science effort.
Students, faculty, and research staff will collaborate to update existing pages and create new ones related to molecular engineering. Our first task will be to give the molecular engineering page the attention it needs, and we also look forward to adding information about molecular engineering into pages for related disciplines and topics as time and attendance allows.
No experience editing is required! We will have experienced “wikipedians” available to assist with creating accounts, pages, and editing existing pages.
If you cannot attend but would like to have input in scheduling subsequent sessions, please let us know. We look forward to making this a recurring MolES community event and we welcome your suggestions.
Suggested starting points
[edit]No advance preparation is required, though if you would like to create an account or familiarize yourself with how Wikipedia works, the following links may be useful:
Schedule
[edit]| Start | Activity | Duration | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 | Registration, coffee & pastries, creating user accounts | 30 min | |
| 11:00 | Intro to editing Wikipedia, representation and conflict-of-interest considerations | 60 min | |
| 12:00 | Collective brainstorm, break into work groups | 30 min | |
| 12:30 | Begin editing, lunches available | 30 min | |
| 1:30 | Groups get organized, group work | 3¼ hours | |
| 3:45 | Wrap up, surveys, prizes | 15 min |
RSVP
[edit]Please contact the main UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences office to RSVP or ask questions.