EVENT - Save the date! - Sunday, January 15 (from 10:00 to 6:30) - Please make sure that you can attend this annual local Wikipedia conference at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan (the after party is optional but will be fun). Please RSVP. Be prepared to take part in an informal presentation about our Wikipedia archival project. I am not yet sure what time our presentation will be scheduled, so please also let me know about your availability on that day.
TO DO - Create a Wikipedia account and add your username to this year's student team here.
TO DO - **If you haven't already done so**Add your Wikipedia username, a link to your personal Google Doc journal/research notes, and your availability in January to this Google doc.
TO DO - Start working on the draft entry for the New York City AIDS Memorial here. I hope we can upload it by next week and present on it at the conference on 1/15.
Catch up with any tasks below that you have not yet completed.
Start a Google Doc or other online journal for your reading notes. Take down any quotes that you think might be useful to add to a Wikipedia entry, and also jot down some of your thoughts/impressions.
January 12, 13, 14, 2016:
Introduction to project and archival research: AIDS in NYC,
Background discussion about research topics: NYC in the 1970s and 1980s (what was the City like, what were the issues); Ed Koch and establishing context
January 16, 2016:
Lightning talk presentation about this project given at the annual Wikipedia Day 2016 conference at NYU. [Full conference video is here. Koch Scholar Kimly Tor speaks starting at around 06:23:30.]
Wikipedia workshop - lab sessions
Location: Library lab in E101
Dates: Group A - Tuesday 26 Jan. from 10:00-12:30 / Group B - Wednesday 27 January from 2:00-4:00
Agenda: Introduction to Wikipedia; Setting up user accounts, userpages, sandboxes, talk pages; Setting up Google Docs for notes
Examples of correct and incorrect referencing in the entry for the novel Wild Seed. View History: Compare the current entry to the one published on October 9, 2015.
Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Quoting: How to and signal phrases (pages 4-6 and 20 of this class packet
Tasks to do for next week (on encyclopedic writing):
How to write a paragraph - Pick a paragraph from research you are doing. Paste it with citation in your Google Docs journals, and paraphrase from it. Make sure to use in-text citation or signal phrase, whatever is appropriate.
Think about mapping out the structure of our entry - what sections should it have. Take a look at these examples for ideas, as well as the tables of contents on the books you have been reading.
Choose a research area to focus on if you haven't already. We need someone to cover public health, outreach, education, impact on other communities/industries (i.e. New York City in the art world, theater, fashion, religious and other communities, etc.)
Week of 2/8/2016
-Research in the Archives, independent writing
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Tasks to complete:
Tasks to be completed by the end of this week (on encyclopedic writing) DUE 2/12/16:
How to write a paragraph - Pick a paragraph from research you are doing. Paste it with citation in your Google Docs journals, and paraphrase from it. Make sure to use in-text citation or signal phrase, whatever is appropriate.
Think about mapping out the structure of our entry - what sections should it have. Take a look at these examples for ideas, as well as the tables of contents on the books you have been reading.
Choose a research area to focus on if you haven't already. We need someone to cover public health, outreach, education, impact on other communities/industries (i.e. New York City in the art world, theater, fashion, religious and other communities, etc.)
