Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/2018 Data and Editing Workshop

Wikipedia Data & Editing Workshop
Date	Tu-Th January 9-11, 2018
Time	12pm-4pm; (until 5:30pm on Tuesday)
Address	MIT E15-359
City, State	Cambridge, Massachusetts

Learn to write about people & research at MIT's Wikipedia Data & Editing Workshop, Jan 9-11

Practice editing and creating articles about academic topics. Learn how to compile lists of professors, buildings, and projects from university databases; practice using templates and bots; learn how to find and update problematic articles.

Participants will choose a topic and complete either a list or an article by the end of the workshop. Lunch is provided.

What: Wikipedia Data & Editing Workshop

When: Tue-Thu January 9-11, 2018, 12-4pm

Where: MIT, Media Lab, Room E15-359. Lunch Tuesday will be in a separate place: [1] for details

Focus: Boston-area professors, research groups, buildings, university history, datasets & scripts

Schedule edit

12:00-13:00 -- lunch and discussion by visiting mentor each day
13:00-15:30 -- editing + small-group collabs
15:40 -- 3 minute talks from each group about progress & challenges

Participant List edit

Please make an account and add your username below

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ChiaLynn 20:38, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
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Articles & data worked on edit

Potential topics edit

Add your ideas here, or existing articles you want to improve

Tod Machover
Any articles at a university of your choice that also have been flagged for problems.

You can use PetScan to find the intersection of category intersection, for instance between "Harvard University people" and "Articles with a promotional tone".

NB: There will also be a separate engineering editathon later in the month.

Resources edit

Additional Tutorials: