Wikipedia:Meetup/Columbus/WCNA Columbus Edit-a-thon 2018
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WikiConference North America 2018 Columbus Edit-a-thon
- Our third-annual Culture Crawl will occur on October 19, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. During this time, we encourage participants to help improve Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items related to the city of Columbus - the conference's host city.
when
- Friday, October 19, 2018, 10am to 5pm
where
- Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main Branch), Columbus, Ohio - Main Auditorium
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
Participation edit
There are a number of ways to participate:
- Identify articles that need improvement
- Expand stubs
- Add citations
- Copyediting and re-wording (especially for promotional content)
- Take photos of notable locations
- What to bring: A laptop (or other device you can edit from). The Columbus Metropolitan Library provides internet for all guests.
To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.
Worklist edit
Tools and training edit
Add more ideas here
- Making worklists from Web-scraped content. Use OCR software to turn PDF's into text, and then into Wikipedia/Wikidata worklists.
- OCR tools - Adobe Acrobat, Google Drive/Docs, Tesseract OCR engine
- Worklist cleaning/normalization - scripts, EMACS, BBedit, Atom, Google Sheets
- Wiki worklist - Petscan
- Worklist interaction - TABernacle for Wikidata
- Example: Ohio Literary Map PDF - How do you turn this large PDf graphic] into a wiki worklist? It is a raster image, so no selectable text by default.
Wikidata edit
- Editable table of Columbus area museums - help improve the data about these institutions with TABernacle
- Editable table of women cartoonists - help improve data about women cartoonists with TABernacle
Columbus Metropolitan Library photos edit
The Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) maintains an extensive digital collection of historic media related to Ohio, including thousands of public domain photos that show the history of Columbus. This is a great opportunity to upload photos to Wikimedia Commons and illustrate Wikipedia articles.
When uploading, please mention at least the following metadata in the image description:
- From the Columbus Metropolitan Library
- Collection name
- Identifier
Wikipedia edit
Topiary Park
- Next to Columbus Metro Library, is a re-creation of the Seurat painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- Has no Wikipedia article!
- Sources
- Others
- Topiary Park in Durbuy [1]
- Topiary Park in Zarcero, Costa Rica
Attractions
Transportation
Government
- Columbus City Council (very short!)
Women from Columbus
- Benny Alba (article cleanup)
- Sandy Boucher (expansion needed)
- Katherine Hine (orphan, expansion needed)
Columbus neighborhoods
- Near South and South Neighborhoods
- Argyle Park
- The Bottoms
- Brewery District
- Briggsdale
- Cherry Creek
- Clintonville
- Downtown
- East Broad Street
- Eastside
- Forest Park
- Franklinton
- Georgian Heights (expansion needed)
- German Village
- Glen Echo
- High Five (ad issues, sources)
- Holly Hill (expansion needed)
- Italian Village
- Linden (expansion needed, cleanup)
- Mount Vernon (expansion needed)
- Murray Hill (expansion needed)
- Northwood Park (expansion needed)
- Olde Towne East
- Olentangy West
- Riverbend
- Short North
- South End (expansion needed)
- University District
- Victorian Village
- Weinland Park
Ohio Literary Map worklist edit
Done at the CML
- Tom Batiuk
- Brian Bendis
- Jim Borgman
- Milton Caniff
- R. Crumb
- Billy Ireland
- Tony Isabella
- R. F. Outcault
- Harvey Pekar
- P. Craig Russell
- Joe Shuster
- Jerry Siegel
- Jeff Smith
Billy Ireland worklist edit
Missing Latinx cartoonists edit
- Samuel Teer
- Amber Padilla
- Stephanie Villareal Murray
- Lila Quintero Weaver
- Catalog of Latinex cartoonists that need articles
Missing Latinx cartoonists edit
- Samuel Teer
- Amber Padilla
- Stephanie Villareal Murray
- Lila Quintero Weaver
- Catalog of Latinx cartoonists that need articles
Need articles edit
- DeVoss Woodward Driscoll
- Norman E. Jennett
- Karl Pommerhanz (article on de.wp)
- Viktor Schramm (article on ru.wp)
- Alanson Burton Walker
Images from collections edit
Stubs to expand edit
Improved content edit
- 43 edits to Ohio items on Wikidata, starting with many inception dates & several descriptions mostly using the TABernacle query for Ohio museums. Added references to many of the date attributes. Also a ½ dozen edits to Ohio Wikipedia articles. Peaceray (talk) 20:05, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- Also these possible sources for Topiary Park Peaceray (talk) 20:36, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- Ohio State Route 360 to GA status. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 22:36, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- Topiary Park ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:56, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
- more
stubs: Alexander AEP Park, Axis Nightclub, Battelle Riverfront Park, Bicentennial Park (Columbus, Ohio), Correlation: Two White Line Diagonals and Two Arcs with a Sixteen-Foot Radius, Discovery Bridge (Columbus, Ohio), Genoa Park, Statue of Jim Rhodes, North Bank Park, Peace (Saville), Rich Street Bridge, Sensenbrenner Park, Their Spirits Circle the Earth ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:00, 22 October 2018 (UTC) - Karl Pommerhanz
- Add your work here!
Gallery edit
- Add your images to the gallery below!
Sign up edit
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Participants edit
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:14, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- Airplaneman ✈ 14:30, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
- --Another Believer (Talk) 20:24, 19 October 2018 (UTC)