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Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Justin Dart Jr. Virtual Edit-a-thon 2015

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Justin Dart Jr. Virtual Edit-a-thon 2015
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When and Where
Date and TimeAugust 26, 2015 (Wednesday) through August 31, 2015 (Monday)
AddressAn entirely virtual event!


Main page: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Justin Dart Jr. Virtual Edit-a-thon 2015

Virtual Edit-a-thon to Commemorate Disability Rights Activist Justin W. Dart Jr. and the 25th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act

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A virtual edit-a-thon to celebrate the memory of Justin Dart Jr. (born August 29, 1930), and to create and enhance articles on disability rights activism for the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Sponsored by the National Museum of American History, the Executive Office of the President of the United States, the National Council on Disability, and Wikimedia DC

If you are interested in participating, please sign up below and/or share the results of your work done between August 26-31, 2015.


Goals

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  • To encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
  • To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to disability topics
  • To make Smithsonian-held materials more openly linked
  • To increase awareness of the research resources freely available through libraries, archives, and museum

Participating remotely

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  1. Penny Richards (talk) 03:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 05:28, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Add your user name here

Suggested articles to create or edit

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Below is a list of articles which could be created or expanded using information from the National Museum of American History's collections. This list is not exhaustive and you may edit or expand any additional Wikipedia articles on disability themes.

Articles to expand

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New articles

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Images to upload

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Categories

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Resources

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Websites, library catalogs, & databases

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Results

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  • Add the titles of your new/upgraded articles here, and links to any uploaded images

Resources for Editing

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Wikipedia Editing Tutorials

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Wikipedia citations are done in-line with the text, and are automatically aggregated as footnotes at the bottom of pages. Citation templates are an easy way for beginners to begin inserting citations.


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Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.

Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

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Editing Wikipedia resources

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Tools and templates

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Conflict of Interest

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WikiProject Disability

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  • WikiProject Disability is the long term project on the English Wikipedia that takes responsibility for all articles related to disability. WikiProject Disability will thus take responsibility for the curation and improvement of all the articles created and expanded by this edit-a-thon.
  • The Project's Talk page is a good place to get general advice about the topic of disability on Wikipedia. The WikiProject also has a style guide which may be useful to edit-a-thon participants.
  • Place the WikiProject Disability banner on the Talk page of new articles by adding {{WikiProject Disability}} to the top of the talk page.
  • Please join the project if you're interested in continuing to contribute to Wikipedia after the edit-a-thon.
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