Wikipedia:Meetup/New Haven/Wadewitz

Writing for Wadewitz: An Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-Thon May 23, 11am–4pm at Bass Library, Yale University

When: May 23, 11am – 4pm Where: Bass Library is under Cross Campus of Yale University, nominally at 110 Wall Street, New Haven, CT. Bass Library location. What to bring: Your laptop and a power adapter. Cost: Free You do not need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor in order to attend, just bring a willingness to learn. Hashtags: #wadewitz and #wikiwomen RSVP by signing your username below (preferred). If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature. This edit-a-thon is part of a worldwide series of tributes.

Background

Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz was an influential member of the Wikipedia community who died suddenly in April 2014. This loss has deeply affected Wikipedia and the academic world. Her work is recognized internationally as helping to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia to tackle the gender gap and systemic bias in its content. Wadewitz was one of the first academics to bring Wikipedia into the classroom as part of the Wikipedia Education Program, working with her students to improve Wikipedia instead of writing traditional term papers. At the time of her death, she was Mellon Digital Scholarship Fellow at Occidental College. She had over 50,000 edits and wrote numerous featured and good articles, including Mary Wollstonecraft.

You can read more about Wadewitz and her contributions via The Wikipedia Signpost, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and the Omaha World-Herald.

At the end of your time at the edit-a-thon, we're aiming for a couple things. First, we hope you'll understand the significance of the public scholarship that Adrianne was doing with her work in Wikipedia. Second, we hope you'll understand that your work during this edit-a-thon continues and augments that work, and is also your public scholarship in its own right. Finally, we hope you'll now be motivated to continue contributing to Wikipedia, whether by editing existing articles or contributing new ones, by teaching others how to edit, or by promoting Wikipedia editing to fellow scholars or students.

Schedule

If possible, create your Wikipedia account ahead of time. If you can't, that's not a problem: we will help you at the Edit-a-thon.

11:00am – 11:15am: Check-in and welcome

11:15am – 12:00pm: Wadewitz video about editing Wikipedia

12:00pm – 3:30pm: Research and editing time

3:30-pm – 4:00pm: Wrap-up and thanks

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1. Triplingual (talk) 18:35, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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A Little Editing Help

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
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• Citation Guide
• Infobox templates
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Topics

See WikiWomen's History Month To-do List, which links to a lot of other great to-do lists.