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Wikipedia:Meetup Agnic

Introduction

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This page is a meetup for the virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Pilot Program hosted by the partners of AgNIC. Our goal is to bring together our knowledge of high-quality agricultural information to crowdsource Wikipedia pages that deal with some aspect of agriculture and which are listed within the "Stub" and "Start" classes. Since this is a pilot program and will be hosted synchronously online, there is a cap at 10 participants. Register early for your spot!

In addition to our main goal of adding more high-quality agricultural information to Wikipedia, we also desire to:

  • encourage new or inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
  • learn from and document our experience so that we may continue to host edit-a-thons at scale
  • foster and support the already robust and extensive professional network of agricultural information specialists

Schedule

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  • Registration : January 14-31, 2016
  • Training Session #1: Tuesday, February 15, 2016
  • Training Session #2: Friday, February 26, 2016
  • AgNIC Edit-a-Thon: Friday, March 4, 2016

Event information

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  • Date: Friday, March 4, 2016
  • Time:
    • 2-4:30pm EST
    • 1-3:30pm CST
    • 12-2:30pm MST
    • 11am-1:30pm PST
  • Location: Synchronous online meeting.
  • Registration: Registration open for members of AgNIC,[1] USAIN,[2] and our colleague librarians at land grant institutions.
  • Prerequisites: No prior Wikipedia editing experience necessary. At least 2 short training sessions will be provided in advance of the Edit-a-Thon, with small homework assignments. During the events, editors will be on hand to help with questions.

Register (optional)

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(You can register by signing your name with four tildes)

1. KellyDoyle (talk) 17:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2. That librarian 88 (talk) 14:48, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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4. Koprivan (talk) 16:18, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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9.BarbaraHutchinson (talk) 14:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Articles to edit

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For beginning editors it is often best to begin with a stub or start class article. If you are a more experienced editor, please feel welcome to select more advanced articles and/or help other editors get started.

Otherwise, the organizers of this event have selected a list of stub and start class articles that need some help. Below you will find alphabetized lists of stub[3] and start class articles, the Wikipedia Community has helped us by organizing the stubs by category (below).

"Stub-Class Agriculture articles"[4]

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"Start-Class Agriculture articles"

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Tracking

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We will be asking our participants to track their efforts in a shared Google spreadsheet, which will be available via email closer to the date of the event.

Top Training Resources

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Additional Training Resources

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See especially the section on "Anatomy of a Wikipedia Page" and "Making Simple Edits."

Covers userpages, working in the sandbox, and adding citations.

Includes best practices for more in-depth editing.

Additional Readings of Interest

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References

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  1. ^ "AgNIC List of Partners". Agriculture Network Information Collaborative. Agriculture Network Information Collaborative. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  2. ^ "United States Agricultural Information Network". United States Agricultural Information Network. United States Agricultural Information Network. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Category:Stub-Class Agriculture articles". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
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