Edit-a-thon: Boston & Beyond + Public Domain Day 2024 + Wikipedia 23th Anniversary Celebration

Date and time: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 @ 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Location: Zoom - register for information

Event Summary

MOVED TO ZOOM - please register or email user:phoebe for link

Join New England Wikimedians for a celebration of Public Domain Day and the 23th anniversary of Wikipedia! This year our theme will be documenting Greater Boston and MIT. Whether it's the Great Molasses Flood or the Big Dig, Project MAC or the Brass Rat, there are hundreds of Wikipedia articles related to our fair school and city. We'll show a collection of the funniest and quirkiest articles about our area, plus suggestions for things to work on, as well as give you the skills to make edits to these or any other articles. We'll also show a collection of historical images of greater Boston that are newly available on Commons for sorting and adding to articles. Editors of all skill levels are welcome, and you are free to work on any topic you like (not just Boston); if you have a project you are working on, bring it. Wikipedia is multilingual; working in any language you are comfortable reading and writing in is welcome. ~~Workshop is in person on MIT's campus in room 14N-132, just outside Lewis Music and Hayden Library.~~

Schedule

3:30-4:00p - set up and account creation for new users, snacks and get settled in
4:00-4:30p - Introduction to Wikipedia and editing tutorial
4:30-4:40p - Demonstration of historical images on Commons from the Boston Public Library
4:40-6:00p - time to work on articles and ask questions

Registration and location

The edit-a-thon will be held on MIT's campus in room 14N-132, just outside Lewis Music and Hayden Library. The closest outside door is on the corner facing the McDermott Court (currently under construction). Map

Please register here to get an accurate headcount.

Resources

Public Domain Day
Media Created by the Digital Public Library of America and specifically media contributed by the Digital Commonwealth & BPL
- Note: browsing is easier on the Digital Commonwealth site, and then finding the corresponding photo(s) of interest on Commons. For instance: Colleges and universities in Massachusetts
Wikipedia Requested Photographs in Massachusetts

Ideas to work on

LGBT culture in Boston
History of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History of African Americans in Boston
Some of the redlinks at Index of Massachusetts-related articles, e.g.

Some under-developed pages among the Neighborhoods in Boston:

Downtown Boston (this could be a great one to work on)
Leather District
Longwood Medical and Academic Area
Roslindale
West Roxbury
Wharf District is a redlink from that page

Similar pages can be found here (and maybe these sections could be split into their own pages, like the Boston one):

miscellaneous categories to investigate:

Things we worked on

Attendees

Please register here. If you like, you may also sign up below with your by signing your wiki username here with four tildes (~~~~).

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