Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/RelinkingWH

This will be a workshop to fix links to the whitehouse.gov site which were broken by recent events. When: 1pm-4pm on Sunday, Feb 5, 2017 Where: Busboys and Poets at 5th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC, 10 mins walk from Gallery Place metro stop Organizers: econterms (talk)

Schedule

• We'll offer training only if new people come who need it.
• Our plan is to review sets of pages on English Wikipedia that refer to the whitehouse.gov site and see if the links work right, and if not to make a wise substitution.
• We also would like to understand why different searches are giving different numbers of such links.

FAQ

• Do I have to be a Wikipedia editor already? No, this event is open to everyone, even beginners.
• What happens if I get hungry? We might have snacks.
• What should I bring? A laptop computer
• Can I leave early? Sure, we don't lock anyone in.

Sign Up

Signing up is optional. We'll just spread out, wherever we are.

Attending

1. econterms (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
2. others, yes
3. remotely, Geraldshields11 (talk) 03:13, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

To do's

• update Whitehouse.gov article
• Follow up this search: [1]
• and this one: [2]
• and diagnose the various searches and why they give sharply different numbers of pages back ; find ways to count mainspace only
• and follow up this conversation: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Whitehouse.gov_changes_have_broken_many_URLs_used_on_Wikipedia
• tangent: look to include new sources from Talk:Public_Interest_Declassification_Board
• Sunlight's post about this

Sources to draw from =

• For OIRA: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32397.pdf, draw from https://www.reginfo.gov/public/

How to edit Wikipedia

• Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia:Featured Articles
• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Starting an article
• Intro to Wikipedia Slides

Results (partial)

• Office of Federal Procurement Policy - created
• Office of Science and Technology Policy‎ - fixed links
• Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs‎ - fixed links, other updates and corrections
• Office of Management and Budget‎ -- fixed links
• Minneapolis–Saint Paul -- fixed links to OMB memos
• Public Interest Declassification Board‎ - cleaned up a bit