Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/University of Maryland Disability Awareness Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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University of Maryland Disability Awareness Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Join us to kick off the University of Maryland’s Disability Awareness Month events with a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. During this event, we will edit and expand Wikipedia articles related to disability. By contributing to Wikipedia, we can help to ensure that its well-trafficked resources provide comprehensive and accurate representations of disability.

New to editing Wikipedia? Don't worry - training will be provided.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

When

Thursday, October 3, 2019 Time: 2PM - 5PM

Where

Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center (ESJ)

Room 1309

4131 Campus Drive

College Park, MD 20740

Register

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This is for use on the day of the event.

1) Select 'Sign in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Presentation

Safe Space Policy

• Safe Space Policy

Wikimedia Projects

• Wikimedia movement
• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
• Wiktionary, a dictionary
• Wikibooks, educational textbooks
• Wikinews, news articles
• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
• Wikiversity, educational material
• Wikivoyage, a travel guide
• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies

• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Core content policies
• Wikipedia:General notability guideline
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources

Quick Editing Tips

• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
• Creating Redirector with Source Editor
• Using categories
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects

• Track Wikipedia Page Views
• Wikimedia Statistics
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• WikiProject Women in Red

Coordination

TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.

Shared Doc: Etherpad

Suggested Work List

About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

• Ableism
• Accessibility
• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
• Assistive technology
• Bodymind
• Disability
• Disability justice
• Disability rights movement
• Disability studies
• Invisible disability
• List of disability studies journals
• Neurodiversity
• People-first language
• Social model of disability
• Universal design

Attendees

• Ericla93 (talk) 18:15, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• Courtney.murray (talk) 18:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• CollierJP (talk) 18:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 18:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• ABrownSports (talk) 18:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• ORL2004 (talk) 18:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 18:17, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• ORL2004 (talk) 18:17, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• Leonepumd (talk) 18:17, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• ORL2004 (talk) 18:17, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

• ABrownSports (talk) 19:12, 3 October 2019 (UTC)