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Wikipedia Editathon for New York Parks
When and Where
When:Monday 18 June 2018
Time2-4pm
Where:The Trust for Public Land, 666 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York City
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The Trust for Public Land is hosting a private Editathon for their staff to learn to edit articles on New York Park projects.

Wikipedia is an online, nonprofit encyclopedia project that provides verifiable information from reliable, published sources using a neutral point of view. The Trust for Public Land may be interested in a Wikipedia collaboration as a way to achieve communication goals including reaching a larger and more relevant audience by presenting the expertise and brand of TPL in Wikipedia's publications about parks, or for the purpose of recommending Wikipedia as a publishing outlet for individual parks anywhere when their management has a need to demonstrate information distribution to a relevant audience while also engaging local communities.

Event information

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This event is Closed to the Public! Please come by invitation only.

Pre-work

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Attendees are asked to take 5 minutes to do these steps before the event on Monday, June 18.

  1. Create a Wikipedia account if you do not have one. You may use any user name you want. It is not easy to change your user name once created, so consider if you should use your real name or any other user name you wish to use. Avoid using a username that makes you appear like a company to avoid administrators freezing your account (only people can have accounts on Wikipedia, not companies).
  2. Include an email address in your Preferences
  3. Enable all email Notifications.
  4. Click HERE to sign in before Monday 6/18!

Please bring (or plan to share) a wifi-enabled laptop to the event.

Agenda

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This is a non-technical orientation designed to interest a general audience.

0:00-0:10 - Welcome & Introductions
0:10-0:30 - What Is/Isn’t Wikipedia? Who Cares?
0:30-1:00 - Introduction to Wikipedia Editing
1:00-1:30 - Everyone add at least one sentence and one citation somewhere!
1:30-1:40 - Introduction to Contributing Photos
1:40-1:50 - How about Writing a new Wikipedia Article?
1:50-1:55 - Sharing Progress & Outcomes
1:55-2:00 - Wrap-up & Next Steps

post-session - Feedback (via SurveyMonkey)

Learning objectives

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By the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to:

  1. Express the fundamentals of what Wikipedia is (and is not) in the new media ecosystem
  2. Consider ways of using Wikipedia to engage various communities in park advocacy
  3. Edit and improve a Wikipedia article on a New York Park
  4. Identify a new article that is needed

Example topics

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New York parks

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Other parks

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Projects with Trust for Public Land support:

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia New York City.
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