Wikipedia:Meetup/Eugene/Microbiome2016

The Biology and Built Environment Center is hosting a Microbiome Science Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on May 27th, 2016 at the University of Oregon. The objective of this event is to facilitate the contribution of microbiome science edits and topics to a globally-used public knowledge resource (Wikipedia). No previous editing experience is necessary.

Coffee and light snacks will be provided.

Please bring your own laptops.

Twitter hashtags: #wikiMicrobiome2016

RSVP here Please let us know if you will be attending, might be attending, or will be attending remotely.

Those unable to attend in person are invited to RSVP and become Wikipedia editors remotely, and edit pages listed below.

When and where

May 27th, 2016
12:00-2:50pm
Huestis Hall 112
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97401

You can view the location of Huestis Hall on Google Maps and/or on a University of Oregon Campus map.

Objectives

The objectives of this event are threefold:

1. learn how to contribute to a globally-used public knowledge resource (Wikipedia)
2. add quality microbiome science edits and topics
3. enable the contribution of under-represented authors (i.e. women, minorities) to Wikipedia.

Agenda

12:00pm-12:10pm: Introductory comments: Prof. Jessica Green, Ashley Bateman
12:10pm-12:30pm: Brief review of Wikipedia editing basics, principles, research: Ashley Bateman
12:30-2:40: Research & editing time
2:40pm-2:50pm: Wrap-up & group picture

Specific Goals

Use the University of Oregon’s online library resources to:

1. Contribute to articles that target microbiome and ecological science topics.
2. Create and/or expand stubs pertaining to microbiome and ecological science topics.
3. Add/update citations and/or references to targeted articles.

Articles to create, expand, or revise

The WikiProject Ecology is a great resource for finding topics to create, expand, or revise. Selected topics from that page and Ecology Stubs are listed below. Please feel free to add relevant topics to these lists.

Edit existing pages

Improve articles by adding reliable references, and expand stubs with content. The below are only examples! Feel free to work on and suggest your own topics you've found to edit.

• Microbiome: There is much we could still contribute to this page!
• OTU (operational taxonomic unit)
• Single molecule fluorescent sequencing
• Environmental DNA
• Horizontal transmission
• Microbial_phylogenetics
• Ecological selection
• Negative selection (natural selection)
• Ecological succession
• Ecotone
• Niche adaptation
• Evolutionary ecology
• Functional ecology
• Macroecology
• Bedrock river
• Age class structure
• Allogenic succession
• Aposymbiotic
• Applied ecology
• Association (ecology)
• Autogenic succession
• Bacterivore
• Biota (ecology)
• Chemical defense
• Chemotropism
• Chronosequence
• Closed ecological system
• Colony (biology)
• Copiotroph
• Dispersal vector
• Ecosystem diversity
• Ectosymbiosis
• Functional group (ecology)
• Guild (ecology)
• Habitat-selection hypothesis
• Las Cruces Biological Station
• Malthusian growth model
• Mesophile
• Microsite (ecology)
• Ombrotrophic
• Osmotrophy
• Planktivore
• Population biology
• Population fragmentation
• Population size
• Primary producers & Producer (Ecology)
• Quadrat
• Refuge (ecology)
• Relative abundance distribution
• Species evenness
• Survivorship curve
• Syntrophy
• Trophic species
• Jonathan Eisen
• Jillian Banfield
• Gerry Wright
• Citizen science
• Interactor
• Indoor air quality has a section on Building ecology that could be greatly updated/expanded

Create a new page

Optionally, you can create a requested, and/or new article. Simply search for the topic on Wikipedia as normal, and if it doesn't exist already Wikipedia will allow you to create the new page for the topic you searched for.

Some suggested examples are listed below:

• Pathobiont
• Enemy Release Hypothesis (ERH)
• Community assembly
• Toxicocladosporium
• Vertical Transmission: distinct from Vertical disease transmission
• Competition-colonization trade-offs (Competitive exclusion principle)
• Ecosystem function
• Ecological unit (Ecosystem)
• Erosion of biodiversity (Biodiversity)
• Nutrient flow (Synecology)
• Resource competition (Competitive exclusion principle)
• Saprotrophic bacteria (Nitrogen cycle)
• Seed crop (Pollinator decline)
• Small-subunit ribosomal RNA (Biodiversity)
• Nancy Love
• Holly Bik
• Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello
• Indoor microbiome
• Brendan Bohannan

Resources

Please bring your own laptops.

Scholarly Research

*indicates that the resource requires UO log in or on-site access.

• University of Oregon Libraries*
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science*

Basics on editing Wikipedia

• Help Cheatsheet: quick guide to Wiki markup
• Editing: the Basics: has .pdf handouts and videos
• Wikipedia Training: Includes a one-hour training, with editing practice, for newcomers/students
• Wikipedia Tutorial: Comprehensive tutorial on contributing to Wikipedia
• Getting Started: Basic overview & links to helpful resources

RSVP here Please let us know if you will be attending, might be attending, or will be attending remotely.

Outcomes

Photographs will be taken to document this event. Please let one of the facilitators know at the outset of the event if you would not like to be included in these photos.

A list of pages that have been edited by the event’s participants, to publicly acknowledge our collective achievement:

• Operational taxonomic unit
• atmospheric methane
• vaginal flora
• white-tailed deer
• Eurasian collared dove
• Cane beetle
• Fruit tree pollination
• Zika virus, zika fever, 2015-16 Zika virus epidemic
• list of infectious diseases, Chytridiomycosis, batrachochytrium
• fire ecology; secondary succession
• Cephalopholis argus
• Nomura's jellyfish
• Paula Olsiewski: in the approval queue

Participants hard at work...

... researching & editing!