Wikipedia:Meetup/Providence, RI/Brown University/AMST2020 Editing, Translation, and Wikipedia (Brown University)

Introduction to Interdisciplinary American Studies (Fall2014) Thursday November 6, 4-6:20pm, Digital Scholarship Lab in Rockefeller Library at Brown University

Opium War Museum entrance When: Thursday November 6, 1-3:30pm Where: Digital Scholarship Lab in Rockefeller Library at Brown University. What to bring: Your laptop and a power adapter, as well as your ideas (and if possible sources) for editing or improving an article Attendance: Sign in below with your name or username (preferred).If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Possible Topics

• Race, Identity, and Shared Spaces in North America (based on course material)
  • Mammy Archetype
• Scholarship Related to the Class
  • Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic
• Incorporation/Translation of Non-English Sources into English Articles (and vice versa)
• Adding Global Perspectives on Articles Related to British and North American History
  • First Opium War
  • Second Opium War
  • Old China Trade
• Explore Wikipedia Portals
  • Example Portal on American Civil War Articles

Schedule

Tentative
4:00-4:15pm Welcome and Introductions
4:15-4:45pm Introduction to Editing Wikipedia

• Talk Pages
• Users and User Pages
  • Sign In
• Summarizing Your Changes
• Asking Questions at the Teahouse and Other Helpful Places
• Many Wikipedias and Wikis
  • Wikipedia in other languages
  • Translating Wikipedia
  • Non-Wikipedia Wikis

4:45-5:00pm Brainstorm Editing Topics and Tasks
5:00-6:00pm Editing
6:00-6:20pm Outcomes and Wrap-up

Participants

Will attend

FaulkTest (talk) 01:22, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
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Ykfuta (talk) 23:11, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Sunnie1015 (talk) 23:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Jill 1204 Zhang (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Cmding (talk) 23:10, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Xiaolu shi (talk) 23:12, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Catrinali (talk) 23:12, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Emma Xi (talk) 23:15, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

A Little Editing Help

Editing Wikipedia

Editing Basics

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Starting an Article
• Writing Your First Wikipedia Article
• Citation Guide
• Infobox templates
• Formatting Shortcuts -
  • Text Formatting
  • Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
  • Links
• Wiki Markup Quick Reference
• Wikipedia Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia Image Policy

Community

• Create your user page and add some info.
• Add pages to your Watchlist to learn about subsequent edits.
• The Wikipedia Teahouse is a good place to go for help
• "How To Create Wikipedia Entries That Will Stick" by Adeline Koh and

Wikipedia(s) & Translation

• English Article on Chinese Wikipedia
• Chinese Wikipedia
• English Article on Portuguese Wikipedia
• Portuguese Wikipedia
• English Wikipedia Translation Page
• Duolingo Translation
• Duolingo Comment on Posting Translations to Wikipedia

Resources

More coming soon

Outcomes

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