Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/News on Wiki September 2020

News on Wiki

Event details
Date:	Thursday 3 September 2020
Time	noon-1 EDT
Where:	YouTube
presentation	Refining our lists of articles to write or improve
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Librarians Jessamyn West and Molly Schwartzburg present Refining our lists of articles to write or improve, a presentation of how librarians can increase public access to their newspaper collections by making them available for Wikipedia editing. When Wikipedia presents information from and citations to library newspaper collections, then more people will find those collections at those libraries. Attendees of this event will see how information moves from newspapers to Wikipedia and provides an option for global access to local news information.

About

News On Wiki is hosting the event as part of an effort to improve Wikipedia with information from newspapers and to improve access to newspapers through Wikipedia.

Jessamyn West is a librarian in Vermont who advocates for computer literacy.

Molly Schwartzburg is a curator in the University of Virginia Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library.

Support

Community organizations contributing to the success of and fun of this presentation include the following:

• 
  Credibility Coalition
• 
  WikiProject Newspapers
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  AfroCROWD
• 
  Cascadia Wikimedians
• 
  University of Virginia

• Credibility Coalition sponsored the presentation
• WikiProject Newspapers is the on-wiki community project for developing content about newspapers
• AfroCROWD for increasing accessibility of newspapers for and about the African diaspora
• Cascadia Wikimedians for Wikipedia volunteer engagement in newspaper projects
• University of Virginia, and especially the School of Data Science and Library, encourage the development of Wikipedia for academia