Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Enhancing the Narrative of DC Public Schools: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop

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Enhancing the Narrative of DC Public Schools: A Wikipedia Editing Workshop

Join us at Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives and help to improve and create Wikipedia articles about the history of public education in the District of Columbia. No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary, as training will be provided. Reference materials from the Sumner Archives will be readily available.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Lunch will be provided.

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

When

Saturday, January 19, 2019 10AM-2PM

Where

Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives

1201 17th Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20036

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Presentation

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

Quick Editing Tips

Tools and Other Resources

Resources/Potential Secondary Sources

Attendees

History2049 (talk) 12:35, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Divadino (talk) 15:07, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sherwin S DC (talk) 15:36, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Stitchyraven (talk) 16:28, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Gamaliel (talk) 16:30, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 16:31, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nacho Fries (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
C7L8H (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Kespringle (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
History2049 (talk) 16:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mwsimmons4598 (talk) 16:33, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Annasworld3 (talk) 16:36, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
econterms (talk) 16:40, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Fivehouserocks (talk) 18:13, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
MZMcBride (talk)

Outcomes

Wikis: commons.wikimedia, en.wikipedia
Start date: 2019-01-19 10:00 (America/New York)
End date: 2019-01-19 15:00

Bytes changed	Edits	Files in use	Files uploaded	New editors	Pages created	Views to pages created	Pages improved	Avg. daily views to pages improved	Unique pages with uploaded files	Participants	7 day retention
8,327	22	3	4	1	1	73	11	120	5	13	0

DvorakSymphony8 (talk) 15:42, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]