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Wiki Loves Pride 2015
When and Where
Date and TimeJune 6, 2015 (Saturday), 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Address14th St and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001 (directions here)
City, StateWashington,_D.C.
National Museum of American History northern entrance
Main pages: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC and Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride 2015

Wiki Loves Pride is an opportunity to write about LGBT culture and history, in the context of Washington, D.C. and the American experience. Join museum curator Katherine Ott and archives specialist Franklin A. Robinson Jr. for special behind-the-scenes tours and a chance to edit Wikipedia among friends. No previous Wikipedia editing experience is required (the day includes a short introduction to editing), but please create your account before the edit-a-thon begins.

If you are interested in participating, please sign up below and/or share the results of your work during the month of June 2015.

When

June 6 (Saturday), 2015; 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Where

National Museum of American History
14th St and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001 (directions here)
Because the edit-a-thon will be held in non-public spaces in the museum, participants will need to be escorted to the edit-a-thon location by museum staff members. Participants should gather in the National Museum of American History's Constitution Avenue lobby, near the visitor services desk.
What to bring
A fully charged laptop computer with charger (and extension cord if you have one!)
A government-issued picture i.d.
RSVP Required
Please sign up below if you plan on joining us at the Museum. Space limited due to small venue. Lunch will be provided.

Goals

  • To encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
  • To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to LGBT topics
  • To make Smithsonian-held materials more openly linked
  • To increase awareness of the research resources freely available through libraries, archives, and museums

Schedule

National Museum of American History Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-Thon Schedule
Time Activity
10:00-10:30 am Arrivals. Participants should gather in the National Museum of American History's Constitution Avenue lobby, near the visitor services desk, for staff escort to edit-a-thon location
10:30-11:00 am Welcome by Smithsonian staff, and introductory training session on editing Wikipedia
11:00 am -12:00 pm Behind-the-scenes tour of the LGBT collections in the Museum and the Archives Center
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch (provided)
1:00-5:00 pm Wikipedia editing

RSVP

Attending in person (limit 30 attendees)

  1. OR drohowa (talk) 18:54, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
  2. Ftripodi (talk) 00:19, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
  3. Rajesh Vidyasagar
  4. Verbistheword (talk) 18:24, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
  5. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 00:50, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
  6. MichaBlack (talk) 9:03, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
  7. econterms (talk) 16:43, 6 June 2015 (UTC) -- still hoping to make it, late in the day. I invite you all to Monday's editathon too

Smithsonian staff attending

  1. Uncommon fritillary (talk) 22:31, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
  2. Erin Blasco, National Museum of American History
  3. Dan Gifford, National Museum of American History
  4. Digitaleffie (talk) 14:32, 2 June 2015 (UTC), Smithsonian Institution Archives (I will come at about 11:30am)
  5. Eric Kearsley, National Museum of American History
  6. George Bowman, OCIO
  7. Meghan Plate, Intern, National Museum of American History

Participating remotely

  1. Duckduckstop (talk) 19:15, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
  2. Penny Richards (talk) 05:16, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Regrets

  1. Djembayz (talk) 17:26, 5 June 2015 (UTC) . Will be out of town, enjoy the event!

Suggested articles to create or edit

Below is a list of articles which could be created or expanded using information from the National Museum of American History's collections. This list is not exhaustive and you may edit or expand any additional Wikipedia articles.

Citation format for citing the NMAH Archives Center finding aid:

<ref name=NMAH_AC>{{cite web|last1=Robinson, Jr.|first1=Franklin A.|title=Guide to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Collection, NMAH.AC.1146|url=http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC1146.pdf|website=Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History Archives Center|publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>

New articles

Articles to expand

Resources

  • "Past Overdue! Protections for LGBT Americans in the Workplace" by Donna Braquet, in College & Research Libraries News, June 2015, vol. 76, no. 6 (313-322) has an excellent bibliography of online resources for American LGBT civil rights issues http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/6/313.full
  • The catalog for the University of Southern California's "ONE Archives" has a superb collection of LGBT books, periodicals, audiovisual materials, photography, artwork, etc., especially relating to LGBTQ histories in the Los Angeles region: http://one.usc.edu/collections/

Websites, library catalogs, & databases

Results

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Resources for Editing

Wikipedia Editing Tutorials

Wikipedia citations are done in-line with the text, and are automatically aggregated as footnotes at the bottom of pages. Citation templates are an easy way for beginners to begin inserting citations.

Some Relevant Wikipedia Categories

See Portal:LGBT/Categories_(box)

Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.

Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

Editing Wikipedia resources

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Conflict of Interest

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