Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/2018 Data and Editing Workshop
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Learn to write about people & research at MIT's Wikipedia Data & Editing Workshop, Jan 9-11 |
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__TOC__ Practice editing and creating articles about academic topics. Learn how to compile lists of professors, buildings, and projects from university databases; practice using templates and bots; learn how to find and update problematic articles. Participants will choose a topic and complete either a list or an article by the end of the workshop. Lunch is provided. :What: Wikipedia Data & Editing Workshop :When: Tue-Thu January 9-11, 2018, 12-4pm :Where: MIT, Media Lab, Room [https://libraries.mit.edu/locations/#!digital-instruction-resource-center-dirc E15-359]. Lunch Tuesday will be in a separate place: [https://web.archive.org/web/20181121171823/https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/wikiclub/] for details :Focus: Boston-area professors, research groups, buildings, university history, datasets & scripts |
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(until 5:30pm on Tuesday)
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Schedule
- 12:00-13:00 -- lunch and discussion by visiting mentor each day
- 13:00-15:30 -- editing + small-group collabs
- 15:40 -- 3 minute talks from each group about progress & challenges
Participant List
:Please make an account and add your username below
- – SJ +
- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC) (only wed)
- ChiaLynn 20:38, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
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Articles & data worked on
Potential topics
:Add your ideas here, or existing articles you want to improve
- Tod Machover
- Any articles at a university of your choice that also have been flagged for problems.
: You can [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ use PetScan] to find the intersection of category intersection, for instance between "Harvard University people" and "Articles with a promotional tone".
NB: There will also be a separate engineering editathon later in the month.