Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/MITrarebooks
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MIT Rare Books Edit-a-thon
:'''Interested in rare books? Interested in Wikipedia? Come to this edit-a-thon to learn about rare books at MIT and edit Wikipedia. There will be a selection of rare books from the MIT collection for participants to look at, read, and use to edit Wikipedia.
:MIT is home to thousands of rare books, from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle to a first edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Electricity, telegraphy, magnetism, popular science – even witchcraft and mesmerism – are among the topics covered in MIT's rare collections. Join us for an afternoon in the MIT archives to learn about rare books and how you can use them to contribute to Wikipedia.
PHOTOS Please cite: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute Archives and Special Collections
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|data2 = Friday, October 28, 2016
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When and Where
Friday, October 28, 2016 from 12:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern
'''Massachusetts Institute of Technology, building 14N-132 DIRC and in the Institute Archives and Special Collections reading room 14N-118
You may also join us remotely from wherever you are!
Register!
All are welcome to participate, newcomer and veteran alike. This is open to the MIT community and the public at large.
Register here, on the [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/MIT_Rare_Books_Edit-a-thon?enroll=jzrfilhq Event Dashboard]
=On-site attendees=
- Gkuriger (talk) 19:10, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
- Rtbhive (talk) 19:45, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
- bobmodikiw
- FaerieDevilish
- Ctanguay
- Pi.1415926535
- EdJohnston
===Remote attendees===
:Remote attendees are welcome to participate in the edit-a-thon, but will not have access to the live presentation and trainers. Please enter your Wikipedia user name below.
Schedule
Attendees may come and go throughout the session. Bring your laptop! Snacks will be provided in the DIRC. Rare books will be in the Institute Archives Reading Room 14N-118 only.
| class="wikitable" | |
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| DIRC open for edit-a-thon! | |
| Overview of Wikipedia, with option for training class. Library sources available. | |
| Rare book presentation in the Institute Archives and Special Collections reading room 14N-118 | |
| Let's edit! in Reading Room or DIRC | |
| Announcements, accomplishments, thanks, wind-down |
Articles to edit / create
- Eliot Bible: [http://library.mit.edu/item/000442421 Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe up-biblum God]. Cambridge, Mass., 1685. This book relates to Robert Boyle (the Eliot Bible – is dedicated “to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq.”, read more about this at [http://mitnames2016.tumblr.com/post/147391202988/robert-boyle-1627-1691 Big Names on Campus: Robert Boyle]) and the Wopanaak Language Reclamation project which does not have an article.
- Add a line about the dedication to Boyle's article
- Create an article page for the Wopanaak Language Reclamation project. There are many Wikipedia articles that mention the project including the article Wampanoag people
- Other sources include articles in the MIT Technology Review - [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/410002/language-reclamation-101/ Language Reclamation 101] - [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/409990/saving-a-language/ Saving a Language]
- Huggins: [http://library.mit.edu/item/001300400 An atlas of representative stellar spectra]. London, 1899 Margaret Lindsay Huggins / create an article for the book: An Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra
- Create article for The Street Railway Gazette - multiple issues in [https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/82822 DOME], but can’t find in Wikipedia - [http://libraries.mit.edu/150books/2011/02/01/1886/ 150 years in the stacks]
- Two volumes will be on hand to look at
- View the [http://libraries.mit.edu/150books/2011/01/11/1865/ Grammar of Ornament] during the rare books session and clean up the Wikipedia article about its author by adding sources to the Owen Jones article. We will have 1st and 2nd editions on hand.
- Add info about the [http://libraries.mit.edu/collections/vail-collection/ Vail collection] to the Theodore Vail article
- George Edward Dering - collector of books that became the Vail collection at MIT. His interests were not limited to "telegraphy, chemistry, iron- and brick-making" but also included things like witchcraft, the occult, and gymnastics. A few books he collected will be on hand.
- William Barton Rogers - Geologist, educator and the founder of MIT.
- [https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/pdf/mc1.pdf Guide to the Papers of William Barton Rogers] at MIT
- [https://libraries.mit.edu/mithistory/william-barton-rogers-1804-1882/ MIT History website]
- [https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/wbr-birthday/ About MIT's Founder, William Barton Rogers]
- Emma Savage Rogers (wife of William Barton Rogers) is missing from Wikipedia! Should she have her own article?? She did edit the publication William Barton Rogers Life and Letters - copies will be on hand
- She is mentioned in her father's Wikipedia article - James Savage and in the article for William Barton Rogers.
- Emma Savage journal from 1836 - at Harvard, [http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009904648/catalog description available through Hollis]
- Synesius: [http://library.mit.edu/item/002409796 Synesiou episkopou.] Paris, 1553
- In Synesuis's Wikipedia article it states "His scientific interests are attested by his letter to Hypatia..." but Synesuis had a few letters to Hypatia - something that might be worth clarifying
Other things to work on
- Master List of WikiProjects might help identify articles for creation or improvement based on topic.
- WikiProject Women scientists and their list of missing articles
- List of Meet-Up Events - event pages often have lists of suggested articles
- Art and Feminism meet-up has a list of artists who worked in Boston and don't have Wikipedia articles.
- Boston area meet-ups
- [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref #1Lib1Ref (One Librarian, One Reference)](make sure to include the hashtag #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary in order to track participation)
- Women's history article list from Simmons 2014 editathon Under "Suggested Topics" there are many articles that need citation and reference work
- Sloan Fellowship article needs updated references and external links
- MIT School of Architecture and Planning could use some work/more citations
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Boston&importance=Mid-Class&quality=Start-Class Boston start-class articles] and [https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Boston&importance=Low-Class&quality=Stub-Class stub class articles about Boston]
- Translation - learn more about how to translate English articles to other languages.
Missing:
:* Alfred Keil (Ocean Engineering)
:* Alice Kimball Smith (author of A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America 1945-47)
:* David Epstein (composer, conductor, MIT professor of music)
- Any topic you're interested in!
Resources about editing Wikipedia
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia
- Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia
- How to use Primary Sources on Wikipedia - No Original Research
- [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Wiki_markup_cheatsheet_EN.pdf Wikipedia Mark-Up Cheat Sheat]
- What is an Infobox?
- List of Infobox Templates
- Scientist Infobox template
- Categorization
Resources
- [http://mitnames2016.tumblr.com/ Big Names on Campus]: Tumblr exploring rare book connections to those big names that are on some MIT campus buildings
- [https://libraries.mit.edu/150books/ 150 Years in the Stacks]: "...a look at MIT through the prism of its library collections. Think of this as a tour through the MIT Libraries’ open stacks and offsite storage areas, with a side trip to its closed-stack rare collections and an occasional glimpse into the vault."
- [https://libraries.mit.edu/ MIT Libraries]
- [http://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=176038&p=1159372 Historical newspapers (online)] MIT Libraries
- [http://libguides.mit.edu/general Reference Resources] (e.g. encyclopedias) online via MIT Library
- [http://tech.mit.edu/ The Tech]: MIT's oldest and largest newspaper
- [https://archive.org/details/texts Internet Archive Digitized Texts]
- [http://www.hathitrust.org/ Hathi Trust Digital Library]