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DC Statehood and Home Rule Wikipedia Edit-a-thon



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The lack of resources about DC’s fight for representation means that every day, Wikipedia users are missing the chance to learn about the key people, organizations, and moments in the history of Home Rule and the fight for DC Statehood.

This is your chance to help educate others about this history. Join the DC History Center and Wikimedia for an edit-a-thon focusing on this central story of Washington, DC. Create and edit pages for activists including: Julius Wilson Hobson, Sr., Josephine Dorothy Butler, Hilda Howland M. Mason, Hector Rodriguez, and Anise Jenkins, as well as organizations including DC Statehood Party, Stand Up for Democracy / Free DC, DC Statehood Coalition, Veterans United for DC Statehood, and Students for D.C. Statehood.

Anyone and everyone interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia is welcome to attend, regardless of experience or background. Wikimedia DC will provide training for new editors, while experienced editors can start editing right away.

The DC History Center will not only help identify citable secondary resources but will share materials from the collection for you to explore. This program is a great fit for experienced editors, DC history enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a new, useful hobby. Attendees will get to meet other editors and take an exclusive look at the DC History Center collections.

Laptops are required. Please being your own.

When

:November 5, 2022 10:30am - 1:00pm (Note new date)

Registration

:[https://dchistory.org/event/dcstatehood-edit/ Register].

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Presentation

==Please sign in==

:This is for use on the day of the event.

:1) Select 'Sign in'

:2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.

:Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

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Article work list

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment#Grades See Article Quality Assessment Scale for more about article ratings]

PLEASE USE [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VvS3zut4YWvjPfXehC4bCA5LH2oWjo1UzkhA_m6KWfo/edit?usp=sharing THIS GOOGLE SHEET] TO RESERVE ARTICLES before beginning to edit

Helpful sources:

  • [https://dchistory.libguides.com/c.php?g=1137601&p=8302548 DC History Lib guide/Resource guide]

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Useful sources

  • [https://dchistory.libguides.com/dc-statehood DC History Lib guide/Resource guide]

Wikimedia

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Tools, Resources

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  • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews Track Wikipedia Page Views]
  • [https://stats.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics]
  • [https://wikiedu.org Wiki Education Foundation]
  • [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules]
  • [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive Wayback Machine]

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WikiProjects

Wikimedia Affiliates

:[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Models Wikimedia movement affiliates model]

::[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters Chapters]

:::Wikimedia chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects in a specified geographical region (in most cases, a country). Like the Wikimedia Foundation, they aim to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". There are currently 39 chapters, with at least one on every inhabited continent., i.e. Wikimedia DC

::[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_thematic_organizations Wikimedia thematic organizations]

:::Thematic organizations are incorporated independent non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work focused on a specific theme, topic, subject or issue within or across countries and regions. i.e., Wikimedia Medicine.

::[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups User groups]

:::Wikimedia user groups are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates that are an alternative to chapters and thematic organizations - which require more formal requirements. User groups are highly valued as equal players in the Wikimedia movement, i.e., [https://www.artandfeminism.org/ Art+Feminism]

For Wikimedia DC Use

::[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights User rights management]

::[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount Special username creation]

Attendees

  • Ram9K (talk) 14:36, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
  • :so excited, I signed in twice :) Ram9K (talk) 14:36, 5 November 2022 (UTC)