Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/NMAI COMM535 2015
An Edit-a-Thon
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Edit-a-thon -- The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, welcomes participants to its edit-a-thon focused on Native American issues in Wikipedia. We will be working with Wikipedia and American University class COMM535 and journalism professor Andrew Lih.
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; When
: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
: 2:30 - 5:30pm
; Who
: The program is open to the public, and will be conducted in conjunction with a communications/journalism course taught by Andrew Lih at the American University on Wikipedia & Public Knowledge. Contact Andrew Lih and sign up below if you'd like to attend.
; Where
: National Museum of the American Indian
: 4th St & Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560 ([http://nmai.si.edu/visit/washington/ directions here])
: Fourth floor, rooms 4018 and 4019 in the NE corner
; What to bring
: A fully charged laptop computer with charger or any device that can edit Wikipedia
: Please sign up below if you plan on joining us.
; [https://wikimediadc.hackpad.com/NMAI-edit-a-thon-2015 Etherpad shared notes for the day's event]
Schedule
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align=center|2:30-3:00 pm
|align=center|Early arrivals |
align=center|3:00-3:05 pm
|align=center|Welcome |
rowspan align=center|3:05-3:10 pm
|align=center|Introductions by Holly Stewart, National Museum of the American Indian |
rowspan align=center|3:10-3:40 pm
|colspan ="3" align=center|Museum Research in Real Time |
rowspan align=center|3:40-5:30 pm
|colspan ="3" align=center| Edit-a-Thon & Discussion |
Questions? Add your own
- How do I RSVP?
:*Add your name to the list below if you plan on joining us remotely.
- Can I share what I’m doing?
:* Yes, please feel free to share what you’re working on on your preferred social network using #glamwiki and invite your friends to join us remotely!
RSVP
Yes
- Fuzheado | Talk
- COMM535 students (15)
- Duckduckstop (talk) 19:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Articles and content to work on
- Backtracking the editing history of articles relevant to an upcoming exhibition
- Artists in the museum's collections
Resources
- Incan Engineering: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5Vajc5g_M&list=PLS6nSmuURFJA4txBT5GVV1C_HLTXQRvD0 Inka Engineering Symposium on YouTube]
- Archaeology of the Americas: Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed- [http://www.latino.si.edu/PDF/Revealing_Ancestral_Central_America.pdf pdf of exhibition catalogue]
- Norval Morrisseau & George Morrison: Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes - pdf of exhibition catalogue via USB on-site
- Exhibition catalogues, research files
= Websites, library catalogs, & databases =
- Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
- National Museum of the American Indian Collections Search - http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx
Reference book citations to copy and paste
- {{Cite book
| publisher = Greenwood Press
| isbn = 9780313337628
| last = Everett
| first = Deborah
| title = Encyclopedia of Native American Artists
| location = Westport, Conn
| series = Artists of the American mosaic, ISSN 1939-1218
| date = 2008
}}
- {{Cite book
| publisher = Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
| isbn = 9781888332308
| last = Klein
| first = Richard
| coauthors = Fergus M Bordewich, Paul Chaat Smith, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art |no-tracking=true
| title = No reservations: Native American history and culture in contemporary art
| location = Ridgefield, Conn.
| date = 2006
}}
- {{Cite book
| edition = 1st
| publisher = NMAI Editions, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
| isbn = 9781933565156
| last = National Museum of the American Indian
| others = Kathleen E. Ash-Milby (ed.)
| title = Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor
| location = Washington [D.C.]
| series = NMAI editions
| date = 2009
}}
- {{Cite book
| edition = 1st
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| isbn = 9780807832646
| last = National Museum of the American Indian
| others = Duane Blue Spruce, Tanya Thrasher (eds.)
| title = The land has memory: indigenous knowledge, native landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
| location = Chapel Hill
| date = 2008
}}
- {{Cite book
| publisher = Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
| isbn = 0971916330
| last = National Museum of the American Indian
| coauthors = Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House (New York, N.Y.)
|no-tracking=true | others = Gerald McMaster (ed.)
| title = New Tribe, New York: the Urban Vision Quest
| location = Washington, D.C
| date = 2005
}}
- {{Cite book
| edition = 1st
| publisher = NMAI Editions
| isbn = 9781933565088
| last = National Museum of the American Indian
| others = Kathleen E. Ash-Milby (ed.)
| title = Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination
| location = Washington, DC ; New York
| date = 2007
}}
= Issues =
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Resources
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= Websites, library catalogs, & databases =
- Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
- Smithsonian Libraries catalog portal [http://library.si.edu/research Tools for the Researcher]
- Smithsonian Libraries [http://library.si.edu/free-databases-and-collections free databases and collections]
- Smithsonian Libraries [http://qr7ug7ul2q.search.serialssolutions.com/ article indexes and databases] (some accessible only from terminals located in the library)
- [http://collections.si.edu/search/ Smithsonian Collections Search Center]
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Reference book citations to copy and paste
Help after the event
- Wikipedia:Teahouse, a friendly place to help new editors get started
Results and outcomes
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= Article creation =
;New articles
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;Updated articles
- George Gustav Heye added infobox
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