Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UWRCWikiLab

Wikipedia Lab at the UW Research Commons

style="text-align: right" | When:

| Weekly on Mondays, starting 10/5/2015 through 11/30/2015, 4:30pm-6:30pm

style="text-align: right" | Who:

| UW students, faculty, and staff; Seattle community members

style="text-align: right" | Where:

| [http://commons.lib.washington.edu/about/location-1 UW Research Commons], room Green A

style="text-align: right" | Focus:

| Women and the Sciences and Pacific Northwest, weekly focuses

Wikipedia Lab at the UW Libraries Research Commons brings together local Wikipedia experts with University of Washington subject specialists and UW community members to learn about editing Wikipedia. Come contribute vital, local, and corrective content to the world's largest online encyclopedia. Come as you are with questions, ideas, or content knowledge to share!

The Wikipedia Lab will run weekly, every Monday, during fall quarter. The Lab has two thematic focuses: Women in the Sciences and the Pacific Northwest. Each week will feature a special collections librarian content specialist and Wikipedian editors.

Sponsored by the UW Libraries & Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

Weekly Schedule

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DateThemeFocusPresentersWikipediansStarting points
10/5/2015WikipediaLab: Women and the SciencesWomen and EconomicsLibrarian: Jessica Jerritt Monika Sengul-Jones, Pine, {{u|Peaceray}}#Women and Economics
10/12/2015WikipediaLab: Women and the SciencesWomen and AstronomyLibrarian: [http://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=342028&p=2300183 Anya Bartelmann] (Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics Librarian)Brianhe, {{u|Benjamin Mako Hill}}, {{u|Peaceray}}#Women and Astronomy
10/19/2015WikipediaLab: Women and the SciencesWomen and Health SciencesTBAPine, {{u|Peaceray}}#Women and Health Sciences
10/26/2015WikipediaLab: Women and the SciencesWomen and TechnologyCrystalRose Hudelson (Guest speaker on women in aviation) Monika Sengul-Jones, {{u|Peaceray}}#Women and Technology
11/2/2015WikipediaLab: Pacific NorthwestHawks & Huskies: Northwest SportsHannah Palin, UW Film Archives SpecialistPine, {{u|Peaceray}}, {{u|SounderBruce}}#Northwest Sports
11/9/2015WikipediaLab: Pacific NorthwestNative Americans in the NorthwestTBAPine, {{u|Peaceray}}, {{u|SounderBruce}}#Native Americans in the Northwest
11/16/2015WikipediaLab: Pacific NorthwestThe Port of Seattle as a Site of LaborLibrarian: [http://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341700&p=2303381 Conor Casey] (Labor Archivist, Director) User: LaborArchWAPine, {{u|Peaceray}}, {{u|SounderBruce}}#Port of Seattle
11/23/2015WikipediaLab: Pacific NorthwestWater, Ecology & SustainabilityLibrarians: [http://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/nolan Maureen Nolan] and [http://guides.lib.uw.edu/prf.php?account_id=61465 Louise Richards]Pine, {{u|Peaceray}}, {{u|SounderBruce}}#Ecology and sustainability
11/30/2015WikipediaLab: Pacific NorthwestPlanes, Trains, and Automobiles: Economy of the Pacific NorthwestTBA Monika Sengul-Jones, Pine, {{u|Peaceray}}, {{u|SounderBruce}}#PNW economy

Suggested starting points

Note: Articles created or developed at the lab can be tagged on their talkpage with {{tl|UWRCWikiLab 8}}

=Women and Economics=

=Women and Astronomy=

{{Further|Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UWRCWikiLab/Women astronomers}}

  • List of women astronomers
  • http://women.nasa.gov - Women at NASA
  • http://wia2009.gsfc.nasa.gov - Women in Astronomy 2009 (NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center)

=Women and Health Sciences=

=Women and Technology=

=Northwest Sports=

=Native Americans in the Northwest=

=Port of Seattle=

=Ecology and sustainability=

=PNW economy=

Recent improvements

Proposed articles to edit

=Women and Economics=

=Women and Astronomy=

=Women and Health Sciences=

=Women and Technology=

=Northwest Sports=

=Native Americans in the Northwest=

=The Port of Seattle as a Site of Labor=

=Ecology and sustainability=

=PNW economy=

FYI: Other articles that we might attend to in this edithon are Transportation in Seattle and Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, which are two of the three Top-importance Seattle articles that are start class, and Alaskan Way Viaduct and Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, which are two of the dozen High-importance Seattle articles that are start class, according to this [https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Seattle&namespace=&pagename=&quality=Start&importance=&score=&limit=250&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Score Seattle Start-class article list] from Wikipedia Release Version Tools. See the WP:WPUSA quality assessment and WikiProject article quality grading scheme for more info.

=Other=

Proposed articles to add

=Women and Astronomy=

=Native Americans in the Northwest=

  • Naches Trail (currently redir.)
  • sources: [http://www.citybonneylake.org/section_community/community_resources/historical_society.shtml City of Bonney Lake history]

=Ecology and sustainability=

  • Washington State coal train controversy (Gateway Pacific Terminal is a redirect to one paragraph)
  • sources: [http://crosscut.com/2014/07/coal-issue-trains-raise-concerns-seattle-puget-sou/ Crosscut], [http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/report-coal-trains-planned-for-state-carry-issues-bring-jobs/ Seattle Times], [http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article22222782.html Bellingham Herald], [http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/will-trains-bring-48-million-tons-of-coal-a-year-through-seattle-not-if-locals-can-stop-it Yes! magazine], [http://content.sierraclub.org/Coal/washington Sierra Club], [http://www.kbtc.org/page.php?id=1275 KBTC], [http://www.coaltrainfacts.org/ Coal Train Facts], [http://www.sightline.org/research/coal-export-faq/ Sightline Institute], [http://kuow.org/post/seattle-billionaire-steps-coal-fight KUOW]
  • Cycling in Seattle (see Cycling in Portland, Oregon for inspiration)

=Women and Technology=

  • Eve Riskin
  • {{citation|title=Looking at the Gender Gap: Members offer advice on how to close the gender gap in engineering|author=Anna Bogdanowicz |date=8 March 2010 |work=The Institute|publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|url=http://theinstitute.ieee.org/benefits/ieee-groups/looking-at-the-gender-gap647}}
  • {{citation|title=IEEE Fellows Champion the Cause of Women Engineers: These three work to increase the number of women engineers|author=Kathy Pretz |date=7 February 2014|work=The Institute|publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|url=http://theinstitute.ieee.org/people/achievements/ieee-fellows-champion-the-cause-of-women-engineers}}
  • {{citation|title=UW female professors building a culture for engineering|date=October 14, 2013 |author=Katherine Long|newspaper=The Seattle Times|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-female-professors-building-a-culture-for-engineering/}}

=PNW economy=

Editing Resources

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources Art+Feminism Video tutorials]

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPyxWiNxDw4&feature=youtu.be Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 1]- Making Simple edits on Wikipedia
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nf7ZLoiqk0 Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 2] - Using your sandbox and adding citations
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpuiU4VHT_c Art + Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 3] - Best practices and Wikipedia policies
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM_EvDxdroQ&feature=youtu.be Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSy0vOpAtMo&feature=youtu.be Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Creating New Pages on Wikipedia]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2hvJ0Qls-Q&feature=youtu.be Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Talk Pages on Wikipedia]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAByy2BW5rA&feature=youtu.be Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Wikipedia Notability Guidelines]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkA1IeQKnw&feature=youtu.be Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPRK67w2vw&feature=youtu.be Art + Feminism Advanced FAQ: Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikipedia Articles]

[https://vimeo.com/64973792 Femtechnet video] featuring Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz - one hour

RSVP

;Probably attending

;Maybe attending

  • I'll make as many of these as I can. - Jmabel | Talk 16:01, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

;Probably not attending

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