Wikipedia:Meetup/WW1 and Dissent

2014 is the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the first world war. Wikimedia UK has been approached by historians and librarians in London and Birmingham who want to work with our editing community to improve our coverage of these areas.

In May 2014, Wikimedia UK was approached by Senate House Library and library of Birmingham with a view to running wikipedia editing events on WW1 and dissent. After discussion on the cultural partners mailing list we decided to open this up to enable global participation.

1. Read Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon if you haven't run an editathon yourself.
2. You can run your event on any day, but if you can do it on the 22nd November 2014 get in touch and we will coordinate some sort of Skype link.
3. create an event page, something like this might work
4. Link your event to the target list, and add any of your targets there
5. Include your event in the list below
6. Include your event in the category WW1 and Dissent
7. Take photographs and upload them to Commons in the category WW1 and Dissent

Contribute online! Check out the resources below, and lists of pages that could be expanded! If you need help getting oriented on Wikipedia check out WP:TWA or http://editathon.org.

Some of the organisers will be at Wikimania 2014 where we may do some coordination

• World War I Museum in Kansas City co-hosted by the DHCenter at Kansas State University, November 22, 2014
• Senate House Library, London, November 22, 2014
• Library of Birmingham, London, November 22, 2014

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• [http://www.jstor.org/ Jstor] (subscription required)
• [http://muse.jhu.edu/ Project MUSE] (subscription required)
• [http://www.ubu.com/ Ubu Web]
• Digital Public Library of America
• [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org Pritzker Military Museum & Library]

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• [http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en Europeana 1914-1918]
  GLAM and crowdsourced images from WWI in Europe (in 13 languages). [http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en/explore Sortable by object type, subject, battle-front, license, country...]
  Also includes filters for USA, Canada, Australia and N.Z. content.

• [http://www.twitter.com/RealTimeWW1 World War One goes Twitter]
  Events, developments and the everyday life of the Great War told in real-time via tweets, referring to a wide range of source databases (newspapers, maps, photo&film, letters, poems...).

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• Wikipedia markup cheatsheet
• Wikipedia Cheat Sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
• Training for Students, a tutorial for beginners
• Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf Wiki Markup Quick Reference], PDF version of printed handout
• [http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/index.html Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing] by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
• Article development
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article Your First Article] (using the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard2.0 Article Wizard], if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_templates Citation templates]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates Infobox templates]
• [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/ Bookshelf], additional "getting started" resources

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• [http://libguides.metro.org/content.php?pid=495121 Wikipedia and Open Access LibGuide and Directory of GLAM-wiki and editing resources]
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Libraries Archives Museums learning resources, training tools, guide for galleries, libraries, archives, museums
• Wikipedia:GLAM/US GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) U.S. Consortium

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