The Rakow Research Library of The Corning Museum of Glass hosted an edit-a-thon on Friday, December 5, 2014 focused on introducing local GLAM professionals to Wikipedia and editing articles related to Southern Tier history and culture.
Participants in this edit-a-thon learned about Wikipedia, the GLAM-Wiki initiative, and how their organizations can get involved in Wikipedia. They also had a chance to practice their editing skills and create and/or expand local and regional history articles
The Southern Tier history 2014 edit-a-thon will offer a selection of prepared projects for attendees to work on:
If you have something else you'd like to work on you are welcome to do so!
List of articles is in development
Please place a next an article to indicate that edits were made; the mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.
When thinking about pages to create, remember Wikipedia's guidelines on notability and notable people.
Participants can connect to the "CMoG Guest" network while on the museum campus. Please bring your own laptop, if possible. A limited number of laptops and desktop computers will be available.
You can use the following online catalogs to find out what books, journals, videos, articles, and other materials are in the Rakow Library collection.
The Rakow Library also has a large number of bibliographies on different topics related to glass and local history. Ask the reference librarian at the desk if there is a bibliography on the topic you are writing about.
The following Rakow Research Library subscription databases will be available to onsite participants:
NOVEL NY also provides access to:
For a full list of databases available through the Rakow Research Library and NOVEL NY, visit this page.
The below links lead to catalog records with more information on each collection. Please ask a Rakow Library staff member if you are interested in using one of the collections.
If you have a question about editing, feel free to ask one of the CMoG Wikipedia editors for help! The Teahouse is also a great place to ask for help from expert editors.
Editing tips
Useful links
Please indicate your intention to attend by editing the appropriate section below.
Users who are unable to attend in person but are interested in Southern Tier history are welcome to edit articles remotely.
Please add yourself to the Corning Wikipedians list to be informed of future Corning-area meetups.
At the end of the edit-a-thon, participants were asked to complete a brief survey about the event. The results of the survey and data collected at the event are summarized below.
Six attendees completed the post-survey report. Out of those six, three created their account for the event and four edited Wikipedia for the first time. Participants worked on The Wikipedia Adventure (5), created their user pages (5), expanded existing pages (3), and added citations to pages (2). They described themselves as librarians, digital communications specialists, and educators. Participants noted they were likely to continue editing Wikipedia and would attend future local edit-a-thons. They preferred the half-day event to a full-day event, and were more likely to come to a weekday edit-a-thon as opposed to a weekend edit-a-thon.
The Rakow Research Library of The Corning Museum of Glass hosted an edit-a-thon on Friday, December 5, 2014 focused on introducing local GLAM professionals to Wikipedia and editing articles related to Southern Tier history and culture.
Participants in this edit-a-thon learned about Wikipedia, the GLAM-Wiki initiative, and how their organizations can get involved in Wikipedia. They also had a chance to practice their editing skills and create and/or expand local and regional history articles
The Southern Tier history 2014 edit-a-thon will offer a selection of prepared projects for attendees to work on:
If you have something else you'd like to work on you are welcome to do so!
List of articles is in development
Please place a next an article to indicate that edits were made; the mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.
When thinking about pages to create, remember Wikipedia's guidelines on notability and notable people.
Participants can connect to the "CMoG Guest" network while on the museum campus. Please bring your own laptop, if possible. A limited number of laptops and desktop computers will be available.
You can use the following online catalogs to find out what books, journals, videos, articles, and other materials are in the Rakow Library collection.
The Rakow Library also has a large number of bibliographies on different topics related to glass and local history. Ask the reference librarian at the desk if there is a bibliography on the topic you are writing about.
The following Rakow Research Library subscription databases will be available to onsite participants:
NOVEL NY also provides access to:
For a full list of databases available through the Rakow Research Library and NOVEL NY, visit this page.
The below links lead to catalog records with more information on each collection. Please ask a Rakow Library staff member if you are interested in using one of the collections.
If you have a question about editing, feel free to ask one of the CMoG Wikipedia editors for help! The Teahouse is also a great place to ask for help from expert editors.
Editing tips
Useful links
Please indicate your intention to attend by editing the appropriate section below.
Users who are unable to attend in person but are interested in Southern Tier history are welcome to edit articles remotely.
Please add yourself to the Corning Wikipedians list to be informed of future Corning-area meetups.
At the end of the edit-a-thon, participants were asked to complete a brief survey about the event. The results of the survey and data collected at the event are summarized below.
Six attendees completed the post-survey report. Out of those six, three created their account for the event and four edited Wikipedia for the first time. Participants worked on The Wikipedia Adventure (5), created their user pages (5), expanded existing pages (3), and added citations to pages (2). They described themselves as librarians, digital communications specialists, and educators. Participants noted they were likely to continue editing Wikipedia and would attend future local edit-a-thons. They preferred the half-day event to a full-day event, and were more likely to come to a weekday edit-a-thon as opposed to a weekend edit-a-thon.