This page is a template for hosts. Put your welcome to participants here. |
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When: Put your date and time here
Where: Location and room number Focus: Special theme of your collections or suggested topics. In addition, please keep the link back to the main Open Access to Mass History page below. |
This edit-a-thon is part of
Open Access to Massachusetts History 2013
|
Tell participants about your collections and what makes them special.
Of course, this can be approximate.
Leave space here for sign-ups. This format is somewhat standard for Wikipedia meetups.
Based on your collections, enter a list of suggestions. Wikipedia GLAM folks have suggested starting with simple types of info, outlined below. Jumping immediately to editing a well-established article might be overwhelming for new editors. Previous edit-a-thons have done well with creating introductory stub pages in the following categories.
In other words, updating a well-established article about a controversial concept is not certainly not verboten, but might take some back-and-forth with existing editors. Adding new basic facts, or expanding on existing articles about basic facts is often an easier place to start. You are, of course, free to do what you like! These are just a few suggestions to smooth the way for beginning editors.
This Meetup at UNC-Chapel Hill is a nice example page, as well as this To Do List from a Luce Lunder Meetup.
Enter a list of useful secondary sources on our topic/collections here. The Luce/Lunder Meetup has a nice example list.
Also note that there may be databases to which your library subscribes that participants can use through walk-in access. For example, if you subscribe to the Boston Globe, you may wish to encourage participants to find local news articles on your topic, to increase the "notability" factor of new articles. (While a finding aid or blog post on your institution's website can serve as one secondary source, buttressing your article with citations to local news articles is a better practice than relying solely on the finding aid.)
Finally, you may wish to have appropriate print resources available for your participants -- Dictionaries of National Biography, Who's Who, and other reference sources in your subject area.
These are just to get you started -- feel free to add to this list.
This is the exciting part! Leave a half hour at the end of your edit-a-thon to collect and admire all of the work you've done, as well as take a few photos.
Once you've created your event page, link to it from the following places. Feel free to contact the organizers for help with any of this.
And of course, please publicize your event as you see fit! We ask that you just include two sentences saying something like "This edit-a-thon is part of Open Access to Mass History, a planned series of edit-a-thons during Open Access Week; if you can't make this event, please see our main schedule for more."
Delete this section when you are done, and add [[Category:Wikipedia meetups in 2013]] , [[Category:Wikipedia meetups in Boston, Massachusetts]] , and [[Category:Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2013]] to the bottom of the page. This will automatically list you on some Wikipedia Meetup pages.
This page is a template for hosts. Put your welcome to participants here. |
---|
When: Put your date and time here
Where: Location and room number Focus: Special theme of your collections or suggested topics. In addition, please keep the link back to the main Open Access to Mass History page below. |
This edit-a-thon is part of
Open Access to Massachusetts History 2013
|
Tell participants about your collections and what makes them special.
Of course, this can be approximate.
Leave space here for sign-ups. This format is somewhat standard for Wikipedia meetups.
Based on your collections, enter a list of suggestions. Wikipedia GLAM folks have suggested starting with simple types of info, outlined below. Jumping immediately to editing a well-established article might be overwhelming for new editors. Previous edit-a-thons have done well with creating introductory stub pages in the following categories.
In other words, updating a well-established article about a controversial concept is not certainly not verboten, but might take some back-and-forth with existing editors. Adding new basic facts, or expanding on existing articles about basic facts is often an easier place to start. You are, of course, free to do what you like! These are just a few suggestions to smooth the way for beginning editors.
This Meetup at UNC-Chapel Hill is a nice example page, as well as this To Do List from a Luce Lunder Meetup.
Enter a list of useful secondary sources on our topic/collections here. The Luce/Lunder Meetup has a nice example list.
Also note that there may be databases to which your library subscribes that participants can use through walk-in access. For example, if you subscribe to the Boston Globe, you may wish to encourage participants to find local news articles on your topic, to increase the "notability" factor of new articles. (While a finding aid or blog post on your institution's website can serve as one secondary source, buttressing your article with citations to local news articles is a better practice than relying solely on the finding aid.)
Finally, you may wish to have appropriate print resources available for your participants -- Dictionaries of National Biography, Who's Who, and other reference sources in your subject area.
These are just to get you started -- feel free to add to this list.
This is the exciting part! Leave a half hour at the end of your edit-a-thon to collect and admire all of the work you've done, as well as take a few photos.
Once you've created your event page, link to it from the following places. Feel free to contact the organizers for help with any of this.
And of course, please publicize your event as you see fit! We ask that you just include two sentences saying something like "This edit-a-thon is part of Open Access to Mass History, a planned series of edit-a-thons during Open Access Week; if you can't make this event, please see our main schedule for more."
Delete this section when you are done, and add [[Category:Wikipedia meetups in 2013]] , [[Category:Wikipedia meetups in Boston, Massachusetts]] , and [[Category:Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2013]] to the bottom of the page. This will automatically list you on some Wikipedia Meetup pages.