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Editathon today, Feb 14, 2016. We are in the Exhibit Hall C, along the back wall. The audience includes experienced Wikipedians and new ones.
User:DESiegel advises a new editor at AAAS 2016
At February's AAAS conference there will be FOUR editathons focused on science topics, for beginners and experts alike. Welcome to Wikipedia's Year of Science! For these events, participants must be either attendees at the AAAS conference, or experienced Wikimedians selected as moderators.
These AAAS ediathons are organized by the Wiki Education Foundation, the Simons Foundation, and Wikimedia DC
Want to register?
Click on the big blue button!
Click on the big blue button!
[[
|Join this event!]]
To get back to this page, search Wikipedia for WP:AAAS2016
- When
- Saturday, February 13, 2016, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
- Saturday, February 13, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Sunday, February 14, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
- Sunday, February 14, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. (Diversity in Science edit-a-thon)
- Where
- 2016 AAAS conference at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington, DC. Go to Hall C, head to the Social Media Space and watch out for Wikipedia logos near one of the corners.
- What to bring
- A laptop computer or tablet. We'll have WiFi.
- Any resources you would like to refer to
- You're welcome to bring your camera and take pictures
- Preferably, a registered Wikipedia user account (but we can also create one on the spot)
- Schedule
- Introduction by Simons Foundation and Wiki Education Foundation
- How to edit Wikipedia, by Wikimedia DC presenters -- 40 mins or so
- Editing science articles, by Daniel Mietchen
- Two hours of editing
- Wiki Education Foundation guidance on staying involved
Please sign up, either to edit or as a potential moderator (an experienced Wikipedian), here on the AAAS website. If you leave your username (or real name) below, that will be helpful too. This event is open to people of all experience levels.
- Create a Wikipedia account
- While logged into your Wikipedia account, visit the course dashboard and click "Join course" (under the Actions heading on the right sidebar). This permits identification of your Wikipedia edits.
I'll be attending!
- econterms ( talk) 16:57, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
User:Jarekt- Daniel Mietchen ( talk) 18:26, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Antony–22 ( talk⁄ contribs) 05:22, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hildabast ( talk) 15:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- DES (talk) 12:58, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
- Mary Mark Ockerbloom ( talk) 21:30, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Maybes or regrets
- Something come up and I will not be able to attend. A pity as I was looking forward to it. -- Jarekt ( talk) 18:34, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Userboxes
If you are committed to improving scientific content on Wikipedia in the long run, add some of the following Wikitext to your user page. You can also sign up at WikiProject Chemistry and WikiProject Academic journals.
| Wikitext | Userbox | ||
|---|---|---|---|
{{
User Chemistry Project}}
|
|
- Please add suggestions below. This list includes categories and lists to correct and build from, and Wikisource and Wikidata projects.
- If create a new article over 1500 characters long (~3 paragraphs), or expand an existing one 5x in size, it may be eligible to appear on the Main Page in the Did You Know section!
Articles to expand
- Take a look at Science stubs -- very short articles
- Women in Technology Requests
- Federal R&D agencies worklist
- Feel free to start browsing article in your area of expertise, and if you see something that doesn't look quite right or is missing, fix it! (But remember to cite a reliable source!)
Articles to create
These articles will need a secondary source to cite.
- Requested applied science articles
- Requested natural science articles
- List of journals cited on Wikipedia for which there is no article in English
- Cheatsheet
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
- Help:Getting started
- Wikipedia:Your first article
- Daniel Mietchen's advice to editors of scientific articles, to be linked here and presented at the events
- User:Antony-22/Advice for scientists
- Recent presentation slides about Wikipedia
- Another similar one
- Check WP:MEETUP so see if there are local events in your hometown!
- There will be a Wikipedia Editathon: African American Artists at the Baltimore Museum of Art on February 13, 2016, from 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Articles created
- Janet Werker - DYK on 6 March 2016
- Jean Maria Arrigo
- Hoosen Coovadia
- Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
- Angela N. H. Creager
- Joan Cadden (historian)
- Western Regional Research Center (in User:KLindblom's sandbox)
Articles improved
- Newcomb Cleveland Prize
- History of Science Society
- Margaret W. Rossiter
- Omid Kokabee
- Tikhonov regularization
- Regularization (mathematics)
- David J. Skorton
- Ganzfeld effect
- AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Ubiquitin
- Lariat chain
- AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
- Ponce Health Sciences University
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Knudsen cell
- High-altitude research
- Regret
- Jealousy
- Erin K. O'Shea
- Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Statistical language acquisition
- James Ossuary
- Jacob L. Wright
- Copy-number variation
<
Wikipedia:Meetup |
DC
Editathon today, Feb 14, 2016. We are in the Exhibit Hall C, along the back wall. The audience includes experienced Wikipedians and new ones.
User:DESiegel advises a new editor at AAAS 2016
At February's AAAS conference there will be FOUR editathons focused on science topics, for beginners and experts alike. Welcome to Wikipedia's Year of Science! For these events, participants must be either attendees at the AAAS conference, or experienced Wikimedians selected as moderators.
These AAAS ediathons are organized by the Wiki Education Foundation, the Simons Foundation, and Wikimedia DC
Want to register?
Click on the big blue button!
Click on the big blue button!
[[
|Join this event!]]
To get back to this page, search Wikipedia for WP:AAAS2016
- When
- Saturday, February 13, 2016, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
- Saturday, February 13, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Sunday, February 14, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
- Sunday, February 14, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. (Diversity in Science edit-a-thon)
- Where
- 2016 AAAS conference at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington, DC. Go to Hall C, head to the Social Media Space and watch out for Wikipedia logos near one of the corners.
- What to bring
- A laptop computer or tablet. We'll have WiFi.
- Any resources you would like to refer to
- You're welcome to bring your camera and take pictures
- Preferably, a registered Wikipedia user account (but we can also create one on the spot)
- Schedule
- Introduction by Simons Foundation and Wiki Education Foundation
- How to edit Wikipedia, by Wikimedia DC presenters -- 40 mins or so
- Editing science articles, by Daniel Mietchen
- Two hours of editing
- Wiki Education Foundation guidance on staying involved
Please sign up, either to edit or as a potential moderator (an experienced Wikipedian), here on the AAAS website. If you leave your username (or real name) below, that will be helpful too. This event is open to people of all experience levels.
- Create a Wikipedia account
- While logged into your Wikipedia account, visit the course dashboard and click "Join course" (under the Actions heading on the right sidebar). This permits identification of your Wikipedia edits.
I'll be attending!
- econterms ( talk) 16:57, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
User:Jarekt- Daniel Mietchen ( talk) 18:26, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Antony–22 ( talk⁄ contribs) 05:22, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hildabast ( talk) 15:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- DES (talk) 12:58, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
- Mary Mark Ockerbloom ( talk) 21:30, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Maybes or regrets
- Something come up and I will not be able to attend. A pity as I was looking forward to it. -- Jarekt ( talk) 18:34, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Userboxes
If you are committed to improving scientific content on Wikipedia in the long run, add some of the following Wikitext to your user page. You can also sign up at WikiProject Chemistry and WikiProject Academic journals.
| Wikitext | Userbox | ||
|---|---|---|---|
{{
User Chemistry Project}}
|
|
- Please add suggestions below. This list includes categories and lists to correct and build from, and Wikisource and Wikidata projects.
- If create a new article over 1500 characters long (~3 paragraphs), or expand an existing one 5x in size, it may be eligible to appear on the Main Page in the Did You Know section!
Articles to expand
- Take a look at Science stubs -- very short articles
- Women in Technology Requests
- Federal R&D agencies worklist
- Feel free to start browsing article in your area of expertise, and if you see something that doesn't look quite right or is missing, fix it! (But remember to cite a reliable source!)
Articles to create
These articles will need a secondary source to cite.
- Requested applied science articles
- Requested natural science articles
- List of journals cited on Wikipedia for which there is no article in English
- Cheatsheet
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
- Help:Getting started
- Wikipedia:Your first article
- Daniel Mietchen's advice to editors of scientific articles, to be linked here and presented at the events
- User:Antony-22/Advice for scientists
- Recent presentation slides about Wikipedia
- Another similar one
- Check WP:MEETUP so see if there are local events in your hometown!
- There will be a Wikipedia Editathon: African American Artists at the Baltimore Museum of Art on February 13, 2016, from 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Articles created
- Janet Werker - DYK on 6 March 2016
- Jean Maria Arrigo
- Hoosen Coovadia
- Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
- Angela N. H. Creager
- Joan Cadden (historian)
- Western Regional Research Center (in User:KLindblom's sandbox)
Articles improved
- Newcomb Cleveland Prize
- History of Science Society
- Margaret W. Rossiter
- Omid Kokabee
- Tikhonov regularization
- Regularization (mathematics)
- David J. Skorton
- Ganzfeld effect
- AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Ubiquitin
- Lariat chain
- AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
- Ponce Health Sciences University
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Knudsen cell
- High-altitude research
- Regret
- Jealousy
- Erin K. O'Shea
- Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Statistical language acquisition
- James Ossuary
- Jacob L. Wright
- Copy-number variation