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Introduction[edit]

This page is a meetup for the University of Arizona Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Agriculture and Natural Resources content. Our goal is to bring together our knowledge of high-quality information to crowdsource Wikipedia pages that deal with some aspect of agriculture, natural resources and other "test" disciplines which are listed within the "Stub" and "Start" classes. Since this is a pilot program, there is a cap at 15 participants. Register early for your spot!

In addition to our main goal of adding more high-quality information to Wikipedia, we also desire to:

  • encourage new or inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
  • learn from and document our experience so that we may continue to host edit-a-thons at scale

Event Information[edit]

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  • Date: Friday, March 11, 2016
  • Time: 11:00-5:00 pm MST
  • Location: University Services Bldg (USB) Room #310
  • Registration: Registration open to University of Arizona faculty, staff and students and other affiliates
  • Prerequisites: No prior Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Training will be provided during the event, editors will be on hand to help with questions.

Schedule of events[edit]

Draft schedule

  • 11:00am-11:30am Buffet Lunch with Welcome, Introductions, Background & Overview of Editathon
  • 'before beginning Pre-event survey
  • 11:30pm-11:45pm Greetings from Helaine Blumenthal, Program Manager at Wiki Education Foundation
  • 11:45pm-12:30pm Online workshop with Cornell on editing in Wikipedia
  • 12:30pm-1:00 Review topics for editing and guidelines for entering original content (doing & documenting your research)
  • 1:00pm-4:00pm* Wikipedia editing (on own or with teams; organizing committee on hand to assist)
  • 4:00pm-4:30pm Lightning Talks (3 minute reports) to present results; comment on what worked and what did not
  • 'before leaving Post-event survey
  • 5:00pm Happy Hour: Adjourn to celebrate!

*Note: Feel free to step out or work elsewhere as needed but please do make as much progress on your editing as possible and come back for the Lightning Talks and Happy Hour!

Participants (optional)[edit]

Once you've created your user account, you can add your user name here by typing in # and four tildes (i.e., ~) below:

  1. Fyr3opal (talk) 18:55, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Jeff Oliver (talk) 19:38, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  3. BarbaraHutchinson (talk) 22:34, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Diaruga11 (talk) 22:35, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Dahmsjo (talk) 22:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Chrislibrarian (talk) 22:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Jodi Reeves Flores (talk) 22:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Whoanoelle (talk) 22:38, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Ash Scheder Black (talk) 22:39, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Preparation[edit]

Please complete the following prior to the March 11 session:

  1. Create your account
  2. Create your user page
    • Click on your username on the top right bar
    • Click on “Start the User:[your username] page”
    • Enter information about yourself or your Wikipedia-related activities into the empty text box.
    • Click “Save page”
    • Your username on the top right bar should turn from red to blue.
  3. Record your username. (Bring this to the March 11 event. We’ll be using these to track our editing progress.)
  4. We suggest you scan one or more of the following resources in advance:

See also the List of Resources / Wikipedia Basics below.

Articles to edit[edit]

For beginning editors it is best to begin with a stub or start class article. More experienced editors can feel free to go for more advanced articles, start a new article, and/or mingle and help other editors. Below are sample lists of stubs, articles that need improvement and UA-related institutions and topics that do not currently have a Wikipedia article. Participants can choose from one of these options, identify a different article to edit/create, add citations to articles in their domain or add other UA centers/departments/etc. to existing Wikipedia lists.

Stubs & Stub Lists[edit]

Articles Needing Improvement[edit]

Potential New Articles[edit]

Note: Confirm that an article does not exist before creating a new article based on the list below

List of resources[edit]

Wikipedia basics[edit]

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