Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Wikipedia Editing Workshop

In Class
1. Returning/collecting  Essay 1, Part I. Collecting homework
2. Watching Alex's video and setting up 6 teams to respond to St. Pete's videos: https://flipgrid.com/s/657873e905f9
3. In the spirit of Aaron Swartz Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto, we will search our databases for articles to help our sister calls in St. Petersburg. I am taking two volunteers to compile this information to send along. 
4. Choosing editing tasks/beginning work in Sandboxes:

I. Woodside
1. Images of Woodside--both what is in Wikimedia Commons and what you take yourselves (2 people)
2. Edit section on Little Manila on article as well as in the article  Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area (2 people) 
3. Edit section on St. Pat's For All, with the option of creating a separate article later (4 people)
  • If anyone wants to translate the article once we have posted it, let me know
4. Images of St. Pat's For All--both what is in Wikimedia Commons and what the LaGuardia Archives provides (2 people)
5. Edit section on Big Bush Park and Lawrence Virgilio Playground (2 people)
6. Edit  Moore-Jackson Cemetery (and link back to Woodside) to include more/recent sources (2 people)
7.  Create a full article for Woodside in Wikivoyage (4 people)
II. Long Island City Hunter's Point Community Library
Edit section to include history and issues (2 people)

Sources to Use:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gpr3pT0rNfpWhgMbfallpU53nwrxQqjqciRQApfKBwA/edit?usp=sharing

For Tuesday's Class

If you are working with TEXT, bring a printout of what you want to add, even if you are working in your Wikipedia sandbox. If you are working with IMAGES, bring them so you can show them to your team. Teams will get together to decide what they will post in the article.