Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-01 Lenny Workshop

Lenny Letter
Train the Trainers Wiki Workshop

When and Where
When:	Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Time	3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Where:	Brooklyn

This Lenny Letter Train the Trainers Editathon is a small private workshop and training session in preparation for the upcoming Women Journalist Editathon -- which is co-sponsored by Her Girl Friday and Lenny Letter on Saturday, January 28, 2017, at ThoughtWorks New York.

Event information

• Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
• Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• Location: Brooklyn
• Who should come: Lenny Letter editors
• What to bring: Please remember to bring a laptop and power cord!

Agenda

1. Wikipedia – 15 minute overview: 5 pillars, Conflict of Interest policies, self guided introduction, etc. (example COI)
2. Wikipedia – 5 minute register for Wikipedia account
3. Wikipedia – 40 minute make one edit: add infobox, citation, etc.

Attendees

In addition to adding your Wikipedia user name below, please also sign up via Outreach Dashboard

WikiFacilitators

1. BrillLyle (talk)

Lenny Letter

1. Butterstick25 (talk) 20:33, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
2. Geometricsleep (talk) 20:33, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia editing resources

Wikipedia editing resources

 

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Self guided introduction
• Manual of Style - Typical Section Order and Names
• Editing Wikipedia brochure
• Wikimedia Commons - getting images onto Wikipedia
• Infobox template

Online resources

• N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

• #wikipedia-en-help ^connect

Task lists

✓ Please check with a WikiFacilitator before starting new pages – recommend beginners start by editing existing pages vs. starting new pages

General task list

 

Alphabetical by first letter

Pages to improve

• Ellen Mosley-Thompson, ice scientist
• Helen Johns Kirtland –
• Mary TallMountain
• Motor Maids#Dot Robinson – broken out to own page?
• Sisters in Islam
• West Area Computers

Pages to create

• Diario de Juarez
• Ellen Weaver, biologist –
• Josie Laures –
• Kathleen Revis, first woman photog on staff at National Geographic –
• Leonora Abravanel –
• Marinda Branson Moore, Confederate mapmaker –
• Mary Ann Roque, mapmaker –
• Sandra Rodriguez (journalist)
• Sophie Hull, 2nd wife of founder of Singapore – see: Stamford Raffles
• Susan Goldberg, EIC of National Geographic

Lenny Letter task list

 Alphabetical by first letter

Improve pages

Follow COI guidelines by adding resources referenced within articles (or used to write articles) as well as Lenny Letter links

• All We Had "Always Be Present: Katie Holmes interviews Eve Lindley, the star of her latest directorial effort, All We Had"
• Camila Cabello "Growing Into Yourself"
• Elizabeth Alexander (poet) "A Black Art Love Story: An interview with Elizabeth Alexander about her memoir The Light of the World"
• Indigenous Environmental Network "Water Is Life: Four Months at Standing Rock: Eryn Wise, the communications director for the International Indigenous Youth Council, describes her experience" – Develop article and add section for International Indigenous Youth Council
• Jeanette J. Epps "The Lenny Interview: Jeanette Epps"
• Katie Stelmanis "Music Monday: Katie Stelmanis of Austra"
• Kiran Gandhi "Music Monday: Madame Gandhi"
• Mary Karr "The All-American Menstrual Hut"
• Mia Hansen-Løve "The Director Reinventing Female Freedom"
• Reshma Saujani "The Lenny Interview: Reshma Saujani"
• Ruth E. Carter "Radical Fashion: An interview with the costume designer Ruth Carter"
• Sandra Bland "Women of the Hour: "Trauma and Triumph," Season 2, Episode 4: Lena sits down with Geneva Reed-Veal to discuss the legacy of her daughter, Sandra Bland"
• Sharmadean Reid "You Can Be a Weirdo Anywhere: An interview with Sharmadean Reid, founder of WAH Nails"
• Sylvia Mathews Burwell "Walking Against the Wind: An interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell"

Create pages

For advanced editors, or as a possible ongoing group project

• Adriana Zehbrauskas "The Lost Ones: An interview with the photojournalist Adriana Zehbrauskas about the students who disappeared in Guerrero, Mexico"
• Eve Lindley "Always Be Present: Katie Holmes interviews Eve Lindley, the star of her latest directorial effort, All We Had"
• Fran Blanche "The Lenny Interview: Fran Blanche" see also: Frantone Electronics
• Margaret Moss "Rewriting the Book on Indian Health: An interview with Margaret Moss, the co-author of American Indian Health and Nursing"
• Pope the Barber "The Woman Taking Barbering to the Next Level"

Example page

• Adeola Fayehun, Nigerian journalist who produces online web series, Keeping It Real with Adeola

Women in Red task list

 

• Women in Red – Red link lists
• Women in Red – Journalists

Quick + easy! Infoboxes, stubs, obits with tons of biographical info, Wikidata, etc.

 

Add an infobox!

It's fun, not super hard, and improves Google search results! Plus you don't need citations for infoboxes!

• Biography articles without infoboxes
• Journalism articles needing infoboxes
• Politics and government articles needing infoboxes
• Musicians articles needing infoboxes
• Sports articles needing infoboxes

Improve an existing stub article!

Clean up existing citations, add a new citation, add a selected works and publications section for published authors

• Journalist stubs
• American editor stubs
• Writer stubs
• Activist stubs
• Political people stubs

Add citations to articles that have none!

• Biographies of Living People (BLP) without sources – January 2017

Other easy ideas

Obituaries are a great starting point, have tons of biographical info!

• Chicago Tribune obituaries
• Los Angeles Times obituaries
• The Guardian obituaries
• The New York Times obituaries
• The Washington Post obituaries

Are you into more tech-based data? Are you a librarian? Add Authority Control info to Wikidata!

Wikidata + AuthorityControl

Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org)

1. Go to VIAF.org
2. Search for person (last name, first name)
3. At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example
4. Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata
5. Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories
6. Refresh Wikipedia page

Outcomes

Alphabetical by first letter

Pages improved

1. Katie Stelmanis -- Geometricsleep (talk)
2. Mary Karr -- Butterstick25 (talk)
3. Ruth E. Carter -- Geometricsleep (talk)

External links

• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Her Girl Friday
• Lenny Letter
• ThoughtWorks New York

See also

• Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/2017-01 HGF Lenny