Wikipedia:Meetup/Riverside/WLL/Water

As part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries and to celebrate Open Access Week, University of California, Riverside is participating alongside other Western Water Digital Library members in an edit-a-thon focusing on water issues.

Event details

Date: October 21st, 2014
Time: 10am - 3pm
Location: Room 147, Orbach Science Library (map)
Event: An edit-a-thon! Help develop Wikipedia's coverage of water issues, especially in the Santa Ana River watershed!
Hashtag: The Twitter hashtag is: #ComeEditWikipedia

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Come contribute to the world's most popular encyclopedia! Have no experience with editing Wikipedia? We'll teach you!

Anyone with an interest in editing collaboratively and having a great time is encouraged to attend. Bring a laptop and power cord!

Water Edit-a-thon is an innovative approach to improving content and access to water resources in Wikipedia. This project is hosted in collaboration with Colorado State University Libraries with the goal of creating and improving Wikipedia articles about water in the West. No specialized knowledge of the subject is needed; we'll have librarians, subject experts and library and archival resources on hand to assist as well as a list of suggested topics. There will be free refreshments available to give you the energy you need for all your research breakthroughs. The local sessions are hosted by the UCR Library Special Collections and University Archives and the Librarians Association of the University of California Riverside Division. The Water Resources Collections and Archives collection manager, Jessica Davila Greene, will provide content, resources, technology and an introduction to Wikipedia editing by Phoebe Ayers, member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and author of Wikipedia Works: and How You Can be a Part of It.

Attending

Jessica Davila Greene, UCR Library Water Resources Librarian;
Rhonda L. Neugebauer, UCR Rivera Library, Latin American and Chicano/Latino Studies
phoebe / (talk to me) 18:13, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Christy Brown Anderson, UCR Library Acquisitions Dept
add yourself here!

Participating Remotely

Colorado State University
Montana State University
Colorado Mesa University
University of Denver
Washington State University

have all agreed to have their own meetups at their locations to work on this project!

Schedule of Events

10:00am	Introduction and welcome by Jessica Davila Greene
10:15 - 10:45	Talk:How Wikipedia Works and instruction
10:50 - 11:15	Optional tour of Water Resources Collections and Archives general collection
11:00 - 12:00	Wikipedia editing
12:00pm - 1:00	Break for lunch
1:05 - 1:40	Introductions and Wikipedia editing instructions
1:45 - 2:00	Optional tour of Water Resources Collections and Archives general collection
2:00 - 3:00	Wikipedia editing

Reference Sources

California Drought 2013-

Resources

Wikipedia Help

Citing sources video tutorial -- part one

Citing sources video tutorial -- part two

Key Wikipedia guidelines and policies:

Outcomes

added references to Water in California, Owens Valley
edited groundwater and San Timoteo Creek
added further reading to Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and California State Water Project
added pictures to Lucy Stone and Lucy Stone League