Wikipedia:Meetup/SAA2014

Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, 2014: SESSION 103 - Editathon: You Have One Hour to Increase Access to Archival Science Info on Wikipedia...Go!

Thursday, August 14, 2014 http://sched.co/1qEqZ0h

With User:Sarasays and User:Dominic

Agenda

10:00 - Introduction to the Wikipedia online community and norms. Searching for policies and guidelines? Hint: search the Wikipedia namespace by prefacing your query with "WP:"

Important concepts

• Wikipedia:Copyright
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:No original research
• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest

10:05 - Getting started - register/login, turn on Beta Visual Editor, locate your Sandbox, pratice copy/pasting and adding a citation

10:10 - Archival topics that can use your help!

10:15 - Only 45 minutes left! Let's use it making a better encyclopedia!

Resources

• Info on registering on Wikipedia: Why create an account?
• A User's Guide to Visual Editor

Attendees

Add your username below:

• User:Sarasays
• User:Michael Barera
• User:Adamkriesberg
• User:Merrilee
• Your name here

To Do List

• Access (archival science)
• Accession number (library science)
• American Archives Month
• American Archivist
• Annotated bibliography
• Archival bond
• Archival classification
• Archival education
• Archival informatics
• Archival instruction (or archival literacy)
• Archival reference
• Archivaria
• Archive-It
• Archives and human rights
• code4lib
• Crowdsourcing in libraries and archives
• Describing Archives: A Content Standard
• Discoverability
• Disposition of records
• Electronic records management
• Encoded Archival Context

• Finding aid
• History of archives (see History of libraries)
• Inherent vice (library and archival science)
• Library circulation
• Library of Congress Control Number
• More Product, Less Process
• Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO)
• National archives
• National Digital Stewardship Alliance
• Open Archives Initiative
• Original order
• Pathfinder (library science)
• Personal archiving
• Records life-cycle
• Reference (library science) (Reference#Library and information sciences)
• Retention period
• Social Networks and Archival Context
• Society of American Archivists
• T. R. Schellenberg
• Union catalog
• Virtual International Authority File

Categories to check for other ideas

• Category:Archives
• Category:Archivists
• Category:Archival science
• Category:Library and information science biography stubs
• Category:Library and information science stubs
• Category:Preservation (library and archival science)
• Category:Library science
• Category:Library science

Outcomes

Your comments and outcomes here!