Hi MN Wikipedians!
I am writing to follow up on Mark's post last month about a Wikipedia editathon I am hosting at the ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit (http://iasummit.org). Thanks, Mark! And thanks to Veronica Erb, who is one of the event producers who connected me with your group. I am based in New York City and am User:nwhysel on Wikipedia. I have been editing Wikipedia and attending Wikimedia NYC editathons for about two years and have many years of private wiki editing experience.
The IA Summit will be held on April 22-26 at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis. I am inviting Minneapolis area Wikipedians to help facilitate a session on Information Architecture on Saturday April 25. For the editathon, I have a 110 minute session Saturday afternoon, 1:30-3:15pm, which I plan to use to as both an informal introduction to editing and an editathon, similar to how Wikipedia editathons are run. I am repurposing a deck from the Art+Feminism event for the session and am hoping to get some local Wikipedians to help out as facilitators. I have confirmed that volunteer facilitators for the session will receive entry passes for the event.
The Information Architecture page is currently listed under WikiProject Human Computer Interaction. I created a WikiProject proposal for Information Architecture at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Info.... I created the proposal to expand the scope beyond computing to the foundation of information architecture practice in library science, cognitive science, design, and physical architecture. I have 17 supporters so far but not many with editing experience so the session will help to bring people up to speed with wikipedia editing culture. I may also propose a task under the HCI project.
If this sounds like interesting way to spend a Saturday afternoon, please let me know.
Noreen Whysel
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Holmquist mtraceur@member.fsf.org Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:48 AM Subject: Fwd: Information Architecture edit-a-thon in April To: wikimedia-us-mn@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Veronica Erb veronicaerb@gmail.com
Hello, wikimedia-us-mn! I got an email last night from our esteemed friend James Hare from WMDC, who introduced me to Veronica, who is looking for some experienced Wikipedia editors to help out at an event she's helping to plan in April.
See the details below - I figured some of you would be interested and able to help.
See: http://www.iasummit.org/node/51 See also: http://www.iasummit.org/events/ias2015 Venue: http://minneapolis.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html
----- Forwarded message from Veronica Erb veronicaerb@gmail.com ----- IA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
April 25, 2015 from 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Presented by Noreen Whysel
Become an IA Wikipedian and help discover and promote the people, events and history of Information Architecture. Wikipedia is more than just a global, multi-language, linked encyclopedia. It is a community of people committed to accurate and deep discovery of a world of topics. Case studies on recent Wikipedia edit-a-thons, outcomes and controversies will inform the process for participants as they help to improve the accuracy and discoverability of Information Architecture topics on Wikipedia.
What will you learn?
- What really happens behind the scenes of a Wikipedia page.
- How Wikipedia is fulfilling Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of a linked, open
collection of human knowledge.
- How to create an account and start editing Wikipedia pages.
- How to appropriately link and cite content within a Wikipedia document.
- How to avoid conflicts of interest, so your hard work doesn’t
disappear.
- How to find information about Information Architecture and fill in
gaps, correct errors, suggest new content.
- How to run your own Wikipedia edit-a-thon back home.
Session Takeaways
- Appreciation of Wikipedia as a knowledge resource
- Appreciation of Wikipedia as a community
- How and why to set up a Wikipedia Account
- Understanding of Wikipedia Conflict of Interest rules
- Understanding of proper citation and linking
- Satisfaction of giving back to one's industry
- Tools and knowledge to host a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon back home
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-- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtraceur@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist
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