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New York Botanical Garden Environment of the Bronx Editing Wikipedia for Beginners Date: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 Time: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Address: LuEsther T. Mertz LibraryNew York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Blvd Bronx, NY 10458
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden and the Environment of New York City Task Force of Wikimedia New York City , welcome the general public of all experience levels to come to the Mertz Library in person and learn how to use Wikipedia! All skill levels welcome at the event! Experienced Wikipedia editors from the Wikimedia New York City chapter will be in attendance and available to help. A one hour training session will be offered at the start of this event covering introductory topics. Attendees familiar with editing Wikipedia can edit off of a worklist focused on the environment of New York City ; as well as, a sub-list focused on the environment of the Bronx . The Mertz Library will pull topical media from their collection to assist the editing.
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct .
Please contact the event facilitator User:wil540_art (talk ) if any activities appear to go against the WMNYC Code of Conduct.
The event will run from 11am to 5pm, attendees are invited to come at any time they can make it and stay for as long or little as they'd like!
Wikans (left) and Eric W. Sanderson, author of the book "Mannahatta" Note: We have compiled a list of articles that need attention. For the beginners: Don't be intimidated! A great place to start is to search through an article that interests you and look for spelling or grammar errors. Find one word out of place. Editing one sentence to make it flow better. Those are all great contributions. It is ok to start small.
For multilingual editors, there are wikipedia projects in many different languages , for example: Spanish-language Wikipedia . For those that are multilingual, there are a lot opportunities to translate English language wikipedia articles into other languages.
11am-12pm (Intro)
Welcome & Introductions
Welcome to NYBG - words from Samantha D'Acunto - Reference Librarian and Acting Manager of Public Services
Welcome to Wikipedia
Welcome to Wikimedia New York City
Verify your sources on Wikipedia - a talk by Roy Smith
Rare book room and stacks tour
Group introductions
12pm-5pm (Edit-a-thon)
General editing
A Beginner's Guide to Wikipedia
Live demonstrations
Editing a wikipedia article - where to start?
Is my local park notable enough for a wikipedia article?
How do I upload a photo to Wikimedia Commons and put it in a wikipedia article? What photos are and aren't allowed?
What does the Environment of the Bronx look like via Wikidata ?
What are some potential botanical applications of the Wikimedia Foundation projects?
Snack Break (whenever desired!) - light snacks A one hour training session will be offered at the start of this event covering introductory topics.
Wikimedia movement
Wikipedia , a web-based encyclopedia
Wikimedia Commons , a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject )
Wikidata , a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
Wiktionary , a dictionary
Wikibooks , educational textbooks
Wikinews , news articles
Wikiquote , a collection of quotations
Wikisource , a library of source texts and documents
Wikiversity , educational material
Wikivoyage , a travel guide
Wikispecies , a taxonomic catalogue of species
Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
You can also optionally sign up off-wiki at the nybg.org event page .
Regrets
Bearian (talk ) 18:25, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[ reply ]
Emjackson42 (talk ) 16:54, 2 June 2022 (UTC) I wish I could join! I will be away at a conference and hope to be able to participate in the future.[ reply ]
Sounds like an excellent event, and I'm disappointed I won't be able to attend (weekdays are tough) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:21, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[ reply ]
These are some excellent events, kudos to Pharos for a very impressive event here. Andrevan @ 01:29, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[ reply ]
Confirmed
Sailing moose (talk ) 14:37, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[ reply ] Peachpotbop (talk ) 15:21, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[ reply ] Mkn332 (talk ) 18:10, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[ reply ] Glyptostrob0ides (talk ) 19:40, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[ reply ]
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