Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/NYBG June2022

New York Botanical Garden
Environment of the Bronx
Editing Wikipedia for Beginners

When and Where
Date:	Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Time:	11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Address:	LuEsther T. Mertz Library New 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!

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

Event details

Wikans (left) and Eric W. Sanderson, author of the book "Mannahatta"

• Hosts: The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden
• Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2022
• Time: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Location: New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458 40°51′59.5″N 73°52′44.5″W
• Directions: Directions @ NYBG
• Cost: Free
• NYBG page (optional): Event page at nybg.org
• What to bring: Laptop if you have one! (Some laptops will be provided at a first come first serve basis)
• Dashboard: Join New York Botanical_Garden/Environment of the Bronx (June 2022)
• Participants: Open to all!

Wikipedia articles to edit & create:

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.

• Environment of The Bronx related articles to review, improve, & create
• Environment of NYC related articles to review & improve
• Environment of NYC related articles to create

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.

Itinerary (11am-5pm)

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

Training

A one hour training session will be offered at the start of this event covering introductory topics.

Wikipedia Policies

• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Core content policies
• Wikipedia:General notability guideline
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources

Quick Editing Tips

• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
• Creating Redirector with Source Editor
• Using categories
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Wikimedia Projects

• 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

External links

• New York Botanical Gardens
• LuEsther T. Mertz Library at New York Botanical Gardens
• Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
• Wikimedia New York City
• Slides from Intro to Wikipedia Workshop

Attendees

You can also optionally sign up off-wiki at the nybg.org event page.

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

Regrets

• Bearian (talk) 18:25, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
• 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.
• 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)
• These are some excellent events, kudos to Pharos for a very impressive event here. Andrevan@ 01:29, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed

• Wil540 art (talk) 18:13, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

• Pharos (talk) 18:25, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

• Sammalamb (talk) 18:01, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

• -- RoySmith (talk) 14:30, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

• Sailing moose (talk) 14:37, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

• SleepyWhippet (talk) 05:23, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

• 74.94.135.197 (talk) 20:02, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

• PostRorty (talk) 20:08, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

• HugoHelp (talk) 18:06, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

• Jim.henderson (talk) 13:22, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

• Youhanna1111 (talk) 02:36, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

• Daniel Case (talk) 03:29, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

• Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 01:53, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

• Legoktm (talk) 18:43, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

• SnowFire (talk) 22:56, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

• Peachpotbop (talk) 15:21, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

• Mkn332 (talk) 18:10, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

• Jeremyb (talk) 18:31, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

• Glyptostrob0ides (talk) 19:40, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon Recap

Articles edited:

• LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Articles created:

• Bronx River Alliance
• Thain Family Forest
• Aqueduct Walk
• Raoul_Wallenberg_Forest
• Riverdale_Park_(Bronx)
• Wildlife in the Bronx
• Boykinia richardsonii, some months later, after species in attendee's photo was identified at edit-a-thon

Categories created:

• W:Category:Parks_on_the_National_Register_of_Historic_Places_in_New_York_City

• Reynard Loki (talk) 06:39, 10 March 2023 (UTC)