Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/NYBG April2020
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| When and Where | |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 22, 2020 |
| Time: | 2 pm – 4:00 pm |
| Address: | LuEsther T. Mertz Library New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Blvd Bronx, NY 10458 |
#EarthOptimism & Endangered Species Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons Workshop for Earth Optimism 2020.
Earth Optimism is a global event and movement spearheaded by the Smithsonian to shift the conservation conversation from one of doom and gloom to hope and optimism. Occurring throughout 2020, Earth Optimism invites participants to celebrate conservation success stories and inspire continued success through social media, events, and other outreach opportunities.
The participants affiliated with this initiative will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia. We will modify our editing behavior if any edits conflict with Wikipedia guidelines. Please contact the Project Coordinator, emjackson42 (talk) if any activities appear to go against this statement.
Event details
- Hosts: The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden
- Date: April 22, 2020
- Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Location: New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458 40°51′59.5″N 73°52′44.5″W / 40.866528°N 73.879028°W
- Directions: Directions @ NYBG
- Subway:
to Bedford Park Blvd. From the station exit:
- Take the Bx26 bus east to the Garden's Mosholu Gate entrance.
- OR walk eight blocks (IND) or ten blocks (IRT) down the hill on Bedford Park Blvd. (approximately 20 minutes). Turn left onto Southern Blvd. and walk one block to Mosholu Gate entrance.
- Metro-North Railroad:
- Harlem local line to Botanical Garden Station (approximately 20 minutes from Grand Central). Walk across Southern Boulevard to the Garden's Mosholu Gate entrance
- Station link
- Hashtag: #PlantsAndPeople
- Cost: Free
- What to bring: Please bring your laptop!
- Participants: Open to all! However, editing Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons is a little different than editing Wikipedia. This event will be most useful for those who have edited Wikipedia already and are very comfortable using computers.
What is Wikidata?
- Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.
- Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
- Wikidata also provides support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects! The content of Wikidata is available under a free license, exported using standard formats, and can be interlinked to other open data sets on the linked data web.
Read more: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
What is Wikimedia Commons?
- Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the project scope pages.
Read more: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome
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
Tools and Other Resources
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 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
Photography: By entering these premises, you understand that you may be photographed, filmed, or videotaped and you hereby give the New York Botanical Garden the unqualified right to take pictures and/or recordings of you and grant the perpetual right to use your likeness, image, photo (collectively, “image”), without compensation, for broadcast or exhibition in any medium and to put the finished pictures/recordings to any legitimate use without limitation or reservation. You hereby waive, release and forever discharge the New York Botanical Garden from and against any and all claims or actions arising out of or resulting from any use of your image. The New York Botanical Garden shall not be obligated to use, and may elect not to use, your image.
Please note that this event is capped at 45 attendees.