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FAIRly Obscure: An Edit-a-thon Exploring Anthropology, Communities, and Wikipedia Representation: The Sequel

Event description

Are you interested in the history of anthropology? In archival description, outreach, and linked data? In FAIR and CARE principles for social science and scientific information? Join a co-sponsored edit-a-thon event to support the ethical description of anthropological knowledge and anthropological records focused on reworking and expanding related Wikipedia and Wikidata entries. This edit-a-thon will focus on editing, adding, and checking information on these publicly available and publicly maintained databases relating to anthropologists and anthropology. Interested audience may include community members, anthropologists, graduate students in anthropology, graduate students in information science, linked data nerds, and others!

No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Opening event will begin at 11:30am. Training will be provided, taking place April 11, 12pm to 1:00pm (Eastern time). Open editing time will run from 1:00pm to 4:00pm (Eastern time). At 2:30pm we will have a Wikidata demo. If you've never edited before, please plan to attend the training session.

When:'

Friday, April 11 - 11AM-4PM

Event preparation

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Please create a Wikipedia account prior to the event. Please read or refresh on the following:

Schedule: Training will be provided, and lunch will be provided for in-person participants who RSVP in advance, taking place Friday, April 11, 2025, 11:00am-12:00pm. Open editing time will run from 1:00pm to 4pm (Eastern time). If you've never edited before, please plan to attend the training session.

Where

Primary site: University of Michigan School of Information: Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.

Secondary site: University of Maryland: Room 2116, Hornbake Library-South, College of Information, 4130 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20742 Or online!

Presented by:

The University of Maryland Center for Archival Futures; George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology; The Bentley Historical Library and University of Michigan School of Information; the University of Missouri’s iSchool; and the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR), and Wikimedia DC.

Sign in: Outreach Dashboard

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Step 1: Go to the Dashboard

Step 2:

  • Have a Wikipedia username? Select 'Log-in with Wikipedia'.
  • Don't have a username? Select 'Sign-up with Wikipedia'

Note: Your Wikipedia username will be public and can be used to log-in across all Wikimedia projects.

Today's goals

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Articles to edit or create

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Use the Google sheet to reserve the articles you would like to edit and find the sources needed to create these articles.

Select a red link below to start an article draft. Once the draft is ready, you may move to Wikipedia mainspace. Feel free to ask Ariel to review your draft before it is moved. DO NOT select the 'submit my article for review' option.

CoPar and SNAC lists


Indigenous anthropologists See airtable list for more detail, descriptors, etc.

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Wikimedia movement affiliates model
Chapters
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Wikimedia thematic organizations
Thematic organizations are incorporated independent non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work focused on a specific theme, topic, subject or issue within or across countries and regions. i.e., Wikimedia Medicine.
User groups
Wikimedia user groups are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates that are an alternative to chapters and thematic organizations - which require more formal requirements. User groups are highly valued as equal players in the Wikimedia movement, i.e., Art+Feminism

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