Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/NARA COMM535 2014

NARA Edit-a-thon, February 25, 2014

David Ferriero at the NARA scan-a-thon for American University class COMM535

Work with students, curators, Wikipedia editors to improve articles and scan documents related to the National Archives and Records Administration. This is the second edit-a-thon for the class "Wikipedia and Public Knowledge" class and Wikimedia DC.

When

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
2:00pm - 5:00pm

Who

Students from Wikipedia & Public Knowledge (COMM 535), American University (professor Andrew Lih User:Fuzheado)
Wikimedia DC Community (not open to general public, sorry!)
American University SOC students helping National Archive scan files and photos.
American University SOC students helping National Archive scan files and photos.
Ariel Berry and Hufsa Kamal from American Unviersity are scanning the files in National Archive.

What to bring

Laptop computer

Where

National Archives and Records Administration, Researchers Entrance (north side of the building)
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408
Etherpad notes: http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/NARA-editathon-2014
TimeActivityLocation
2:00 - 2:30Meet, set up, registrationNARA
2:30 - 3:00Introduction and instruction
  • Introduction
  • Tasks
  • Wrapup
 Innovation Hub (Library)
3:00 - 5:00Scanning recordsResearch room

RSVP

Attendees

  1. Fuzheado | Talk 21:45, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
  2. 19 students from American University class

Maybe

  1. [to be determined]

List of articles we will be working on

Additional articles to be created

Research resources

Examples

Databases and websites

Results / Outcomes

Articles created

Articles improved