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Welcome to the Media Lab working group of the MIT WikiProject, focused on MIT Media Lab history, people, projects and events. Please add tasks and ideas to the lists below, and help update and populate the relevant categories.

No matter how experienced you are, we could use your help. For new editors: Intro · How to edit · Starting a page · Wiki syntax

Ways to help

1. Update the list of articles. Help complete it by adding what's missing [if it doesn't exist, that will be a red link, which is fine.]
2. Update the categories. Add people, projects, and art to Category:MIT Media Lab or Category:MIT Media Lab people. (at the bottom of the visual editor).
3. Improve existing articles. Start with a topic you know well; look for tags like {{cleanup}} and {{unreferenced}}: those need help. Suggest changes on the talk page.
   • Avoid promotional language. Focus on facts, dates, sources, third-party coverage, and related links.
   • If you're making a large change, make a draft in your user space (like User:Sj/NewPalmyra). Changes of less than a paragraph can be proposed on the talk page.
4. Draft a new article. As above, then ask others for feedback. Be sure to add the {{WikiProject MIT/Media Lab}} banner to the talk page.
5. Add media to an article. Look at project articles for somewhere a picture or video you've taken, or that is available under CC-BY/CC-SA and might look good.
   • Or clear the license for an existing image, don't be afraid to ask for help.
   • Add images you upload to Category:MIT Media Lab.
6. Assess current articles for quality, by updating the WikiProject MIT/Media Lab banner at the top of their talk page.
7. Update the Spreadsheet of projects and people.

Guidelines

• Note your affiliations on your userpage.
• Limit your edits to facts, not accolades (you'll have to translate some self-published summaries and press releases)
• WP is a tertiary source. Any subjective comments and analysis should be paraphrases of a cited source.
• Style: find an excellent-looking page and copy it, include citations.
• Avoid edit wars: if someone reverts your changes, discuss, don't change it back.
• Sourcing: A university website or campus news are good sources for facts, but poor sources for subjective analysis.

• For anything more complex than simple facts, or if you have a potential conflict of interest:
  • make a draft in your user space (like User:Sj/NewPalmyra), with good+diverse citations
  • leave a note on the relevant talk page. Wait a week for response. If needed, ping recent editors of the page or wikiproject members for input.

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Categories

• Category:MIT Media Lab
• Category:WikiProject MIT Media Lab