Yale Art & Architecture Library 3 October 20, 2008
When and Where
Date
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Time
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Address
Yale University Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library 180 York Street
City, State
New Haven, CT 06511
TheYale Art+Feminism Wikipedia Training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library on the evening ofMarch 8, 2017. This year's event is open to members of the Yale community.To RSVP please visit:our event page
While you are working on an article use#NowEditingAF to tell others what article you’re working on. For example, "Working on the entry for Lorraine O'Grady #NowEditingAF"
Please feel free to tag us on Twitter @YaleHaasArtsLib or Instagram @haasartslibrary
Here is some information to help you set goals for what you would like to accomplish during the event.
If you have 45 minutes: Attend a training session to learn about Wikipedia
If you have 1 hour: Attend a training and add some citations to an existing article. Or, update image metadata on Wikimedia Commons.
If you have 2 hours: Attend a training and add a few well-cited sentences or a paragraph to an existing article. And/or, try adding an image to an article or updating image metadata on Wikimedia Commons.
If you have 3 hours: Create a new article stub and add a well-cited paragraph.
This list includes Yale Library catalogs and subscription databases. Databases are available on-site or via VPN for Yale affiliates.
Quicksearch Books+ (Orbis, Morris) Yale Library catalog. In Books+, use theLocation filter to the left to see books in Haas
Quicksearch Articles+ (Articles) In Articles+, find articles from a variety of databases, many of which are available as full-text PDFs. Great for newspaper articles, exhibition reviews, and some scholarly articles.
Oxford Art Online Go-to encyclopedia for art topics (includes Grove Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists]
Art Source Use Art Source to search for articles, many of which are available as full-text PDFs
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, and a list of image-related tasks. For more suggestions, see:Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks
To see the list of what everyone is working on, look at ourEtherpad.
Wikidata Items needing additional statementsThere should already be a statement on each of these items to indicate that "archives at" Beinecke for which the reference provided is a link to the finding aid. The finding aid link can be used as a reference for any statements we can make about these people that is provided in the biographical note section of the finding aid.
