Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Wiki Loves Libraries/2013

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Wiki Loves Libraries:
Portland, Oregon

Mark Building, Portland Art Museum in 2007
When and Where
Date	Sunday, October 13, 2013
Time	1–4pm
City/State	Portland, Oregon
Address	1219 SW Park Avenue (Portland Art Museum)

Wikipedia Loves Libraries is a general initiative for improved Wikimedia engagement with libraries (and archives), and more concretely an annual campaign of wiki-workshops and edit-athons at libraries around Open Access Week in October/November.

In Portland, Oregon, Wiki Loves Libraries will be held from 1–4pm on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at the Portland Art Museum's Crumpacker Family Library, located on the second floor of the Museum's Mark Building (formerly the Masonic Temple). The local arts community will be the focus of the edit-athon, though experienced editors and curious "newbies" are welcome to work on other topics as well. The event will also kick off the Oregon Arts Project, an on-wiki initiative to improve coverage of the arts in Oregon.

Bring your laptop and subject of choice (or pick one suggested below), and join us!

Please use the talk page for questions, comments or suggestions.

• create a list of Oregon artists without Wikipedia articles
• register and provide training to new contributors to Wikipedia, if present
• start articles for notable artists, arts organizations and works

The library has two computer stations for attendees without laptops. Please bring your laptop if possible!

WIKI LOVES LIBRARIES 2013! You're invited to attend the upcoming "Wiki Loves Libraries" edit-athon. The event will be held from 1–4pm on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at the Portland Art Museum's Crumpacker Family Library, located on the second floor of the Museum's Mark Building (formerly the Masonic Temple). The edit-athon will focus on the local arts community (but you can work on other topics as well!). It will also kick off the Oregon Arts Project, an on-wiki initiative to improve coverage of the arts in Oregon. Details and signup here!

• October 2: "10/13 Wikipedia and Portland Arts Community", Regional Arts & Culture Council
• October 8: https://twitter.com/PDXArtMuseum/status/387679304978825216, Portland Art Museum
• October 9: https://www.facebook.com/RegionalArts/posts/10151759434623381, Regional Arts & Culture Council
• October 9: https://twitter.com/R_A_C_C/status/388053562585907200, Regional Arts & Culture Council
• October 11: "Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Aims to Improve Crowd-Sourced Local Arts Coverage ", The Portland Mercury

This page has been mentioned by a media organization: Alison Hallett (October 11, 2013). "Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Aims to Improve Crowd-Sourced Local Arts Coverage". The Portland Mercury. Retrieved October 11, 2013.

Following are a few articles to consider creating:

• --Another Believer _(Talk) 21:10, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
• Here.it.comes.again (talk) 06:25, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
• Capnleela (talk) 10:02, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
• Hobsonlane (talk) 18:03, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
• Tomajohnson (talk) 18:39, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
• I plan to be in attendance. Blurpeace 21:43, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
• Planning to be there - tentative goal - adding pages for Third Angle New Music and Fear No Music linked to Portland_Oregon#Entertainment_and_performing_arts M. Edward (Ed) Borasky aka znmeb (talk) 03:48, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
• --Larissa Lane (talk) 20:23, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
• --Deborah Hartman (talk) 21:14, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
• Flightriskbwj (talk · contribs)
• davydog (talk · contribs)

Please share the results of your work here!

• Another Believer (talk · contribs): The event attracted about a dozen participants, new and experienced (not everyone signed this page). At least five new accounts were created. Some people improved existing articles; others created articles from scratch. I created two new articles: Nepenthes (sculpture) and Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider. I also uploaded a few arts-related images, displayed in the gallery below. New contributors had their questions answered, and educational brochures provided by the Wikimedia Foundation were supplied to attendees. Many thanks to Debra and the Crumpacker Family Library for hosting a great event!

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  Abraham Lincoln, South Park Blocks
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  Brushstrokes plaque, Portland Art Museum
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  Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Portland Art Museum
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  Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Portland Art Museum
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  Mark Building, Portland Art Museum
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  Mark Building, Portland Art Museum
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  Mark Building, Portland Art Museum
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  Portland Art Museum (2013)
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  Portland Art Museum (2013)
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  Portland Art Museum (2013)
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  Portland Art Museum (2013)
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  Solomon and Josephine Hirsch Memorial Wing, Portland Art Museum

• Facebook post by Crumpacker Family Library
• http://toolserver.org/~bryan/flickr/upload - sharing this tool, as discussed at the event
• Started an article on Fear No Music User:Znmeb/sandbox and updated Kenji Bunch article M. Edward (Ed) Borasky aka znmeb (talk) 22:48, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
• Started articles about User:hobsonlane/David Butts and his User:hobsonlane/Mad Dog Garage "interactive kinetic art" gallery Hobsonlane (talk) 03:48, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

• October 16: Oregon Arts Project: A Wiki-Based Approach to Local Arts Coverage, The Portland Mercury

This page has been mentioned by a media organization: Alison Hallett (October 16, 2013). "Oregon Arts Project: A Wiki-Based Approach to Local Arts Coverage". The Portland Mercury. Retrieved October 17, 2013.

• The edit-athon was also featured in the USA section of the October 2013 issue of This Month in GLAM.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia Loves Libraries.

• Oregon Arts Project, an on-wiki initiative to improve coverage of the arts in Oregon
• Portland Art Museum
• Wikipedia Loves Libraries portal at Wikimedia Outreach
• WikiProject Oregon, a project dedicated to improving Oregon-related topics on Wikipedia