Wikimedia Meta-Wiki

North Carolina Wikipedians

This is an archived version of this page, as edited by Sodapopinski7 (talk | contribs) at 22:06, 7 June 2017. It may differ significantly from the current version.

North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians is a Wikimedia user group approved by the Affiliations Committee in May 2015. We have hosted dozens of edit-a-thons in North Carolina and we have plans for future events.

Map of Research Triangle, featuring the locations of North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location of the Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area and its components:      Durham–Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area      Raleigh Metropolitan Statistical Area      Dunn Micropolitan Statistical Area      Henderson Micropolitan Statistical Area      Oxford Micropolitan Statistical Area      Sanford Micropolitan Statistical Area

We are interested in increasing and improving Wikipedia coverage of currently underrepresented groups, supporting the integration of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons into K-12 and university instruction, and hosting collaborative events. We have fostered relationships with universities and organizations throughout the Research Triangle. This includes Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and the surrounding towns.

We now have a group on Facebook which can help foster communication between members regardless of their familiarity with editing Wikipedia. You can search for Triangle Wikipedians or just use that link to find the group.

Please get in touch! We're open to new ideas, new collaborations, and new members. What can we help you with? We would love for you to join us and help this group grow.

Movement Strategy Conversation

The North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group has been invited to participate in the Wikimedia movement strategy discussion. If you're among our local group of supporters and participants, please contribute to the conversation here. We have until June 12, so there's admittedly a tight turnaround. If you don't have time to participate in this cycle, we hope you'll participate in the next cycle.

Activities

In 2015, Kasey Baker and Frank Jones led a hands-on workshop about Disputed Notability at WikiConference USA. Sodapopinski7 served as a project mentor for a group of students in an American Indian history course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who were working to increase and improve accurate information in Wikipedia about topics related to the Lumbee Indian tribe.

In 2016, Frank Jones represented the North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. Also, Kasey Baker and Frank Jones represented our group at the WikiConference North America events in San Diego, CA. Sodapopinski7 coordinated the efforts of several librarians and faculty members at the University of North Carolina to host six Wikipedia edit-a-thons.

In 2017, Sodapopinski7 led the University of North Carolina (UNC) Library staff in a #1lib1ref project. The UNC Library competed with the Duke University Library to see which library could contribute the highest number of Wikipedia edits during the project, which lasted from January 18 to February 3. During #1lib1ref, Sodapopinski7 led three workshops for UNC library staff, most of them first-time editors, to learn how to add citations to Wikipedia. At the end of the project, the UNC Library's citation total was 204. Duke Library's citation total was 29. Sodapopinski7 plans to extend the 2018 #1lib1ref competition to two other universities in the Research Triangle.

Also in 2017, Sodapopinski7 represented the North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin.

Local Events

Check the Scheduled Future Meetups regularly to find area events that should be shared with our group.

2017

2016

Reports

2015 Report

Participants and Supporters

Retrieved from "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Carolina_Wikipedians&oldid=16859785"