THC Science

Your Invitation[edit]

Join us July 21, 5-8pm ET join us, journalist Amanda Alcantara and the Dominican writers Association for a free training on how to effectively edit Wikipedia as we help close gaps in Afro Dominican history on @Wikipedia

SIGN UP here then proceed to the event Zoom link here. It will ask you for your registration email again for security.[edit]

Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web. Whenever anyone is searching for information on a topic, Wikipedia is a source of reference—and everyone has the power to contribute to it.

Yet, there is a lot of information missing on Wikipedia, particularly when it comes to Afro-Dominican history. From historical figures like Sebastián Lemba, to the 1992 Riots in Washington Heights, there is a gap in knowledge available on the website.

This free training facilitated by AfroCROWD via Zoom is the beginning of undoing that. Join us to learn how to become a contributor on Wikipedia and to see how you can help make important Dominican history available to all.

Tools and templates[edit]

AfroCROWD Wikimedia Tutorials: Learn to edit with us!
Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
Writing an article
About the Sandbox
Adding images to your entry, a tutorial ; video here; AfroCROWD tutorial on addimg images to Wikipedia

External links[edit]

Stubs![edit]

("Stubs" - very short articles in need of expansion)

Languages other than English[edit]

You can also contribute in Wikipedia language editions in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Yoruba, Garifuna and other languages!
We plan to have a Hausa translator during the Friday gathering.

Task list[edit]

Improve articles on Afro Dominican history: notable people, places, events, things
- Add image
- Add descriptions for other languages
- Add a list

For further inspiration[edit]

Resources[edit]

These resources are from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Open Access References[edit]

Definition of Open Access^[1]

Google Scholar
Open Library
Directory of Open Access Journals : "The Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that indexes high quality, peer reviewed Open Access research journals, periodicals and their articles' metadata. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access academic journals that use an appropriate quality control system (see below for definitions) and is not limited to particular languages or subject areas. The Directory aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access academic journals—regardless of size and country of origin—thereby promoting their visibility, usage and impact."
University of California Santa Barbara's list of Free Publicly, Accessible Databases

References

^ "Open Access: What is it and why should we have it?". OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook. September 11, 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2017. Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.

Partners / Supporters[edit]

Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
File:Dominican Writers Association

Results[edit]

Feel free to showcase your contributions here! New and improved articles include: [[Category:AfroLatino]

[1] "Open Access: What is it and why should we have it?". OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook. September 11, 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2017. Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.

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