FAIRly Obscure, the Sequel: An Anthropology Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Event description

Are you interested in the history of anthropology? In archival description, outreach, and linked data? In FAIR and CARE principles for social science and scientific information? Join a co-sponsored edit-a-thon event to support the ethical description of anthropological knowledge and anthropological records focused on reworking and expanding related Wikipedia and Wikidata entries. This edit-a-thon will focus on editing, adding, and checking information on these publicly available and publicly maintained databases relating to anthropologists and anthropology. Interested audience may include community members, anthropologists, graduate students in anthropology, graduate students in information science, linked data nerds, and others!

No Wikipedia editing experience necessary. Opening event will begin at 11:30am. Training will be provided, taking place April 11, 12pm to 1:00pm (Eastern time). Open editing time will run from 1:00pm to 4:00pm (Eastern time). At 2:30pm we will have a Wikidata demo. If you've never edited before, please plan to attend the training session.

Event preparation

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Please create a Wikipedia account prior to the event.

Please read or refresh on the following:

1. Wiki guide from Australia: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia_and_First_Nations_Metadata:_ATSILIRN_Protocols_for_Description_and_Access
2. Living persons guidance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons
3. Protocols for Native Archival Materials: https://www2.nau.edu/libnap-p/
4. CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance- https://www.gida-global.org/care
5. FAIR Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
6. On editing Wikipedia for history: Roy Rosenzweig, “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past,” Journal of American History 93, no. 1 (June 2006): 117-146. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/4486062.

Schedule

Training will be provided, and lunch will be provided for in-person participants who RSVP in advance, taking place Friday, April 11, 2025, 11:00am-12:00pm. Open editing time will run from 1:00pm to 4pm (Eastern time). If you've never edited before, please plan to attend the training session.

Please fill out this quick Google Form to RSVP for lunch and indicate your interest in Wikipedia or Wikidata: https://forms.gle/U3PhiZYvrngREAQSA

Where

Primary site:

University of Michigan School of Information: Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.

Secondary site: University of Maryland: Room 2116, Hornbake Library-South, College of Information, 4130 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20742

Or online!

Presented by:

The University of Maryland Center for Archival Futures; George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology; The Bentley Historical Library and University of Michigan School of Information; the University of Missouri’s iSchool; and the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR), and Wikimedia DC.

Image: Lenexa National Archives Federal Records Center via Wikimedia Commons User:Richard Arthur Norton. Rights: PD.

Host or Publisher Wikimedia DC