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Welcome! You are invited to the UCLA Library Edit-a-thon Open Access Digital Collections

What: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Open Access Digital Collections

When: Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 10 am-1pm

Where: UCLA Library, Young Research Library RC Classroom

What to bring: Your laptop and power adapter. The Library will also have 24 laptops available.

Focus: Expanding Wikipedia's external links from existing articles to digitized open access library collections. See the 3 minute overview video, Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Learn, Lunch & Leave a Footprint with Open Access!

As always, beginners are welcome! Refreshments will be provided!

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Please add your name if you plan to attend :

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To-Do

Guidelines for Creating External Links

Wiki Markup for External Links

Wikipedia Manual of Style on Linking

UCLA Wikipedia LibGuide

Item	Link to Item	In Progress (add username here)	Added To This Wikipedia Page	Complete (Y/N)
Will Connell Papers	http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5199n9r9/	User:Liber8er	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Connell	yes
Conoximent de las Orines (An early book about analyzing urine for medical purposes)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002267k	glowreuh	added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinalysis	Yes!
Dissertation on the Voluntary Eating of Blood (An early book on vegetarianism)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00022683	'User:Moonflea	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_eating_meat#External_links	Y
Index of Medieval Medical Images	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002fn7s	username	added to	complete?
Patent Medicine Cards (Early advertising cards (like baseball cards) about medicine being sold for various ailments)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002gwzg	nafpaktitism	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine	Y
Picart (Bernard) Collection (An 18th century encyclopedia (copies in English, French, Dutch and German) about all the religions of the world (for its time it was very neutral in its approach to comparitive religion) Has numerous illustrations which are famous)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/picart/index.html	Zytzel	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Picart	Y (already existed)
Maps of Los Angeles, California, the United States and the World	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002h48z	username	added to	complete?
AIDS Posters collection (A range of international public health posters related to AIDS (Not all images are available in full size off campus (thumbnails are available))	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002ksb2	MetaClaudia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day	Y
Ethnomusicology Archive: D. K. Wilgus Collection (recorded sound)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00089bvf	User:Moonflea	John Fahey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fahey_(musician)#External_links	link can be added to other pages!
Bound Manuscripts Collection. Collection 170 (All sorts of manuscript material that is bound like a book and held in Library Special Collections)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00089wzq	username	added to	complete?
St. Denis (Ruth) Papers. Collection 1031 (dance pioneer)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?keyWord=St.%20Denis%20(Ruth)%20Papers&selectedProjects=34	zytzel	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_St._Denis#External_links	Y
Holtzman (Howard) Collection on Isadora Duncan. Collection 1729	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008c2pw	User:Moonflea	Isadora Duncan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan#Archival_collections	yessiree
Armenian Manuscripts Collection. Collection 2089 (early Armenian handwritten materials)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?keyWord=Armenian%202089&selectedProjects=49	username	added to	complete?
Exhibit Collection of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts. Collection 1656 (demonstration materials about Arabic, Persian and Turkish)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?keyWord=1656%20Persian%20Turkish&selectedProjects=56	username	added to	complete?
Phonetics Laboratory Archive	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008nkk5	User:Moonflea	Phonetics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetics#External_links	There was no phonetics laboratory archive wiki, but I know nothing about it so I didn't create a page
Orsini Family Papers. Collection 902	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000945wq	SFVtotally (talk) 18:46, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orsini_family	Yes
Solinus (C. Iulius) De situ orbis terrarum	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00098b52	username	added to	complete?
McAfee (Byron) Papers. Collection 339 (Related to Nahauatl materials (Mexico))	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009c4d4	username	added to	complete?
Calif. Fruit Labels Collection. Collection 319	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009c4g5	vbross2	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunkist_Growers,_Incorporated#External_links	in part?
Hathaway Manuscripts (Odd collection of musical notation that was found bound into other books and rescued)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gsq9	username	added to	complete?
Armenian Manuscripts (Another collection of Armenian manuscripts)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gx2d	username	added to	complete?
Ethiopic Manuscripts (in Ge'ez)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gx3x	mlsteele04	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_art	perhaps more to be done
Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts (mainly from continental Europe)	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gx4f	glowreuh	added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript	yes!
Sachtleben (William) Diaries, Papers, and Images of Armenian Massacre	link to item	"username"	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sachtleben	N
Los Angeles Aqueduct	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct	User:Liber8er	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct	Y
Instant guide to Synanon : a compilation of the most frequently asked questions about our Foundation	http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?keyWord=synanon&selectedProjects=358	User:Liber8er	'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon	Y
item	link to item	username	added to	complete?
item	link to item	username	added to	complete?
item	link to item	username	added to	complete?

To Do Homework- Oral History Interviews for Wikipedia Links

Item	Link to Item	In Progress (add username here)	Added to this Wikipedia Page	Complete? (Y/N)
Architects:	Empty	Empty	Empty	Empty
Harwell Hamilton Harris	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zfbn&title=Harris,Harwell Hamilton, 1903-	"username"	"added to"	Y/N
Cliff May	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zdfq&title=May,Cliff	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Artists:	-	-	-	-
Los Angeles Art Community: Group Portrait	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000905qb&title=Los Angeles Art Community - Group Portrait	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Frederick Hammersley	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00096ncm&title=Hammersley,Frederick	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
John Outterbridge	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zmxv&title= Outterbridge,John W.	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Books and Fine Printing:	-	-	-	-
Jake Zeitlin	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zbd7&title=Zeitlin,Jake	MetaClaudia	"added to"	"Y/N"
Film:	-	-	-	-
Hollywood Blacklist	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000905wx&title= Hollywood Blacklist	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Music	-	-	-	-
Central Avenue Sounds Oral History Project (on jazz on Central Avenue)	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000905zz&title=Central Avenue Sounds	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Asian American History	-	-	-	-
Korean American in Los Angeles after 1945	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz000966t2&title= Korean Americans in Los Angeles after 1965	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
German Emigres	-	-	-	-
Marta Feuchtwanger (wife of author Lion Feuchtwanger)	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008z8g9&title=Feuchtwanger, Marta	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Gertrude Zeisl (wife of composer Eric Zeisl)	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008z8sz&title=Zeisl,Gertrude S.	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Social Activism:	-	-	-	-
Carey McWilliams	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zbzh&title=McWilliams, Carey	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Dorothy Healey (head of the Communist Party in Southern California)	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008zbb6&title=Healey,Dorothy	MetaClaudia	"added to"	"Y/N"
Environmental Movement	-	-	-	-
Environmental Activism in Los Angeles	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00094bm0&title= Environmental Activism in Los Angeles	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
Andy Lipkis (founder of Tree People)	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz00096kj7&title=Lipkis,Andy	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"
LGBT Movement	-	-	-	-
Harry Hay	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/Browse.do?coreDescCvPk=27922&Subject=LGBT Movement	"username"	"added to"	"Y"
Labor (Justice for Janitors movement):	-	-	-	-
Donde Haiga un Trabajador Explotado, Ahí Estaré Yo: Justice for Janitors' Workers, Organizers, and Allies	http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz002b0jrb&title= Donde Haiga un Trabajador Explotado, Ahí Estaré Yo: Justice for Janitors' Workers, Organizers, and Allies	"username"	"added to"	"Y/N"