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Agenda for Special Collections and Archives visit

1. Before you come, please choose a topic from the list below.
2. Introduction: our special collections and collecting focus.
3. Some examples: an unprocessed collection and two processed collections having to do with your class topics.
   1. Note the differences between unprocessed and processed collections.
   2. Archives don't catalog at the item level -- hence the exciting fun discovery of new historical sources.
4. The Archives website and an example finding aid online (where most finding aids live now.)
5. The research process for this class, and types of sources preferred for Wikipedia articles.
   1. What makes something or someone notable? Wikipedia has particular guidelines for people.
   2. Primary vs. secondary, the role of finding aids, factual vs. evaluative sources.
   3. You'll all start online first. Then some will need to come in on-site, and look for print newspaper and article clippings as well as organizational newsletters.
   4. The finding aid should have bibliography for further sources.
6. If you come, these are general archives procedures.
   1. First, look at finding aid and see if there are likely boxes. The archivist can help with this, but you should always take a look at the finding aid and come up with some ideas yourself.
   2. Then follow special visiting procedures -- because special collections are rare and unique, they need careful preservation. Email or call to set up an appointment.
7. Lab portion: research and editing!

Wikipedia tips

• Article exemplars
  • Mary Shelley, FA-class biography
  • Margaret Sanger, GA-class biography
  • Turner W Bell, B-class biography
  • Akiko Kobayashi (chemist), C-class biography
  • Agnes Bulmer, C-class biography
  • A Band of Orcs, Start-class biography
  • Abe Goldstein, Start-class biography
  • Community Resources for Justice, a discussion on notability
  • Boston Society of Vulcans and underrepresentation

• Understanding Wikipedia's standards
  • Perfect article
  • Five Pillars
  • What Wikipedia is not
  • Reliable Sources
  • Starting an article and Your first article
  • Article assessment

• Understanding Wikipedia's organization and markup
  • Wikipedia Tutorial
  • Markup cheatsheet
  • Citation Guide
  • Wiki Markup Quick Reference

Choosing a topic

Responses to in-class questions

• How do I add categories? Browse the category portal or all categories list to find the appropriate one, and add it to the bottom of the page using the [[Category:Category name]] syntax.

• How do I add references? See my sandbox and use option one. Take a look at the code to see how it's done.

• How can I find more lists of stub articles to work on? If there isn't a WikiProject list of interest to you, try this list across disciplines.

Wikipedia introduction

• Touring an article
  • Mary Shelley, a featured article
  • Community Resources for Justice, a discussion on notability
  • Boston Society of Vulcans and underrepresentation

• Understanding Wikipedia's standards
  • Perfect article
  • Five Pillars
  • What Wikipedia is not
  • Reliable Sources
  • Starting an article and Your first article
  • Article assessment

• Understanding Wikipedia's organization and markup
  • Wikipedia Tutorial
  • Markup cheatsheet
  • Citation Guide
  • Wiki Markup Quick Reference

Underrepresented Groups and Special Collections

Ways to Contribute

For this class, focus on bringing stub or start class articles as close to a B-class article as you can get (see Wikipedia's assessment standards here) and try to contact the appropriate WikiProject for input. To bring articles up a class, you can:

• Find a good academic or reliable news source and add it to existing articles. You have access to many resources that others don't, by virtue of being in a university.
• Cleanup references by tracking down and adding full citation information (author, date, year, etc.)
• Add additional inline citations where an article has good references, but unclear citation.
• Add infoboxes, public-domain photos, or categories. You may also want to browse the category portal

Agenda for Special Collections and Archives Visit

1. Before you come, please choose a topic from the list below.
2. Introduction: our special collections and collecting focus.
3. Some examples: an unprocessed collection and two processed collections having to do with your class topics.
   1. Note the differences between unprocessed and processed collections.
   2. Archives don't catalog at the item level -- hence the exciting fun discovery of new historical sources.
4. The Archives website and an example finding aid online (where most finding aids live now.)
5. The research process for this class, and types of sources preferred for Wikipedia articles.
   1. What makes something or someone notable? Wikipedia has particular guidelines for people.
   2. Primary vs. secondary, the role of finding aids, factual vs. evaluative sources.
   3. You'll all start online first. Then some will need to come in on-site, and look for print newspaper and article clippings as well as organizational newsletters.
   4. The finding aid should have bibliography for further sources.
6. If you come, these are general archives procedures.
   1. First, look at finding aid and see if there are likely boxes. The archivist can help with this, but you should always take a look at the finding aid and come up with some ideas yourself.
   2. Then follow special visiting procedures -- because special collections are rare and unique, they need careful preservation. Email or call to set up an appointment.
7. Lab portion: research and editing!

Sources for Research

Start with:

• The Boston Globe Archive
• Google Books

For more:

• GenderWatch
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE
• Lexis Nexis
• Bay Windows
• Bay State Banner
• Google Scholar
• Google News

Suggested Topics

1. Phyllis M. Ryan, (1927-1998), social justice and political activist, supported school desegregation, prison reform, welfare reform, the establishment of disability rights, and civil rights organizations, such as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). View guide to her personal papers.
2. Citywide Educational Coalition played an important role in the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools and advocated for school reform by providing parents with the skills necessary to participate in shaping education policy. View guide to the records.
3. Chinese Progressive Association, a grassroots community organization, was founded in 1977 to provide Chinatown residents a forum for their concerns and a way to communicate their vision for the community to officials of the City of Boston and of the Commonwealth. The Association provides support for workers and immigrants, particularly new Asian immigrants, needing translation services or other support. View guide to the records.
4. Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing (1916-2003) provided services to people with hearing impairments, including lip reading classes and advocating for technologies to test and improve hearing. View guide to the records.
5. Travelers Aid Family Services, established in 1916, provides services to increase homelessness prevention efforts and create affordable housing in Boston. View guide to the records.
6. Triangle Theater Company (1979-1996) provided a supportive environment in which gay men and women could work in theater View guide to the records.
7. Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, founded in 1968, is a grassroots organization in Boston’s South End that provides services for youth, families, adults, and the elderly through community organizing, educational, civic, cultural, and peer leadership View guide to the records.
8. La Alianza Hispana, established in 1968, the first Latino organization in Boston, provides education, family counseling, public health, and youth development programs to Boston’s Latino community. View guide to the records.
9. National Association of Black and White Men Together, the national organization, and the chapter in Boston, Men of All Colors Together (Boston, Mass.) (below) engages in educational, political, cultural, and social activities which foster supportive environments to overcome racial and cultural inequalities.
   1. View guide to the Boston Chapter records.
   2. View guide to the New York Chapter records.
   3. More on its history.
10. Men of All Colors Together (Boston, Mass.)
    1. View guide to the Boston Chapter records.
    2. View guide to the New York Chapter records.
    3. More on its history.
11. United South End Settlements, since inception an active participant in the redevelopment and rehabilitation of the South End, taking part in all phases of the process from planning to execution. In the early 1960s, United South End Settlements crafted a long-range plan for developing the area that articulated short-and long-range goals for the neighborhood. View guide to records.
12. Boston Society of Vulcans, founded in 1971 for the recruitment of African American and other minorities into the fire service. In 1972 the Boston Society of Vulcans, with assistance from the NAACP, Attorney Thomas Mela, and the Justice Department, filed a class action suit against the Civil Service Commission, which resulted in the City of Boston having to hire minorities on a one to one basis until minorities represented 26% of the fire fighting force; this was known as the Beecher certification. May require extra trips to the archives to find third-party verification.
    1. The Society's pages, but remember: third-party verification is best.
    2. View guide to records.
13. Gay Community News (Boston), published by the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation, one of the most important LGBT news sources in the 1970s and 1980s and possibly the first LGBT weekly in the U.S View guide to Bromfield records.
14. Elma Lewis, American arts educator and the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, and the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She was one of the first recipients of a MacArther Fellows Grant, in 1981 View guide to the Elma Ina Lewis papers.
15. Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts View guide to Elma Ina Lewis School of Fine Arts records.
16. A Note To You, "classical music radio show broadcasted by WGBH and Northeastern University from Ryder Hall. Roland Nadeau, who also started the Music Department at Northeastern, created the show in the interest of educating children on classical music. Running from 1963-2000, its 37-year run was one of public radio's longest-running classical music programs and was syndicated internationally and all over the United States, at its peak it was carried by over 100 public radio stations, the Armed Forces Radio, Voice of America and Australian Public Radio." View guide to records.
17. Arthur Batcheller, appointed by President Hoover to the position of Traveling Supervisor of Radio in 1930, the highest field position in radio service at that time. Active in early 20th century radio regulation and licensing practices, as well as investigations of notable legal cases. View guide to records.
18. Robert Markell -- TV producer in the 1960s and '70s, receiving multiple Emmy awards and the Screen Producers Guild Award in 1962 and 1963. Producer of N.Y.P.D._(TV_series) in the 1960s. View guide to records.
19. Edward F. Lyons, Jr., an attorney who entered the army during World War II serving as an officer in a German prisoner camp, and later stationed with the War Crimes Board serving as an assistant in the Borkum Island war crimes trial. Back in the U.S. he continued to support thep prosecution of German war criminals until his retirement in 1959. View guide to records.
    1. Bonus: this topic has a very active WikiProject, where other editors might be a great deal of help. Do check in with them first.
20. Borkum Island war crimes trial (Note: there are already pictures of the trial on Wikimedia Commons.)
    1. Bonus: this topic has a very active WikiProject, where other editors might be a great deal of help. Do check in with them first.

Participating in a Community

• Log in to check your talk page (or have it forwarded to your email)
• Develop new articles in your sandbox before posting to live.
• If editing an existing article, visit the talk page to see what work's already been discussed.
• If the article is very active, consider making smaller changes rather than large text replacements, to make it easier for others to follow your work.
• Comment out your edits, again to help others understand what you've done.
• Interesting discussions
  • Talk:Tlön,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius
  • Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_women_art_historians

What Does Wikipedia Want?

• See the The Five Pillars of Wikipedia and models for good start-class articles.
• See what What Wikipedia Is Not
• Common student and new editor mistakes involve:
  • Plagiarism
  • Notability
  • Synthesis
  • Original research
• Be bold (you can't actually delete anything!)

Community Resources for Justice

• What does a good-enough article look like? (Note the infobox, photo, categories, and links to other Wikipedia articles.)
• What does a start-class article still need?
• Workspace

Carmen Pola

• What does a good-enough biography article look like?
• What does a start-class biography article still need?
• Workspace

Boston History and Social Justice Resources

Start with:

• The Boston Globe Archive
• Google Books

For more:

• GenderWatch
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Lexis Nexis
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE
• Bay Windows
• Bay State Banner
• Google Scholar
• Google News
• Boston's Latino Community History, an online archive of 41,250 documents, images, and posters, from the Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción and La Alianza Hispana collections documenting the two organizations’ work in public policy formation, community relations, affordable housing, urban planning and housing rehabilitation, cultural and educational programming, violence prevention, and minority rights.

On-Wiki

• Gamergate controversy
• Wal-Mart from 2001
• Apple, Inc. talk page
• Wikipedia (the Wikipedia article on Wikipedia, of course)
• Encyclopedia
• Estonian bacon
• Wikipedia's suggestions for student assignments, particularly the Advice for Instructors
• Wikipedia's Training for Educators, particularly the Classroom section which includes a sample syllabus and Tips for Grading
• Wikipedia Requested Articles
• Wikipedia Most Wanted Articles
• Wikipedia Missing Articles
• WikiProject Boston, see requested articles
• Wikipedia Top 25 Report
• WP:SYNTH and What SYNTH is not
• Wikipedia Brochure, especially nice sections on encyclopedic style and page layout
• Template for Archival Metadata
• Articles about Wikipedia's gender gap
• How to move a page and why it's important

Off-Wiki

• Wikipedia Recent Changes Map
• Owens, Simon (2013-10-08). "The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
• Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth (2014-03-22). "The Geography of Fame". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
• Wadewitz, Adrianne (2013-09-03). "The struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning". HASTAC Scholars' Blog. Retrieved 2014-03-20. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Simonite, Tom (2013). "The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
• Reagle, Joseph (2011). "Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica". International Journal of Communication. 5: 21. Retrieved 2014-05-12. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Feltman, Rachel (2014-01-28). "America's future doctors are starting their careers by saving Wikipedia". Quartz. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
• McDevitt-Parks, Dominic (2012-09-27). "How does NARA avoid conflicts of interest on Wikipedia?". NARAtions. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
• Vartanian, Hrag (2014). "Is Wikipedia the Next Frontier for Museums?". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
• Lih, Andrew (2010-02-22). "Can Wikipedia Survive Popular Success and Community Decline?" (Document). University of California - Santa Barbara. {{cite document}}: Cite document requires |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |accessdate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)