Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Engineers for Earth Day 2022
Engineers for Earth Day 2022: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
[edit]Join the USC Libraries and the Engineering in Society Program at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering on Earth Day, April 22, 2022, as we contribute to Wikipedia articles about sustainability and engineering. New and experienced editors welcome! Training and support will be provided. This event is part of USC's Earth Week 2022 celebrations.
When and where
[edit]- Friday, April 22, 2022
- 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Pacific)
- University of Southern California, Science & Engineering Library (SSL 210)
- Register for this event by Thursday, April 21, 2022 here.
Before the event
[edit]- If you don't have a Wikipedia account, create one here.
- Learn and review Wikipedia policies and practices here. If your time is limited, focus on this Wikipedia Policies module.
Schedule
[edit]- 1:00-1:30 PM: Welcome and introduction to Wikipedia editing; editing begins
- 1:30-3:00 PM: Continued training for new editors; collective editing and troubleshooting
Drop-in anytime, and we'll help you get started!
Participants
[edit]Once you have created a Wikipedia account, add your signature (Wikipedia username) below. Signatures are created with four tildes [~] in a row.
Participants attending:
- 1namesake1 (talk) 18:42, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
- Lsciullo (talk) 22:12, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
- JackMandelkorn (talk) 00:41, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Dasoliloquy (talk) 22:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- CarlosDanielRLao (talk) 02:12, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Reereef (talk) 23:12, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
- Asalvadorian (talk) 01:15, 20 April 2022
- TrojanWriter (talk) 01:17, 20 April 2022
- Lasharma (talk) 00:14, 21 April 2022 (UTC)Lasharma
- Chefmikesf (talk) 19:17, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Writejustified (talk) 20:45, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Skippytheturtle (talk) 21:15, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ellahahahaqq (talk) 04:49, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- Sc lmathur (talk) 15:55, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- Celerym816 (talk) 15:56, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- Delwattar (talk) 19:42, 22 April 2022 (UTC)Delwattar
- Chonk00 (talk) 20:20, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- Shukl12898 (talk) 14:07, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- Globetrotter explorer (talk) 14:11, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- Codswimmer (talk) 21:25, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Impact
[edit]Our work during this event will be tracked though an event dashboard, which will count the number of words and references added, along with the number of views. To ensure that your contributions are counted,
- Go to the event dashboard here
- Under Actions, click Join Program.
- Under Articles, go to Available Articles and select the one(s) you want to edit!
Articles for editing
[edit]Select from the list below or work on another article.
- Aircraft recycling (update)
- Arctic geoengineering (citations and update)
- Computational sustainability (update)
- Drug pollution (citations and update)
- Edge computing (citations and update)
- Endangered species (update to include non-U.S. contexts)
- Environmental impact of concrete (citations)
- Environmental impact of lithium-ion batteries (organization)
- Environmental impact of cryptocurrencies (organization)
- Fuel cell (update)
- Hybrid electric aircraft (organization)
- Life-cycle engineering (stub)
- Lithium-ion battery (citations)
- Marinel Sumook Ubaldo (update and add sources)
- Mobile phone recycling (update)
- Na'Taki Osborne Jelks (update)
- Nickel-lithium battery (stub)
- Nuclear power in Ukraine (update)
- Ocean disposal of radioactive waste (update)
- Particulate pollution (update)
- Planetary engineering (citations)
- Pollution in the Arctic Ocean (citations and update)
- Repairability (stub)
- Solar hydrogen panel (stub)
- Solar power in Brazil (stub)
- Solar power in Hungary (stub)
- Solar power in Lithuania (stub)
- Space mirror (update)
- Sustainable engineering (organization and update)
- Sustainable industries (stub)
- Wind power in South Korea (stub)
- Wind power in the Philippines (stub)
- Wind power in Uruguay (stub)
- Yola Mgogwana (update)
- Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (update)
Research resources
[edit]USC Libraries Resources
Environmental Science Research Guide
Engineering
Environmental Science
Environmental Science Database