Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/plastics wiki party 2019

Biodegradable Plastics Wiki Party

Event details
Date:	Thursday 1 August 2019
Time	2pm
Where:	Dell 1
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iGem is hosting "Biodegradable Plastics Wiki Party" a Wikipedia editing event to develop the article for Biodegradable plastic.

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Overview of program

2 hours - edit biodegradable plastic!

1. Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
2. please sign in so that your team can find your account name and the article you edited
3. before you go to Wikipedia, identify reliable scholarly information sources on a topic. If you have no sources, you cannot edit Wikipedia!
4. After you have sources, and you have a topic, now consider where to put information from those sources into Wikipedia
5. Now respond to any feedback you have gotten.

Schedule

Introducing Wikipedia assignment

0:00-0:05 - Welcome

0:05-2:00 - edit, no agenda

Resources

Possible articles as models -

• "featured articles
  • Gas metal arc welding
  • Oil shale
  • Mechanical filter
• other seemingly good articles
  • Bioplastic

Support

• 
  University of Virginia Library

Contact

• Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry) for Wiki issues

Links

• iGem, the "International Genetically Engineered Machine" team at University of Virginia
• WikiProject University of Virginia, a landing page for anyone to coordinate collaboration between the UVA and wiki communities
• Data Science Institute at University of Virginia, which coordinates wiki activities at UVA