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An edit-a-thon is an effort to improve a certain part of the wiki over a specific, often short, period of time. They typically focus on a specific topic, such as expanding or updating on articles (such as Accessibility, World Health Day, or Leadership). Edit-a-thons improve the wiki and can be a great way to help new Saintapedians learn to edit.

For upcoming planned Edit-a-thons and to suggest ideas for edit-a-thons, please see Saintapedia:Edit-a-thons WikiProject.

Content categorization - Round 2 - Monday, December 18, 2023

Throughout most of the day, there will be a live stream of an editor participating in the Edit-a-thon. You are welcome to join whenever your schedule permits to learn how to participate or get live editing support.  

In an effort to better organize the content on Saintapedia, this edit-a-thon will focus on:

Content categorization - Monday, August 21, 2023

Throughout most of the day, there will be a live stream of an editor participating in the Edit-a-thon. You are welcome to join whenever your schedule permits to learn how to participate or get live editing support.  

In an effort to better organize the content on Saintapedia, this edit-a-thon will focus on:

Content Categorization Edit-a-thon (Teams meeting)

Leadership and org charts update - May 17, 2021

On Monday, May 17th, the Edit-a-thon his will focus on updating Leadership infoboxes and Organization charts.

Random page challenge - January 27, 2021

To participate:

  • Go to a random page
  • See if you can make one change to improve it
  • If so, add it to your list
  • Go to another random page and repeat the process

Categories and Accessibility - May 19th, 2020

The May 19th Edit-a-thon focused on:

Categorizes

Category tags help keep related content together. Adding these tags makes links at the bottom of the article which take you to the list of all pages in that category. They are now even more important since Saintapedia's new search will now allow you to use categories as a basis of a search or refine your search results using categories.

The Edit-a-thon will focus on:

Adding categories

Edit at Adding categories

You can add categories with both editors (Visual Editor or Enhanced editor).

Using Visual Editor
To edit categories in Visual editor, on the "Page options" menu, click the "Categories" item. Clicking on "Categories" opens a dialog that lists existing categories and allows you to add new ones, and to delete existing categories.
  • Adding categories

    Adding categories

  • Category editor

    Category editor

  • Sorting categories

    Sorting categories

You also have the option of setting or changing the general (default) sorting key, which determines where the page appears when listed with other pages in the same category.

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Location of Categories under the Hamburger menu
Using Enhanced editor
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Adding categories to a wiki page

To add an article to a category using Enhanced editor, you create an internal link to the category just as you would when linking to any other page. By way of example, to add an article to the Parishes category, you would click the Edit tab for the article and add [[Category:Parishes]] at the end of the edit window. (While categories will work when placed anywhere in an article, USApedia practice is to always place them at the end of articles.)


Accessibility

In support of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we will also work to add:

Please see Saintapedia:Accessibility for more ways you can make Saintapedia accessible to everyone.

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Edit at Saintapedia:Accessibility#Images Saintapedia:Accessibility

Section headings

Edit at Saintapedia:Accessibility#Section headings Saintapedia:Accessibility

Color contrast

Edit at Saintapedia:Accessibility#Color recommendations Saintapedia:Accessibility

Points of contact - June 6, 2019

There will be office hours, in which anyone can join a WebEx to ask any question about Saintapedia, will be throughout the major of the day. The presenter will be actively participating in expanding points of contact when not answering questions.

Office hours

Tom O'Neill is sharing his screen the majority using WebEx of the day as he participates in Edit-a-thon. To join the session:

Expanding points of contact

The Edit-a-thon's focus is expanding building on Points of contact such as:

See all of the changes made.

March 25, 2019

There are two parts to this Edit-a-thon:

  1. Primary Theme - Better integrate Wikipedia stub into Saintapedia
  2. Secondary Theme - Editing open house - Open invite to anyone wanting to make edits to Saintapedia, but would like some help while they do it.

Wikipedia stub integration

Some steps that can be done to turn Wikipedia stub into a Stub article or expend it to the point where a stub flag is not even needed:

Once you have the cleaned up the Wikipedia stub enough, please remove the template and add the {{Stub}}template, as needed. See adding a template for more information.

At the start of the day, there were 852 Wikipedia stubs and it ended with 839.

Editing open house

Tom O'Neill is sharing his screen the majority using WebEx of the day as he participates in Edit-a-thon. To join the session:

Once you are connected, please feel free to ask any question related to the wiki such as:

  1. How do add an image
  2. Format the text
  3. Get started editing

Visual Editor - August 24, 2018

This edit-a-thon will focus on:

  1. using Visual Editor to make changes to the wiki
  2. connecting articles (Wikifying, Related link circles, Navboxes, etc.)
  3. refreshing the list of pages we want the 2018/2019 class of Saintapedia Interns to create/improve

Editors are encouraged to:

Readers are encouraged to:

Lead Saintapedia Ambassador and Curator will be live streaming his edits, and available for questions, all day except 2:30-3:30 PM EST.

Changes to make during the Edit-a-thon:

8th Birthday - Transition books - January 29 through February 2

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8th Saintapedia Birthday Flyer)

The three 2016 DOE Transition Books were created to help new employees joining the Department. They have been broken into

, wikified (added Internal links), and organized in Portal:2016 Transition. Much of this wealth of information has not been integrated into the main content of Saintapedia.

See the Saintapedia:Birthday#Schedule when you can watch Tom O'Neill participate in the Edit-a-thon and ask questions. The WebEx is https://doe.webex.com/meet/thomas.oneill. The call-in number is 1-415-527-5035, Access code 905 819 417.

Focus

This Edit-a-ton, in celebration of Saintapedia's 8th birthday, will focus on:

Helpful links

Results

This information comes from Saintapedia:Birthday#Results and can be edited there. Saintapedia:Birthday

Acronyms - November 20, 2017

The Acronyms is a list of DOE-relevant acronyms. Each acronym is linked, if the corresponding page exists, to their definitions. This edit-a-thon aims to make the list even more complete by adding missing acronyms. They can come from your organization, the consolidated list of Potential acronyms, BPA list, and from existing redirects.

Tom O'Neill will be sharing his edits thru out the day, using WebEx, in his Personal Room.

All the DOE acronyms are consolidated for viewing on the main Acronyms page, but each letter of the alphabet has its own page for editing.

Current Acronyms

All — A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z

Adding an acronym

Saintapedia:WikiProject Acronyms

Screen sharing and demonstrations

Tom O'Neill will be sharing his edits thru out the day, using WebEx, in his Personal Room.

Process

  1. Wikifying on wikiproject
  2. Saving
  3. Opening Excel
  4. Editing sections (such as B-BI) and cutting the list into Excel
  5. Moving the acronyms on the wikiproject page that match that range
  6. Pulling out any disambig and putting them on back on the acronym page
  7. Using Excel to alphabetize the list
  8. Move the list from Excel to the acronym page
  9. Saving
  10. Moving the disambig to their right place
  11. Removing duplicate
  12. Saving
  13. Repeating steps 4-12 on other sections

Saintapedia Birthday - 2017

The 7th Saintapedia Birthday is focusing on updating the Leadership article, which should house every major organization's Leadership infobox. Leadership infoboxes are templates that list major organizational leadership position, who holds them (or if they are vacant), and how long they have been in the leadership position.

Since a large majority of the leadership position are filled with Political appointees, the Department of Energy's section of the 2016 Plum Book has been added to Saintapedia. The listings, which have been broken out by organization, includes:

  • Position Title
  • Name of Incumbent
  • Type of Appointment
  • Pay Plan/Pay Grade
  • Location

Positions, if vacant or acting due to a political appointee departure, should have the "Since" date of January 20th. The DOE Secretarial Officers File:Excel icon.png Link and Heads of Departmental Elements File:Excel icon.png Link, both dated January 23, 2017, should also be helpful in that effort.

How to modify Leadership infoboxes

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Location of "Edit" link where changes can be made to the Infobox
  1. Click on the "Edit" link at the bottom right corner of the Infobox you wish to change
  2. Make an changes you know are needed to existing entries. Please remember each entry has a "Position," "Person," and "Since." Person's name ideally would be wikified with (Acting) outside of the link. The Since can be left vacant if the information is not known.
  3. To add additional positions
    1. Copy the last entry, including the three lines listed above
    2. Paste it below the last entry
    3. Add one to each of the new entries. For example, change "Position6" to "Position7"; change "Person6" to "Person7"; and "Since6" to "Since7." Please do keep the pipe (|) intact on each line.
  4. Update "Reviewed" with today's date. If there is not a reviewed, please add "|Reviewed = " below the last entry.
  5. Add an edit summary.
  6. Save the page

Why leadership infoboxes?

  • Information on public websites can be difficult to find or buried in image organization charts.
  • Charts only have current individuals in the positions, while Saintapedia allows for historic individuals to be known.
  • Saintapedia allows that historic content to be maintained. Past individuals who have held leadership positions often have their biographies removed from the public website when they leave the position.
  • Biographies on Saintapedia can be wikified which allows them to become much more useful and interactive.
  • See How these boxes are used for more details how the information can easily be reused.

How infoboxes are used

The Leadership infoboxes follow the Saintapedia model of creating/maintaining content in one place and reusing it throughout the wiki. The infoboxes should be placed on:

  • organization main Saintapedia article (possibly aligned to the left rather than to the right)
  • organization sub-offices articles
  • articles about each of the leadership positions
  • biography articles of those who have held leadership positions in the organization in the past (so individuals can know who succeeded him or her)
  • article about those who currently hold leadership roles
  • Leadership article

Global Accessibility Awareness Day - May 19 2016

In support of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we will have an edit-a-thon with the primary focus on:

Please see Saintapedia:Accessibility for more ways you can make Saintapedia accessible to everyone.

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Saintapedia:Accessibility

Section headings

Saintapedia:Accessibility

Color contrast

Saintapedia:Accessibility

World Health Day Edit-a-thon - April 7

The official theme for the 2016 World Health Day is to "Beat diabetes." One of the key points in the campaign is "Maintaining normal body weight, engaging in regular physical activity, and eating a healthy diet can reduce the risk of diabetes."[1] We are focusing on improving information on ways DOE employees and contractors are engaging in physical activity. This includes:

  • Gyms that are specifically for or have membership requirements that include DOE employees/contractors
  • Walking clubs - Add to Walking club
  • Bike groups - Add new groups to
  • Running groups - For this group and the ones below, please add to the appropriate section of Health groups
  • Hiking groups
  • Soccer clubs
  • Volleyball clubs
  • Softball leagues
  • Weight watchers
  • Other activities

Adding information about a group not on Saintapedia

For groups newly being added to the wiki:

  • start by adding the content, under a Health groups section, to the DOE Facility article that most employees/contractors work
  • once the content grows, it can be moved to a new page

If you are new to editing the wiki, please feel free to add the information you have below this line or with the Article feedback tool.

Further plans

Women's History Month - March 17, 2016

The Saintapedia Working Group choose Women's History Month, which every March highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society, as the focus for this month's edit-a-thon. It will

  • Add biographies of woman DOE scientists and other notable woman leaders
  • Adding categories to articles about notable DOE women to keep them together

Creating biography articles

Select "Biography" template from the Boilerplate template. See the page creation options below. Frequently Asked Questions about Saintapedia

Biography categories

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Adding categories to a wiki page - Non-DOE video

The categories that will be used are:

  • and
  • .

See Adding an article to a category below or watch the video example (created for another wiki, but concept is the same).


Results

Below are the results of the Edit-a-thon

January 2016 - 6th Birthday

The 6th Saintapedia Birthday is focusing on updating the Leadership article, which should house every major organization's Leadership infobox. Leadership infoboxes are templates that list major organizational leadership position, who holds them (or if they are vacant), and how long they have been in the leadership position.

How these boxes are used

The Leadership infoboxes follow the Saintapedia model of creating/maintaining content in one place and reusing it throughout the wiki. The infoboxes should be placed on:

  • organization main Saintapedia article (possibly aligned to the left rather than to the right)
  • organization sub-offices articles
  • articles about each of the leadership positions
  • biography articles of those who have held leadership positions in the organization in the past (so individuals can know who succeeded him or her)
  • article about those who currently hold leadership roles
  • Leadership article

Why leadership infoboxes?

  • Information on public websites can be difficult to find or buried in image organization charts.
  • Charts only have current individuals in the positions, while Saintapedia allows for historic individuals to be known.
  • Saintapedia allows that historic content to be maintained. Past individuals who have held leadership positions often have their biographies removed from the public website when they leave the position.
  • Biographies on Saintapedia can be wikified which allows them to become much more useful and interactive.
  • See How these boxes are used for more details how the information can easily be reused.

How to modify Leadership infoboxes

File:Leadership infobox edit link.png
Location of "Edit" link where changes can be made to the Infobox
  1. Click on the "Edit" link at the bottom right corner of the Infobox you wish to change
  2. Make an changes you know are needed to existing enties. Please remember each entry has a "Position," "Person," and "Since."
  3. To add additional positions
    1. Copy the last entry, including the three lines listed above
    2. Paste it below the last entry
    3. Add one to each of the new entries. For example, change "Position6" to "Position7"; change "Person6" to "Person7"; and "Since6" to "Since7." Please do keep the pipe (|) intact on each line.
  4. Update "Reviewed" with today's date. If there is not a reviewed, please add "|Reviewed = " below the last entry.
  5. Add an edit summary.
  6. Save the page

December 2015

The December 2015 ran from December 28th through December 31st, 2015. It focused on creating starter pages called stubs. A stub is an article that is too short to provide comprehensive coverage of the subject, but long enough to provide some useful information. 25 new pages were created during the Edit-a-thon.

How do I create a new page on Saintapedia?

Main page: Help:Creating a page

Creating a new page is very easy.

There are three main methods that are used for creating a new article in USApedia, as described below:

Method 1

Cargo form

Method 2

  1. Type the name of the article you wish to create into the Search box. A list of articles matching your article title will appear. If the article already exists, you can selected it and you will be brought to the article. We are using "NEW ARTICLE TITLE" as a placeholder for your new article title in the instructions.
  2. If the article does not exist, hit ↵ Enter and you will be brought to the search page.
  3. At the top it will read "Create the page "NEW ARTICLE TITLE" on this wiki!"
  4. Click on the Red link NEW ARTICLE TITLE (your new article's title).
  5. Create the article's content and click the Save page button to save the article.

Method 3

  1. Edit an existing article by clicking the Edit tab at the top of the page.
  2. Type the title of your new page in a relevant location on the existing page.
  3. Make the title of your new page a link.
    1. When using VisualEditor, see Help:Visual editor#Internal links on how to make your article's title an internal link.
    2. When using Enhanded editor, place two square brackets around the title of your new article and save the page. For example, if your article is titled, "My Article", type [[My Article]].
  4. This creates a red link to your new article. If the article exists, the link will be blue. If it does not exist, it will be a red link.
  5. If the link is red, click the link to create the page. You will be directed to the article creation page described in Method 3.
  6. If the link is blue, click the link to check and make sure that the existing article contains all the information you require for your article. If information is missing, you can edit the article by clicking the Edit tab at the top of the page.
  7. Click Save page to save the article.

Method 4

  1. Type a USApedia URL with the article's file name at the end. For Example, "https://saintapedia.org/wiki/Article_name".
    • Note: URLs cannot contain spaces so make sure to use an underscore between words to represent a space.
    • Note: USApedia naming conventions require the first word of a title to be capitalized, and the rest of the words in the title to be in lower case. The exceptions are proper nouns, for example, "IBM".
  2. If the page does not exist, USApedia will direct you to a page with the message, "There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or edit this page." The text, "edit this page" will be hyperlinked.
  3. Click the hyperlinked text to edit the article OR click on the Create tab at the top of the page instead of clicking the "edit this page" link.
  4. Create your article's content and click the Save page button to save the article.


Why create a Saintapedia article on a topic?

Frequently Asked Questions about Saintapedia

Article ideas

October 20, 2015

July 2015 - Adding YouTube videos

  • Who - Any DOE employee or contractor can make changes (Create an Account)
  • What - Adding YouTube videos to Saintapedia articles
  • When - July 13 - 17, 2015
  • Where - Any Saintapedia article
  • Why - Adding YouTube videos is a quick way to add value to an article

Steps

  1. Pick an article, such as Hanford site or Uranium, and do a video search with the title
  2. Look for a video from a DOE/government source or a general overview video
  3. See Adding the video below
  4. Add Category:Pages with YouTube videos at the bottom of the article
  5. Save the page with an Edit summary

Adding the video

Main page: Help:Video

Any publicly available YouTube video can be streamed on USApedia.

Form based method

Simple version
  • In VisualEditor use the add a template
  • In the search bar, type "YouTube video"
  • Add a description of the video in the first field
  • Add the video's URL into the 2nd field
  • Click the blue "Insert" button on the top right of the popup screen
  • Click the blue "Save change" button on the top right of the screen
  • Click the blue "Save change" button on the top right of the popup screen
More options and more steps
File:YouTube iframe example.png
iFrame example
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YouTube form

This method will allow you, once you add the template, to modify the video using a form in VisualEditor)

  1. Add the YouTube template to your page
    • Option 1 - Use VisualEditor to add a template, add subst:YouTube template in the template search box and click the blue "Insert" button
    • Option 2 - Copy the video template text in the bullet below.
      • {{#ev:YouTube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRphNpnQGNc|400|right|The Pontificate of John Paul II begins}}
    • By default the video will be aligned to the right, 400 pixels in size, show the Pontificate of John Paul II begins
  2. Go to the page in which you want to add the video
  3. Click on "Edit Source" to open the page using Enhanced editor and paste the template text where you want to video to appear
  4. Save the page
  5. Using "Edit," open the page using Help:Visual editor, look for the video to become a block that begins with "<iframe," and double click on it to open up the form.
  6. Add the YouTube URL in the "id" field and appropriate text in the "description" field, such as the video title (plus any other changes to the dimensions and alignment)
  7. Click on the blue "Apply change" in the upper right hand corner of the form
  8. Click on the blue "Save change" in the upper right hand corner of the page
  9. Add an edit summary in the window and click on the blue "Save change" in the upper right hand corner of the window
  10. Add the category "Pages with YouTube videos"

Basic method

  1. go to the youtube video you wish to use
  2. copy the video's url
  3. go to the article topic you wish to add the video
  4. edit the page
  5. paste the YouTube url
  6. Open a new tab and go to USApedia's YouTube page
  7. Copy the video text - {{#ev:youtube|kRphNpnQGNc|frame}}
  8. Replace the video ID (dMH0bHeiRNg) or the full URL (depending on the version you use)
  9. add an edit summary
  10. save the page

Usage

The EmbedVideo parser function expects to be called in any of the following ways:

  • {{#ev:service|id}}
  • {{#ev:service|id|dimensions}}
  • {{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment}}
  • {{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description}}
  • {{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description|container}}
  • {{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description|container|urlargs}}
  • {{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description|container|urlargs|autoresize}}
  • {{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description|container|urlargs|autoresize|valignment}}

Playlist

A playlist is a collection of videos. Anybody can make playlists, share them, and friends can add videos to your playlist.

Template

The YouTube playlist template allows you to add a playlist easily, however it does not allow you to adjust some of the settings.

Manual

For all the options, below can be copied and pasted into Enhanced editor.

{{#evt:
service=youtube
|id=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PiYTMbZvM
|alignment=right
|dimensions=400
|description=Regina Coeli and Holy Rosary
|urlargs=list=PLC9tK3J1RlaYPGhmt_dz5cyFBbDoBOEKB
}}

See also - Help:Video#Playlist example


June 2015

  • Who - Any DOE employee or contractor can make changes (Create an Account)
  • What - Improving the list of those in leadership positions at DOE
  • When - June 1 - 5, 2015
  • Where - All leadership infoboxes should be listed on Leadership
  • Why - Leadership changes regularly and Saintapedia is not always updated

Tasks

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Screenshot showing where to make edits to an Leadership infobox
  1. Review your organization's leadership infobox on Leadership
  2. Compare it to your organization's current leadership
  3. Edit it by clicking on "Edit" in the Leadership Infobox (see right image)
  4. Make any changes that are needed and save the page
  5. If possible, also update the position if the person changes

Optional

Click on any red links to create the page.

  • If it is for a person, use the Biography boilerplate template
  • If it is a position, create a page with the current position holder, a short description of the role (if available), and past office holders (if available)

January 2015

Friday, January 16th, 2015 is the first scheduled edit-a-thon. Editors are being asked to add anniversaries of DOE-related milestones/events to specific days on the Anniversaries calendar (see below). The goal of the day will be to have anniversaries for the last nine days without an anniversary as well as add additional anniversaries to other days. You do not need to sign-up for the event, just make edits.

Anniversary calendar

v · d · e
Months and days of the year
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

How to add an anniversary

  1. Click on the day on the calendar above that the event occurred
  2. Edit the page if you have a Saintapedia account
  3. Add the anniversary on a new line in date order (oldest event first)
  4. Save the page

Finding anniversaries

  • See the existing list of sources
  • Check if your organization has a timeline
  • Add major project or DOE-related topic events

To find a DOE anniversary for a specific day

Best practices

  • Open discussion forum to help editors with conference line
  • Option for chat
  • Could also do after hours
  • Promote through internal social media

Ideas

Ideas can now be found at Saintapedia:Edit-a-thons WikiProject

Related

External links

References

  1. ↑ World Health Day 2016: Beat diabetes

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