Art & Social Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
| When and Where | |
|---|---|
| Date: | Monday, April 17, 2017 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm - 6:45 pm PDT |
| Address: | Jerome Richfield Hall 319 California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street |
| City/State: | Northridge, CA 91330 |
The English Department at California State University, Northridge is hosting an edit-a-thon for attendees to gather and strengthen Wikipedia’s scope and content related to art and social justice.
New to editing Wikipedia? Training and resources will be provided! Drop-ins welcome!
Event Information edit
- Date: Monday, April 17, 2017
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:45 pm PDT (drop-ins welcome!)
- Location: Jerome Richfield Hall 319, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330
- Who Should Attend: Everyone with an interest in arts, literature, social justice, activism, and Wikipedia editing, regardless of editing experience
- Participants: New editors welcome! Demos, background info, and food will be provided early in the program, and we’ll all be editing right alongside one another.
**Please create an account prior to arrival. A limited number of new accounts can be created at the event.**
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List of Articles to Edit edit
Articles to edit edit
- California Legacy Project: California radio project that focuses on California literary history
- Politics of California
- Diversity (politics)
- 826LA
- Yes California (Calexit): secession campaign for California
- Deborah Miranda: Native American writer and poet
- Neoliberalism: the contemporary resurgence in 20th-century America of 19th-century ideas of laissez-faire economics.
- Gerald Vizenor: Native American author and theorist
- Spanish Missions in California: a series of 21 religious outposts built by the Spanish empire and evocative of colonialism and Native American oppression.
- Native American Feminism: feminist community building and identity for Indigenous women
- Ruth Whitman: American poet
- Edgar Allan Poe: American author
- “The Black Cat”: short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- Susan Power: Native American author
- Angela Carter: British author
- The Bloody Chamber: short story collection by Angela Carter
- American Psycho: American novel by Brett Easton Ellis
- Michelle Huneven: American author
- Aimee Bender: LA-based American author
- Douglas Kearney: LA-based American author and poet
- Matthew Specktor: LA-based American author and pot
Article "stubs" for creation or expansion edit
- Literature of California
- The Neoliberal Novel: Walter Benn Michael’s theory that explores how neoliberal policies are formalized and historicized within contemporary American literature.
- The Neoliberal City: David Harvey’s theory examining how neoliberal policies are having a profound effect on the nature and direction of urbanization in the United States and other wealthy western countries.
- Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir: Deborah A. Miranda’s Native American memoir
- Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990: poetry collection by Ruth Whitman
- Sacred Wilderness: novel by Susan Power
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake]]: American novel by LA author Aimee Bender
- The Black Automaton: poetry collection by LA-based American poet Douglas Kearney
- English department at Cal State Northridge (or any other department)
Articles created/improved edit
Images from Event Day edit
