Event information
edit- Event Title: Kansas City Jazz Edit-a-thon
- Date: Monday, March 5, 2018
- Time: 3:00pm — 7:00pm CST
- Location: Atrium at the American Jazz Museum; 1616 East 18th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
- Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library, American Jazz Museum, Kansas City Jazz Orchestra
- Edit-A-Thon organizing team Members: Kim Gile, Sara Escandon, Stacey Mitchell, Kelly Mahon, Jason Roe, Jeremy Drouin, and w/ OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence to assist Monika Sengul-Jones.
- Event pages: Facebook event, The Kansas City Public Library calendar listing
- Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.
Details
editCelebrate Kansas City’s rich jazz heritage by joining us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and jam session! You will learn about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the anatomy of a Wiki article, and how to contribute to this free online encyclopedia.
We will focus on creating and developing articles that preserve our history from local jazz musicians, to the historic jazz clubs throughout the 18th & Vine and 12th & Vine districts, to the community leaders whose legacies continue to live on.
What to bring: - limited laptops will be available but please bring a laptop and a power cord if you are able. - your instrument if you are a musician and would like to jam
No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 3:30 and 5:30pm. To participate you don’t need specialized knowledge of these topics or of Wikipedia. Please create a free user account on wikipedia.org before the event. There will be plenty of reference material and a limited number of laptops available.
Register
editFree with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.
Participants
editAnd if you already have a Wikipedia account, you may add your Wikipedia username to this section (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row, add your username and talk page by using three tildes):
- Monikasj
- Kclibrarian
- Your name here
- Your name here
- Your name here
Work list
editArticles to improve
editBelow is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:
- American Jazz Museum
- The Blue Room
- Frank Wess
- Bennie Moten
- Andy Kirk
- Sammy Price
- Buster Smith
- Oliver Todd
- Carmell Jones
- Harold Ashby
- Gene Ramey
- George E. Lee
- Oklahoma City Blue Devils
- Kansas City Jazz
- Mary Lou Williams
- Exodusters (information on migration to Kansas City specifically)
Articles to create
editNote: Editors must have accounts that "autoconfirmed" (four days old and have made more than ten edits) in order to create a page. During the edit-a-thon, editors brandnew to Wikipedia are encouraged to expand existing articles to develop Wikipedia know-how. Those interested in working on a new article for Wikipedia can prepare the article in a sandbox draft space.
- Kansas City Jazz Orchestra
- The Gem Theater
- 12th & Vine
- Kansas City jazz clubs
- Horace M. Peterson III
- Sonny Kenner (see article on “Kansas City blues”)
- Cotton Candy (see article on “Kansas City blues”)
- George Salisbury
- Pat Morrissey
- Paul Gunther
- Arthur Jackson
- Jackie Anderson
- Jimmy Ross Lovelace
- Russ Long
- Paul Gray
- Robert Watson Sr.
- Sam Johnson Sr.
- Monroe Nash
- Piggy Orville Minor
- Arch Martin (needs a page in English)
- Ben Kynard (needs a page in English)
- Montet Muza
- Twelve Clouds of Joy
- Kansas City swing
- Ethnic communities in Kansas City
- Immigrant communities in Kansas City
- African American Art in Kansas City (and the Midwest)
Resources
editLibrary resources to use to expand articles
edit- Kansas City Jazz: Wide Open Town library web catalog list