Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/KC Black History April 2019

Event information

• Event Title: Kansas City Black History Edit-a-thon
• Date: Saturday, April 6 2019
• Time: 1:00pm — 3:00pm CST
• Location: Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center; 3700 Blue Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64130
• Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library, American Jazz Museum
• Edit-A-Thon Organizer:Kim Gile.
• Event pages: Facebook event, The Kansas City Public Library calendar listing
• Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.

Details

Celebrate Kansas City’s rich black heritage by joining us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon! 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 local history.

What to bring: - limited laptops will be available but please bring a laptop and a power cord if you are able.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 1:30pm. 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

Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.

Participants

And 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):

• Kclibrarian
• Your name here
• Your name here
• Your name here

Work list

Articles to improve

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:

• 18th and Vine – Downtown East, Kansas City
• Arthur Bryant (restaurateur)
• Arthur Bryant's
• Bruce R. Watkins
• Elston Howard
• Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry
• Gates Bar-B-Q
• Oliver Todd
• Carmell Jones
• Harold Ashby
• Harold L. Holliday
• Henry Perry (restaurateur)
• Hiram Rhodes Revels
• Jay McShann
• Junius George Groves
• Kansas City Cowboys (National League)
• Lincoln College Preparatory Academy
• Lucile Bluford
• Mary Groves Bland
• Municipal Stadium (Kansas City, Missouri)
• Mutual Musicians Foundation
• Nathaniel Clark Smith
• Prospect Avenue (Kansas City, Missouri)
• Rube Foster
• Sarah Rector
• The Call (Kansas City)
• Tom Bass (horse trainer)
• Troost Avenue

Articles to create

Note: 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.

• The GEM Theater
• The Blue Room
• Joelouis Mattox
• R.T. Coles
• Lafayette Tillman
• Church Hill Street Settlement
• The Negro Protective League of Kansas City
• The Niles Home for Negro Children
• Sam Easton of Kansas City
• Association of Negro Women of KC
• Mamie Hughes
• Chester Arthur Franklin
• Horace M. Peterson III
• Hotel Street
• Reuben Street
• Irene Whitley Marcus
• Corinthian Clay Nutter
• Gertrude Keith
• William L. Fambrough
• Hazel Browne Williams
• John F. Ramos, Jr
• Lena Rivers Smith
• Dr. Earl D. Thomas
• Wayne Miner
• John Edward Perry
• Leona Pouncey Thurman
• The Rector House of Kansas City
• St. Paul AME Church
• Wheatley Provident Hospital
• Hell's Half Acre
• Rosie Mason

Resources

Library resources to use to expand articles

• Kansas City Jazz: Wide Open Town library web catalog list

Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia

• Introduction

Results

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