Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/KC Philanthropists July 2019

Event information

• Event Title: Kansas City Philanthropists Edit-a-thon
• Date: Monday, July 15, 2019
• Time: 4:00pm – 7:00pm CDT
• Location: Kansas City Public Library's Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W. 10th St; Kansas City, MO 64105
• Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library
• 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 culture of philanthropy 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 4:30pm. 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

Please RSVP to our facebook event page so we can have enough food and wine, here.

Participants

• Kclibrarian (talk · contribs)
• KCMOKnowledge (talk · contribs)

Work list

Articles to improve

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

• Kenneth A. Spencer
• William Volker
• Thomas H. Swope
• William Rockhill Nelson
• R. Crosby Kemper, Sr.
• Ewing Kauffman
• Muriel Kauffman
• Henry W. Bloch
• Richard Bloch
• Donald J. Hall, Sr.
• Robert A. Long
• August Meyer
• Howard Vanderslice
• Edward F. Swinney
• James E. Stowers
• Landon H. Rowland
• Arthur Mag
• Herman A. Johnson
• Lucile Bluford
• Andrew "Rube" Foster
• Marjorie Powell Allen
• Jacob and Ella Loose
• Mary McAfee Atkins
• Morton Sosland
• George Sheidley
• John Taylor, Kansas City
• Hector Barreto, Sr.
• John and Parker B. Francis

Resources

Library resources to use to expand articles

• Local History Website
• Pendergast Era KC History Website

Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia

• Introduction

Results

• Dashboard