Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/2016 April Black Women Writers WiR BPL
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When & Where | |
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Date | Sunday, April 17, 2016 |
Time | 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
Address | Brooklyn Public Library Central Library Info Commons Room 10 Grand Army Plaza |
City, State | Brooklyn, NY 11238 |
AfroCROWD and Women in Red @ Brooklyn Public Library
editPlease join us for the next gathering of AfroCROWD and Women in Red @ Brooklyn Public Library!
Event information
edit- Date: Sunday, April 17, 2016
- Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- RSVP: Eventbrite
- Location: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Info Commons Room
- Address: 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 40°40′20″N 73°58′05″W / 40.672359°N 73.968146°W
- Subway:
to Grand Army Plaza
- Bus: B41, B69 buses
- Hashtag: #AfroCROWD, #WomenInRed
- Twitter: #AfroCROWD
- Details:
- Help write her digital history!
- Join AfroCROWD and Women in Red to receive free training on becoming a Wikipedia editor.
- The event will encourage editing entries about notable black women writers, including black women in the African Diaspora dedicated to African affairs.
- Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is a new initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent actively editing Wikipedia. Become a part of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements and help close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia.
- We have held monthly editathons in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens since February 2015.
- Beginners welcome.
- All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba, Twi, Woloff and other languages spoken in the African Diaspora. Wikipedia comes in 285 languages and you are welcome to edit it in any of them or translate from one language to another.
- Please contact alice@afrocrowd.org if you need a babysitter on premises
- Light Refreshments will be available.
Attendees
editPlease RSVP at Eventbrite!
Please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.
Confirmed
edit- Jim.henderson (talk) 01:07, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
- DGG ( talk ) 18:42, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- Pharos (talk) 01:55, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
- BKDancer (talk) 18:07, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
- One bird (talk) 18:10, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
- Aliceba (talk) 18:12, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
- Bettyd (talk) 18:35, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
- Gjone1 (talk) 18:55, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
- Tönya (talk) 19:25, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
- Shanluan (talk)
- Adjajo
- SeoMac (drop-in)
Outcomes
editContributions
editAlphabetical by first letter
- Dori Sanders -- BKDancer (talk)
- Otto Neals -- Bettyd (talk)
New page creations
editAlphabetical by first letter
- Martha Cassell Thompson -- Gjone1 (talk)
- The Chronicles of the New Jack Era -- Adjoajo (talk) -- flagged AfD
Possible articles to edit
edit- List of Women in Red articles to be created (global list, sorted by country only)
- List of AfroCrowd articles (all fields)
- Category:African-American women writers
- Category:Literature by African-American women
- Category:African writers (women and men here)
- /Short articles (short existing articles on women writers of African descent)
- Check one of the topical encyclopedias on the center table
- Many novels by major authors are missing, as well as other books, e.g. unlinked titles at Alice Walker#Selected works
Resources
editSee Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
Editing Wikipedia resources
editListed here for quick reference.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources
- Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
- Tutorial
- How to Edit a Page
- Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
- Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
- Article Development
- Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Manual of Style
- Citation templates
- Infobox templates
- Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
- Art+Feminism - Video training
- Art+Feminism - Training Lesson Plan
Tools and templates
edit- Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
- Infobox template - person
- Biographies of living persons
- Writing an article
- About the Sandbox
External links
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