Wikipedia:Edit-a-thon/ENA Dakar/AfroCROWD

'''Join us in person or online for our first Wikipedia edit-a-thons in Dakar this month on May 4th and May 7th during Dak'Art, the Contemporary African Art Biennial. ''' Emma will be facilitating the event at the Ecole National des Arts, Dakar, Senegal in affiliation with AfroCrowd.

Event information

 * Date: Friday, May 4 and Monday, May 7, 2018
 * Time: 15:00 - 17:00 GMT, 11:00 am -1:00 pm EST
 * Location: Ecole National des Arts, Dakar, Senegal


 * SIGN UP: Dashboard

How to prepare

 * Have your laptop: Editing Wikipedia is easier with a keyboard.
 * Have a published source to cite: Suggested books and papers will be available at the event. If you like, bring an academic paper or other reliable source of information to cite, to support your addition to Wikipedia. You will use Wikipedia to distribute information from this source. Try to bring the highest quality most reputable source you can find for the information.
 * Create a Wikipedia account, if you do not have one already.
 * If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.

Event Agenda
We will open the area for registration at 14:30 GMT (10:30 AM EST), with introductions, speeches and the primary training session to start at 15:15 GMT (11:15 am EST). The program will end at 17:00 GMT (1 PM EST):


 * 14:30-15:05 - Sign in and registration to dashboard and accounts
 * 15:05-15:25 - Introductions and Presentation on editing Wikipedia by Emma
 * 15:25-16:25 - Editing time! Participants will have the Wikipedia editing experience; demonstrations and support are offered
 * 16:25-16:30 - Group photo time
 * 16:30-16:45 - Discussion, let's take a look at what we did today
 * 16:45-17:00 - Wrap up time

Welcome to the Edit-a-thon!
Welcome to the Contemporary African Art Biennial Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Ecole National des Arts, Dakar, Senegal!

This is the first year we are holding this event in affiliation with our friends at AfroCROWD. If you are joining us online, hello!  the aim of this event is to help close the diversity gap on Wikipedia around African content. Today, we will be focusing on contemporary African art.

What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on earth (World Economic Forum), and the English language Wikipedia contains nearly 5.5 million articles, more than 40 million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.[7] (See the statistics page for more information.)

Why are we here?
Our edit-a-thons are focused events conducted to train new contributors so that the diversity gap can become narrower and include more content on notable people of African descent.

Our mission for today
Today's mission: Add at least once sentence or other contribution to Wikipedia about a notable work of African art or about an African artist.

Later: Before you leave today: Did you achieve today's goal? Tell your facilitator who can help check your edit(s) for you.

Thanks for coming today and helping #MakeHistory with the #AfroCROWD initiative to help close the Wikipedia diveristy gap.

Let’s begin:

 * 1) Get your account/ create a username: Please don’t use your real name. It should be 6-8 characters. If you need help, please ask your fascilitator
 * 2) Add your user name  to https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Ecole_Nationale_des_Arts,_Dakar/The_Contemporary_African_Art_Biennial_Wikipedia_Editathon_(11_am-1_pm_GMT)?enroll=cuvobinm today’s event]
 * 3) Listen to the training or if you are editing from home or online head here for the basics overview. Head here for a simplified tutorial.
 * 4) Browse Editing Ideas below and choose a topic to edit (or if you already have one skip to the next step)
 * 5) Edit: in short - (1) click edit (2) add a sentence (3) provide a citation (4) repeat
 * 6) Ask for help: Don’t worry about perfection, your facilitator is here to help you.

Editing contribution types for new Wikipedia editors:
Is this your very first time? Try this:


 * Add a biographical sentence: Start with a name, a birthday, an occupation or title,  what they famously did,  and (very importantly) a citation to verify your information from a credible source(s).

How to make a citation (bibliographical reference):
1) First, click on the pencil icon on the right to begin using "Visual Editor". Visual editor makes editing easier - like writing a school paper.

2) In Visual Editor, click on the area you want to add the citation. Then click cite. If you have a website as a source, add the website to the blank area.

If you do not have a website source, click manual and follow the prompts. Then click publish. If you have questions, ask a Wikimedia coach or go to Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources.

3) Then click publish.

Editing Ideas: List of articles to create/edit

 * WikiProject African diaspora
 * Wikipedia:WikiProject:Wiki Loves Women/African feminists
 * Wikipedia:Womeninred by country
 * Black Lunch Table (Wikipedia initiative on artists of African descent)
 * AfroCrowd task list
 * Requested articles

Sign up
Sign up here using Dashboard or add your user name here. Thanks!

More events
Thank you for joining us today. If you are in the NYC area or want to join more Wikipedia events online, here are some upcoming events brought to you by our friends at Wikimedia NYC:

About Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD): AfroCROWD is an outreach initiative which seeks to increase awareness of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements among potential editors of African descent. Since its launch during Black Wiki History Month in 2015, AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target audience about free culture crowdsourcing and the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia. AfroCROWD has also held monthly multilingual editathons in partnership with cultural institutions, galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM), academicians, cultural institutions and many others.

Follow us on Twitter:@AfroCROWDit, Facebook: @AfroCROWD, Instagram:@AfroCROWD or head to our website: AfroCROWD.org