Wikipedia:Meetup/BHQFU Edit-a-Thon

An Edit-a-thon is an event meant to build attendees Wikipedia editing skills and critical understanding of Wikipedia content and most of all, to generate Wikipedia articles, content, organize pages, and upload photographs on topics of interest to attendees.

Date/Time

 * Saturday November 9th, 2013
 * Open Hours: 10 - 6pm
 * Trainings: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm

Location

 * The Bruce High Quality Foundation University in LES website
 * 34 Avenue A 3rd floor,
 * Manhattan, NY

Free Cooper Focus
'''This New York Edit-a-thon will have a focus on building Wikipedia content about the recent Free Cooper Union movement activities and other recent activism in New York, but attendees are welcome to work on any topic and will receive assistance on locating the inbuilt Wikipedia communities and organizing bodies adding contributions to their topics of interest. Wikipedians will be in attendance all day to provide instruction and will be laboriously editing articles as well.'''

Adding to Wikipedia content is an exercise in research, and writing to avoid biasing language, and an act of community engagement. It allows also you to instantaneously share your knowledge and subject specialties with an international community. The average American takes a look at 5 Wikipedia articles a day and Wikipedia is consistently in the top two search results on any given topic.

Offsite virtual participation encouraged.

WE NEED OPEN ACCESS DONATIONS OF PICTURES FROM THE OCCUPATIONS

Training Guide

 * Meetup/BHQFU Edit-a-Thon/training Get started with markup, and learn Wikipedia policies

Articles to Create

 * Currently using this page as a draft: User:OR drohowa/sandbox/Cooper Union Financial Crisis
 * Free Cooper Union
 * Free Cooper Union Occupation of President's Office (name?)
 * Free Cooper Union Lock-in
 * Cooper Union Financial Crisis
 * Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism exhibition at NYPL webpage
 * your idea here!

Articles to Work On/Consider

 * Draft article: User:OR drohowa/sandbox/Cooper Union Financial Crisis
 * Cooper Union
 * Free education
 * Bruce High Quality Foundation
 * Jamshed Bharucha
 * your idea here!