Wikipedia:Meetup/Charleston Syllabus





Introduction
This page is a meetup for the edit-a-thon about the Charleston Syllabus occurring on June 22nd (and ongoing) at West Virginia University Libraries. This event is hosted by Kelly Doyle, WVU Libraries Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity. This event is meant to bring awareness to the Charleston Syllabus itself and to the one year anniversary of the Charleston church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. Additionally, WVU's Campus Read text for 2016-2016 is Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. This text encourages readers to question the racial implications of the justice system in the United States.

Event information

 * Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (ongoing)
 * Time: 1:00-4:00pm EST
 * Location: Downtown Campus Library - Room 136

Register (optional)
(You can register by signing your name with four tildes)


 * KellyDoyle (talk) 19:35, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * AugeeKim (talk) 12:34, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * CWWilkinson (talk) 17:59, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * CurtisTenney (talk) 18:55, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * StephiMasters (talk) 19:29, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Articles Edited

 * The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
 * The Between

Articles Created

 * Quicksand, Nella Larsen

Articles to edit
Most of the articles listed below, are either stub or start class articles and are fairly incomplete.

Texts from the Charleston Syllabus

 * Up From Slavery
 * Black Reconstruction
 * Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
 * But there was no peace : the role of violence in the politics of Reconstruction - no article
 * The Souls of Black Folk
 * The Wretched of the Earth
 * The Fire Next Time
 * The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
 * Quicksand, Nella Larsen - no article
 * Black Boy
 * Go Tell It on the Mountain
 * Gorilla, My Love - no article
 * You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - no article
 * Devil in a Blue Dress
 * Lost in the City
 * The Darker Face of the Earth
 * The Between
 * Cane River (novel)
 * The Known World
 * A Mercy
 * Some Sing, Some Cry - no article
 * Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self - no article
 * If Sons, Then Heirs - no article
 * Men We Reaped - no article

Authors from the Charleston Syllabus

 * Hortense Powdermaker
 * Leon Litwack
 * George C. Rable
 * Frantz Fanon
 * Ernest J. Gaines
 * Toni Cade Bambara
 * Edward P. Jones
 * Tananarive Due
 * Rita Dove
 * Lalita Tademy - no article
 * Jesmyn Ward
 * Danielle Valore Evans
 * Lorene Cary
 * Lucille Clifton
 * Vievee Francis - no article
 * Robert Hayden
 * Claudia Rankine
 * Natasha Tretheway
 * Kevin Young (poet)

Top Training Resources

 * Wikipedia Markup Cheatsheet (Web version)
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * FAQ
 * WikimediaFoundation Youtube channel
 * GLAM-Wiki initiative ("galleries, libraries, archives, and museums") Beginners Guide
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Institutional Partnerships with Wikipedia / Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Wikipedia Info Booklet
 * This guide has directions on the various Wikipedia projects, and includes a guide for beginners, guides to Wikipedia markup, adding references, and other tasks

Additional Resources

 * The Charleston Syllabus