Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Africa Collection Editathon

Africa Collection Editathon

An Edit-a-Thon at the Library of Congress

This joint effort of the Library of Congress African and Middle East Reading Room and Wikimedia DC welcomes participants to an edit-a-thon on Africa. Activities include new editor orientation and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Library of Congress. Coffee and cookies generously provided courtesy of Wikimedia DC.

After the event, we will repair to the Madison Cafe for lunch.

Those who wish to continue their explorations of the Library of Congress after lunch are welcome to use their new Library of Congress Reader's Card to expand Wikipedia with the innumerable reliable sources onsite.


 * When
 * Friday, April 11, 2014
 * 9:00am - 1:00pm
 * Please arrive at 9:00 am to get your Library of Congress Readers' Card!
 * Meetup location: Madison Building Information Desk, 9 AM
 * Editathon: African and Middle Eastern Reading Room, Jefferson Building, 10 AM

Bring:
 * Laptop and identification

Prior reservations are made on this site; event is limited to 20-25 attendees.

The event is also announced at Meetup.com but this wiki article page is the mandatory prior reservation site.

Attending

 * 1) Djembayz
 * 2) Harej
 * 3) Duckduckstop
 * 4) Sarasays
 * 5) Geraldshields11 (talk) 22:51, 23 March 2014 (UTC)and I have an LOC reader card already
 * 6) groupuscule (talk) 23:15, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 7) friend of Smokey the Bear
 * 8) Mr. M.
 * 9) Leafyleafleaf
 * 10) Katherine Maher
 * 11) Mr. H.
 * 12) Mme. P.
 * 13) Friend of Smokey the Bear
 * 14) Edsu
 * 15) econterms (talk)

Maybe

 * 1) Mr. A.
 * 2) Mr. T.
 * 3) Fuzheado | Talk 02:05, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Regrets

 * 1) Sadly, but thanks for thinking of me! SarahStierch (talk) 23:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Sorry I can't be there; looking forward to report on how things went! Uncommon fritillary (talk) 14:15, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) Found out just a little too late. :( Zell Faze (talk) 11:46, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Articles to create and expand
*United States presidential visits to Sub-Saharan Africa *List of missing Africa topics *List of wanted articles about Africa
 * Jimmy Carter Presidential Visit to Africa, 1978
 * WikiProject Africa/Articles to be written or improved'''
 * List of missing African Poetry articles
 * List of missing African Cinema articles

Articles to expand in African languages

 * ዋሺንግተን ዲሲ
 * ቶማስ ጄፈርሰን
 * የዓለም ዋንጫ
 * ኔልሰን ማንዴላ
 * ክዋሜ ንክሩማህ (add photo)
 * توماس جفرسون
 * وثيقة الحقوق في الولايات المتحدة
 * مؤسسة سميثسونيان
 * Koobka Adduunka
 * Suugaan
 * Thomas Jefferson (Afrikans)
 * Thomas Jefferson (Kinyarwanda)
 * Thomas Jefferson (Swahili)
 * Thomas Jefferson (Yoruba)
 * Nelson Mandela (Xhosa)
 * Nelson Mandela (Wolof)
 * Nelson Mandela (Swahili)

Wikipedia for new editors

 * Getting Started with Wikipedia, presentation
 * New editors guide from NARA
 * Wikipedia Teahouse for questions

Resources

 * Africana Collections, Library of Congress Illustrated Guide
 * Black Past.org - African American history reference
 * Africa Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
 * WikiProject Africa
 * WikiProject African diaspora

Reference books about Africa

 * Reference books about Africa



Encyclopedia citations to cut and paste
The citations below are ready to cut and paste. Just add the title of your encyclopedia article to the citation, and it's good to go.

template for works of DRCongo at commons: commons:Template:PD-Democratic Republic of the Congo

German language

 * (volume 2, volume 3, Internet Archive)

Nigeria




Outcomes


A list of articles we have improved at this event

Articles created

 * 1) Verne Harris, head archivist of Nelson Mandela's papers
 * 2) Jallouli Fares, parliamentary speaker of Tunisia's parliament at time of its independence (added later)

Articles expanded

 * 1) Arthur Nortje
 * 2) Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) -- added photo of 1964 constitution. <3 groupuscule (talk) 17:13, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) Namibia -- added wikilinks and copyedits -- econterms (talk)
 * 4) Cinema of Africa -- added citation Djembayz (talk) 19:30, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) Disinvestment from South Africa -- added image Djembayz (talk) 13:14, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) Fulbert Youlou add 2 refs
 * 7) Jacques Opangault add infobox; refs; photo
 * 8) Pierre Goura add infobox; refs; photo

Files uploaded

 * File:Pierre goura.JPG
 * File:Jacques Opangault 4111979.JPG
 * File:Congo unite travail progres 4111979.JPG
 * File:Congo poster zimbo a washington 4111978.JPG
 * File:Album Congo - Cover of trading cards from the Congo.jpg
 * :
 * uploaded Republic of Congo posters and cropped headshots

... and ...

 * walked through the stacks of the Africa Collection
 * trained an LC staffer to edit
 * updated Meetup, Facebook, Wiki Commons with photographs by Geraldshields11 (talk) 01:55, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
 * got our LC Readers' Cards!

Followup visit, May 3

 * photographed more posters
 * assessed Zambian pamphlet collection
 * tried out the scanner for .pdfs
 * added links to scans of LC material by the Lubuto Library Project to articles about Zambian languages
 * Bemba language
 * Ila language
 * Kaonde language
 * Lenje language
 * Lozi language
 * Lunda language
 * Luvale language
 * Tonga language
 * Created
 * Flikr links added to Library of Congress Africa Collection related articles