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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: A Library of Congress Wikipedia Edit-a-thon



Join us in the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress on October 5 from 10:00AM-1:00PM to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. During this event, we will improve and create Wikipedia articles related to Latinx Heritage, including Women Voting Rights, Latinx Authors, and Latinx history, among many other topics. This Wikipedia Edit-a-thon includes training for first time editors and lunch.

Laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

When


 * Saturday, October 5, 2019 10AM-1PM

Where


 * Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room
 * 101 Independence Avenue Southeast
 * Jefferson Building, LJ-240
 * Washington, DC 20540

Register
 * Register here with Eventbrite 

Coordination

 * TO AVOIDING EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Celebrating_Hispanic_Heritage_Month__A_Library_of

Please sign in

 * This is for use on the day of the event.
 * 1) Select 'Sign in'
 * 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.


 * Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.



Wikimedia Projects
• Wikimedia movement

• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia

• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)

• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects

• Wiktionary, a dictionary

• Wikibooks, educational textbooks

• Wikinews, news articles

• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations

• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents

• Wikiversity, educational material

• Wikivoyage, a travel guide

• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies
• Five pillars

• Core content policies

• General notability guideline

• Verifiability

• Conflict of interest

• Identifying reliable sources

• No original research (Examples of Original Research)

• Citing sources

• Identifying and using primary sources

Quick Editing Tips
• Help:Getting started

• Your first article

• Help:Referencing for beginners

• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor

• Creating Redirector with Source Editor

• Using categories

• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects
• Track Wikipedia Page Views

• Wikimedia Statistics

• Wiki Education Foundation

• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

• WikiProject Women in Red

Suggested Article Work List
About the Article Assessment Quality Scale

Stubs
 * Diana Garcia
 * Rigoberto Gonzalez
 * Valerie Martinez
 * Carmen Gimenez Smith
 * Hispanic Heritage Month
 * Lola Rodriguez de Tio
 * Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
 * Jose Gorostiza
 * Climate change in Mexico

Start
 * Francisco Aragón
 * Javier Zamora
 * Laurie Ann Guerrero
 * Noemi Jaffe
 * Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
 * Jorge Basadre
 * Marta Brunet
 * Francisco Antonio Encina
 * Mario Bencastro

C
 * Tim Z. Hernandez
 * Luisa Capetillo
 * Candido Portinari
 * Puerto Rican cuatro
 * Richard Zenith
 * Vinicius de Moraes
 * Ana Castillo
 * Jorge Argueta
 * Ondjaki
 * Juan Villoro

B
 * Mexican Americans
 * Chicano

GA
 * Pete Aguilar
 * Cristina Rivera Garza
 * St. Augustine, Florida

FA
 * Sonia Sotomayor
 * Hispanic Americans in World War II

For Creation
 * Teresa Crespo Salvador
 * Raphael Berrou
 * Homero Homem
 * Odilo Costa Filho
 * Maria de Villarino
 * Dominique Hippolyte
 * Andres Holguin
 * Ocar Cerruto

Potential Sources

 * AHLOT Online - Haitian poet Marie-Thérèse Colimon Hall reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - French Guadeloupe writer Maryse Condé reading from her work in the Recording Laboratory, Sept. 24, 1999
 * AHLOT Online - Hispanic-American author Julia Álvarez reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Portuguese writer Clara Pinto Correia reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Spanish poet Clementina Arderíu reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Uruguayan poet Amanda Berenguer reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Bolivian poet Yolanda Bedregal reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Chilean writer Isabel Allende reading from her work and interviewed by Georgette M. Dorn
 * AHLOT Online - Mexican poet and author Carmen Boullosa reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Argentine playwright Griselda Gámbaro reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Honduras-born writer Argentína Díaz Lozano reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Argentine writer Marta Lynch reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Belizean writer Zee Edgell reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Mexican author Valeria Luiselli reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Brazilian author and poet Adriana Lisboa reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Panamanian writer Gloria Guardia reads from her work and is interviewed by Georgette M. Dorn
 * AHLOT Online - Mexican writer María Luisa Mendoza reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Spanish writer Ana María Matute reading from Algunos muchachos
 * AHLOT Online - Puerto Rican writer Rosario Ferré reading from her prose and poetry
 * AHLOT Online - Brazilian writer Nélida Piñon reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Argentine writer and art critic Marta Traba reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Chilean poet Winétt de Rokha reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela reading from her prose
 * AHLOT Online - Colombian author Laura Restrepo reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Mexican poet Karen Villeda reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Argentine essayist Victoria Ocampo reading from her series, Testimonios
 * AHLOT Online - Paraguayan poet and writer Josefina Plá reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles reading from her work
 * AHLOT Online - Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale reads from her work
 * Only in LC - Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues Library of Congress
 * Hammer Museum Digital Archive Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
 * Arte Público: Hispanic Historical Collection
 * Chicano Database
 * Handbook of Latin American Studies
 * World Scholar: Latin American & the Caribbean
 * Colección Puertorriqueña: Universidad de Puerto Rico
 * Congress.gov
 * La quinceañera (coming of age ritual. Norma Candú)

Participants

 * History2049 (talk) 11:37, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Yoyoboing (talk) 14:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Taliahisplc (talk) 14:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * History2049 (talk) 14:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Lulutetete (talk) 14:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Taliahisplc (talk) 14:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 14:20, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Paradiseisalibrary (talk) 14:39, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Mahmudc (talk) 15:01, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Hunt251 (talk) 15:01, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Brothstein14 (talk) 15:05, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Oliveleaf4 (talk) 15:27, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Dnoboa1 (talk) 16:02, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Margaretphillipa (talk) 16:09, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Acanciobello (talk) 16:27, 5 October 2019 (UTC)