Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DCPL Black History Month 2017

 Join us for the...

Black History Month Edit-a-Thon

Please join us at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library as we honor Black History Month with a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The event will focus on improving Wikipedia entries using the library's Black Studies collection. Beginners are welcome, and Wikipedia training will be provided.

when


 * February 18, 2017 at 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM

where


 * Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
 * 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC

your hosts Wikimedia DC
 * District of Columbia Public Library

I'll attend in person

 * 1) Kirill Lokshin (talk) 14:43, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Bluejamz 19:16, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Brock-brac (talk) 19:16, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Theelephantparade (talk) 19:18, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) As877 (talk) 19:38, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Jehanjillani (talk) 19:52, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Articles to create

 * 1) Addison N. Scurlock - Use Black Renaissance in Washington, Picturing the Promise, and Smithsonian Institution exhibit.
 * 2) Beatrice M. Murphy - Use DCPL’s Beatrice M. Murphy page and DCPL’s Black Studies page.
 * 3) Bibliographic Survey: The Negro in Print, edited by Beatrice M. Murphy (article or section on Murphy’s page
 * 4) Black-owned bookstores - Use Publisher’s Weekly article, Black Perspectives article, and AALBC article.
 * 5) Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists, ed. by King-Hammond
 * 6) Thelma Myrtle Duncan (Brown) - Use Black Renaissance in Washington.
 * 7) Frank Smith Horne - Use Black Renaissance in Washington.
 * 8) James Lesesne Wells - Use Black Renaissance in Washington.

Articles to improve

 * 1) James A. Porter - Use Black Renaissance in Washington.
 * Category:African-American studies organizations - Add DCPL Black Studies, AAIHS, university departments, HU’s Moorland-Spingarn, National African American Archives & Museum.
 * 1) Leslie King-Hammond - Add exhibitions and books published.
 * 2) William Waring Cuney - Use Black Renaissance in Washington.
 * 3) Rudolph Fisher - Use Black Renaissance in Washington.
 * 4) Richard Bruce Nugent - Use Black Renaissance in Washington.
 * 5) Willis Richardson - Improve list of literary works; use Black Renaissance in Washington.
 * Category:Independent bookstores of the United States
 * 1) Afrocentric education - Add lists of schools.
 * Category:African-American history in Boston - Add Malcolm X; add Nubian Notion; add Harriet Tubman House.

Outcomes

 * User:Jehanjillani/sandbox