Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Hispanic Heritage First Edit at NPR

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Hispanic Heritage First Edit at NPR

''(This event has already occurred. Feel free to take a look to get an idea of what happened.) ''

NPR staff made their first edits on Wikipedia, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

when


 * October 2, 2015 at 12:30pm to 2pm

where


 * NPR
 * 1111 North Capitol St NE, Washington, DC 20002

your hosts
 * Kiara Smith and Veronica Erb, workshop facilitators

Sign up!
RSVPing is required for all non-NPR-employees; there is limited room for guests. Include your name, so we can let security know you're coming.

NPR employees, please create a Wikipedia account before coming to the event.

Attending
04:30, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) Verbistheword (talk) 14:00, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) kiara
 * 3) Dgorsline (talk) 17:48, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs)
 * 5) Djembayz (talk)

Apologies

 * 1) econterms (talk) 00:30, 3 October 2015 (UTC) -- I wish I could have made it there.

Schedule
This event will take place in Seminar North at NPR Headquarters.

FAQ
Where is the event?
 * We'll be in Seminar North at NPR Headquarters. If you're a guest, tell security you're here to help with the Wikipedia tutorial, and they'll help you sign in.

What should I bring?
 * * A laptop, especially if you're a not an NPR employee
 * * An interest in hispanic heritage or editing Wikipedia!

Do I have to register to attend, or can I just arrive on the day?
 * If you're not an NPR employee, you'll need to sign up above with your Wikipedia username and your real name. If you don't feel comfortable listing your real name above, just send Veronica a note with it.
 * NPR employees can just show up, but are encouraged to RSVP above.

You didn't answer my question!
 * Feel free to ask on this project's talk page. We welcome suggestions on the development and progress of this meetup.

Editing Wikipedia

 * Three things to know about editing Wikipedia
 * Intro to Wikipedia Slides
 * More: Cheatsheet, Featured Articles, Policies and guidelines, Help:Getting started, Starting an article
 * Orphaned articles by WikiProject -- Listings of quick and easy or more extensive cleanup projects, by topic. Quickest: Add wikilinks to articles.

Research resources
Each name listed in the "Articles to work on" section has a corresponding bio as well as additional research to spruce up its Wiki article. The information was so graciously prepared by Ayda, an NPR librarian. The linked Google Docs are open to anyone with a link to the information.


 * Hispanic Heritage Month bios and info

Add inline citations
The information in these articles needs to be more clearly linked to the sources that provided it. Check out the Wikipedia article on Citing Sources for help with citations.


 * Ellen Ochoa
 * Rigoberta Menchú
 * Alicia Alonso
 * Nicomedes Santa Cruz
 * Vilma Martinez
 * Celia Cruz

Write more on these articles
Any of these articles could have more written about them.


 * Jaime Hurtado González
 * Carolina Herrera
 * Claribel Alegria
 * Chespirito

Advanced! Add images to these articles
Adding images is fun, but finding ones that are appropriately licensed can be tough. Check out the Wikipedia Picture Tutorial and Uploading Images for help adding images.


 * Juan Gualberto Gómez
 * Nancy Lopez
 * Fernando Bujones

Advanced! Look for ways to improve these articles
These articles don't have obvious improvements needed. To improve one of them, you'll need to read it carefully and find places where the subject's story could be better told or better cited.


 * Ana G. Méndez
 * Cameron Diaz
 * Don Francisco (television host)
 * Fernando Bujones
 * Dolores Huerta
 * Don Omar
 * Carlos Finlay
 * Carlos Santana
 * Sylvia Rivera
 * Alicia Dickerson Montemayor
 * Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
 * Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
 * Franklin Chang Díaz
 * Michelle Bachelet
 * Sonia Sotomayor
 * Franklin R. Chang-Diaz
 * Ritchie Valens
 * Romana Acosta Bañuelos
 * United Farm Workers
 * Sábado Gigante
 * Chespirito (TV series)
 * El Chapulín Colorado
 * El Chavo del Ocho
 * Guillermo del Toro
 * Gael García Bernal
 * Zoe Saldana
 * Demi Lovato
 * Michelle Rodriguez
 * Jessica Alba
 * Salma Hayek
 * Selena Gomez
 * George Lopez
 * Mario Lopez
 * Isabel Allende
 * Gabriel García Márquez
 * Guillermo González Camarena
 * Baruj Benacerraf
 * Mario J. Molina
 * Octavio Paz
 * Mercedes Sosa
 * Cristóbal Rojas (artist)
 * José Clemente Orozco
 * Diego Rivera

Advanced! Create a new article
Create a new article for these people.


 * Manuel Zapata Olivella
 * Reference Manuel Zapata Olivella on Spanish Wikipedia
 * Chef LaLa
 * Aquiles Chávez Jiménez
 * try out translator tool on beta features

Outcomes

 * Manuel Zapata Olivella new article
 * Claribel Joy Alegria updated existing biographical information
 * José Celso Barbosa cleaned up references
 * Alicia Alonso updated existing biographical information and added a reference
 * Carlos Finlay expanded early life