Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wiki Loves Pride 2015



Wiki Loves Pride is an opportunity to write about LGBT culture and history, in the context of Washington, D.C. and the American experience. Join museum curator Katherine Ott and archives specialist Franklin A. Robinson Jr. for special behind-the-scenes tours and a chance to edit Wikipedia among friends. No previous Wikipedia editing experience is required (the day includes a short introduction to editing), but please create your account before the edit-a-thon begins.

If you are interested in participating, please sign up below and/or share the results of your work during the month of June 2015.

When
 * June 6 (Saturday), 2015; 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Where
 * National Museum of American History
 * 14th St and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001 (directions here)
 * Because the edit-a-thon will be held in non-public spaces in the museum, participants will need to be escorted to the edit-a-thon location by museum staff members. Participants should gather in the National Museum of American History's Constitution Avenue lobby, near the visitor services desk.


 * What to bring
 * A fully charged laptop computer with charger (and extension cord if you have one!)
 * A government-issued picture i.d.


 * RSVP Required
 * Please sign up below if you plan on joining us at the Museum. Space limited due to small venue. Lunch will be provided.

Goals

 * To encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
 * To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to LGBT topics
 * To make Smithsonian-held materials more openly linked
 * To increase awareness of the research resources freely available through libraries, archives, and museums

Attending in person (limit 30 attendees)

 * 1) OR drohowa (talk) 18:54, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Ftripodi (talk) 00:19, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Rajesh Vidyasagar
 * 4) Verbistheword (talk) 18:24, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 00:50, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) MichaBlack (talk) 9:03, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) econterms (talk) 16:43, 6 June 2015 (UTC) -- still hoping to make it, late in the day.  I invite you all to Monday's editathon too

Smithsonian staff attending

 * 1) Uncommon fritillary (talk) 22:31, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Erin Blasco, National Museum of American History
 * 3) Dan Gifford, National Museum of American History
 * 4) Digitaleffie (talk) 14:32, 2 June 2015 (UTC), Smithsonian Institution Archives (I will come at about 11:30am)
 * 5) Eric Kearsley, National Museum of American History
 * 6) George Bowman, OCIO
 * 7) Meghan Plate, Intern, National Museum of American History

Participating remotely

 * 1) Duckduckstop (talk) 19:15, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Penny Richards (talk) 05:16, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Regrets

 * 1) Djembayz (talk) 17:26, 5 June 2015 (UTC) . Will be out of town, enjoy the event!

Suggested articles to create or edit
Below is a list of articles which could be created or expanded using information from the National Museum of American History's collections. This list is not exhaustive and you may edit or expand any additional Wikipedia articles.

Citation format for citing the NMAH Archives Center finding aid:



New articles

 * A&U: America's AIDS Magazine see A&U Magazine website; related article Christopher_Hewitt_Award
 * Baltimore Gay Paper and Baltimore Gay Life see Press Pass Q article, "Archive Project Preserves Decades of Baltimore's LGBT History"; "Our History" section from the GLCCB website for the GLBT Community Center of Baltimore & Central Maryland; "LGBT History on Display at Creative Alliance", from Baltimore OUTloud, May 15, 2015
 * Baltimore OutLoud see "30 Years and It Seems Like Yesterday", from Steve Charing OUTSpoken blog, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010 and "The LGBT Press is Needed More Than Ever", from Steve Charing OUTSpoken blog Thursday May 14, 2015
 * 2B (Online magazine) see 2B mag online website and "2B's 10th Anniversary Brings Out a Bevy of Personalities and Supporters" from 2B Online Magazine, April 14, 2012
 * The Empty Closet see The Empty Closet website, a publication of the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley; archive of online articles available from the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries website; "Empty Closet Archived", article from the Rochester City Newspaper website, October 10, 2012; New York state senate resolution K130-2011, "Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of The Empty Closet"
 * Affirmations (Metro Detroit LGBT community center) see Affirmations website; and the "About Us" section
 * DC Cowboys see National Museum of American History Archives Center finding aid, "Guide to the DC Cowboys Dance Company Records, NMAH.AC.1312; "DC Cowboys Become American History" in Metro Weekly, August 15, 2013, describing the DC Cowboys' Smithsonian donation; "Meet the D.C. Cowboys" in Brightest Young Things.com, June 9, 2010; America's Got Talent Wikia page; and related article America's_Got_Talent_(season_3)
 * Bisexual Black Ladies Support System (BBLSS) see website and "About" page
 * Federal GLOBE see website and "About" page, and "Distinguished Service Award for Federal GLOBE, presented by GLAA co-founder Frank Kameny, accepted by Federal GLOBE President Leonard Hirsch, Thursday, April 19, 2001; "Benefits for Same-Sex Partners Focus of Senate Hearing" in the Federal Diary web site of the Washington Post online, Thursday, September 25, 2008
 * Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) see website and "About us" page; "Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD)" entry in BlackPast.org; "Thoughts about GMAD and New York's Black Gay Community" by Joey Pressley, in GMHC blog, Thursday, October 18, 2012
 * AIDS Awareness Trading Cards see "Teaching AIDS Awareness Through Trading Cards" on the NMAH blog, "O Say Can You See?", June 16, 2011; "AIDS Awareness Trading Cards" article by Franklin Robinson in The Atlantic, February 14, 2012; related article: Eclipse_Comics
 * Lynch, Patsy see Patsy Lynch Photography website; GLAA Distinguished Service Award to Patsy Lynch, Thursday, April 20, 2006; "Patsy Lynch" article on the LGBT History Month website, from the Equality Forum; "Patsy Lynch" in the Rainbow History Project Digital Collections
 * Barna, Joseph T. see Obituary in the Rutland Herald online, June 12, 2014

Articles to expand

 * Daughters of Bilitis add section on the organization's newsletter; see Daughters of Bilitis "Newsletter Collective" from the Lavender Menace website
 * The Advocate online editions can be browsed at The Advocate on Google Books; also add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * The_Ladder_%28magazine%29 add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Bay_Area_Reporter add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Curve_(magazine) add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Washington_Blade add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Frontiers_(magazine) add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Gay_Comix add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * GO_(American_magazine) add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Mattachine_Society add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Noizemag add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * POZ_(magazine) add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * AmfAR,_The_Foundation_for_AIDS_Research add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Broadway_Cares/Equity_Fights_AIDS add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Center_on_Halsted add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Callen-Lorde_Community_Health_Center add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Equality_Maryland add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Delta_Lambda_Phi add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Gay,_Lesbian_and_Straight_Education_Network add link to NMAH Archives Center finding aid
 * Joan E. Biren add links to her recent exhibitions and film trailers: "Women Make Movies: Women Organize!" http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c536.shtml and "Lesbians Seeing Lesbians: Building Community in Early Feminist Photography" at the Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art http://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/2011/lesbians-seeing-lesbians.html and "Queerly Visible: The Work of JEB (Joan E. Biren), A Washington, D.C. Photographer, 1971-1991" from G.W. Gelman Library http://exhibits.library.gwu.edu/pdf/exhibit-queerly-visible.pdf and her film trailer for "No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Rp4L4XyUs and her film trailer for "A Simple Matter of Justice: The 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MbWNfX5NT8
 * LGBT stub articles needing expansion

Resources

 * The National Museum of American History Archives Center's Guide to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Collection http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC1146.pdf


 * "A Look Back at LGBT Rights 10 Years Ago," from the NMAH blog: http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2013/06/new-objects-in-the-collection-represent-landmark-lawrence-v-texas-decision-look-back-at-lgbt-rights.html


 * "National Museum of American History Collects History Related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History" http://americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/museum-collects-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-history


 * "Smithsonian Marks Anniversary of Stonewall Riots" (Smithsonian.Com, June 25, 2009) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-marks-anniversary-of-stonewall-riots-10073644/?no-ist=


 * "Spinsters, Confirmed Bachelors, and LGBTQ Collecting," from the NMAH blog: http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2014/08/spinsters-confirmed-bachelors-and-lgbtq-collecting.html


 * "Helping People with AIDS Organization Records Donated to the Archives Center," from the NMAH blog: http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2012/12/helping-people-with-aids-organization-records-donated-to-the-archives-center.html


 * Guide to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Records (NMAH.AC.1282) http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC1282.html


 * Behind the Mask of Respectability: Reconsidering the Mattachine Society...https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_sexuality/v010/10.1meeker.html


 * GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNITY, 1940s-1970s http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3635969.html


 * "Past Overdue! Protections for LGBT Americans in the Workplace" by Donna Braquet, in College & Research Libraries News, June 2015, vol. 76, no. 6 (313-322) has an excellent bibliography of online resources for American LGBT civil rights issues http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/6/313.full


 * The catalog for the University of Southern California's "ONE Archives" has a superb collection of LGBT books, periodicals, audiovisual materials, photography, artwork, etc., especially relating to LGBTQ histories in the Los Angeles region: http://one.usc.edu/collections/


 * See List_of_LGBT_periodicals

Websites, library catalogs, & databases

 * Introduction to editing Wikipedia (Slideshare prepared by Sara Snyder for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon, May 2014)
 * National Museum of American History Archives Center http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives
 * Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
 * Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
 * Smithsonian Collections Search Center http://collections.si.edu/search/

Results

 * Ron Buckmire - new article
 * National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals - new article
 * DC Cowboys - new article
 * Patsy Lynch - new, please copyedit
 * The Empty Closet - new article
 * Joan E. Biren - added links
 * Frances M. Witherspoon - new article
 * Tracy Dickinson Mygatt - new article
 * Millennium March on Washington - added citation, removed erroneous "not in citation" notice

Event Images

 * Upload your images from the National Museum of American History event here: Category:Wiki Loves Pride 2015 National Museum of American History.

Images to Use

 * Images from the National Museum of American History's LGBTQ collections are available on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmuseumofamericanhistory/sets/72157653442610128
 * LGBT-related content in Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT

Resources

 * Wiki Loves Pride at Meta-Wiki
 * Wikimedia LGBT at Meta-Wiki
 * Wikimedia Commons category LGBT

Wikipedia Editing Tutorials
Wikipedia citations are done in-line with the text, and are automatically aggregated as footnotes at the bottom of pages. Citation templates are an easy way for beginners to begin inserting citations.
 * Wikipedia Core Content Policies
 * Inserting Citations

Some Relevant Wikipedia Categories
See Portal:LGBT/Categories_(box)

Copyright and Wikipedia
Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.

Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

 * Art+Feminism Training Slides

Editing Wikipedia resources

 * Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template - person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox

Conflict of Interest

 * FAQ on Conflict of Interest Editing
 * FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure

Resources

 * Wikipedia Cheat Sheet – a Wikipedia markup cheatsheet

Working List

 * DC Cowboys - --Digitaleffie (talk) 17:17, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Fa'afaine and David Huebner (link content and update photos) - Ftripodi (talk) 17:21, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
 * One Magazine User: Attichelper
 * "Empty Closet" publication Uncommon fritillary