Wikipedia:Meetup/Hunter College/Women of African-Disapora

Event information
The Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies Club at Hunter College and the Hunter College Libraries invite you to participate in our first Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Thursday, March 24, 2016. In celebration of Women's History month, we will contribute articles on Wikipedia related to black women for the national Black WikiHistory Month outreach campaign.
 * Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016
 * Time: 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
 * Location: Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue (68th & Lexington), New York City, New York
 * The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place on the 4th floor of the Cooperman Library in the Library Computer Learning Center, E402.

Computers will be available for Hunter students and staff but feel free to bring a laptop with you!

Sign up
Register for the event on Eventbrite if you plan to attend in-person. If you are able, please also add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day-of.

Attendees

 * AfroCROWD
 * 1)  -- Sherry
 * Hunter Library
 * 1)  -- Chanitra Bishop
 * Wikimedia NYC
 * 1) BrillLyle (talk) 20:55, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Pharos (talk) 21:37, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Jeremyb (talk) 16:03, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Jim.henderson (talk) 15:22, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Mozucat (talk) 21:23, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Students
 * 1) 211jennyb (talk) 21:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Amyrod12 (talk) 21:42, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Brooklynboys (talk) 23:11, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Deelynn420 (talk) 21:05, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Lecorps347 (talk) 21:13, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Mojohandsum (talk) 21:07, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Nyraks (talk) 23:18, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 8) Smallaxe04 (talk) 21:49, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) Yuisa77 (talk) 21:11, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Yuisa77 (talk) 21:11, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Articles improved
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Alberta Hunter --
 * 2) Annie Elizabeth Delany --
 * 3) Audre Lorde --
 * 4) Graciela --
 * 5) Jean Blackwell Hutson --
 * 6) Mae Virginia Cowdery --
 * 7) Marie-Louise Coidavid --
 * 8) Mary Lou Williams --
 * 9) Nanny of the Maroons --
 * 10) Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí --
 * 11) Patti Bown --
 * 12) Sonia Pierre --

Stub articles that need to improved

 * Jill Bargonetti


 * African_diaspora_stubs
 * African_American_stubs

African American Journals

 * Callaloo
 * Journal of Black Psychology
 * The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
 * Journal of Negro Education
 * Journal of African American History

Articles that need to be created

 * Mande Holford

For more ideas

 * AfroCROWD task list

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox
 * Adding images to your entry, a tutorial ; video here