Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/2021 MLK Day of Service

Event information

 * Event Title: MLK Day of Service: Kansas City Civil Rights Leaders
 * Date: Monday, January 11, 2021
 * Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm CST
 * Location: Virtual
 * Host institution: Kansas City Public Library
 * Edit-A-Thon organizing team Members: Kim Gile, Alyssa Moncure, Beccah Rendall
 * Event pages: Facebook event, Kansas City Public Library calendar listing
 * Free. To RSVP, Register.

Details
The Kansas City Public Library VISTA Project will be holding our MLK Day of Service virtually this year by hosting a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon. We invite the public to help us create and edit Wikipedia pages for local, historic black leaders in activism, politics, arts, and culture.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session is virtual at 6pm. To participate you don’t need specialized knowledge of these topics or of Wikipedia. Please create a free user account on wikipedia.org before the event if you are able. There will be plenty of reference material and a limited number of laptops available.

Register
Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.

Articles to improve
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:
 * Etta Moten Barnett
 * Ida M. Bowman Becks
 * Mary Groves Bland
 * Lucile Bluford
 * Phil Curls
 * Junius G. Groves
 * Harold L. Holliday
 * Leon Jordan
 * George E. Lee
 * Julia Lee
 * Jay McShann
 * Pete O'Neal
 * Corrvine Patterson
 * Bruce R. Watkins
 * Theron B. Watkins
 * Alan Dupree Wheat
 * Roy Wilkins
 * Claude Williams
 * Yvonne S. Wilson
 * Josephine Silone Yates
 * Hiram Young

Articles to create

 * Draft:Bettye Miller & Milt Abel (Jazz Musical Duo)
 * Draft:Rev. Samuel W. Bacote
 * G. Lawrence Blankinship Sr.
 * Minnie Lee Crosthwaite
 * Draft:William L. Fambrough
 * Draft:L.C. "Speedy" Huggins (Dancer and Musician)
 * Draft:Gertrude Keith (Housing Activist)
 * Draft:Joelouis Mattox
 * Draft:Fannie L. Meek
 * Draft:Wayne Miner (Buffalo Soldier)
 * Draft:Bernard Powell (Civil Rights Activist)
 * Draft:John F. Ramos, Jr.
 * Draft:Cloteele T. Raspberry (Fashion Designer)
 * Draft:Henry Warren Sewing
 * Draft:Lena Rivers Smith
 * Draft:Dr. Earl D. Thomas (Educator)
 * Draft:Octavia B. Wynbush (poet)

Resources

 * Google doc of relevant citation materials
 * KC History website

Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia

 * Introduction

Results

 * Dashboard
 * Directly because of this edit-a-thon, two people became new Wikipedians and their first edits became major contributions that attracted wider support from several Wikipedians on the same day. developed a mastery of newspapers.com (from WP:LIBRARY) for weeks of deep research and huge expansion of Hiram Young in collaboration with .  created several short but viable articles on this day, including G. Lawrence Blankinship Sr. and Minnie Lee Crosthwaite (featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in DYK), in collaboration with, , and others unrelated to the edit-a-thon.