Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/KC Black History April 2019

Event information

 * Event Title: Kansas City Black History Edit-a-thon
 * Date: Saturday, April 6 2019
 * Time: 1:00pm — 3:00pm CST
 * Location: Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center; 3700 Blue Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64130
 * Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library, American Jazz Museum
 * Edit-A-Thon Organizer:Kim Gile.
 * Event pages: | Facebook event, | The Kansas City Public Library calendar listing
 * Free with registration. To register, reserve tickets online.

Details
Celebrate Kansas City’s rich black heritage by joining us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon! You will learn about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the anatomy of a Wiki article, and how to contribute to this free online encyclopedia.

We will focus on creating and developing articles that preserve our local history.

What to bring: - limited laptops will be available but please bring a laptop and a power cord if you are able.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 1:30pm. 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. There will be plenty of reference material and a limited number of laptops available.

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

Participants
And if you already have a Wikipedia account, you may add your Wikipedia username to this section (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row, add your username and talk page by using three tildes):


 * Kclibrarian
 * Your name here
 * Your name here
 * Your name here

Articles to improve
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:
 * 18th and Vine – Downtown East, Kansas City
 * Arthur Bryant (restaurateur)
 * Arthur Bryant's
 * Bruce R. Watkins
 * Elston Howard
 * Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry
 * Gates Bar-B-Q
 * Oliver Todd
 * Carmell Jones
 * Harold Ashby
 * Harold L. Holliday
 * Henry Perry (restaurateur)
 * Hiram Rhodes Revels
 * Jay McShann
 * Junius George Groves
 * Kansas City Cowboys (National League)
 * Lincoln College Preparatory Academy
 * Lucile Bluford
 * Mary Groves Bland
 * Municipal Stadium (Kansas City, Missouri)
 * Mutual Musicians Foundation
 * Nathaniel Clark Smith
 * Prospect Avenue (Kansas City, Missouri)
 * Rube Foster
 * Sarah Rector
 * The Call (Kansas City)
 * Tom Bass (horse trainer)
 * Troost Avenue

Articles to create
Note: Editors must have accounts that "autoconfirmed" (four days old and have made more than ten edits) in order to create a page. During the edit-a-thon, editors brandnew to Wikipedia are encouraged to expand existing articles to develop Wikipedia know-how. Those interested in working on a new article for Wikipedia can prepare the article in a sandbox draft space.


 * The GEM Theater
 * The Blue Room
 * Joelouis Mattox
 * R.T. Coles
 * Lafayette Tillman
 * Church Hill Street Settlement
 * The Negro Protective League of Kansas City
 * The Niles Home for Negro Children
 * Sam Easton of Kansas City
 * Association of Negro Women of KC
 * Mamie Hughes
 * Chester Arthur Franklin
 * Horace M. Peterson III
 * Hotel Street
 * Reuben Street
 * Irene Whitley Marcus
 * Corinthian Clay Nutter
 * Gertrude Keith
 * William L. Fambrough
 * Hazel Browne Williams
 * John F. Ramos, Jr
 * Lena Rivers Smith
 * Dr. Earl D. Thomas
 * Wayne Miner
 * John Edward Perry
 * Leona Pouncey Thurman
 * The Rector House of Kansas City
 * St. Paul AME Church
 * Wheatley Provident Hospital
 * Hell's Half Acre
 * Rosie Mason

Library resources to use to expand articles

 * Kansas City Jazz: Wide Open Town library web catalog list

Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia

 * Introduction

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