Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/KC Philanthropists July 2019

Event information

 * Event Title: Kansas City Philanthropists Edit-a-thon
 * Date: Monday, July 15, 2019
 * Time: 4:00pm – 7:00pm CDT
 * Location: Kansas City Public Library's Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W. 10th St; Kansas City, MO 64105
 * Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library
 * 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 culture of philanthropy 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 4:30pm. 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
Please RSVP to our facebook event page so we can have enough food and wine, here.

Articles to improve
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon:
 * Kenneth A. Spencer
 * William Volker
 * Thomas H. Swope
 * William Rockhill Nelson
 * R. Crosby Kemper, Sr.
 * Ewing Kauffman
 * Muriel Kauffman
 * Henry W. Bloch
 * Richard Bloch
 * Donald J. Hall, Sr.
 * Robert A. Long
 * August Meyer
 * Howard Vanderslice
 * Edward F. Swinney
 * James E. Stowers
 * Landon H. Rowland
 * Arthur Mag
 * Herman A. Johnson
 * Lucile Bluford
 * Andrew "Rube" Foster
 * Marjorie Powell Allen
 * Jacob and Ella Loose
 * Mary McAfee Atkins
 * Morton Sosland
 * George Sheidley
 * John Taylor, Kansas City
 * Hector Barreto, Sr.
 * John and Parker B. Francis

Library resources to use to expand articles

 * Local History Website
 * Pendergast Era KC History Website

Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia

 * Introduction

Results

 * Dashboard