Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis/To Wikipedia, With Love/Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)

Join us in spreading the love of human creativity at our next Library Affinity Group Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. This is an opportunity to select your favorite artist from Mia’s collection and create or update that artist’s Wikipedia entry.

Event information

 * Event Title: To Wikipedia, With Love
 * Date: Saturday, February 17, 2018
 * Time: noon — 4:00 p.m. CST
 * Location: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Target Wing Atrium, Friends Community Room & Library, 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404.
 * Hosts: Meg Black, Susan Jacobsen, Janice Lurie and Mia Edit-A-Thon Team Members:Kay Beaudrie, Anthonia Eboreime, and Katie Hill.
 * And a special thank you to MCAD Student Joe Young and our Wikipedia mentor, McGhiever.

Details
Please bring a laptop with you as we will only have a limited number available for use.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 12:30 p.m. for newcomers on the day of the event. Library resources will be on hand for researching artists in the museum's collection. We will also be providing light refreshments and will be presenting a specially designed award cookie for those attendees that add content during the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

Register
Free, tickets required. To register, call 612-870-6323 or reserve online. If you haven't edited in Wikipedia before, we will help you register for an account. Mia's library is open Tuesday-Friday 11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and its staff is available for providing assistance in setting up a Wikipedia personal account and for research in preparation for editing Wikipedia. You can search our library's collection online through our catalog Mia Library Catalog. We also have numerous subscription research databases on art that you can access while in the library.

Participants
And if you already have a Wikipedia account, please 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):
 * Mgblck (talk)
 * Sjacobsen1 (talk) 19:38, 5 February 2018 (UTC)Sjacobsen1
 * JLLurie (talk) 21:21, 5 February 2018 (UTC)JLLurie
 * RachelWex (talk) RachelWex 22:12, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Ked0102 (talk) Ked0102 11:46, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Sholland88 (talk) 18:45, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Joe mia (talk) 15:29, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * paul2520 (talk) 21:34, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 5waters (talk) 02:29, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * KyBdr (talk) 16:37, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * benjaminmettey (talk)
 * Conjunctiongumption (talk) 15:19, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * AEIsham2015 (talk) 17:53, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Knutsokl (talk) 18:02, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Becke364 (talk) 18:09, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Stackwanderer (talk) 18:22, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Chriscnq (talk) 18:55, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Woody29r (talk) 19:02, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Mallory.heil (talk) 19:17, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Sarah.billings (talk) 19:42, 17 February 2018 (UTC)sarah.billings
 * tnherby1984 (talk) 20:42, 17 February 2018 (UTC
 * Fishinglady (talk) 21:03, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

List of articles
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits, expansion, or new entries during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.

Research resources

 * Mia Library Catalog

Wikipedia resources

 * Help:Introduction
 * VisualEditor/User guide


 * Tutorial/Wrap-up and more info
 * GLAM Beginner's Guide
 * Citation guide
 * Art on Commons
 * Simplified ruleset
 * Biographies of living persons

Results
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