Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Fergus Falls/Park Region Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Help improve your local history on Wikipedia.

Join us in creating or enhancing Wikipedia articles on South-Central Minnesota history. This event is a great way to make new friends, have fun, and learn something new while adding knowledge about Central Minnesota to Wikipedia. No Wikipedia experience necessary, training will be provided. This event is is part of a series of eight Local History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons and put on by Minnesota Historical Society's Local History Services and hosted by the Otter Tail County Historical Society and the Park Region History Coalition.

Event information

 * Event Title: Park Region Minnesota History Edit-a-thon
 * Date: Saturday, November 12, 2022
 * Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. CDT
 * Location: Otter Tail County Historical Museum, Otter Tail Historical Society, 110 W Lincoln Avenue Fergus Falls, Minnesota 56537
 * Cost: Free
 * Facilitator/s: Joe Hoover
 * Limited to ten participants

Counties in Park Region History Coalition

 * Clay County
 * Douglas County
 * Grant County
 * Otter Tail County
 * Pope County
 * Stevens County
 * Traverse County
 * Wilkin County

Details
While laptops are provided, we encourage you to bring your own laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support.

Attendees are asked to register beforehand and to bring any books, journals, magazines or newspaper articles relevant to pages they're interested in to use for sources for research.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; Social hour with light refreshments begins at 11 a.m., edit-a-thon at noon. Brief training session at 12:20 p.m. for newcomers. Library resources will be on hand for researching, however, consider bring books and news articles on your own community's or museum's history.

Attendees
Free, but Registration required.

If you have a Wikipedia user account please sign up on the events Dashboard.

Add your Wikipedia username to the list below if you have one. Tip; you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes ( * )


 * Myotus (organiser)
 * Myotus (talk) 18:05, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Myotus (talk)
 * MissFergus (talk) 18:07, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * PattyB56531 (talk) 18:08, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Preparation
If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use. Creating an account makes editing much easier (more info). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nicer to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Joe's username is Myotus.

Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, please check out the ones provided at the bottom of the page.

Have a think about topics you'd like to work on. Check out their pages and see if there are obvious mistakes or problems. Maybe even do a little research first so you're prepared. Bring along references for the information you want to add. If the topic you're interested in doesn't have a Wikipedia page, we could even create one. If you're stuck, there are lots of pages that need work: here are some suggestions.

List of articles
These are suggestions for articles and edits but the edit-a-thon is not limited to them.

Many of these pages history sections need expansion or creation:
PLACES (Cities, Former Places, Unincorporated communities, Landforms, Protected areas, etc...)
 * Geography of Clay County
 * Geography of Douglas County
 * Geography of Grant County
 * Geography of Otter Tail County
 * Geography of Pope County
 * Geography of Stevens County
 * Geography of Traverse County
 * Geography of Wilkin County

COUNTY SEATS
 * Glenwood, Minnesota
 * Alexandria, Minnesota
 * Elbow Lake, Minnesota
 * Morris, Minnesota
 * Wheaton, Minnesota
 * Fergus Falls, Minnesota
 * Breckenridge, Minnesota
 * Moorhead, Minnesota

National Register Database and Research


 * NRHP listings in Clay County
 * NRHP listings in Douglas County
 * NRHP listings in Grant County
 * NRHP listings in Otter Tail County
 * NRHP listings in Pope County
 * NRHP listings in Stevens County
 * NRHP listings in Traverse County
 * NRHP listings in Wilkin County

PEOPLE/THINGS
 * List of museums in Minnesota (200-300 characters)
 * People from Clay County
 * People from Douglas County
 * People from Grant County
 * People from Otter Tail County
 * People from Pope County
 * People from Stevens County
 * People from Traverse County
 * People from Wilkin County

MUSEUMS
 * List of museums in Minnesota

Wikipedia resources

 * Tutorial
 * User:Yunshui/Article creation for beginners
 * Your first article
 * Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
 * VisualEditor/User guide
 * Manual of Style
 * Simplified Manual of Style
 * Writing better articles
 * Copyright problems
 * Text Copyright Violations 101
 * Citing sources - and see Help:Citation tools
 * Help:Referencing for beginners
 * User:Yunshui/References for beginners
 * User:Nick Moyes/Easier Referencing for Beginners
 * Help:Footnotes
 * Nesting footnotes
 * Citation templates
 * Notability
 * Notability (organizations and companies)
 * Common sourcing mistakes (notability)