Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Loft Literary Center

Please join us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focusing on artists from marginalized communities. Everyone of all ages is welcome to attend, regardless of experience. We are happy to teach you the basics of editing Wikipedia! The public is welcome to this event.

Event information

 * Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016
 * Time: 6:00–8:00pm
 * Location: The Loft Literary Center, Room 203, 1011 S Washington Avenue
 * Hosts: The Loft Literary Center

Please bring a laptop with you!

Attendees
Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row). If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, we will help you register for a new Wikipedia editing account on the day-of.
 * 1)  gobonobo  + c 19:15, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) McGhiever (talk) 00:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 3) Elkman (Elkspeak) 18:17, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) SoulTools (talk) 00:27, 12 February 2016 (UTC)SoulTools

List of articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like. '''Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!'''


 * Ta-coumba Aiken, St. Paul painter and muralist
 * Louis Alemayehu, spoken word artist
 * All My Relations Gallery
 * Maurice Carlton (artist), sculptor
 * Seitu Jones
 * Oskar Ly
 * Pao Houa Her, photographer
 * Dyani White Hawk Polk
 * Shades of Yellow, Hmong LGBTQ organization
 * Maria Cristina Tavera, painter, printmaker, curator
 * Diane Wilson (author), a Minnesota Native American author


 * Minnesota
 * Kathy Mouacheupao
 * Iris Shiraishi, taiko drummer
 * Cheng-Khee Chee, Chinese American watercolorist, University of Minnesota Duluth professor
 * Little Laos on the Prairie,
 * Refuge of the InvisibLao, art exhibition
 * Saymoukda Vongsay
 * New article name


 * US


 * Ken Chu (artist) (朱肯, b. 1953), installation artist
 * Y. David Chung, German-born visual artist and filmmaker
 * Marlon Fuentes, Filipino American filmmaker
 * Yun Gee (1906–1963), Chinese American Modern artist
 * Yeung Ha (b. 1952), Korean American printmaker and mixed media artist
 * Sabro Hasegawa (1906–1957), Japanese American painter and scholar
 * Hui Ka-kwong/Hui Ka Kwong (1922–2003), ceramist
 * Lori Kay, sculptor and mixed media artist
 * Jin Soo Kim (artist) (b. 1950), Korean American sculptor and installation artist
 * Valeriano Montante Laigo/Val Laigo/Valeriano Emerenciano Montante Laigo (1930–1992), Filipino American painter
 * Yary Livan, Cambodian ceramist
 * Vi Ly
 * Yong Soon Min, Korean American multimedia artist, scholar, and curator
 * Johsel Namkung (1919–2013), Korean American photographer
 * Keiko Nelson, Japanese American artist
 * Long Nguyen, Vietnamese American artist
 * Toshio Odate, Japanese American woodworker
 * Hanh Thi Pham, Vietnamese photographer
 * Sheng-mei Ma professor of English literature at Michigan State University; specializes in Asian Diaspora/Asian American studies and East-West comparative studies
 * Valerie Soe, writer and experimental videomaker
 * Indigo Som, visual artist and poet
 * Masaru Takiguchi (b. 1941), Japanese American sculptor
 * Gayle Tanaka, visual artist
 * Lynne Yamamoto, Japanese American multimedia artist
 * Samnang Yong, Cambodian poet and painter
 * Baochi Zhang (b. 1956), Chinese American artist
 * Hanh Thi Pham, Vietnamese photographer
 * Yong Soon Min, Korean American multimedia artist, scholar, and curator
 * Kosal Khiev
 * Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai/Kelly Tsai
 * Kirun Kapur
 * Lo Kwa Mei-en
 * Asian American Literary Review

Articles to improve

 * Mu Performing Arts – needs references
 * May Lee Yang – needs references
 * Bryan Thao Worra – needs inline references
 * Ka Vang – needs references
 * History of the Hmong in Minneapolis–Saint Paul – could be fleshed out
 * David Mura
 * Wang Ping (author) – needs references
 * Chanida Phaengdara Potter – needs references
 * Nor Sanavongsay – needs references

Non-artists

 * Choua Lee, Hmong St. Paul Board of Education member
 * Hmong American Partnership

Editing Wikipedia resources
Listed here for quick reference.
 * Tutorial: Getting Started Guide (Presentation in DC)
 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template – person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox


 * N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
 * IRC/wikipedia-en-help