Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Wikipedia Editathon for Pride and Black Lives Matter/Zoom

Details

 * Date: Monday, June 29, 2020
 * Time: 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm Central Standard Time (US)
 * Location: Zoom--Please register here.
 * Twitter: @wikilgbt
 * Hashtag #WikiLovesPride / #WikiLovesBLM
 * Dashboard:Wikipedia Editathon for Pride and Black Lives Matter
 * Please contact User:RachelWex with any questions.

For People New to Wikipedia

 * How to create an account
 * How to edit a Wikipedia article
 * How to create a new article
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template - person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox
 * How to upload content to Wikimedia Commons
 * How to edit Wikidata

Coaching Rooms
Wikipedia coaches will be present to help those who need it! All participants must register for the main session. Those confident in their skills may remain in the main Zoom room to edit.

Coaching Room 1 (5 pm - 8:30 pm CT) with User:Paul2520: Register here.

Coaching Room 2 (5 pm - 8:30 pm CT) with User:BiblioQC: Register here.

Minnesota topics
Here are some Minnesota-specific LGBTQ+ / BIPOC topics that need articles or edits:


 * Andrea Jenkins
 * Christopher P. Lehman (Ethnic Studies Professor)
 * Danez Smith
 * Frederick McKinley Jones
 * Harriet Robinson Scott
 * James S. Griffin
 * Junauda Petrus
 * Lena O. Smith
 * Lou Bellamy
 * Myrtle Carden
 * Near North, Minneapolis
 * Reverend Lawrence Richardson
 * Reverend Robert Hickman
 * Category:Defunct LGBT bars and clubs in Minnesota
 * Category:LGBT history in Minnesota
 * Jean-Nickolaus Tretter
 * Ladyslipper
 * Lesbian Resource Center (Minneapolis)
 * Minnesota Leather Pride
 * OutFront Minnesota
 * Phillipe Cunningham
 * Queer Student Cultural Center
 * Steve Lenius
 * Stuart Ferguson (Linguist)
 * The Gay House

Other topics
Here are other LGBTQ+ / BIPOC topics that need articles or edits:


 * Andrew "Wik" Wikholm
 * Ashleigh Shackelford
 * Beautiful as I Want to Be
 * Ellen Greenblatt
 * Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater
 * Gonzalo "Tony" Segura
 * James V. Carmichael, Jr.
 * Judy Dlugacz
 * Lee Mokobe
 * Nur Warsame
 * Oh, Pit Crew!
 * Operation: Vacation
 * Rick Bébout
 * Shiri Eisner
 * Rickey Laurentiis
 * Shirlette Ammons
 * Sinister Wisdom
 * This Way Out (The International LGBT Radio Magazine)
 * Urooj Arshad
 * Vivienne Cass (Psychologist)

Resources

 * Quatrefoil Library's collection has over 30,000 items, including reference books and archived periodicals. Quatrefoil also subscribes to the EBSCO LGBT Life with Full Text database (coverage). There will likely be a demo on how to use; otherwise, sign-in details will be provided.
 * login link


 * New York Public Library Gay and Lesbian Collections – AIDS/HIV Collections
 * Rainbow History Project
 * Washington Post Historical Database
 * OutHistory founded by Jonathan Ned Katz and John D'Emilio
 * podcasts like Making Gay History may be of use (does every subject have a Wikipedia article? if they do, could a podcast link be added to the External links section of the article?)

Goal
As part of the global Wiki Loves Pride campaign, to kick off global Pride season and to affirm that Black Lives Matter, Wikipedians invite new and experienced editors from around the world to improve or add content to Wikipedia about notable LGBTQ+ and / or BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color), as well as the history, culture, laws, and events that LGBTQ+ and / or BIPOC have initiated or which impact them.

Wikimedia LGBT+ is a global thematic user group composed of people from diverse, intersectional, multilingual, multicultural communities. We seek to increase the number of people and perspectives contributing to LGBTQ+ information on Wikipedia, center intersectional LGBTQ+ identities and issues, and encourage institutions to add their authority information, research and images to the public domain. Contributions to information about LGBTQ+ topics in politics and policy, medicine, topics in identity sexuality, and society, rights and attitudes, history, culture, and institutions will vastly affect the ways in which these topics are researched and understood internationally. In the past, Wikipedia articles on these topics have been riddled with a lack of scholarly sources and lack of perspectives, skewing public perceptions and affecting research and decisions in public policy, science and medical practice, and community acceptance.