Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Willmar/West-Central Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Help improve your local history on Wikipedia.

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

Event information

 * Event Title: West-Central Minnesota History Edit-a-thon
 * Date: Saturday, July 16 2022
 * Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. CDT
 * Location: Kandiyohi County History Museum, Kandiyohi County Historical Society, 610 Hwy 71 Service Rd, Willmar, Minnesota 56201
 * Cost: Free
 * Facilitator/s: Joe Hoover
 * Limited to ten participants

Counties in West Central Minnesota Historical Association

 * Big Stone County
 * Chippewa County
 * Kandiyohi County
 * Lac qui Parle County
 * Lincoln County
 * Lyon County
 * Redwood County
 * Renville County
 * Swift County
 * Yellow Medicine 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.

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 * Myotus (organiser)
 * CelesteDS (talk) 16:41, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Kandihistory (talk) 16:42, 16 July 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.

These pages need to be created or need expansion:
PLACES
 * Category:Populated places in Big Stone County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Chippewa County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Lincoln County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Lyon County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Redwood County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Renville County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Swift County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:Populated places in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota‎

National Register Database and Research


 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Stone County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Chippewa County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Lyon County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Redwood County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Renville County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Swift County, Minnesota
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

PEOPLE/THINGS EVENTS
 * Category:People from Big Stone County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Chippewa County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Kandiyohi County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Lincoln County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Lyon County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Redwood County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Renville County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Swift County, Minnesota‎
 * Category:People from Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota‎
 * Machine Gun Kelly robbery of the Bank of Willmar.
 * Kandiyohi and Monongalia county merger

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)