Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Winona/Southeast Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Help improve your local history on Wikipedia.

Join us in creating or enhancing Wikipedia articles on Southeast Minnesota history. This event is a great way to make new friends, have fun, and learn something new while adding knowledge about Southeast 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 the Winona County Historical Society and the Southeast History Collaborative.

Event information

 * Event Title: Southeast Minnesota History Edit-a-thon
 * Date: Saturday, October 29, 2022
 * Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. CDT
 * Location: Winona County History Center, Winona County Historical Society, 160 Johnson Street Winona, Minnesota
 * Cost: Free
 * Facilitator/s: Joe Hoover
 * Limited to Ten participants

Counties in South East History Group

 * Dodge County
 * Fillmore County
 * Freeborn County
 * Goodhue County
 * Mower County
 * Olmsted County
 * Rice County
 * Steele County
 * Wabasha County
 * Winona 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 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)
 * Dolotta -- will be there remotely from Eau Claire, WI with access to the Wikipedia Library and Newspapers.com if anyone would like me to look something up for them.
 * ScoutKiwa (talk)
 * A gaffe (talk) 18:21, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * HALright (talk) 18:24, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Margaret Peterson (talk) 18:26, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * NinotchkaN (talk)

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
 * List of museums in Minnesota
 * Geography of Dodge County
 * Geography of Fillmore County
 * Geography of Freeborn County‎
 * Geography of Goodhue County
 * Geography of Mower County‎
 * Geography of Olmsted County
 * Geography of Rice County
 * Geography of Steele County‎
 * Geography of Wabasha County
 * Geography of Winona County

CITIES
 * Caledonia, Minnesota
 * Fountain, Minnesota
 * Austin, Minnesota
 * Albert Lea, Minnesota
 * Winona, Minnesota
 * Rochester, Minnesota
 * Mantorville, Minnesota
 * Owatonna, Minnesota
 * Reads Landing, Minnesota
 * Red Wing, Minnesota
 * Faribault, Minnesota
 * Wabasha, Minnesota

National Register Database and Research


 * NRHP listings in Dodge County
 * NRHP listings in Fillmore County
 * NRHP listings in Freeborn County
 * NRHP listings in Goodhue County
 * NRHP listings in Mower County
 * NRHP listings in Olmsted County
 * NRHP listings in Rice County
 * NRHP listings in Steele County
 * NRHP listings in Wabasha County
 * NRHP listings in Winona County

PEOPLE/THINGS
 * People from Dodge County‎
 * People from Fillmore County‎
 * People from Freeborn County
 * People from Goodhue County‎
 * People from Mower County‎
 * People from Olmsted County‎
 * People from Rice County
 * People from Steele County
 * People from Wabasha County‎
 * People from Winona County

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)