Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/10-2015-DAWN-BPL

AfroCROWD and DAWN (Diaspora African Women's Network) @ Brooklyn Public Library
Please join us for the next gathering of AfroCROWD and DAWN (Diaspora African Women's Network) @ Brooklyn Public Library!
 * Co-Sponsor: DAWN (Diaspora African Women's Network)

Event information

 * Date: Sunday, October 25, 2015
 * Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 * Location: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Info Commons Room
 * Address: 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 40.67236°N, -73.96815°W
 * Subway:
 * to Grand Army Plaza
 * Bus: buses
 * Details:
 * Help write her digital history!
 * Join AfroCROWD and DAWN (Diaspora African Women's Network) to receive free training on becoming a Wikipedia editor.
 * The event will encourage editing entries about notable black women, including black women in the African Diaspora dedicated to African affairs.
 * Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is a new initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent actively editing Wikipedia. Become a part of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements and help close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia.
 * We have held monthly editathons in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens since February 2015.
 * Beginners welcome.
 * All languages welcome including English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Yoruba, Twi, Woloff and other languages spoken in the African Diaspora. Wikipedia comes in 285 languages and you are welcome to edit it in any of them or translate from one language to another.
 * AfroCROWD will also provide FREE CHILDCARE during this special event.
 * Light Refreshments will be available.

Attendees
Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.

Confirmed

 * 1) Pharos (talk) 20:18, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) rumayor1 (rumayor1)
 * 3) Aliceba (talk) 15:05, 13 October 2015 (UTC) (talk) 15:04, 13 October 2015 (UTC);
 * 4) Shanluan (talk) 15:45, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Gek333 (talk) 17:22, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Sdbhatresearch (talk) 18:34, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Mariana Santibañez (talk) 18:36, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) Phototek (talk) 19:43, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) Rhodamacboadan (talk) 19:57, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 10) GregoryBenjamin (talk) 20:40, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Regrets

 * 1) Jim.henderson (talk) 12:07, 22 October 2015 (UTC) All day at Tour de Bronx

Participating online

 * 1)  -- will try to work on Garifuna pages

New page creations
alphabetical
 * 1) Dionisia Amaya --
 * 2) Otto Neals -- African-American Artist --

Contributions
alphabetical
 * 1) Dionisia Amaya -- ,
 * 2) José Campeche --
 * 3) Aurelio Martinez -- ,
 * 4) Denmark Vesey --
 * 5) Fort Greene, Brooklyn --
 * 6) Gaspar Yanga --
 * 7) Happy Land Fire
 * 8) Music of the Dominican Republic --
 * 9) Nottoway County, Virginia --
 * 10) Weeksville, Brooklyn --

Possible articles to edit

 * List of articles

Resources
See Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Editing Wikipedia resources
Listed here for quick reference. N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources
 * 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)
 * Art+Feminism - Video training
 * Art+Feminism - Training Lesson Plan

Tools and templates

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