Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/AfroLatinoCROWD/April 2015





AfrolatinoCROWD on April 12th
Join us on 4/12/15 as we explore Wikipedia resources for Afrolatino/as in Spanish,  Portuguese, Garifuna and English.

We will also get a brief intro to Wikimedia and Wikipedia and learn what gaps exist about Afrolatino/as in the largest online reference site in the world and ways to use this resource to make Afrolatino/a children and adults more digitally skilled and more knowledgeable about their culture, history and languages.

We will have presentations by: OUR GOAL DURING THIS SESSION IS FOR EVERYONE TO EDIT OR CREATE AT LEAST ONE ARTICLE -- DURING THE SESSION.
 * Amilcar Priestley of Proyecto Afrolatin@
 * Sandra Abd´Allah-Alvarez Ramírez from the Blog Negra Cubana Tenía Que Ser
 * Alice Backer of AfroCROWD

AfrolatinoCROWD el 12 de Abril
Únase a nosotros el 4 de abril de 2015 en nuestra exploración de  los recursos disponibles en Wikipidia a la comunidad Afrolatina en  Español, Portugues, Inglés y Garifuna.

También tendremos una breve introducción a Wikimedia y Wikipedia y exploraremos los vacíos que existen sobre Afrolatino/as en el sitio de referencia en línea mas grande en el mundo y formas de utilizar este recurso para ayudar tanto a niños como adultos Afrolatino/as a ser digitalmente mas expertos y con mas conocimiento de su cultura, historia y lenguaje.

Tendremos presentaciones por:


 * Amilcar Priestley de Proyecto Afrolatin@


 * Sandra Abd'Allah-Alvarez Ramírez del blog Negra Cubana Tenia Que Ser


 * Alice Backer de AfroCROWD

NUESTRO OBJETIVO DURANTE ESTA SECCION ES QUE TODOS EDITEN O CREAN POR LO MENOS UN ARTICULO

EVENT PAGE ON SPANISH WIKI/ PÁGINA DEL EVENTO EN WIKI ESPAÑOL
es:Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatón virtual de AfroCrowd en NYC

Articles to edit or improve/ Artículos para editar o mejorar
Lists of Articles#Afrolatinos

Articles Created/Artículos Creados
(Alpha by last name)/ (Alfabético por apellido) Only add articles created in En.wikipedia here. Es.Wikipedia articles should be added on Es.Wiki page.


 * 1) Abrams, Damali - Deckdeckdeck (talk) 19:28, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) DuValle, Garifuna chief
 * 3) https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cab/Balisi (Entry for Belize on the Garifuna incubator)

Articles Improved/Artículos Mejoraron
(Alpha by last name)/ (Alfabético por apellido) (Alpha by last name)/ (Alfabético por apellido) Only add articles improved in En.wikipedia here. Es.Wikipedia articles should be added on Es.Wiki page.
 * 1) Rosa Clemente
 * 2) Graciela
 * 3) Joseph Chatoyer
 * 4) Garifuna people
 * 5) Romeo Santos
 * 6) Melba Tolliver

Event Details

 * Date: Sunday, April 12, 2015
 * Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM (EDT)
 * Location: The Brooklyn Public Library, NYC
 * Find us at: 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NYC

Sign up
| Register for the event on Eventbrite if you plan to attend in-person. If you are able, please also 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, please create an account using the link in the upper right hand corner prior to the event date. We will provide training at the event for first-time editors.

Participants
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.


 * Aliceba (talk) 16:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Reginabk12 (talk) 23:29, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Jlightsky (talk) 23:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Deckdeckdeck (talk) 15:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Kp2149 (talk) 18:12, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ali Abdul-Perez (talk) 18:47, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Olaniyan12 (talk) 18:50, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Garifuna36 (talk) 18:53, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Tönya (talk) 18:56, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Honeychild1 (talk) 19:07, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Seremey (talk) 19:12, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * PJR100 (talk) 19:21, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * DBien (talk) 19:23, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Georgevazq (talk) 19:52, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 *  DGG ( talk ) 14:42, 15 April 2015 (UTC)