Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/Resources

Wikipedias

 * the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit


 * English Wikipedia
 * Haitian Wikipedia
 * Spanish Wikipedia
 * French Wikipedia
 * Twi Wikipedia
 * Igbo Wikipedia
 * Yoruba Wikipedia
 * Garifuna Wikipedia

Wiktionaries

 * a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of all words in all languages


 * English Wiktionary
 * Haitian Wiktionary on Incubator
 * Spanish Wiktionary
 * French Wiktionary
 * Twi Wiktionary (Twi on Incubator)
 * Igbo Wiktionary on Incubator
 * Yoruba Wiktionary (Yoruba on Incubator)
 * Garifuna Wiktionary on Incubator

General resources

 * Sankofa Archives - African and afrodescendant history, culture, images
 * Afrolatin@ Project - Includes various reports on Afrolatinos and Afrodescendants
 * Afridiaspora - Website on African writers and book festivals
 * Port Académie - Online platform for Haitian Studies and Research
 * Île en île - CUNY Project. Great resource -- in French -- on Caribbean authors who write in French
 * Haitian Creole Language Institute of NY
 * John Carter Brown Library - Haiti Collection - The John Carter Brown Library holds one of the world's great collections relating to Haiti.
 * Swain, Liz. "Garifuna Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 686-697. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 20 June 2015. - Includes list of notable persons who could use entries.

WikiProjects

 * WikiAfrica
 * WikiProject African Diaspora
 * Afripédia (French)
 * WikiProject Haiti
 * Haïti Portail (French)

Other initiatives

 * World Afropedia
 * Afropedea

Spanish Wikipedia

 * Categoría:Afrocubanos
 * Categoría:Cubanos de ascendencia española
 * Anexo:Escritores de Cuba

Editing Wikipedia 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. N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources See Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
 * Tutorial: Getting Started Guide (Presentation in DC)
 * 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


 * Want to go at your own pace? Self guided introduction
 * N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
 * IRC/wikipedia-en-help

Editing Wikipedia resources – Spanish

 * Qué significa Wiki
 * Wikipedia:Los cinco pilares
 * Wikipedia:Relevancia enciclopédica
 * Wikipedia:Artículos sin relevancia aparente
 * Ayuda:Cómo empezar una página
 * Wikipedia:Asistente para la creación de artículos/Temáticos (artistas)
 * Wikicódigo Ayuda:Referencia rápida
 * Ayuda:Cómo se edita una página (Zona de Pruebas)
 * Wikipedia:Convenciones de títulos
 * por temática
 * Categoría:Wikipedia:Fichas de personas Daysi Rubiera
 * Plantilla:Ficha de libro
 * Wikipedia:Referencias – Citas de páginas web, Llamadas de nota
 * Wikipedia:Categorización


 * N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:
 * Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-es-help