Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Housing and Homesteading Wikipedia Editathon

Help us edit Wikipedia pages related to co-operative housing in New York City. Our objective is to make information about tenant organizing more accessible for current and future movement makers, educators, and learners. No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop if you are able. Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon with a brief tutorial to cover the basics. Snacks will be provided. Please RSVP in advance; childcare is available in advance if RSVP received before November 6.

This event is held in conjunction with an exhibition at Interference Archive about the history of Homesteading in New York City, Building For Us, organized in collaboration with the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board.

No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop, if you have one! There will also be a limited number of laptops available for those who don't have their own. Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon with a brief tutorial to cover the basics.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

About Interference Archive
The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.

The archive contains many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, subject files, and other materials. Through our programming, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation. We consider the use of our collection to be a way of preserving and honoring histories and material culture that is often marginalized in mainstream institutions.

As an all-volunteer organization, all members of our community are welcome and encouraged to shape our collection and programming; we are a space for all volunteers to learn from each other and develop new skills.

Articles to Create/Edit
Articles to Edit


 * the article on Housing Development Fund Corporation co-ops is a stub
 * the article on Kensington Welfare Rights Union is start-class
 * the article on Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has a tag on it about broadening the view of the article. This might be tricky to deal with, but could be worth taking a shot if you know a lot about ACORN.
 * the Back-to-the-land movement article needs citations and needs to be cleaned up generally.
 * Luz Rodriguez, an activist who lived at 519 East 11th Street -- this article is rated start-class
 * Cathedral of Saint John the Divine -- this article doesn't contain any information about the role of the Cathedral in starting UHAB -- just worked on by Perimeander (talk) 23:41, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Homesteading -- expand on the "As a social movement" section
 * Tompkins Square Park -- work on reframing the role of this park in connection to squatting and homesteading in New York City
 * Expand the 339 Lafayette Street article
 * The article on Sweat equity does not mention UHAB's contribution to the development of this concept
 * Alku and Alku Toinen -- on the National Register of Historic Places, these 1916 apartment buildings built for Finnish immigrant community are first purpose-built housing cooperatives in New York state. Photo shows Alku Toinen ("Beginning Two") -- view on Wikimedia Commons

Articles to Create


 * Division of Alternative Management Program


 * Umbrella House, East Village
 * Tenant Interim Lease Program
 * 519 East 11th Street -- the building with the windmill -- created by Perimeander (talk) 01:23, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Local Law 45 of 1976 -- created

Wikipedia Resources

 * Five Pillars
 * Wiki Markup Cheatsheet

Participants

 * Perimeander (talk) 12:21, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 20:07, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Pharos (talk) 23:51, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Jeremyb (talk) 01:50, 14 November 2019 (UTC)