Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Schomburg/AfroLatino2016

AfroCROWD hosts AfroLatino Festival's Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Seminar @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Friday, July 8, 2016 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.

The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division with a following reception in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building.

Event details
If you have a laptop, please bring it with you!
 * Date: Friday, July 8, 2016
 * Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
 * Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd (Lennox Avenue) between 135 and 136th Streets, New York, NY 10037 40.81417°N, -73.94083°W
 * NYPL page: Afro-Latino Festival NYC 2016 Day 1
 * Note:
 * The Wikipedia training and editathon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
 * Subway:
 * NYCS-bull-trans-C.svg to 135th St. (exit at 135th and St Nicholas)
 * to 135th St. (exit at 135th Street and Malcolm X Avenue)
 * Bus:
 * Who should attend: Everyone with an interest in Black history and expanding the diversity of knowledge on Wikipedia, and regardless of experience. We are happy to teach you the basics of editing Wikipedia. The public is welcome to this event.
 * Hashtag: #AfroLatinoFestNYC
 * Eventbrite link: Afro-Latino Festival NYC 2016 Day 1
 * Details:
 * 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.

Speakers

 * AFROLATIN@CROWD Part II, Presented by AfroCROWD.org
 * Featured speakers
 * Cassandre Theano, Esq Open Society Foundation
 * Carl Liscombe, Policy Director, Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
 * Mirtha Colón, Casa Yurumein
 * Moderator: Thanu Yakupitiyage, New York Immigration Coalition

Pages updated
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute --, ,
 * 2) Charles Hyatt --
 * 3) Marta Moreno Vega --
 * 4) Michael Hyatt --
 * 5) Molefe Pheto --

Pages created
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Charlotte Emerson Brown --
 * 2) John Jasper --
 * 3) Molefe Pheto --
 * 4) The Ford Center at The Star --

Articles to edit or improve
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.
 * Lists of Articles - AfroLatinos
 * Wikipedia vs. American National Biography - Task List

Need to be created

 * Molefe Pheto, South African political prisoner
 * Mogorosi Motshumi (b. 1955), South African cartoonist
 * Charles Cyrus Thomas (1909–1988) (died in California)
 * Harlem bookstores (Young's Book Exchange, Liberation Bookstore, Frederick Douglass Book Center, National Memorial African Bookstore owned by Lewis H. Michaux)
 * Greater Calvary Baptist Church, Harlem - possible reference
 * Francesca Harper, dancer and choreographer
 * Kathleen Stanford Grant A Pilates Elder & Master Teacher; certified by Joseph Pilates, the creator of the method.
 * William Alexander Brown (fl. 1817-1823) Manager of African Grove Theater, playwright
 * Cesar (c. 1682-?)	Slave and medical practitioner
 * John Wesley Cromwell (5 Sept. 1846-14 Apr. 1927) Lawyer and historian
 * Isom Dart (1848-3 Oct. 1900) cowboy and rustler
 * Cornelius Nathaniel Dorsette (1852-7 Dec. 1897) Doctor, Alabama's first licensed Black physician
 * H. Ford Douglas (1831-11 Nov. 1865) Abolitionist and military officer
 * Henry Alexander Hunt, Jr. (10 Oct. 1866-1 Oct. 1938) Educator and government official
 * John Jasper (4 July 1812-30 Mar. 1901) Baptist preacher and orator
 * Thomas Jeremiah (?-18 Aug.1775) Free Black pilot, fisherman, executed for allegedly forementing a slave uprising
 * Andrew Marshall Cox (c. 1756-11 Dec 1856) Pastor and businessman
 * James Julius McClendon (16 Mar. 1898-20 Apr. 1982) Physician and civil rights activist
 * James Carrol Napier (9 June 1845-21 Apr. 1940) Politician, lawyer, businessman
 * Berry O'Kelly (c. 1860-14 Mar. 1931) Businessman
 * Benjamin B. Pelham (1862-7 Oct. 1948) Newspaper publisher, municipal official, political leader
 * Henry Vinton Plummer (31 July 1844-8 Feb. 1906)	Baptist clergyman and U.S. Army chaplin
 * Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) African American painter
 * Middleton A. “Spike” Harris Founder of the Negro History Associates
 * Albert Alexander Smith Artist and musician
 * Edwin Henry Hackley (1859-1940)	Attorney and activist
 * Ademola Olugebefola Artist
 * Vy Higgensen Radio personality, producer, writer
 * Duma Ndlova South African composer and writer
 * Sonny Jim Gaines a.k.a. G.E. Gaines Playwright and actor
 * Eva Bowles Secretary for colored work for the YWCA
 * Emma L. Bowen Community Activist

Biographies

 * Red links in Harlem Renaissance - Notable figures (especially poets)

Organizations

 * Harlem bookstores
 * Schomburg Honor Roll, 1939-1947


 * See also pages relating to the Harlem Renaissance

Other lists with articles that need to be created

 * African-American artists
 * missing entries from the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
 * Caribbean poets
 * missing entries from Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
 * missing entries from Writing African-American Women
 * missing entries from Black Women Scientists in the United States
 * missing entries from the Dictionary of African Biography
 * Timeline of New York City (existing article to be expanded)
 * African American city/state/regional histories, e.g. more examples like in African Americans by location
 * Seneca Village was a GA 10+ years ago, now C-class

Stubs!
"Stubs" - very short articles in need of expansion:
 * Category:African diaspora stubs
 * Category:African American stubs
 * Category:Africa stubs
 * Category:Caribbean stubs
 * Other stub types

Resources

 * Digital Schomburg: Links and Resources
 * Digital Schomburg: Online Exhibitions
 * Digital Schomburg: Online Books
 * Digital Schomburg: Images & Illustrations
 * Digital Schomburg: Africana Heritage Newsletters
 * Digital Collections @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division

Editing Wikipedia resources

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * 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
 * WikiD Guides to Wikipedia Editing

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template - person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox
 * Determining Notability of Creative Professionals
 * Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing
 * Verifying Reliable Sources


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

Sign up
Please sign up at Eventbrite. PLEASE NOTE: Eventbrite tickets are sold out but @SchomburgCenter retweeted that there is a standby lineup that begins at 8:00 am

Regrets

 * 1) Mozucat (talk) 19:02, 7 July 2016 (UTC) (will try my best to make it) out sick :(

Remote

 * 1) BrillLyle (talk) 13:44, 8 July 2016 (UTC) will try...

Attendees

 * 1) VegasCasinoKid (talk) 01:48, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2) Jim.henderson (talk) 18:00, 7 July 2016 (UTC) Probably arrive late
 * 3) Pharos (talk) 23:03, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 4) Newzygurl (talk) 15:00, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 5) Thus the wise win before they fight While the ignorant fight to win  (talk) 15:01, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 6) Chumaosse (talk) 15:33, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 7) Yocheeyo (talk) 15:37, 8 July 2016 (UTC)