Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Truth-a-Thon

[[Category:Wikipedia meetups in February 2018]

The Truth-a-Thon is an edit-a-thon being held on Saturday February 3, 2018 at Nathan Cummings Foundation in Manhattan, as part of the exhibition Hold These Truths.

Please bring a laptop!

See possible list of articles to work on.

Event information

 * Date: Saturday February 3, 2018
 * Time: 12:00-6:00pm
 * Location: Nathan Cummings Foundation, 475 Tenth Ave (14th Floor), Manhattan, New York, NY 10018
 * Subway: to 34th Street–Hudson Yards
 * Bus:
 * External link: Hold These Truths (exhibition)

Event Description
Artists Heather Hart from Black Lunch Table (BLT), Sara Clugage from Art+Feminism and members of Wikimedia NYC will host a "Truth-a-Thon" as part of the Truth Be Told program series for the exhibition Hold These Truths with No Longer Empty. Workshop leaders will lead a training and will be available throughout the event to guide participants on the editing process for articles of their choosing. Come learn about the work of these collectives and how to transform public discourse in real time! Bring your laptop and a friend.

Preparation

 * Bring your laptop: Editing Wikipedia is easier with a keyboard.
 * Bring a published source to cite: Suggested books and papers will be available at the event. If you like, bring an academic paper or other reliable source of information to cite, to support your addition to Wikipedia. You will use Wikipedia to distribute information from this source. Try to bring the highest quality most reputable source you can find for the information.
 * Create a Wikipedia account, if you do not have one already.
 * If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.

With all this, you can take maximum advantage.

List of articles to create/edit

 * Women in Red
 * Requested articles
 * Black Lunch Table task list

Articles created

 * 1) Kwame_Brathwaite - Jskarlin
 * 2) Dr. Charles Smith - Heathart

Articles improved

 * 1) Kevin Sampson (artist) - Aude (talk) 20:48, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) Lola Flash - Hannah Silverman (talk) 20:53, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) Cecilia Vicuña
 * 4) Kimberly Drew
 * 5) Janet Henry
 * 6) Womanhouse
 * 7) Ebony Patterson
 * 8) Africa's Out!
 * 9) Joseph Betesh
 * 10) Jacci Gresham
 * 11) "Polish death camp" controversy
 * 12) Diva TV (video collective)
 * 13) Evacuation Day (New York)
 * 14) Svalbard in fiction
 * 15) L. J. Roberts
 * 16) Noah Purifoy
 * 17) Ivan Monforte
 * 18) National Entrepreneurs' Day
 * 19) Siamak Taghaddos
 * 20) Honor Club
 * 21) Elaine Reichek
 * 22) United States presidential pets
 * 23) Boa Technology
 * 24) Elombe Brath
 * 25) Clara de Hirsch
 * 26) Miss South Carolina Teen 2012
 * 27) Miss America's Outstanding teen 2011
 * 28) Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2012
 * 29) Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2019
 * 30) Brooklyn Museum
 * 31) Chronology (video game)
 * 32) Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen
 * 33) Miss Arizona's Outstanding Teen
 * 34) Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen
 * 35) Crimmigration
 * 36) Tinglev case
 * 37) Alan Marshall
 * 38) Miriam Schapiro
 * 39) Wikidata
 * 40) Disston Saw Works
 * 41) Neutral powers during World War II
 * 42) Substellar object
 * 43) Wangechi Mutu
 * 44) Stephanie Pogue
 * 45) Google Photos
 * 46) Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman
 * 47) Leesa Sleep
 * 48) Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance
 * 49) First engagement of neutral United States in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor
 * 50) River pirate
 * 51) Springfield Splendor
 * 52) List of Connecticut state prisons
 * 53) Ger C. Bout
 * 54) 2000s commodities boom
 * 55) Alan Marshall (historian)
 * 56) The Holocaust in Poland
 * 57) Ashwani Mahajan
 * 58) The Amazing Race 5 (Latin America)
 * 59) List of companies of Spain
 * 60) Sonic Vista Studios
 * 61) Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel
 * 62) John Munch
 * 63) Airline product
 * 64) Open Humanities Press
 * 65) Sid Lee
 * 66) Pepperdine University School of Law
 * 67) Alfred Lee Loomis
 * 68) Electric bicycle laws
 * 69) Ajuan Mance
 * 70) Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
 * 71) Food & Water Watch

Remote attendees

 * --PatienceFortitude (talk) 16:05, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Possible attendees

 * Napplicable (talk) 16:08, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Likely attendees

 * Pharos (talk) 19:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Heathart (talk) 17:02, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Nwhysel (talk) 01:47, 18 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Dilettante Army (talk) 19:49, 18 January 2018 (UTC)


 *  DGG ( talk ) 11:15, 28 January 2018 (UTC)


 * ohmyerica (talk) 17:53, 29 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Mozucat (talk) 19:16, 29 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Aude (talk) 02:34, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hannah Silverman (talk) 17:10, 31 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Jim.henderson (talk) 19:58, 1 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Louize5 (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Greensubmarine (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Jordegern (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Rdeanda (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Micalejohn (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Feministkilljoy (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Jeremyb (talk) 18:28, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Carolefranceslung (talk) 18:28, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Armchaired (talk) 18:28, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Ronald Sexton (talk)


 * Jskarlin (talk) 21:29, 3 February 2018 (UTC)