Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashville/Our Story Matters Editathon

The Nashville Public Library is hosting an "Our Story Matters Wikipedia Edit-a-thon" to contribute to articles on Wikipedia related to the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville and throughout the South. This program is presented simultaneously with the "Black Lives Matter Wikipedia Edit-a-thon," hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.

The Wikipedia training and Edit-a-thon will take place in the Special Collections Center on the second floor of the Main library downtown. Please bring a laptop with you.

Details

 * Date: Saturday, February 7, 2015
 * Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
 * Location: The Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN
 * Find us at: 615 Church Street, Nashville, TN
 * Who Should Attend: Anyone interested in helping us improve the wikipedia pages related to the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville. Beginners and experts welcome!
 * Hashtag: #ourstorymatters, #blacklivesmatter
 * Participating Organizations: Nashville Public Library, Vanderbilt University

Please Bring A Laptop with You!

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 some training at the event for first-time editors.

Likely attendees
(sign up by editing the page and entering four tildes ~. This will automatically put in your username.)

CWology (talk) 21:05, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Amwilliams15 (talk) 15:18, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Librariabryan (talk) 21:57, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Carwil (talk) 16:23, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 22:24, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * LoisLib (talk) 19:11, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Elonka 23:28, 30 January 2015 (UTC) (can be there for a bit at the start, and then have to leave for another event)
 * MeganA-J (talk) 22:26, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * tvyoung (attendee) 08:44, 6 February 2015 (UNT)

Regrets

 * Clifford Anderson (talk) 17:04, 22 January 2015 (UTC) (I really wish I could attend, but I'll be out of town! I look forward to taking part in the next editathon.)
 * OR drohowa (talk) 20:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC) We'll be on the livestream from the NYC event! OR drohowa (talk) 20:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Content worked on

 * National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association
 * Callie House
 * Salynn McCollum (Draft)
 * A Z Kelley (Draft)
 * African Americans in Tennessee

To Create

 * A. Z. Kelley, involved in desegregation case Kelley v Board of Education Nashville````JenLaw15
 * Angeline Butler, Civil Rights Activist
 * Archie E. Allen, Civil Rights Activist
 * Candie Carawan, singer and Civil Rights activist
 * Catherine Brooks, Freedom Rider
 * Curtis Murphy (Freedom Rider)
 * Donzell Johnson, Civil Rights activist
 * Dorothy Foreman Cotton (b. 1931), civil rights activist, officer of the SCLC
 * Everett Tilson, professor at Vanderbilt University
 * First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville, Meeting place for Sit-ins
 * James Blue, Documentarian of The March (film)
 * Katallagete, Journal of the Committee of Southern Churchmen
 * Francis M. Kneeland/Francis Kneeland (b. c. 1873), Tennessee physician
 * Georgia E. L. Patton Washington/Georgia E. L. Patton/Georgia Patton (1864-1900), first licensed Black woman surgeon in Tennessee
 * J. Metz Rollins, Freedom Rider
 * Nashville Christian Leadership Council
 * National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association
 * Paul LaPrad, Civil Rights activist
 * Dr. Rodney Powell, Civil Rights activist
 * Salynn McCollum, Civil Rights activist
 * Tent City, Fayette County, Tennessee, farmers displaced due to attempts at desegregation
 * History of African Americans in Nashville ?

To Improve

 * Categorization of articles
 * Avon Williams
 * Bernard Lafayette
 * Callie House
 * Citizens' Councils
 * Columbia Race Riots
 * Gloria Johnson-Powell
 * Guy Carawan
 * James Zwerg
 * Kelly Miller Smith
 * Z. Alexander Looby
 * Timeline of Nashville, Tennessee
 * African Americans in Tennessee

Tools and templates

 * Training
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox