Wikipedia:Meetup/St.Cloud/SocialActivism/St. Cloud State University 2017

Join us for a Wikipedia Meetup on activism and social justice! Not only will we be editing and creating articles about activists, activism, and social justice, but the doing of Wikipedia work itself is an act of social justice--providing free, authoritative, well-researched, and updated information to the world, every day.

Event information

 * Event Title: Wikipedia Social Activism Edit-a-thon
 * Date: Saturday, April 15, 2017
 * Time: noon — 4:00 p.m. CST
 * Location: St. Cloud State University, James W. Miller Learning Resources Center, MC218 University Library, 720 4th Avenue South, St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301.
 * REMOTE PARTICIPATION: Please visit our Adobe Connect site at the day and time of the event: http://scsuconnect.stcloudstate.edu/wikipedia_editathon/
 * Hosts: Rachel Wexelbaum, John Wild
 * Edit-A-Thon Team Members: John Wild aka Shaded0, Rachel Wexelbaum aka RachelWex.

Details
Join us for a Wikipedia Meetup on activism and social justice! Put your editing skills to work and make edits that make a difference. Please bring a laptop with you as we will only have a limited number available for use.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 12:00 p.m. for newcomers on the day of the event. At least one librarian will be on hand to help with research, and there will be volunteers to help with editing and creating articles. We will also be providing light refreshments as well as Wikipedia swag (buttons, stickers, and pencils).

Guest Parking
For non-SCSU affiliated participants, free parking will be available in V-lots (near the Education Building between 4th and 5th Avenues, across the street from Barden Park) and L-Lot (adjacent to Garvey Commons off of 6th St.). For more information, please consult the SCSU campus map.

Register
Free! We also need experienced Wikipedians to assist others who are new at editing. Please email Rachel Wexelbaum at rswexelbaum@stcloudstate.edu or John Wild at jwild91@gmail.com if you would be willing to help or let us know on the day of the event or on the Participants section below.

If you haven't edited in Wikipedia before, we will help you register for an account. Please contact Rachel Wexelbaum at rswexelbaum@stcloudstate.edu or John Wild at jwild91@gmail.com if you need assistance setting up an account. Our librarians can also help you with research in preparation for editing Wikipedia during library hours or through 24/7 chat. You can search our library's book and Ebook collection at. St. Cloud State University students, employees, and community patrons with accounts will have access to all online resources; visitors will require a guest login and password to use the research databases on the day of the event.

Participants
If you already have a Wikipedia account, please add your Wikipedia username to this section (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row, add your username and talk page by using three tildes):


 * Add your name here!
 * RachelWex 17:40, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Shaded0 (talk) 02:16, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Abwortham
 * Margitaw (talk) 16:16, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Angeolandsbury
 * Maine-Coon
 * Maggiehope
 * Neurodivergentme

List of articles
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits or expansion, as well as topics that require articles. While the theme of this edit-a-thon is social activism, you are welcome to work on any topic you like. Topics appearing in red need to have articles created in Wikipedia.

Research resources

 * Wikipedia: How to Edit and Create Entries LibGuide created by Rachel Wexelbaum, St. Cloud State University
 * St. Cloud State University Library

Wikipedia resources

 * Help:Introduction
 * VisualEditor/User guide


 * Tutorial/Wrap-up and more info
 * GLAM Beginner's Guide
 * Citation guide
 * Simplified ruleset
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Portal:Current events

Results
After the Wikipedia edit-a-thon, share results of your work here


 * New articles
 * Cradling (Art Restoration)
 * List of African American activists
 * Ola Abu Alghaib
 * Minnesota Department of Human Rights - RachelWex


 * Improved articles
 * Animal Rights - Shaded0
 * Islamophobia in the United States - Shaded0
 * Keri Pickett (re: documentary about Winona LaDuke) - Margitaw (talk) 19:06, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * List of AIDS activists
 * Mortgage discrimination - Shaded0
 * Privilege (social inequality) - Shaded0
 * Winona LaDuke - Margitaw (talk) 19:06, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Voter suppression - Shaded0