Wikipedia:Meetup/Volunteer Wikipedia Editathon

Event description
The Volunteer Wikipedia Editathon will take place virtually on March 16th, 2021 from 2-6PM EST. An introductory training session will kickoff the event at 2, but participants should feel free to come and go as they please. Editing efforts will be focused on adding and enhancing articles on African-Americans and women who have made an impact on the Volunteer State of Tennessee. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject, Wikipedia editing experience, or university affiliation required.

Registration
Please register for this event here. It will direct you to create a Wikipedia account if you don't have one.* If you have a Wikipedia account, login and then click "Join program" in the bottom right corner of the page under Actions. Contact Meredith.hale on her user page via "Email this user" under Tools if you have any questions about registration or would prefer to not share your email during registration.


 * Note that you must include your email during account creation for you to receive the Zoom link for the event. While this information will be present in Wikipedia, organizers will not be able to see your email address unless you reply to the email.

Suggestions for goal-setting
Here is some information to help you set goals for what you would like to accomplish during the event.

If you have 45 minutes: Attend a training session to learn about Wikipedia

If you have 1 hour: Attend a training and add some citations to an existing article. Or, update image metadata on Wikimedia Commons.

If you have 2 hours: Attend a training and add a few well-cited sentences or a paragraph to an existing article. And/or, try adding an image to an article or updating image metadata on Wikimedia Commons.

If you have 3 hours: Create a new article stub and add a well-cited paragraph.

Training resources

 * Gender gap resources.

Guides and Tutorials
 * Art+Feminism training videos
 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
 * How to Edit a Page
 * About the Sandbox
 * Visual Editor User Guide

Citations and Style guidelines
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * | Citation guide

Formatting shortcuts
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia Commonly-used Wiki markup language, including how to sign your username and add links
 * PDF cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia (PDF version of printed handout of commonly-used Wiki markup language)
 * Full list of Wiki markup All of the Wiki markup language
 * Text Formatting
 * Section Headers, Indents, and Lists
 * Links

Images and photos:
 * Illustrating Wikipedia: A Guide to Contributing Content to Wikimedia Commons
 * Uploading Images -- tutorial, general overview
 * Image Use Policy -- rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image
 * Picture Tutorial -- technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good

Creating new articles
 * Creating a stub article How to create a new article with minimal information (a "stub")
 * Infobox template - person A key element of a new article is the infobox

''Not finding what you need here? Try the extensive list of Art+Feminism Editor Resources!''

Wikipedia's Policies and Principles

 * Five Pillars
 * Assume Good Faith
 * Be Bold
 * Verifiability/Reliable Sources
 * Notability Guidelines
 * Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing

Tasks
We would suggest that those who have never created content in Wikipedia before can start by editing existing pages.

Articles to edit

 * John W. Boyd (Tennessee politician)
 * Robert E. Clay
 * Benjamin Hooks
 * Bobby Jones (singer)
 * Sampson W. Keeble
 * Josephine Pearson
 * Evelyn Scott (writer)
 * John Wesley Work III

Articles to create

 * Eva Lowery Bowman - See Tennessee Encyclopedia and Catalogue of Walden University, 1917-1918
 * Henry Allen Boyd - See Tennessee Encycopedia and Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA)
 * Virginia Frazer Boyle - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Anna Broome
 * Florence Cope Bush - See Find A Grave and Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
 * Bobby Lynn Cain - See Tennessee Encyclopedia and Digital Library of Tennessee
 * Marjorie Chalmers - See From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont
 * Elizabeth Cox - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Anne M. Davis - See Tennessee Encyclopedia and Great Women of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
 * Louise Littleton Davis - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Isaac Dockery
 * Belle Edmondson - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Thomas O. Fuller - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Mary Rutledge Fogg - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Robert "Bud" Garrett - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Millie E. Hale - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Mildred Haun - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Phyllis Higginbotham - See From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont
 * Catherine Talty Kenny - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Louise Grundy Lindsley - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Louis Hughes - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * William Key (veterinarian) - See TSLA Beautiful Jim Key Collection and Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * John McFerren - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Fred McMahan - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Randolph Miller - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Anne Champe Orr - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Hollis Freeman Price - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Martha Ragsdale Ragland - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Theotis Robinson - See Tennessee Encyclopedia and UTK Trailblazer Series
 * Almira S. Steele - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Kate Bradford Stockton - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Lonzie Odie Taylor - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Lucille Thornburgh - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Karen Wade
 * Katherine Burch Warner - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Lydia Whaley - See From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont
 * Charl Ormond Williams - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Frances Fitzpatrick Wright - See Tennessee Encyclopedia
 * Sammye Wynn - See Tennessee Encyclopedia

Articles to add infoboxes

 * Lucie Campbell
 * Wilma Dykeman
 * Jane Eskind
 * Caroline Gordon
 * Styles Hutchins
 * Isaac Lane
 * Carl Rowan
 * Avon Williams
 * John Wesley Work III

Articles to add portrait

 * Lucie Campbell
 * Robert Church Jr.
 * Robert Clay
 * Martha Craig Daughtrey
 * Wilma Dykeman
 * William J. Hale
 * George Edmund Haynes
 * Zilphia Horton
 * Cal Johnson (businessman)
 * Bobby Jones (singer)
 * Marshall Keeble
 * Sampson W. Keeble
 * Isaac Lane
 * Emma Bell Miles
 * James Carroll Napier
 * Willie Betty Newman
 * Evelyn Scott (writer)
 * Kelly Miller Smith
 * Maxine Smith
 * Joesph Edison Walker
 * Perry Wallace
 * Avon Williams
 * John Wesley Work III
 * Marilou Awiakta

University of Tennessee Resources

 * African American Lives
 * Ancestry
 * Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
 * Contemporary Black Biography

Open Resources

 * Digital Library of Tennessee
 * University of Tennessee Digital Collections
 * Find a Grave
 * Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson, eds.). Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky Press, 2003.
 * Oral Histories of the American South
 * Umbra
 * The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (Carroll Van West, ed.). Nashville, TN: Tennessee Historical Society and Rutledge Hill Press, 2002-2018.
 * Tennessee Portrait Project
 * Who's Who in Tennessee
 * Iowa State University Archives of Women's Political Communication