Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia APA

WikiAPA 2015: Wikipedia ♥ Asian Pacific American Art

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center invites you to attend the 2nd annual Wikipedia APA, an editathon for cultural presence, which will be held during the month of September 2015.

We are thrilled to invite you to Wikipedia APA, an editing event for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to Asian Pacific American ("APA") experiences. The second Wikipedia editathon dedicated to APA content, this project will occur as physical events during September 2015 in New York City, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, as well as remotely, with participants taking part from all throughout the world.

(Parallel to this campaign, a number of Wikimedia Asia Project countries are participating in editathons covering national heritage topics, including as an extension of the photo contest Wiki Loves Mounuments.)

While there is a respectable amount of information currently in the encyclopedia for commonly-known APA topics such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese American Internment, and the Model Minority Myth, less information exists online about communities and experiences that have been historically marginalized. As presence on resources like Wikipedia becomes not only a tool for learning, but also a signal of cultural significance, the time is right for us to advocate for a more complete APA narrative.

With the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s recent exhibitions, the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971, and SAAM's exhibition The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, we are underlining a commitment to explore stories that have traditionally been left untold&mdash;particularly around Americans whose identities include South Asian, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-heritage, women, and LGBTQ. Incidentally, these vital APA narratives are dispersed and incomplete on Wikipedia.

Let’s change that.

Event information

 * Main campaign page: Smithsonian APA Wiki
 * Who should attend: Everyone of all ages is welcome to attend, regardless of experience. We are happy to teach you the basics of editing Wikipedia! The public is welcome to this event
 * Hashtag: #WikiAPA

2015 Nodes
Events will be held during the month of September 2015 in various locations, with the main events in Washington DC, New York, and Los Angeles.

New York

 * See also NYC meetup page

Join us for #WikiAPA, a social evening of Wikipedia editing, dedicated to creating, updating, and improving articles about Asian Pacific American art and artists. Hosted at The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and Wikimedia NYC, this meetup will focus on unearthing information about a creatively-rich community that has historically been overlooked.

The event kicks off a month-long series of #WikiAPA meetups across the U.S. For more information about the #WikiAPA series, please visit Smithsonian APA - Wiki or follow #WikiAPA on Twitter.


 * Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2015
 * Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST
 * Location: Museum of Modern Art
 * Details: WikiAPA Editathon 2015 in New York

Washington, DC

 * Date: Friday, September 4, 2015
 * Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
 * Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum
 * Details: WikiAPA Editathon 2015 in Washington, DC

Los Angeles / Pasadena

 * Date: Sunday, September 13, 2015
 * Time: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 * Location: Art Center College of Design, James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library

Seattle

 * Date: Thursday, September 17, 2015
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
 * Location: Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, at 719 S King Street
 * Public transit: Link Light Rail (International District/Chinatown), King County Metro
 * Proposed scope of work
 * Please RSVP: here
 * RSVP on Eventbrite: WikiAPA: Wikipedia ♥ Asian Pacific American Art (Seattle, WA)

Oakland

 * Date: Friday, September 18, 2015
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm PDT
 * Location: Oakland Museum of California
 * RSVP: Eventbrite

Austin

 * Date: Saturday, September 26, 2015
 * Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm CDT
 * Location: Asian American Resource Center
 * RSVP: Eventbrite

Chicago

 * Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2015
 * Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm CDT
 * Location: University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 * RSVP: Eventbrite

San Diego
This event is part of a month-long series of #WikiAPA meetups across the U.S. For more information about the #WikiAPA events, visit Smithsonian APA - Wiki or follow #WikiAPA on Twitter.
 * Date: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
 * Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm PST
 * Location: Geisel Library, University of California San Diego
 * RSVP: WikiAPA Editathon 2015 in San Diego, California

Minneapolis
 Please RSVP, thanks!
 * Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015
 * Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm CDT
 * Location: Open Book
 * RSVP: Eventbrite
 * Main page: Meetup/Wikipedia APA/Loft

Toyama, Japan

 * Date: Sunday, September 20, 2015
 * Time: 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
 * Location: Toyama Mag.net
 * Public transit: JR Line
 * Please RSVP: http://ptix.co/1MMfgKO

At Wikipedia Town in Toyama, we will be writing/editing articles with the help of librarians from the Toyama City Public Library on the following topics. (Topics are subject to change depending on the holdings of the library.)
 * Toyama City Public Library
 * Toyama Glass Art Museum
 * History of pharmaceuticals in Toyama
 * Traditional Trout Sushi lunchbox
 * Chitose Gate at Toyama Castle

Results
With more than 25 people in attendance, partcipants edited the following five articles on the Japanese Wikipedia.
 * Toyama City Public Library
 * Toyama Glass Art Museum
 * Hangontan（反魂丹: a traditional medicine produced in Toyama）
 * Traditional Trout Sushi Lunchbox
 * Chitose Gate at Toyama Castle

Bangkok, Thailand

 * Date: Saturday, September 26, 2015
 * Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
 * Location: dtac headquater, Chamchuri Square
 * Public transit: MRT (Bangkok)
 * Please RSVP: m:Wikimedians in Thailand/2015 Smithsonian APA

Hong Kong

 * Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2015
 * Time: 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Editing workshop at 5pm)
 * Location: Computer Labs, CityU School of Creative Media
 * Public transit: Kowloon Tong Station
 * RSVP: Facebook event

Others

 * Possibly China, Philippines, etc.

Women in Red

 * Dates: Friday-Sunday, September 4-6, 2015
 * Location: Virtual event with our members participating from around the world
 * Host: WikiProject Women in Red
 * Please RSVP: APA Women Edit-a-thon
 * Outcomes: 38 new articles

2014 Inaugural event

 * May 2014 inaugural event: Meetup/Wikipedia APA/2014
 * Announcement
 * Articles created

Attendees
''Please add your name. If you are registered, type four tildes''

Washington DC

 * 1) Please  RSVP on the D.C. meetup page

New York

 * 1) Please  RSVP on the NYC meetup page

Los Angeles

 * 1) cmorozco (talk)
 * 2) Penny Richards (talk) 18:41, 21 August 2015 (UTC)(make me a maybe, I'm doing the virtual one the weekend before)

Seattle, WA

 * 1) Peaceray (talk)
 * 2) --Pine✉
 * 3) Jmabel &#124; Talk (I'm a maybe for this, possibly a bit late, a lot happening that day)
 * 4) – Brianhe (talk)

San Diego, CA

 * 1) guy_713
 * 2) chizpa
 * 3) hjm003
 * 4) lia_friedman
 * 5) m33lym33l0r
 * 6) Okinawa55

Hong Kong

 * This is a list of actual attendees at the Hong Kong event, many of which created their accounts and made their first edit at the editathon!


 * 1) Deryck C.
 * 2) Vivianlamsiu (talk)
 * 3) Melkong12 (talk)
 * 4) Wkwyip2 (talk)
 * 5) Krislcc (talk)
 * 6) 黑武士仲尼 (talk)
 * 7) Simplybusy (talk)
 * 8) Markchungchihang (talk)
 * 9) SoHome Jacaranda (talk)
 * 10) Barley888 (talk)
 * 11) HKcngamanc (talk)
 * 12) KevinY121294 (talk)
 * 13) Lhlconnie (talk)
 * 14) 28481k
 * See also: Commons:Category:WikiAPA2015 Hong Kong

List of articles to edit
Wiki APA Tumblr Check out the WikiAPA: stARTer kit!
 * Wikipedia statuses:
 * Looking good = examples of artists who have Wikipedia articles that are thorough and updated
 * Needs update/expansion = have articles that lack information or sources, or are outdated
 * Needs article created = lacks presence on Wikipedia

To Do

 * WikiProject Asian Americans - To Do list
 * WikiProject Asian Americans - Critical and important articles
 * Asian American stubs
 * Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center - page needs citations, logo, etc.

Issues
 * Racebending - orphan; link to from other articles
 * Chinese_exclusion_policy_of_NASA - neutrality dispute, lack of sources

History
 * Khmer Exiled Americans augustnomnomsand xsqually did some stuff! yay
 * Ghadar Party (Indian)
 * Asian-American Immigration (edit to include Asian immigration arriving from South Pacific, Caribbean, South America, Africa; the history of Indian and Chinese Labor in Louisiana post-Civil War)
 * Godzilla Asian American Arts Network (Filipino) - stub
 * 43rd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) (Filipino) - references needed
 * 44th Infantry Regiment (United States) (Filipino) - references needed, stub
 * 45th Infantry Regiment (United States) (Filipino) - references needed, stub
 * 57th Infantry Regiment (United States) (Filipino) - references needed, stub
 * Bellingham riots (Indian) - add images and imagery from - http://www.wce.wwu.edu/resources/AACR/documents/bellingham/index.htm
 * Roldan v. Los Angeles County (Filipino)

Japanese War Relocation Centers
 * Gila River War Relocation Center (Japanese)
 * Granada War Relocation Center (Japanese)
 * Jerome War Relocation Center (Japanese)
 * Topaz War Relocation Center (Japanese)
 * Poston War Relocation Center (Japanese)
 * Tule Lake War Relocation Center (Japanese)
 * Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Japanese)

Asian American media
 * Asian American Public Television

Cultural sites
 * Sheboygan Hmong Memorial (Hmong)
 * Harada House (Japanese)
 * St. Malo, Louisiana (Filipino)
 * Hmong American Peace Academy (Hmong)
 * Day of Remembrance (Japanese Americans)
 * Asian American Arts Centre

Asian American academics
 * Asian American studies - poor state of affairs, only one or two references; need complete list of academics
 * Peter Kwong (academic) - stub, from Hunter College, needs more than one sentence
 * Elizabeth Lew-Williams - stub, newly appointed, first ever Asian American studies prof at Princeton

Journalists
 * Emil_Guillermo - needs wiki links, references and nice photo
 * Eleanor Hong
 * HyunJu Chappell Hine
 * Carolyn Ayon Lee
 * Lia Chang
 * Helen Zia
 * Or, how about adding more journalists to the categories:
 * Category:American journalists of Chinese descent
 * Category:American journalists of Japanese descent
 * Category:American journalists of Filipino descent
 * Category:American journalists of Korean descent

Biographies


 * Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Malayali and Filipina)
 * Aimee Phan (Vietnamese)
 * Akhil Sharma (Indian)
 * Anand Lal Shimpi (Indian and Iranian)
 * Andrew Lam (Vietnamese)
 * Andrew X. Pham (Vietnamese)
 * Anil Dash (Indian)
 * Anjana Appachana (Indian)
 * Anu Garg (writer, Indian)
 * Anurag Mathur (Indian)
 * Bao Vo (Vietnamese)
 * Barbara Jane Reyes (Filipina)
 * Bee Vang (Hmong)
 * Bharti Kirchner (Indian)
 * Bino Realuyo (Filipino)
 * Bobby Balcena (Filipino)
 * Bobby Chouinard (Filipino)
 * Brandon Villafuerte (Hawaiian)
 * Buwei Yang Chao (Chinese)
 * Danh Quach (Vietnamese)
 * Foung Hawj (Laotian)
 * Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo (Indonesian and Filipino)
 * Kao Kalia Yang (Hmong)
 * Le Thi Diem Thuy (Vietnamese)
 * Lan Cao (Vietnamese)
 * Mai Neng Moua (Hmong)
 * Minal Hajratwala (Indian)
 * M.T. Mehdi (Iranian)
 * Nguyen Qui Duc (Vietnamese)
 * Nikil Dutt (Indian)
 * Noel Alumit (Filipino)
 * Peter Bacho (Filipino)
 * Quang X. Pham (Vietnamese)
 * Rajiv Chandrasekaran (journalist, Indian)
 * Ralph Peña (Filipino)
 * Richard Fung
 * Rishi Reddi (Indian)
 * Roy Anthony Cutaran Bennett (Filipino)
 * Roy Matsumoto (Japanese American)
 * Samina Ali (Indian)
 * Sandeep Parikh (Indian)
 * Santha Rama Rau (Indian)
 * Sesshu Foster
 * Shauna Singh Baldwin (Indian)
 * Shoba Narayan (Indian)
 * TC Huo (Laotian)
 * Tram-Anh Tran (Vietnamese)
 * Vicki Draves (Filipina)
 * Jeanne Sakata (Asian American actor and playwright - could use expansion)

Popular culture
 * The_Green_Turtle, first Asian American superhero in a comic, and the author, Chu F. Hing
 * George Hirose
 * Hudson Yang
 * Jenny Han
 * David Tamura
 * Takuma Kanaiwa
 * Peelander-Z
 * Tatsuya Yoshida
 * Eric Ho
 * Secret_Identities:_The_Asian_American_Superhero_Anthology
 * An Obedient Father
 * Bandhak (South Asian)
 * Cebu (novel) (Filipino)
 * Darkness (short stories) (Indian)
 * Desirable Daughters (Indian)
 * Dream Jungle (Filipino)
 * Salaam, Paris (Indian)
 * The Caprices (Filipina)
 * The Inscrutable Americans (Indian)
 * The Palace of Illusions: A Novel (Indian)
 * What's Up Thailand (Thai)

List of articles to create
History
 * The Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee (mentioned in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center without detail)
 * Chinese and Indian Laborers in Louisiana (being created by Jenny Li (apennyforajenny)
 * A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle of Asians in America
 * The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective
 * DesiLit
 * Asian Americans in New York City
 * Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals -

Biographies
 * David Chung (artist) - director of University of Michigan MFA program, work in Whitney Museum permanent collection
 * Maangchi - Korean American YouTube cooking star - has a Hungarian article already! Hungarian article
 * Curtis Chin - filmmaker, documentaries Vincent Who? and Tested - possible sources: AsAmNews, 20131018film site
 * Hiram Fong, first Asian American & Chinese American U.S. senator; add images like this one, also more info
 * Michiyo Fukaya (Michiyo Cornell) - possible source: Google Books entry
 * George Hoshida - possible source: Japanese National Museum
 * Estelle Peck Ishigo - possible source: library archive
 * Li Ling-Ai - exists in German, but not English
 * Corky Lee
 * Shoson Nagahara - possible source:LA Times
 * Shikha Malaviya - possible source: poetry site
 * Dan Tsang - possible source: faculty profile page
 * H.T. Tsiang - possible source: Slate magazine article
 * Daniel G.C. Wu
 * Gini Cruz Santos
 * Hachiro Onuki - possible sources: Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present; article about the early history of Japanese restaurants in the US
 * Tadaatsu Matsudaira - possible sources: Fairmont Heritage Foundation; Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference
 * Ben Kamihira (1925-2004) - artist
 * Man Chiang Niu (1912-2007) - biologist
 * Ansei Uchima (1921-2000) - artist
 * Shuichi Kusaka (1915-1947) - physicist
 * Shih-Chun Wang (1910-1993) - neuroscientist
 * Stuart Ishimaru, former head of EEOC
 * Yoshiko Saji Dart, disability rights activist

List of new articles created

 * 1) Madokoro Akutagawa Saori -- Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 23:23, 2 September 2015 (UTC) (NYC)
 * 2) Lisa Park -- Lange.lea (talk) 23:38, 2 September 2015 (UTC) (NYC)
 * 3) Tatsuo Ikeda -- Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 00:18, 3 September 2015 (UTC) (NYC)
 * 4) Basement workshop --  (NYC)
 * 5) Filipino American Museum --  (NYC)
 * 6) Chu F. Hing (draft) --  (NYC)
 * 7) Yumi Sakugawa (draft) --  (NYC)
 * 8) Kenjiro Sano (draft) --  (NYC)
 * 9) Louie Cordero (draft) --  (NYC)
 * 10) Bill Manbo --  (DC)

Created by participants in the Women in Red Virtual APA editathon (September 4-6):


 * 1) Naomi Hirahara
 * 2) Erika Lee
 * 3) Swati Avasthi
 * 4) Center for Asian Pacific American Women
 * 5) Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire
 * 6) Joyce Nakamura Okazaki
 * 7) Billie Tsien (redirect)
 * 8) Azita Raji
 * 9) Shefali Razdan Duggal
 * 10) Shivana Jorawar
 * 11) Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
 * 12) Sakaye Shigekawa
 * 13) Poornima Vijayashanker
 * 14) Sapreet Kaur
 * 15) Ha Soo Whang
 * 16) Bessie Loo
 * 17) Louise Chow
 * 18) Hopie
 * 19) Solace Ames
 * 20) Lisa Wong
 * 21) Halla Pai Huhm
 * 22) Dora Kim Moon
 * 23) Maria Whang
 * 24) Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn
 * 25) Sophia Lin
 * 26) Chay Douangphouxay
 * 27) Kathy Aoki
 * 28) Jennifer Ho
 * 29) Xiaolan Bao
 * 30) Yiu Hai Seto Quon
 * 31) Nina Yang Bongiovi
 * 32) Nodie Kimhaekim Sohn
 * 33) Kiran Ahuja
 * 34) Swati Avasthi
 * 35) Sucheng Chan
 * 36) Joyce Sachiko Tsunoda
 * 37) Yumi Sakugawa

Created by WikiAPA Hong Kong event, 22 September 2015:
 * 1) Li Wei Han Rosanna (from zh:李慧嫻)
 * 2) Shieh Ka Ho (en) and zh:石家豪
 * 3) Wong Ping Pui
 * 4) Pak Sheung Chuen

Created by WikiAPA San Diego/UCSD event, 30 September 2015:
 * 1) Jarrett Min Davis
 * 2) Nidhi Chanani
 * 3) Kei Takei
 * 4) Ben Kamihira

Created by WikiAPA Minneapolis/Loft event, 1 October 2015:
 * 1) Katie Ka Vang
 * 2) Katie Hae Leo
 * 3) Anna Min
 * 4) Wing Young Huie
 * 5) Ananya Chatterjea

List of articles improved

 * 1) Mai Neng Moua --  (NYC)
 * 2) Who Killed Vincent Chin? --  +  (NYC)
 * 3) Lia Chang --  (NYC)
 * 4) Michael Kang --  (NYC)
 * 5) Yoko Ono --  (NYC)
 * 6) Godzilla Asian American Arts Network --  (NYC)
 * 7) Mark Aguhar --  (DC)
 * 8) Richard Fung (San Diego/UCSD)
 * 9) Dong Kingman (San Diego/UCSD)
 * 10) Poston War Relocation Center (San Diego/UCSD)
 * 11) Miss Saigon (MN)

Information resources
Websites, library catalogs, databases
 * Smithsonian Institution at Flickr Commons
 * Chinese Railroad Workers at Stanford University
 * Archives at Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
 * JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives

MoMA

 * MoMA Library
 * DADABASE - online catalog
 * MoMA/Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection
 * Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PAD/D) Archive
 * The Library Council
 * Library and Museum Archives Exhibitions
 * MoMA Press Release Archives 1929–97
 * MoMA Press Release Archives 1996–Present
 * Survey of Archives of Latino and Latin American Art
 * Latin American Bibliography
 * MoMA Collection
 * MoMA Archives

MoMA external link templates

 * GLAM external link templates
 * MoMA artist - template for MoMA artists
 * MoMA object - template for MoMA objects

Hong Kong artists

 * HKU Art Archive - Biographies
 * Gallery Exit for young HK artists
 * Search for artist name SCMP / TimeOut / ArtInfo / ArtMap

Editing Wikipedia resources
Listed here for quick reference. N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources See Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
 * Tutorial: Getting Started Guide (Presentation in DC)
 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * 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)

Tools and templates

 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Infobox template - person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox


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