Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia APA/Loft

This Meetup page is for the Minneapolis event at The Loft Literary Center held Thursday, October 1, 2015, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Main Event Page is '''here

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 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 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

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


 * 1) Alisha94 (talk)
 * 2) Caphe phi (talk)
 * 3) Gobonobo (talk)
 * 4) Isamunomura (talk)

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

Missing articles

 * Minnesota
 * Katie Ka Vang, performance artist, playwright, and poet
 * Katie Hae Leo, poet, playwright, and essayist
 * Kathy Mouacheupao
 * Iris Shiraishi, taiko drummer
 * Wing Young Huie, photographer
 * Cheng-Khee Chee, Chinese American watercolorist, University of Minnesota Duluth professor
 * Little Laos on the Prairie,
 * Refuge of the InvisibLao, art exhibition
 * New article name


 * US


 * Ken Chu (artist) (朱肯, b. 1953), installation artist
 * Y. David Chung, German-born visual artist and filmmaker
 * Marlon Fuentes, Filipino American filmmaker
 * Yun Gee (1906–1963), Chinese American Modern artist
 * Yeung Ha (b. 1952), Korean American printmaker and mixed media artist
 * Sabro Hasegawa (1906–1957), Japanese American painter and scholar
 * Hui Ka-kwong/Hui Ka Kwong (1922–2003), ceramist
 * Lori Kay, sculptor and mixed media artist
 * Jin Soo Kim (artist) (b. 1950), Korean American sculptor and installation artist
 * Valeriano Montante Laigo/Val Laigo/Valeriano Emerenciano Montante Laigo (1930–1992), Filipino American painter
 * Yary Livan, Cambodian ceramist
 * Vi Ly
 * Yong Soon Min, Korean American multimedia artist, scholar, and curator
 * Johsel Namkung (1919–2013), Korean American photographer
 * Keiko Nelson, Japanese American artist
 * Long Nguyen, Vietnamese American artist
 * Toshio Odate, Japanese American woodworker
 * Hanh Thi Pham, Vietnamese photographer
 * Sheng-mei Ma professor of English literature at Michigan State University; specializes in Asian Diaspora/Asian American studies and East-West comparative studies
 * Valerie Soe, writer and experimental videomaker
 * Indigo Som, visual artist and poet
 * Masaru Takiguchi (b. 1941), Japanese American sculptor
 * Gayle Tanaka, visual artist
 * Lynne Yamamoto, Japanese American multimedia artist
 * Samnang Yong, Cambodian poet and painter
 * Baochi Zhang (b. 1956), Chinese American artist
 * Hanh Thi Pham, Vietnamese photographer
 * Yong Soon Min, Korean American multimedia artist, scholar, and curator
 * Kosal Khiev
 * Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai/Kelly Tsai
 * Kirun Kapur
 * Lo Kwa Mei-en
 * Asian American Literary Review

Articles to improve

 * Mu Performing Arts - needs references
 * May Lee Yang - needs references
 * Bryan Thao Worra - needs inline references
 * Ka Vang - needs references
 * History of the Hmong in Minneapolis–Saint Paul - could be fleshed out
 * David Mura
 * Wang Ping (author) - needs references
 * Chanida Phaengdara Potter - needs references
 * Nor Sanavongsay - needs references

Non-artists

 * Choua Lee, Hmong St. Paul Board of Education member
 * Hmong American Partnership

To Do

 * see List of articles to edit on Main Page

List of articles to create

 * see List of articles to create on Main Page

List of new articles created

 * 1) Katie Ka Vang
 * 2) Katie Hae Leo
 * 3) Anna Min
 * 4) Wing Young Huie
 * 5) Ananya Chatterjea

List of articles improved

 * 1) Miss Saigon

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

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